Murali Nageswara Rao Malasala

Dr. Malasala Murali Nageswara Rao is working as UCAR Associate Scientist-II at NOAA NCEP, EMC, University Research Court, College Park, MD, USA to improve forecast guidance (or forecast reliability) derived from the raw numerical ensemble predictions is through statistical post-processing using reforecast data from the same model configuration with consistent initial analysis and he also worked at NOAA, NCEP, CPC, International Desks in the same position for an inventory of heatwaves based on various definitions and its prediction over Africa using Analysis and model products.

Dr. Rao received Ph.D. in Meteorology and Oceanography with the thesis entitled "The Role of Atmosphere-Ocean Coupled Climate System: Prediction of winter Precipitation and Temperatures over Northwest India” from the Department of Meteorology and Oceanography Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India, and Masters in Physical Oceanography from the same University.

He worked in an International Multi-institutional collaborative project (IRI, NCEP, NCMRWF, IITM, ECMWF, JAMSTEC, ICAR, and IMD) "Development and Application of Extended Range Forecast System for Climate Risk Management in Agriculture" at the Center for Atmospheric Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi (3 years) and School of Earth, Ocean, and Climate Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubaneswar (6 years); Department of Meteorology and Oceanography, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam (1 year),  Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India and Jackson School of Geological Sciences, the University of Texas at Austin in Various research positions. Over the years, He published more than 30 papers in National and internationally reputed journals and his research work/ publications can be found at Murali: Research Gate, Murali: Google Scholar, Murali: UCAR.

Experience:

• Jan 2023- Till Date: UCAR Associate Scientist-II at NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction, NCEP  EMC, University Research Court, College Park, MD, USA.
• Mar 2021- Jan 2023: UCAR Associate Scientist-I at NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction, NCEP  EMC, University Research Court, College Park, MD, USA.
• Feb 2021-Mar 2021: Research Scientific Assistant at  Jackson School of Geological Sciences, the University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA.
• Feb 2020- Feb 2021:  UCAR Visiting Scientist at NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction, NCEP, CPC, International Desks, University Research Court, College Park, MD, USA.
• Apr 2019 -  Jan 2020: Project Scientist-C, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) Pune, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India.
• Dec 2015-Mar 2019: Project Scientist, School of Earth, Ocean and Climate Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubaneswar, India.
• Oct 2013-Dec 2015: Project Associate, School of Earth, Ocean and Climate Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubaneswar, India.
• Jul 2013-Oct 2013: Junior Research Fellow, Department of Meteorology and Oceanography, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India.
• Oct 2012-Jul 2013: Senior Research Fellow, Department of Meteorology and Oceanography, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India.
• Sep 2009-Oct 2012: Senior Research Fellow, Center for Atmospheric Science, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India
• Jun 2006- Sep 2009:  Physics lecturer, Ushodaya Junior and Degree Colleges, Chodavaram, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam.

Awards/ Honours

1. UCAR Special Recognition Award on 14th March 2022 with the amount of 2000 USD for contributions to the CPAESS Program through exemplary work for NOAA NCEP Environmental Modeling Center (EMC), College Park, MD, USA.
2. Young Researcher Award from the Society of Institute of Scholars for the study "Prediction of winter precipitation over northwest India using ocean heat fluxes" which was published in Climate Dynamics.
3. India Meteorological Society (IMS) Biennial Award-2019-20 (Formerly B.N. Desai) for Best Paper published in the Monsoon Research study "Characteristics of various Rainfall events over South Peninsular India during Northeast Monsoon using High-resolution gridded dataset" which was published in Theoretical and Applied Climatology
4. Research Excellence Award from the Society of Institute of Scholars for the study "Impact Of Climate Variability On Various Rabi Crops Over Northwest India" which was published in Theoretical and Applied Climatology
5. India Achiever's Award-2021-22 from the Indian Achievers Forum for Achievement and Contribution in Nation Building.
6. Best Citizen of India Award-2017 from International Publishing House, New Delhi for Scientific contribution to Science & Technology.
7. Stood second in the quiz contest organized by the India Meteorological Society (IMS) on the occasion of WMO day on 23rd March 2017.
8. All India 26th Rank in Council of Scientific & Industrial Research- University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test (CSIR-UGC NET), June 2011 in Earth, Atmospheric, Ocean and Planetary Sciences.

Memberships of Professional Societies:

1. IMS Associates member of the American Meteorological Society
2. Member of the American Geophysical Union
3. Life Member of South Asian Meteorological Association (Membership Number: SAMA-LM-IND-98).
4. Life member of the Indian meteorological society (Membership Number: LM-1827).
5. Life Member of Ocean Society of India (Membership Number: LM-566).
6. Life Member of Indian Geophysical Union (Membership Number: LM-709).
7. Life Member of India Science Congress Association (Membership Number: L41762).
8. Life Member of the Association of Hydrologists of India (Membership Number: LM-549-852).
9. Life Member of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing (Membership Number: L-5822).
10. Life member of the Association of Agro meteorologists (Membership Number: LM-769).
11. Life Member of Institute of Scholars  (Membership Number: InSc2019E1F0).

Reviewer of Journals:

1.  Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
2. Agronomy
3. Applied Sciences
4. Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems
5. Atmosphere
6. Atmospheric and Climate Sciences (ACS)
7. Climate Dynamics
8. Climate Research
9. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
10. Current Sciences
11. Discover Environment
12. Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans
13. Global and Planetary Change
14.  INSC International Journal
15.  International Journal of Agriculture Sciences
16. International Journal of Climatology
17. Journal of Agrometeorology
18. Journal of Climate
19. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
20. Journal of Earth System Sciences
21. Journal of Environmental Pollution and Management (JEPM)
22. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmosphere
23. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans
24. Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences
25. Journal of Meteorological Research (JMR)
26. Land
27. Mathematics
28. Mausam
29. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics
30. Modeling Earth Systems and Environment
31. Natural Hazards
32. Nature Scientific Reports
33. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth
34. Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences. Earth and planetary sciences
35. Pure and Applied Geophysics
36. Quartely Journal of Royal Meteorological Society (QJRMS)
37. Remote Sensing
38. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences
39. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment
40. Sustainability
41. Theoretical and Applied Climatology
42. Water

1. Murali Nageswara Rao Malasala, Xingren Wu, Keqin Wu, and Vijay Tallapragada (2024) Forecasting Integrated Water Vapor Transport and Precipitation on U.S. West Coast with Atmospheric River Analysis and Forecast System. Unifying Innovations in Forecasting Capabilities Workshop (UIFCW-2024), Jackson State University (JSU), Mississippi, USA, July 22-26, 2024.
2. Keqin Wu, Xingren Wu, M.M. Nageswararao, and Vijay Tallapragada (2024) Advancing the Development of Atmospheric River Analysis and Forecast System (AR-AFS): Impacts of Physics and Domain Size on Precipitation Forecasts. 5th International Atmospheric Rivers Conference (IARC-2024), at the Scripps Seaside Forum in San Diego, CA, 24–27 June 2024.
3. M. M. Nageswararao, Keqin Wu, Xingren Wu, and Vijay Tallapragada (2024) A Deep Learning-based Ensemble Post-processing Method for Atmospheric Rivers and Associated Precipitation Forecasts on Sub-seasonal Scale for the U.S. West Coast. 5th International Atmospheric Rivers Conference (IARC-2024), at the Scripps Seaside Forum in San Diego, CA, 24–27 June 2024.
4. Malasala, M. N. R., & Tallapragada, V. (2024). Hybrid Post-processing of NOAA NCEP GEFSv12 reforecasts for predicting extreme rainfall events on sub-seasonal scale over CONUS. In 21st Annual Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop (CPASW21). National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): Tallahassee, FL, US.
5. Malasala, M. N. R., Tallapragada, V., & Zhu, Y. (2024). Sensitivity of data size vs. deep-learning model performance using GEFSv12 reforecast products for rainfall and temperatures over CONUS. In AMS Annual Meeting 2024. American Meteorological Society (AMS): Baltimore, MD, US.
6. Malasala, M. N. R., & Tallapragada, V. (2024). Predictability of summer surface maximum temperature extremes on sub-seasonal scale over CONUS. In NOAA’s S2S Community Workshop: Toward Minimizing Early Model Biases and Errors in S2S Predictions. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): Boulder, CO, US.
7. Malasala, M. N. R., Zhu, Y., Tallapragada, V. S., & Chen, M. -S. (2023). Machine learning technique on GEFSv12 reforecast products for Summer maximum temperature ensemble probabilistic forecasts over Taiwan. In AMS Annual Meeting 2023. American Meteorological Society (AMS): Denver, CO, US.
8. Malasala, M. N. R., Wu, K., Wu, X., & Tallapragada, V. (2023). Sub-seasonal prediction skill of GEFSv12 for atmospheric rivers and associated precipitation forecasts over the U.S. West Coast. In 9th NOAA Ensemble Users Workshop 2023. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): College Park, MD, US.
9. Malasala, M. N. R., Wu, K., Wu, X., & Tallapragada, V. (2023). Calibration on GEFSv12 reforecast products for predicting atmospheric rivers and associated precipitation on sub-seasonal scale over the U.S. West Coast. In AGU Annual Meeting 2023. American Geological Union (AGU): San Francisco, CA, US.
10. Malasala, M. N. R., Zhu, Y., & Tallapragada, V. (2023). Post-processing on GEFSv12 reforecast products for extreme rainfall event's prediction on sub-seasonal scale at regional level. In 9th NOAA Ensemble Users Workshop 2023. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): College Park, MD, US.
11. Malasala, M. N. R., Wu, K., Wu, X., & Tallapragada, V. (2023). Sub-seasonal prediction skill of GEFSv12 for atmospheric rivers and associated precipitation forecasts over the U.S. West Coast. In ECMWF Atmospheric River Reconnaissance Workshop 2023. European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF): Reading, GB.
12. Todd A Hutchinson, Xingren Wu, Michael J Mueller, Vijay S Tallapragada, Lidia Cucurull, Joan Creus-Costa, Murali Nageswararao Malasala (2023) Forecast Impacts of Observations from WindBorne Long-Duration Weather Balloons. 32nd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/28th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)/20th Conference on Mesoscale Processes, In AMS Annual Meeting 2023. American Meteorological Society (AMS): Denver, CO, US.
13. Malasala, M. N. R., Zhu, Y., Tallapragada, V., & Chen, M. -S. (2022). Predictability of summer extreme maximum temperatures over Taiwan by using NOAA NCEP GEFSv12 reforecast products. In 47th NOAA Climate Diagnostics & Prediction Workshop. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): Logan, UT, US.
14. Malasala, M. N. R., Zhu, Y., & Tallapragada, V. (2022). Artificial neural network on GEFSv12 reforecast products for summer rainfall forecast on extended range over CONUS. In 1st KMA-NOAA Workshop on AI for Weather and Climate. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): Gwangju, KR.
15. Malasala, M. N. R., Tallapragada, V. S., & Zhu, Y. (2022). Neural network-based postprocessing for GEFSv12 reforecast products and inter-comparision with existing calibration methods. In 31st Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting. American Meteorological Society (AMS): Houston, TX, US.
16. Malasala, M. N. R., Tallapragada, V., Wu, K., & Wu, X. (2022). Predictability of atmospheric rivers and associated winter precipitation over Northwest USA using NOAA NCEP GEFSv12 reforecast. In Atmospheric River Reconnaissance Workshop 2022. Scripps Institution of Oceanography: La Jolla, CA, US.
17. Barde, V., Mohanty, U. C., Sinha, P., Malasala, M. N. R., & Niyogi, D. (2022). Projection of Indian Monsoon sparse zone shift under climate change. In Seventh WMO International Workshop on Monsoons. World Meteorological Organization (WMO): New Delhi, IN.
18. Malasala, M. N. R., Tallapragada, V., & Zhu, Y. (2022). Predictability of summer monsoon monthly rainfall and associated extreme events over Taiwan by using NCEP GEFSv12 Model. In Seventh WMO International Workshop on Monsoons. World Meteorological Organization (WMO): New Delhi, IN.
19. Sannan, M. C., Malasala, M. N. R., & Mohanty, U. C. (2022). A climate change perspective of evolution of Northeast Monsoon and its global teleconnections over the South Peninsular India region. In Seventh WMO International Workshop on Monsoons. World Meteorological Organization (WMO): New Delhi, IN.
20. Malasala, M. N. R., Sannan, M. C., & Mohanty, U. C. (2022). Effect of climate change on various rainfall events and its global teleconnections over South Peninsular India during northeast monsoon. In 38th & 39th Annual Convention and Seminar on Hydrology. Association of Hydrologists of India: Visakhapatnam, IN.
21. Malasala, M. N. R., Sahai, A. K., & Joseph, S. (2021). Relation between occurrence of heat waves and antecedent southwest summer monsoon rainfall. In 34th Conference on Climate Variability and Change. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
22. Malasala, M. N. R., Tallapragada, V., Zhu, Y., & Rosencrans, M. (2021). Predictability of extreme rainfall events over India during summer monsoon season by using NCEP GEFSv12 Model in the present global warming era. In INTROMET 2021. Indian Meteorological Society.
23. Malasala, M. N. R., Zhu, Y., & Tallapragada, V. (2021). Prediction skill of GEFSv12 in depicting monthly rainfall and associated extreme rainfall events over Taiwan during summer monsoon season. In 46th Climate Diagnostics & Prediction Workshop. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): College Park, MD, US.
24. Sannan, M. C., Malasala, M. N. R., Sahai, A. K., Baswanth Kumar, K. R., & Joseph, S. (2021). Study on distribution and variability of seasonal rainfall and its extremes over Andhra Pradesh under climate change. In INTROMET 2021. Indian Meteorological Society.
25. Sannan, M. C., Malasala, M. N. R., Banik, A., & Mohanty, U. C. (2021). Future outlook on heat wave occurrences over the central east coast of India by application of machine learning on CORDEX-South Asia simulations. In INTROMET 2021. Indian Meteorological Society.
26. Malasala, M. N. R. (2020). Effect of climate change on various rainfall events and its global teleconnections over South Peninsular India during Northeast Monsoon. In Tropmet 2020: National Symposium on Weather and Climate Services over Mountainous Regions. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
27. Murali N Malasala (2020) “A study on Northeast Monsoon over South Peninsular India under influences of climate change: Past, Present, and Future” in the International Conference on “Possibilities and Prospects of Climate Research & Studies in the contemporary Era” organized by SAIARD 12th December 2020.
28. Murali N Malasala (2020) “Development and Application of Monthly and Seasonal scale forecasts for Climate Risk Management in Agriculture” in International Training-workshop entitled “Climate Risk Assessment and its Management through Agrometeorological Approaches” during 21-30 October 2020 at DARS, SKUAST-K, Shalimar, Srinagar, India.
29.  Murali N Malasala (2020) “The Role of Antecedent Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall on the Occurrence of Pre-monsoon Heatwaves over India” at International Research Institute for climate society, Columbia University, New York on 8th September 2020.
30. Murali N Malasala (2018) “Utilization of Monthly and seasonal scale forecast products in crop models in developing crop yield prediction system” Organized by India meteorological department (IMD), Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India and IIT Bhubaneswar, 08-12th October 2018.
31. Murali N Malasala (2018) “Integration of Monthly and seasonal scale ERFS forecast products with crop models for developing CRM Tools in Agriculture” Organized by India meteorological department (IMD), Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India and IIT Bhubaneswar, 03-08th May 2018.
32. Murali N Malasala (2018) “Development of CRM Tools in Agriculture and Water resource management using ERFS forecast products” Organized by India meteorological department (IMD), Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India, IIT Bhubaneswar and Northeastern Space Application Center (NE-SAC, 13-20th March 2018
33. Murali N Malasala (2017) “Use of Extended Range forecast for the development of CRM tools in Agriculture” Organized by India meteorological department (IMD), Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India, IIT Bhubaneswar and University of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, SHIVAMOGGA, 24-30th December 2017.
34. Murali N Malasala (2017) “Development and application of Extended Range forecast for Climate risk management in Agriculture” Organized by India meteorological department (IMD), Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India, IIT Bhubaneswar, and RVSKVV, Gwalior, 18th Sep 2017.
35. Murali N Malasala (2016) “The role of Bay of Bengal cyclonic disturbances on post-monsoon rainfall extremes over India”, Organized by Indian Meteorological Society (IMS-TROPMET-2016), SOA, Bhubaneswar during December 18-21, 2016.
36. Murali N Malasala (2016) “Operational Techniques for combining Extended and Seasonal scale forecasts and Modeling in Climate risk management in Agriculture” Organized by PROFESSOR JAYASHANKAR TELANGANA STATE AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, 28th November-03rd December 2016.
37. Murali N Malasala (2016) “Hands-on practice course on Modeling-cum-Climate Risk Management" Organized by Odisha University of Agriculture & Technology Bhubaneswar 23-29th July 2016
38. Murali N Malasala (2016) “Modeling on Climate Risk Management using ERFS Products" Organized by Odisha University of Agriculture & Technology Bhubaneswar 30th May -10th June 2016
39. Murali N Malasala (2015) “Development of Extended Range Forecast at regional level by using bias-corrected GCM outputs”. UN-CECAR Training Course on “Climate Change Downscaling Approaches and Applications” at Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT), Sri Lanka & UNU, Tokyo, Japan 30th March 2015-4th April 2015.
40. Murali N Malasala (2015) " Development of Climate Risk Management tools by using Extended Range Forecasts" at the Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar from 15-20th December 2015
41. Murali N Malasala (2015) “Statistical methods for predicting seasonal winter precipitation using empirical relationships”. In Workshops entitled 'Development of Climatic Risk Management tools in Agriculture using Extended Range Forecast”, Organized by India meteorological department (IMD), Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India, Department of Agriculture corporation (DAC), Ministry of Agriculture, India and IIT Bhubaneswar, 15th Dec 2015.
42. Murali N Malasala (2014) Impact of Climate Change - Successes and Challenges on Ocean and Atmospheric Research” at Dept. of Meteorology and oceanography, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, SCOAR 2014 from 9th to 11th October 2014.
43. Oral paper presentation in International Symposium on “Cryosphere and climate change” organized by DRDO, SASE, Manali, India during April 02-04, 2012.
44. Oral paper presentation in national seminar on “Meteorology for socio-economic development” organized by Indian Meteorological Society (IMS-TROPMET-2011), Hyderabad during December 14-16, 2011.

Professional Courses/Training Workshops Attended:

1. Attended virtually in 102nd AMS Annual Meeting 103rd AMS Annual meeting from 8-12th January 2023.
2. Attended virtually in 47th Annual Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop Logan, Utah, October 25–27, 2022.
3. Attended virtually in AR Recon Workshop 2022, Scripps Seaside Forum, La Jolla, CA, USA, 24-26 October 2022
4. Attended virtually in 1st KMA-NOAA Workshop on AI for Weather and Climate Gwangju, Korea 19-21 October 2022
5. Attended virtually in 7th WMO International Workshop on Monsoons (IWM-7) from 22-26th March-2022 at New Delhi, India.
6. Attended virtually in 38-39th National Seminar on Hydrology with a Focal theme on Changing Climate and Extreme Hydrological Events during 25-26 February-2022 at Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India.
7.  Attended virtually in ICTP Traing-Workshop "Artificial Intelligence for Detection and Attribution of Climate Extremes" from 20th June-1st July 2022.
8. Attended virtually in 102nd AMS Annual Meeting from 23-27th January 2022.
9. Attended virtually in INTROMET-2021, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, India, Virtual, 23-26 November 2021.
10. Attended virtually in the Training Workshop on "Recent Advances in AI & ML for Climate Sciences" during 13-15 November 2021 organized by  Technology Innovation Hub (TIH), Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata in association with IEEE GRSS Kolkata Chapter.
11. Attended the 46th NOAA CDPW workshop, Virtual, 26-28th October 2021.
12. Attended the 101st AMS Annual Meeting from 9-15th January 2021.
13. Actively Participated in "The 4th Taiwan West Pacific Global Forecast System Development Workshop" Virtual Meeting, 15–17 June, 2021Participated in the "AMS 101st Annual virtual Meeting" during 10-15 January 2021.
14. Attended certificate course on "Regional Climate Projections: Statistical Downscaling through R" organized by the Centre for Climate Research & Studies of South Asian Institute for Advanced Research and Development (SAIARD) in association with India Meteorological Department, Kolkata, Govt. of India held on 05 - 27th December 2020.
15. Attended the "virtual NOAA Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop (CDPW)" conducted at NOAA NCEP, from 20-22 October 2020
16. Attended the TAMSAT training workshop on “TAMSAT Satellite Rainfall Estimation and Validation over Africa” from 06-22nd July 2020.
17. Attended the  Global  Heat  Health  Information  Network  (GHHIN)  Masterclass on  “Setting operational thresholds for Heat Early Warning Systems” from 02-09th June 2020.
18. Attended GIAN short-term course on “Land Surface process in the Tropicsin context of high Impact Weather systems and Climate Resiliency" at IIT Bhubaneswar from 03-10th July 2018.
19. Attended GIAN short-term course on “Extreme Weather Events over India: Observations, Assimilation, and Modeling with special focus on Tropical cyclones" at IIT Bhubaneswar from 18-25th June 2018.
20. Attended a Workshop on " Regional Environment & climate in Odisha: Lighting, Thunderstorm, and Heat-Waves" (RECO-2018 held at the Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar from 23-24th March 2018.
21. Participated in the Brainstorming Workshop "IT-based real-Time monitoring of Soil, water and Atmospheric Variables for sustainable surface and round Water Management " at the Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar on 25th March 2017.
22. Attended Off-Campus 19th IIRS Outreach course on "Remote Sensing and GIS Applications in Carbon Forestry" at Indian Space Research Organization, Department of Space, Government of India from Feb-March 2017.
23. Attended GIAN short-term course on “Extreme Weather and Climate Variability: Observation, Understanding and Prediction” at IIT Bhubaneswar from 22nd – 31st December 2016
24. Attended GIAN short-term course on “Climate Change: Science, Impact and Adaptation” at IIT Bhubaneswar from 1st- 8th December 2016.
25. Attended Off-Campus 18th IIRS Outreach course on "Basics of Remote Sensing, Geographical Information System, and Global Navigation Satellite System" at Indian Space Research Organization, Department of Space, Government of India from 16 Aug 2016 to 22nd November 2016.
26. Attended the short-term course on “Development of Climatic Risk Management tools in Agriculture using Extended Range Forecast”, Organized by India meteorological department (IMD), Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India, Department of Agriculture corporation (DAC), Ministry of Agriculture, India and IIT Bhubaneswar, during 15-20th Dec 2015.
27. Attended a post-graduate course in "Building Resilience to Climate ChangePart-I: Science, Impact, and Vulnerability" in 2014 from United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan.
28. Attended a post-graduate course in "Building Resilience to Climate Change Part-II: Approaches to Adaptation" in 2014 from United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan.
29. Participated in the ICTS program on “Advanced Dynamical core modeling for atmospheric and ocean circulations" at NARL, Gadhanki from 18th June to 23rd Feb 2013.
30. Participated in the second national research conference on “Climate change” organized by IIT Delhi, IIT Madras, and CSE during November 05-06, 2011.
31. Participated in the SERC School on “Dynamics on forecasting of the Indian summer monsoon" at CAS, IIT Delhi from June 27 to July 20, 2011
32. Participated in the "2nd India disaster management congress" organized by NIDM Delhi during November 04-06, 2009.