Rate My Professor Ashok Karumuri

Ashok Karumuri is a Full Professor in the Centre for Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Hyderabad, currently on extraordinary leave as Principal Research Scientist at KAUST, Saudi Arabia. He holds an MSc in Meteorology from Andhra University in 1988, M.Tech. in Atmospheric Sciences in 1991, and PhD in Meteorology in 1997 from the same institution. His career includes roles as Scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune from 1994 to 2000; Post-Doctoral Researcher and Researcher at Frontier Research Center for Global Change/JAMSTEC, Japan from 2000 to 2007; Senior Research Scientist and Chief of Climate Operations at APEC Climate Center, Busan, South Korea from 2007 to 2009; Senior Scientist and Deputy Program Director for the Centre for Climate Change Research at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology from 2009 to 2014; Associate Professor at University of Hyderabad from 2014 to 2017; and Professor since 2017.

His research interests encompass tropical Indo-Pacific variability and global impacts, monsoon theory, variability and change, scale interactions and seamless prediction, Earth system modelling, past and future climate change modelling, extreme urban weather prediction, and climate change policy. Karumuri has produced 179 publications with over 11,600 citations and an h-index of 41. Key publications include "El Niño Modoki and its possible teleconnection" (2007, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans), "Impact of the Indian Ocean Dipole on the relationship between the Indian monsoon rainfall and ENSO" (2001, Geophysical Research Letters), "Drying of Indian subcontinent by rapid Indian Ocean warming and a weakening land-sea thermal gradient" (2015, Nature Communications), and contributions to IPCC AR5 on Indian monsoons. He has supervised 13 PhD theses. Awards and honors include Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India (2018), Indian Meteorological Society Fellowship (2025), Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society (2024), and inclusion in Stanford University's top 2% global scientists list for 2018, 2019, and 2025. He has served as Contributing Author for IPCC AR5, member of WMO Commission of Climatology's task team on Global Seasonal Climate Update, editorial board member for Scientific Reports and Asia-Pacific Atmospheric Sciences, and part of Indian UNFCCC negotiation teams.