Rate My Professor Ashok Karumuri

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.