Neena Joseph Mani
Associate Professor
Earth and Climate Science
Climate dynamics, Tropical variability, Monsoons, numerical weather prediction, predictability.
+91-20-25908182
neena@iiserpune.ac.in
Neena J Mani obtained her PhD in Atmospheric Science in 2012 from the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune. She was a postdoctoral fellow jointly at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology and University of California Los Angeles before joining IISER Pune in 2015.
Research
MONSOON VARIABILITY AND ITS DRIVERS IN SHORT AND LONG TIMESCALES
Neena’s main research interest lies in understanding the large scale drivers and teleconnection mechanisms which control the short and long timescale variability of the Indian summer monsoon (ISM). Her group investigates instrumental and paleoclimate records and tries to understand the teleconnection mechanisms using hierarchy of climate models in the context of present and past climate scenarios. This will provide crucial information on how the future monsoon may get modulated in response to the changes in the global climate modes. Her other research interest lies in understanding the theoretical and practical predictability of different scales of atmospheric variability. Some of her significant research contributions include : (a) Identification of a lowering of monsoon weather predictability in a warming world (b) quantification of the predictability of Tropical Intraseasonal Oscillations (ISO) in contemporary climate models (c) developing model performance metrics for the ISO d) developing a mechanistic understanding of the El Nino - monsoon teleconnection.
Selected Publications
Neena, J. M., E Suhas and R Murtugudde (2020): Boreal Spring El Niño Convective State and Its Impact on Monsoon Onset, Geophysical Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL090136.
Neena, J.M., D. Waliser and X. Jiang (2017). Model Performance Metrics and Process Diagnostics for Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Variability. Climate Dynamics 48(5–6):1661–1683.
Neena, J.M., J-Y,Lee, D. Waliser, B. Wang, and X. Jiang (2014). Predictability of Madden-Julian Oscillation in the Intraseasonal Variability Hindcast Experiment (ISVHE). Journal of Climate 27:4531–4543.
Neena, J. M., E. Suhas, and B. N. Goswami (2011). Leading role of internal dynamics in the 2009 Indian summer monsoon drought. Journal of Geophysical Research 116: D13103.
Neena, J. M., E. Suhas, and B. N. Goswami (2009). Can global warming make Indian monsoon weather less predictable? Geophysical Research Letters 36: L08811.