Name: Maheswar Pradhan

Job Role: Scientist-E

Experience: 10 Years 7 Months

Address: IITM, Pune, India

Skills

Fortran 85%
NCL 95%
PYTHON 80%
MATLAB 90%
Machine Learning 50%

About Me

I am currently working in a Monsoon Mission group to enhance India’s modelling capability in simulating Indian Summer Monsoon and the processing contributing towards its predictability. Ocean observing system experiments with coupled models, seasonal prediction of onset variability, model intercomparison studies involving NMME, SINTEX-F2, ECMWF models, the sensitivity of seasonal forecasts towards initial conditions, etc. are some of my works towards addressing coupled models’ biases and way forward to improve them. I am also a part of the core team which developed the MMCFSv2 (a next generation global coupled model) for India. I have also worked towards automated forecasting algorithms. Using these algorithms, the model and forecasting procedures are now operationally used for seasonal forecasting of the Indian Summer Monsoon at the India Meteorological Department (IMD). In association with IMD, I have been working towards generating and disseminating ENSO-IOD bulletins, long-range forecasts of rainfall and air temperature, etc..

  • Profile: Climate Modeling & Data Analytics
  • Model Code Handled: CFSv2, GFS, MOM & MMCFSv2
  • Model Data Analysed: ENSMBLES, SINTEX-F2, NMME, & UKMO
  • Language: English, Hindi, & Odia
  • Publication Break up: Model Development, Model Analysis & Observational, AI-ML
  • Interest: Traveling, Cricket, Badminton

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Resume

Resume

I was an Instrumentaion Engineer and the joined the field of Climate Science more than a decade ago. I obtained my Doctoral Degree in Climate Studies from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. My research interest and working areas are listed below. Feel free to start an conversation or collaboration just by dropping an email.

Experience


Areas of Interest

I am working in the following areas of climate science/modeling.

  • TURBULENT FLUX PARAMETERIZATION IN OCEAN and COUPLED MODELS
  • DIURNAL CYCLE IN THE OCEAN AND ITS IMPACT ON THE ATMOSPHERE
  • OBSERVING SYSTEM EXPERIMENTS USING COUPLED/OCEAN MODELS
  • OPERATIONAL SEASONAL PREDICTION
  • MONSOON VARIABILITY & ITS DRIVERS
  • COUPLED DATA ASSIMILATION

Research Guidance
  • Miss Sakshi Shimbre, MSC Student, Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU)
  • Miss Sree Siva A. C., MSc Student, Department of Physical Oceanography at Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT)
  • Miss Tina Khatun, MSc/MTech Student, Department of Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing at Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU)

Scientific Career
  • 2025-Present: Scientist-E at IITM, Pune
  • 2021-2025: Scientist-D at IITM, Pune
  • 2017-2020: Scientist-C at IITM, Pune
  • 2014-2016: Scientist-B at IITM, Pune
  • 2012-2013: Trainee Scientist at Ceneter for Advanced Training (CAT), IITM, Pune
Positions/Membership Held
  • Member Global Extremes Platform Contact Group, World Climate Research Program (WCRP)
  • Member of the Monsoons Panel’s Working Group on Asian Australian Monsoons (WG-AAM) established by the World Climate Research Programme and Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX)
  • Life Member of Indian Meteorological Society (IMS)
  • Life Member of Ocean Society of India (OSI)
  • Member of the MoES ECR hub for Earth Sciences
  • Review Editor at Frontier in Climate
  • Guest editor of special issue on the 2025 Asian summer monsoon (ASM) in Journal of Meteorological Research (JMR, https://link.springer.com/journal/13351/)
  • Chaired ECR Session at INTROMET-2025 themed as “Indian Cimate-2025”
  • Convener “Monsoon pe Charcha” at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune
  • Panelist of "Tropical Pacific Observing Needs to Advance Process Understanding and Representation in Models" workshop at USCLIVAR
  • Chaired Session at Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS)-2021 themed as “OS09 - Seasonal-to-interannual Climate Variability and Predictability”
  • Panelist for the technical session “Use Cases in Climate Services” in the “ACASA-India Atlas Launch-cum-Use Cases Workshop” on 23rd January 2026 at NAS Complex, New Delhi


Education


2007-2011

Bachelor of Technology

College of Engineering and Technology (CET), Bhubaneswar

GPA: 8.56

2018-2024

Doctor of Philosophy

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), Powai

GPA: 9.57

Publications

Publications

Selected peer-reviewed publications, reports, and conference contributions.

Contact

Contact Me

Below are the details to reach out to me!

Address

Monsoon Mission Group, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pashan, Pune, India, 411008

Contact Number

+91 20-20504306

Email Address

maheswar@tropmet.res.in

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