Research

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Currently, I work on weather and climate extremes, and how climate change impacts them. I also study physical mechanisms that can aid the early prediction of extreme events.

Publications

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  1. Role of observations in advancing understanding of the climate system (2026)D Stammer, H Cleugh, D Dahl-Jensen, S Jain, A Sörensson, T Stocker, Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences, Elsevier, 2026
  2. Insights from Climate Tipping Point Science for the Forthcoming IPCC Seventh Assessment Report and Reflections for National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (2026)TF Stocker, SE Belcher, G Brunet, P Dube, TL Frölicher, GC Hegerl, S Jain, J Marengo, G Metternicht, T Naish, N van der Wel, R Vautard, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 107 (7), E1579–E1585, 2026
  3. The Subseasonal Applications for Agriculture and Environment (SAGE) project within the World Weather Research Programme: Making subseasonal predictions more useful for sectoral applications (2026)M Osman, V Marchezini, S Woolnough, N Caltabiano, R Lowe, EEH Doyle, D van Niekerk, J Bazo, R Stone, A Kumar, Y Takaya, P Mukhopadhyay, Z Han, M Gudoshava, C Stan, S Jain, AK Sahai, K Yoneyama, E de Coning, Climate Services 43, 100693, 2026
  4. Advancing Climate Services in South Asia: The SARCI Framework for Actionable Climate Information and Regional Capacity Building (2026)DP Bhuyan, P Upadhyaya, R Pathak, P Namdev, P Salunke, A Anand, AD Suresh, A Arora, SK Baraik, S Jain, et al., Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 107 (3), E564–E584, 2026
  5. Bridging climate science, policy, and communities: collaborative pathways for climate resilience in the Indo-Pacific (2025)A Modi, MK Roxy, S Jain, CH Truong, QV Doan, C Jack, S Jevrejeva, A Singh, C Dhara, S Ghosh, Frontiers in Climate 7, 1538123, 2025
  6. Towards developing an operational Indian Ocean Dipole Warning System for Southeast Asia (2025)S Jain, T Turkington, WL Tan, C Schwartz, AA Scaife, TG Shepherd, Scientific Reports 15, 14728, 2025
  7. Connecting climate science and society: reflections from Early and Mid-Career Researchers at the WCRP Open Science Conference 2023 (2025)LB Díaz, C Gulizia, S Jain, GS Langendijk, H Palanisamy, V Rabanal, et al., Frontiers in Climate 6, 2025
  8. Engagement of Early Career Researchers in Collaborative Assessments of IPCC Reports: Achievements and Insights (2024)M Moreno-Ibáñez, M Casado, G Gremion, V Rabanal, … S Jain, … et al., Frontiers in Climate 6, 1395040, 2024
  9. Regional Climate Change: Consensus, Discrepancies and Ways Forward (2024)T Shaw, PA Arias, M Collins, D Coumou, A Diedhiou, CI Garfinkel, S Jain, MK Roxy, M Kretschmer, L Ruby Leung, S Narsey, O Martius, R Seager, TG Shepherd, AA Sorensson, T Stephenson, M Taylor, L Wang, Frontiers in Climate 6, 1391634, 2024
  10. General Circulation and climate dynamics of the Southern Hemisphere troposphere, in Monographs of Southern Hemispheric Meteorology (2024)TG Shepherd, J Mindlin, R Barimalala, M Gudoshava, S Jain, S Narsey, H Pinheiro, R Goyal, Cambridge University Press, 2024
  11. Importance of internal variability for climate model assessment (2023)S Jain, AA Scaife, TG Shepherd, C Deser, N Dunstone, GA Schmidt, KE Trenberth, T Turkington, npj Climate and Atmospheric Sciences 6, 68, 2023
  12. Windows of opportunity for predicting seasonal climate extremes highlighted by the Pakistan floods of 2022 (2023)N Dunstone, DM Smith, SC Hardiman, P Davies, S Ineson, S Jain, G Martin, AA Scaife, Nature Communications 14, 6544, 2023
  13. Are we at risk of losing current generation of climate researchers to data science? (2022)S Jain, J Mindlin, G Koren, C Gulizia, C Steadman, G Langendijk, M Osman, MA Abid, Y Rao, V Rabanal, AGU Advances, 2022
  14. Future projections of daily hazy and clear weather conditions over the North China Plain using a Perturbed Parameter Ensemble (2022)S Jain, RM Doherty, D Sexton, S Turnock, C Li, Z Jia, Z Shi, L Pei, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 22, 7443–7460, 2022
  15. How extreme could the near term evolution of the Indian Summer Monsoon rainfall be? (2022)S Jain, AA Scaife, Environmental Research Letters 17 (3), 034009, 2022
  16. The impact of large-scale circulation on daily fine particulate matter (PM2.5) over major populated regions of China in winter (2022)Z Jia, RM Doherty, C Ordóñez, C Li, O Wild, S Jain, X Tang, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 22 (10), 6471–6487, 2022
  17. The Spatio-Temporal Onset Characteristics of Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall and Their Relationship with Climate Indices (2022)A Saini, N Sahu, SK Mishra, S Jain, S Behera, SK Dash, Atmosphere 13 (10), 1581, 2022
  18. Historical and projected low-frequency variability in the Somali Jet and Indian Summer Monsoon (2021)S Jain, SK Mishra, A Anand, P Salunke, JT Fasullo, Climate Dynamics 56 (3), 749–765, 2021
  19. A New Graphical Method to Diagnose the Impacts of Model Changes on Climate Sensitivity (2021)S Jain, R Chhin, RM Doherty, SK Mishra, S Yoden, Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan. Ser. II, 2021
  20. Current chance of unprecedented monsoon rainfall over India using dynamical ensemble simulations (2020)S Jain, AA Scaife, N Dunstone, D Smith, SK Mishra, Environmental Research Letters 15 (9), 094095, 2020
  21. Advantage of NEX-GDDP over CMIP5 and CORDEX Data: Indian Summer Monsoon (2019)S Jain, P Salunke, SK Mishra, S Sahany, N Choudhary, Atmospheric Research 228, 152–160, 2019
  22. Appearance of the persistently low tropopause temperature and ozone over the Bay of Bengal region (2019)S Jain, AR Jain, TK Mandal, Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics 131 (1), 81–88, 2019
  23. Importance of the resolution of surface topography in the simulation of the climate of Himalaya-Tibet highland (2019)S Jain, SK Mishra, P Salunke, S Sahany, Climate Dynamics 52, 4735–4748, 2019
  24. Skill of Indian summer monsoon rainfall prediction in multiple seasonal prediction systems (2019)S Jain, AA Scaife, AK Mitra, Climate Dynamics 52, 5291–5301, 2019
  25. Past and future climate change over the Himalaya–Tibetan Highland: inferences from APHRODITE and NEX-GDDP data (2019)SK Mishra, S Jain, P Salunke, S Sahany, Climatic Change 156 (3), 315–322, 2019
  26. Assessment of CMIP5 multimodel mean for the historical climate of Africa (2019)S Zebaze, S Jain, P Salunke, S Shafiq, SK Mishra, Atmospheric Science Letters 20 (8), e926, 2019
  27. Performance of CMIP5 models in the simulation of Indian summer monsoon (2019)S Jain, S Popat, M SK, S Sandeep, Theoretical and Applied Climatology 137, 1429–1447, 2019
  28. Performance of the CMIP5 models in the simulation of the Himalaya-Tibetan Plateau monsoon (2019)P Salunke, S Jain, SK Mishra, Theoretical and Applied Climatology 137, 909–928, 2019
  29. Tropical rainfall predictions from multiple seasonal forecast systems (2019)AA Scaife, L Ferranti, O Alves, P Athanasiadis, J Baehr, M Dequé, T Dippe, N Dunstone, D Fereday, RG Gudgel, RJ Greatbatch, L Hermanson, Y Imada, S Jain, A Kumar, C MacLachlan, W Merryfield, WA Müller, HL Ren, D Smith, Y Takaya, G Vecchi, X Yang, International Journal of Climatology 39 (2), 974–988, 2019
  30. Fidelity of CMIP5 multi-model mean in assessing Indian monsoon simulations (2018)SK Mishra, S Sahany, P Salunke, IS Kang, S Jain, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science 1 (1), 1–8, 2018
  31. Transport of water vapour over the Tibetan plateau as inferred from the model simulations (2017)S Jain, SC Kar, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar Terrestrial Physics 161, 64–75, 2017
  32. Impact of monsoon-associated deep-penetrating clouds on the hydration of the tropical upper troposphere (2015)S Jain, AR Jain, TK Mandal, Atmospheric Science Letters 16 (1), 38–43, 2015
  33. Dry phase of tropical lower stratospheric water vapor: Role of BDC, convection and ozone variability (2014)S Jain, AR Jain, TK Mandal, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 121, 257–270, 2014
  34. Role of convection in hydration of tropical UTLS: implication of AURA MLS long-term observations (2013)S Jain, AR Jain, TK Mandal, Annales Geophysicae 31 (5), 967–981, 2013
  35. Tropopause and interchange of minor constituents in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS) region (2013)AR Jain, V Panwar, CJ Johny, S Jain, SK Peshin, TK Mandal, SK Dhaka, Indian Journal of Radio and Space Physics 42 (5), 320–331, 2013

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