Dr. Govindarajalu Srinivasan

1. Post-Doctoral Research – On performance of AGCMs, at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU), University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK (1994).
2. PhD Atmospheric Sciences, Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, India (August 1994).
3. Masters in Agricultural Meteorology, Department of Agricultural Meteorology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India (October 1983).
4. Bachelor of Science with Honors, University of Delhi, Delhi, India (August 1980)

Dr. Srinivasan’s research interest is on climate applications for risk management by bringing together best available science and diverse climate sensitive decision contexts for sustained climate resilience in short and longer-term time horizons. 

1. IN84.912: Early Warning Systems and Climate Hazards 

1. Srinivasan, G., Anshul Agarwal and Bandara, U., (2024) “Climate Change impacts on water resources and agriculture in Southeast Asia with a focus on Thailand, Myanmar and Cambodia.” In: Khare, N., (Ed) The Role of Tropics in Climate Change – Global case studies, Elsevier, Netherlands, ISBN: 978-0-323-99519-1.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-99519-1.02002-0
2. Stacey, J., Salmon, K., Janes, T., Colman, A., Colledge, F., Bett, P. E., Srinivasan, G., Pai, D. S., (2023) “Diverse skill of seasonal dynamical models in forecasting South Asian monsoon precipitation and the influence of ENSO and IOD”, Clim. Dyn. DOI:10.1007/s00382-023-06770-2
3. Bandara, U., Agarwal, A., Srinivasan, G., Shanmugasundaram, J., & Jayawardena, I. M. S. (2022). “Intercomparison of gridded precipitation datasets for prospective hydrological applications in Sri Lanka”, Int. J. of Climatol., 42:3378– 3396. DOI:10.1002/joc.7421
4. J. Daron, M. Bruno Soares, T. Janes, F. Colledge, G. Srinivasan, A. Agarwal, C. Hewitt, K. Richardson, S. Nepal, M. Singh Shrestha, G. Rasul, N Suckall, B. Harrison, R.L. Oakes, D. Corbelli (2022) “Advancing climate services in South Asia”, Climate Services, 26, April 2022, 100295, DOI: 10.1016/j.cliser.2022.100295.
5. Agarwal Anshul, Sawant Mitesh, G. Srinivasan, J. Buizer, T. Finan, K.K. Singh, S. Kumar, (2022) “Integrating climate information into decision making for building resilience: A case study on farming communities in Bihar, India”, Climate Services, 28, 100328, ISSN 2405-8807, DOI: 10.1016/j.cliser.2022.100328.
6. Rafisura, K., Hendy, L., Bernadet Dewi, M., Srinivasan, G., Fernandes Moniz, T. (2022). “El Niño Readiness: Critical to Addressing Hunger in Timor-Leste”, In: Glantz, M.H. (eds) El Niño Ready Nations and Disaster Risk Reduction. Disaster Studies and Management. Springer, Cham. DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-86503-0_8
7. Bindhu, V. M., Smitha, P. S., Narasimhan, B., Annamalai, H., & Srinivasan, G. (2021). “Koppen–Trewartha climate classification as a diagnostic tool to identify pronounced changes in the projected climate by the General Circulation Models over India”, Int. J. of Climatology, 41: 6616– 6639. DOI:10.1002/joc.7216
8. Agarwal, A., Srinivasan, G., Sawant, M.V., Rafisura, K. (2021). “Enhancing Climate Service Delivery Mechanisms in Agriculture Sector to Cope with Climate Change”. In: Kaushik, A., Kaushik, C.P., Attri, S.D. (eds) Climate Resilience and Environmental Sustainability Approaches. Springer, Singapore. DOI:10.1007/978-981-16-0902-2_7
9. Srinivasan, G., D. S. Pai, Anshul Agarwal, Anahit Hovsepyan and Wilfran Moufouma Okia (2020) “India’s Monsoon Mission contributions to Regional Climate Information and Services for South Asia”, CLIVAR Exchanges, 79, 46-50, November 2020. DOI: 10.36071/clivar.79.2020
10. Anshul Agarwal, Uttam Ghimire, Htay Htay Than Govindarajalu Srinivasan, Itesh Dash, Niraj Shakya & Myo Tun Oo (2020) “Operationalizing a flood forecasting decision support system for Ayeyarwady river, Myanmar”, Int. J. of River Basin Management, , published online 04 Mar 2020, DOI: 10.1080/15715124.2020.1738445
11. Srinivasan, G., R. Boscolo, T. Cegnar, Caio Coelho, T. Fuchs, André Kamga, J. Kennedy, Vlidimir Kryjov, Barbara Tapia and Ryuji Yamada, (2015) “Climate Services – transitioning from CLIPS to GFCS”, WMO Bulletin 64 (1): 2015, 23-27.
12. Prasanna, V., Subere, J., Das, D.K., Srinivasan, G., and Yasunari, T. (2014), “Development of daily gridded rainfall dataset over the Ganga, Brahmaputra and Meghna River basins”. Met. Apps, 21: 278-293. DOI:10.1002/met.1327
13. R. Martínez, D. Hemming, L. Malone, N. Bermudez, G. Cockfield, A. Diongue, J. Hansen, A. Hildebrand, K. Ingram, G. Jakeman, M. Kadi, G. R. McGregor, S. Mushtaq, P. Rao, R. Pulwarty, O. Ndiaye, G. Srinivasan, Eh. Seck, N. White and R. Zougmore (2012) “Improving Climate Risk Management at Local Level – Techniques, Case Studies, Good Practices and Guidelines for World Meteorological Organization Members”. In Risk Management – Current Issues and Challenges, edited by Nerija Banaitiene, InTech, September 9, 2012, ISBN 978-953-51-0747-7.
14. Srinivasan, G., Robock, A., Entin, J.K., Luo, L., Vinnikov, K.Y., Viterbo, P. (2000) “Soil moisture simulations in revised AMIP models”, Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres, 105 (D21), art. no. 2000JD900443, pp. 26635-26644.
15. Robock, A., Vinnikov, K.Y., Srinivasan, G., Entin, J.K., Hollinger, S.E., Speranskaya, N.A., Liu, S., Namkhai, A. (2000) “The Global Soil Moisture Data Bank Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society”, 81 (6), pp. 1281-1299. 

1. A Program to support South Asia Regional Development in Operational Forecasting and Services Delivery under South Asia HydroMet Forum (SAHF) World Bank initiative.
   Funding: World Bank
   Period: Dec 2020 – Mar 2023; location: Regional – South Asia.
   Role: Team Lead and overall project formulation and technical implementation with RIMES.
2. Development of regional-specific Guidance on production of objective seasonal forecasts for the Southern African region.
   Funding: World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
   Period: Aug 2020 – Apr 2021; location: Regional – Southern Africa
   Role: Lead Technical expert
3. Operational Evaluation for Regional Climate Center for Southern Africa and implementation of Climate Services Toolkit (CST) under ClimSA.
   Funding: EU through WMO
   Period: Apr 2022 – May 2024 (ongoing); location: regional – Southern Africa
   Role: Lead climate scientist (until RIMES tenure)
4. Enhancing Climate Services in South Asia within the UK aid-funded Asia – Regional Resilience to Changing Climate (ARRCC) Programme implemented by UK Met Office.
   Funding: UK Met Office (UKMO) funded by UK government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)
   Period: Nov 2018 – Sept 2022, Location: Regional – South Asia
   Role: Team Lead and overall technical implementation with RIMES
5. Development of Climate Scenarios and Climate Change Scenarios considering the results of the Fifth IPCC assessment results through National, Sub-National or other level of scaling.
   Funding: Cellule de Prévention et Gestion des Urgences (CPGU) under Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) through a World Bank grant.
   Period: Jan 2018 – June 2019, Location: Madagascar
   Role: Team Lead, Climate Change scenario generation and overall implementation with RIMES
6. Developing effective Climate Services in Bhutan through implementation of Climate Services Toolkit (CST)
   Funding: Supported by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) through funds from Korean Meteorological Administration (KMA) and implemented at the National Centre for Hydrology and Meteorology (NCHM), Royal Govt of Bhutan
   Period: Aug 2020 – Sept 2022, Location: Bhutan
   Role: Team Lead and conceptualization & implementation of the CST design.
7. Developing an Agro-Met Decision Support System for Farm Advisory
   Funding: Supported by the World Bank in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture (DoAF), Royal Govt of Bhutan
   Year: July 2018 – Dec 2019. Location: Bhutan
   Role: Team Lead and overall technical implementation with RIMES
8. Support to Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) implementation in South Asia
   Funding: World Meteorological Organization (WMO) technical implementation funded by Canada Government.
   Period: Feb 2016 – Mar 2018, Location: Regional South Asia, with pilots in India, Maldives, and Sri Lanka
   Role: Team Lead and overall technical implementation
9. Capacity building on generation and application of downscaled climate change projections
   Funding: UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific (UN ESCAP)
   Period: 2014-2016, Location: Myanmar, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
   Role: Team Leader, climate change scientist, design, and implementation with RIMES.
10. Strengthening multi-hazard early warning system through the application of agro-meteorological products and services.
    Funding: UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific (UN ESCAP)
    Period: 2013-2015, Location: Myanmar
    Role: Team Leader, overall assessment, design, and implementation with RIMES.
11. Climate Adaptation through Sub-Basin Development Investment Program Cauvery Delta Tamil Nadu, India
    Funding: UNESCO-IHE & Asian Development Bank (ADB)
    Period: 2012-2013, Location: Tamil Nadu, India
    Role: Team Lead and overall technical implementation
12. Enhancing Utility of Seasonal Climate Forecasts and Managing Climate Change Risks under Linking Information and Decision-Making to Improve Food Security in Selected Countries of the Greater Mekong Sub-Region
    Funding: European Commission (EC) /Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO-RAP) Regional Office for the Asia & the Pacific
    Period: 2010-11, Location: Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Myanmar
    Role: Team leader/Chief Scientist Climate Change with RIMES
13. Strengthening Resilience of Urban Water, Drainage and Sanitation Sector to Climate Change in Coastal Towns of Bangladesh
    Funding: AECOM Asia with Asian Development Bank (ADB)
    Period: 2012-2013, Location: Bangladesh
    Role: Team Leader, Climate Change Adaptation Specialist
14. Providing climate change scenarios for Maldives using statistical and dynamical downscaling
    Funding: Govt. Of Maldives, Department of Environment, through UNDP funds
    Period: 2010-11, Location: Maldives
    Role: Team Leader, Lead Climate Scientist
15. Climate Risk Management Technical Assistance Support Project (CRM-TASP)
    Funding: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Geneva
    Period: Aug 2008-2010, Locations: Armenia, Ecuador, Indonesia and Mozambique
    Role: Technical Lead as Climate Change Scientist with Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre (ADPC)
16. Natural disasters and climate change in Finnish aid from the perspective of poverty reduction
    Funding: Ramboll-Finnconsult Ltd./ Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland
    Period: 2009-10, Location: Helsinki and project countries in the Caribbean
    Role: Team Leader and Meteorologist Expert along with Ramboll-Finnconsult team. 

1. Member of the 7th Indian Scientific Expedition to the Antarctic (Nov, 1987-88), Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt of India. 
2. Elected to the prestigious Indian Meteorological Society (IMS) Fellowship, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to meteorology and allied fields of science and technology (Dec 2018), Indian Met Soc. (IMS).
3. Felicitated for contributions to the services of India Meteorological Department (IMD) on 144th IMD Foundation Day on 15 Jan 2019 by Hon’ble Union Minster for Science & Technology, Earth Sciences and Environment and Forests & Climate Change, Government of India. (Jan 2019)
4. Appreciated for extra-ordinary contribution and service to the Commission for Climatology (CCl) of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). (Apr 2018), World Meteorological Organization (WMO). 

1. Member, Board of Trustees & Chair of Science Advisory Group, EarthWatch INDIA
2. Life-Member and Fellow of the Indian Meteorological Society (IMS)
3. Life-Member of the Association of Agrometeorologists, India.
4. Member of the ASEAN Climate Outlook Forum (ASEANCOF) Working Group, ASEAN Specialised Meteorological Centre, Singapore (2020-present)
5. Member of the Task Team on WMO accredited ENSO information (April 2023 – Mar 2024) 
6. Chair of the WMO Technical Commission on Climatology (CCl) Task Team on Guide to Climatological Practices (2014 – 2019)
7. Member of the Editorial Board, International Journal – Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Elsevier (2007 – present)
8. Review Editor, Climate Research, an International and Multidisciplinary Journal, Inter-Research, Germany (1997- 2007)
9. Contributing author to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s Third Assessment Report Working Group II (1997-2000)
10. Expert/Governmental reviewer of the IPCC Assessment Reports (2006-2022)
11. Member of the Indian Delegation at the IPCC, UNFCCC COP and SB negotiation meetings (2002-2007) 
12. Member of the International Organizing Committee of the World Climate Conference – 3 (WCC-3) being organized by the WMO in 2009 (2008 – April, 2009)

1. Climate Services
2. Climate Risks
3. Climate Change
4. Agriculture and Hydromet Decision Support
5. Multi-hazard Early Warning Systems