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

Publications

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1. Engagement of Early Career Researchers in Collaborative Assessments of IPCC Reports: Achievements and Insights (2024)

M Moreno-Ibáñez et al. (2024) (submitted)

2. Operational Monitoring and Prediction of the Indian Ocean Dipole (2024)

S Jain, T Turkington, WL Tan, C Schwartz, AA Scaife, TG Shepherd (2024) (submitted)

3. Regional Climate Change: Consensus, Discrepencies 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 (2024) (submitted)

4. 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

5. 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, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science 6, 68 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-023-00389-0 

6. 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, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42377-1

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. Importance of the resolution of surface topography vis-à-vis atmospheric and surface processes 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

17. 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 

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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, 0367-8393, 2013

Reports

1. Third National Climate Change Study of Singapore, 2023

Contributing author, Chapter 7

2. Annual Climate Assessment Report of Singapore, 2022

Contributing author

3. WMO State of the Climate Report SouthWest Pacific, 2022

Contributing author

4. ASEAN Specialized Meteorological Centre Bulletin, 2022-2023