Lakshmi Kumar T V
Associate Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
School of Environmental Sciences
Room No
10B
Email
lakshmikumar@mail.jnu.ac.in, lakshmikumar@jnu.ac.in
Personal Webpage
Qualifications
M.Sc (Space Physics)
Ph.D (Meteorology)
Areas of Interest/Specialization
Climate Change, Land – Atmospheric Interactions
Experience
Dr. Lakshmi Kumar earlier worked in SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai. Dr. Kumar has completed five (5) projects sponsored by ISRO, DST and MoES, Govt of India. Dr. Kumar guided six (6) students for Ph.D and 12 students for UG / PG projects. Dr. Kumar published around forty (40) papers in reputed journals and six (6) book chapters.
Awards & Honours
Founding Member, South Asian Meteorological Association (SAMA)
Joint Secretary, South Asian Meteorological Association (SAMA), INDIA chapter, May 2023 to till date
Chairman, Indian Meteorological Society, Chennai Chapter, May 2022 to till date
Best Peer Reviewed Publications
- Rao VB, Koteswara rao K, Mahednra B, Lakshmi Kumar TV and Govardhan (2021) Large scale connection to deadly Indian heat waves,(2021) Quarterly Journal of Royal Meteorological Society, https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3985
- Koteswara rao K, Lakshmi Kumar T V et al, (2020), Projections of heat stress and associated work performance over India in response to global warming, Scientific Reports, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73245-3
- Thakur MK, Lakshmi Kumar TV, Koteswara Rao K, Humberto Barbosa and M.S. Narayanan (2020) Analytical study of the performance of the IMERG over the Indian Landmass, Meteorological Applications, https://doi.org/10.1002/met.1908
- Thakur MK, Lakshmi Kumar TV, Koteswara rao K, Humberto Barbosa and Rao VB (2019) A new perspective in understanding rainfall from satellites over a complex topographic region of India. Scientific Reports, doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-52075-y
- Purnadurga G, Lakshmi Kumar TV, Koteswara Rao K, Rajasekhar M and Narayanan MS (2017) Investigation of temperature changes over India in association with meteorological parameters in a warming climate, International Journal of Climatology, doi: 10.1002/joc.5216.
- Franklin, Paredes, Barbosa H and Lakshmi Kumar TV (2017) Validating CHIRPS – based satellite precipitation estimates in Northeast Brazil, Journal of Arid Environments, 139, 26-40.
Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books
- Bharath J, Lakshmi Kumar TV, Vanda Salgueiro, Maria J Costa and R.K. Mall (2023) Aerosol characteristics in CMIP6 models’ global simulations and their evaluation with the satellite measurements, International Journal of Climatology, https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.8324
- Lakshmi Kumar TV, Vinodhkumar B, Koteswara Rao K, Chowdary JS, Krishna Kishore O and Srinivas D (2023) Insights from the bias corrected simulations of CMIP6 in India’s future climate, Global and Planetary Change, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104137
- K. Koteswara Rao, Lakshmi Kumar TV, Ashwini Kulkarni, Jasti S Chowdary & Srinivas Ddesamsetti (2022) Characteristic changes in climate projections over Indus basin using bias corrected CMIP6 simulations, Climate Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-021-06108-w
- Lakshmi Kumar TV, Purna Durga G, Aravindhavel A and Narayana Rao D (2022) Analysis of tropospheric warming and stratospheric cooling using the suite of CMIP6 general circulation models’ simulations, Theoretical and applied climatology, 10.1007/s00704-022-04136-y
- Rohit Jaiswal, R.K. Mall, Nidhi Singh, Lakshmi Kumar TV and Dev Niyogi (2021) Evolution of bias correction methods for regional climate models: Downscaled rainfall analysis over diverse agroclimatic zones of India, AGU Earth and Space Science, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EA001981