This group is led by Akshaya Nikumbh. She joined IIT Bombay as an assistant professor in January, 2024. Prior to joing IIT Bombay, she was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University from October 2021- December 2023. She completed her BE in Electronics and Telecommunication from Pune University and her PhD in Atmospheric Science from IISc Bangalore. If you are interested in working on climate science using and developing diverse tools, data, and theory, you can reach out at akshaya.nikumbh@iitb.ac.in. Currently, we are looking for interns, JRFs, PhDs and postdocs.
BBC Report on the 2025 Himalaya landslides
In his commentary on the Himalayan floods 2025, Akshaya highlighted how the 2025 monsoon season possibly brought unusually intense and destructive flash-flood and landslide events.
Lead story in Shaastra magazine highlighting recent progress in monsoon forecasting
In the Shaastra magazine's lead story, Come Rain or Shine, Dr. Rekha Dixit coalited variuos challenges involved in monsoon nowcasting and forecasts of precipitation extremes. Akshaya discusses how atmospheric phenomena like stationary Rossby waves over the Atlantic Ocean can serve as precursors to large-scale extreme rainfall events in India. She emphasizes that monitoring these large-scale systems, which develop days in advance, could improve early warning forecast for large-scale heavy rainfall events. Her study based on it could be found here
AGU 2023
You can check out Akshaya's AGU talks and sessions here.
Akshaya joins IIT Bombay
Akshaya joins the Interdisciplinary Program in Climate Studies (IDPCS), IIT Bombay as a fifth core faculty.
AGU 2023
You can check out Akshaya's AGU talks and sessions here.
GFDL lunchtime seminar
Akshaya gave a seminar on her postdoc work of using GFDL's AM4 model for simulation of organization of tropical convection and precipitation extremes
NOAA PSL visit
Akshaya gave a seminar on "Impacts of changing horizontal resolution on the organization of tropical convection" at NOAA, PSL tropical dyncamics group
NCAR visit
Akshaya gave a seminar on "Does increasing horizontal resolution improve the simulation of intense tropical rainfall?" at CAS, NCAR, Boulder