CSIR Fourth Paradigm Institute
(Formerly CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation)
A constituent laboratory of Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR).
Stella Jes Varghese, AcSIR doctoral student got best presentation award for her conference paper in the recently held International conference on Frontiers in Marine Science: Challenges and Prospects (MARICON 2019) on "Factors behind projected changes in Indian Summer Monsoon under multiple RCP scenarios".
Researchers have found one more reason why urgent steps have to be taken to stop deforestation in the Western Ghats. The dense vegetation in the Western Ghats determines the amount of rainfall that Tamil Nadu gets during the summer monsoon.
The study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters also found that deforestation of the Ghats led to 0.25 degree C increase in surface temperature across the State. The work was done in collaboration with Prof. Raghu Murtugudde of University of Maryland and Dr K. Rajedran from CSIR-Fourth Paradigm Institute (CSIR-4PI), Bangalore.
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Dr. K C Gouda has been selected for the award of CSIR Raman Research Fellowship for the year 2017-2018.
The Fellowship is granted to the CSIR Scientists for carrying out research in the emerging/high priority areas in reputed foreign institutions/R&D Centres of Excellence to enhance their R&D skills/capability.
The Indian National Science Academy (INSA) has awarded Dr K C Gouda the Indo Australia Early and Mid-Career Researchers Fellowship Programme 2016 -2017 for conducting advanced research on the project titled "Evaluation of conformal cubic atmospheric model (CCAM) for the regional climate simulation over India" for a duration of 4 months at the CSIRO, Australia.