Peer Reviewed Publications

  • P. Lucas-Picher, J.H. Christensen, F. Saeed, Pankaj Kumar, S. Asharaf, B. Ahrens, A. Wiltshire, D. Jacob, S. Hagemann, 2011, Can regional climate models represent the Indian monsoon ?, Journal of Hydrometeorology, accepted. (pdf)

  • Eddy J. Moors, Hester Biemans, Annemarie Groot, Catharien Terwissch van Scheltinga, Christian Siderius, Markus Stoffel, Christian Huggelb, Andy Wiltshire, Camilla Mathison, Jeff Ridley, Daniela Jacob, Pankaj Kumar, Suruchi Bhadwal, Ashvin Gosain, David N. Collins, 2011, Adaptation to changing water resources of the Ganges basin in northern India, Environmental Science & Policy, accepted. (pdf)

  • Pankaj Kumar, K. Rupa Kumar, M. Rajeevan and A. K. Sahai, 2007, On the recent strengthening of the relationship between ENSO and Northeast monsoon rainfall over south Asia, Climate Dynamics, Vol-28, pp 649-660. (pdf)

  • R.H. Kripalani and Pankaj Kumar, 2004, Northeast Monsoon Rainfall Variability over South Peninsular India vis-à-vis Indian Ocean Dipole Mode, International Journal of Climatology, Vol-24, pp 1267-1282, 2004. (pdf)

Paper/Book Chapter Under Review

  • Pankaj Kumar and Daniela Jacob, Book chapter entitled “Climate Projections over India” by, in the book entitled “Climate Change and Soils”, under review.

  • Pankaj Kumar, Ralf Podzun and Daniela Jacob, Improved monsoon climate by modified soil thermal characteristic over South Asia, Climate Dynamics, under review.

Proceedings/Reports

  • Pankaj Kumar, The Fate of the Big Rain, Max Planck Research Magazine, No.1, 2011 (pdf)
  • Pankaj Kumar, Ralf Podzun and Daniela Jacob, MPI regional climate model REMO simulations over South Asia, 2nd International Lund RCM Workshop, 4 - 8 May 2009, Lund, Sweden (pdf)

Selected Talk/Paper Presented in Conferences

  • Talk, Stefan Hagemann, Pankaj Kumar, Daniela Jacob,Shakeel Asharaf and Bodo Ahrens, Regional climate simulations over India, EU project WATCH General assembly, November 2010, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

  • Talk, Pankaj Kumar, Alberto Elizalde, Andreas Haensler, Stefan Hagemann, Daniela Jacob, Diana Rechid, Ralf Podzun, Armelle Remedio, Fahad Saeed, Kevin Sieck, Claas Teichmann and Christof Wilhelm., Validation of the regional climate model REMO over the several CORDEX regions throughout the globe, 5th ICTP Workshop on the Theory and Use of REGional Climate Models, May 31 - June 11, 2010, Trieste, Italy.

  • Invited talk, Pankaj Kumar and Daniela Jacob, South Asia Summer Monsoon Climate: Recent Past and Future, Continents under Climate Change, Conference on the Occasion of the 200th Anniversary of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 21 - 23 April 2010, Berlin, Germany.

  • Poster, Pankaj Kumar and Daniela Jacob, Improved Monsoon Climate with RCM over South Asia, EU project WATCH General assembly, November 2009, Potsdam, Germany.

  • Poster, Pankaj Kumar, Ralf Podzun and Daniela Jacob, MPI regional climate model REMO simulations over South Asia, 2nd Lund Regional-scale Climate Modelling Workshop: 21st Century Challenges in Regional-scale Climate Modelling, May 2009, Lund, Sweden.

  • Poster, Pankaj Kumar, R Podzum, and D Jacob, MPI regional climate model REMO simulations over South Asia, EGU General Assembly, April 2009, Vienna, Austria.

  • Talk, Pankaj Kumar and Daniela Jacob, MPI-M input to HighNoon & Monsoon in REMO, HighNoon Kick-off meeting and Open Science Seminar, May 2009, New Delhi, India.

  • Talk, Pankaj Kumar, The Indian Monsoon: An overview, Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany.

  • Talk, Pankaj Kumar, The Asian Monsoon System: Prediction of Change and Variability, January 2008, Hawai, USA.

  • Talk, Pankaj Kumar, K. Rupa Kumar, M. Rajeevan, Climate change simulations over northeast monsoon region of south asia, Second International Conference on Earth System Modeling (ICESM), August 2007, Hamburg, Germany,.

  • Talk, Pankaj Kumar, K. Rupa Kumar, M. Rajeevan, & K. Krishna Kumar, Northeast monsoon : Teleconnections with ENSO and IOD, Celeberating the Monsoon:An International monsoon conference,” IISC Bangalore, July 2007, Bangalore, India.

  • Poster, Pankaj Kumar, Northeast monsoon rainfall variability in south peninsular India and its long-range prediction , TROPMET-2006, November 2006, PUNE, India.

  • Talk, R.H. Kripalani, Ashwini Kulkarni, Pankaj Kumar and S.S. Sabade, Indian Monsoon Variability:Role of Indian Ocean Dipole Mode, International Workshop on Role of Indian Ocean in Climate Variability over India, February 2004, Pune, India.

  • Poster, Pankaj Kumar, K. Rupa Kumar and M. Rajeevan, Northeast Monsoon Rainfall Variability over India and its Teleconnections with Sea Surface Temperatures, International Workshop on Role of Indian Ocean in Climate Variability over India" February 2004, Pune, India.

  • Talk, Pankaj Kumar , K. Rupa Kumar,M. Rajeevan, & A.A. Munot, Interannual Variability Of Northeast Monsoon Rainfall Over South Peninsular India: Teleconnections and Long Range Prediction, Monsoon Environments: Agricultural and Hydrological Impacts of Seasonal Variability and Climate Change,March 2003, Trieste, Italy.