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BBC Report on the 2025 Himalaya landslides
October 20, 2025 | 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
June 01, 2025 | 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.
Workshop on precipitation variability and extremes
January 07, 2025 | This 2-day workshop is organized by Prof. Rajagopalan Balaji (Professor, CU Boulder) and Prof. Akshaya Nikumbh (Assistant Professor, IIT Bombay) under the IOE-SCCP phase III funding. It will focus on precipitation variability across micro to synoptic, intraseasonal, regional, and global scales. A key focus will be on the variability and extremes of the boreal summer monsoon. The 1st day will cover processes, while 2nd day will focus on modeling and the impacts of precipitation variability. The program include talks, discussions, hands-on sessions, and poster presentations by IITB faculties and students.
Akshaya joins IIT Bombay
January 01, 2024 | Akshaya joins the Interdisciplinary Program in Climate Studies (IDPCS), IIT Bombay as a fifth core faculty
AGU 2023
December 09, 2023 | You can check out Akshaya's AGU talks and sessions here
NOAA PSL visit
December 08, 2023 | Akshaya gave a seminar on "Impacts of changing horizontal resolution on the organization of tropical convection" at NOAA, PSL tropical dyncamics group
GFDL lunchtime seminar
December 06, 2023 | Akshaya gave a seminar on her postdoc work of using GFDL's AM4 model for simulation of organization of tropical convection and precipitation extremes
NCAR visit
October 25, 2023 | Akshaya gave a seminar on "Does increasing horizontal resolution improve the simulation of intense tropical rainfall?" at CAS, NCAR, Boulder