South Asian Precipitation: A
Seamless Assessment:
SAPRISE
An NERC/MoES funded project
Changing Water Cycle Programme
PIs: Krishna AchutaRao
Mat Collins
Partner Institutions and Scientists
1: IIT, Delhi: Prof Krishna AchutaRao, Dr Sagnik Dey
2: Univ. Exeter: Prof Mat Collins, Dr Indrani Roy
3: ICCSIR, Gujarat: Dr Vikram M. Mehta, Dr Satyendra Bhandari, Dr Rohit
Srivastava
4: IITM, Pune: Dr K. Ashok, Dr. Jayasree Revadekar, Mr Sudhir Sabade
5: IIT, Kanpur: Prof S.N. Tripathi
6: IIT, Kharagpur: Prof P.C. Pandey, Dr Mihir Kumar Dash
7: IMD: Dr D.R. Pattanaik
8: Met Office Hadley Centre: Dr B. Bhaskaran, Dr Alberto Arribas,
Dr Viju
John, Dr Richard Levine, Dr Gill Martin, Dr Sean Milton, Dr Jane
Mulcahy
9: NCMRWF: Dr E.N. Rajagopal, Dr Ashis K. Mitra, Dr Raghu Ashrit, Mr G.R.
Iyengar, Dr John P. George
10: Univ. Reading: Dr Andy Turner, Dr Richard Allan, Dr Liang Guo,
Prof Ellie Highwood
Guests: Kopal Arora, Christine Chung, Sam Ferrett, David Long, Thomas
Mendlik, Joe Osborne, …
Aims of the Meeting
• To (further) get to know each other
• To report on the research and other
activities that has been going on
• To identify areas for joint research, papers
etc.
• For me and Krishna to capture some of
the information why might need for
reporting/promoting the project
Wednesday AM Discussion Session
Possible topics
– Ideas for collaboration within the project
– Future research topics
– Pathways to impact
– Future funding opportunities
– Other opportunities (workshops etc.)
– Venue of next meeting
Recent/Future Activities
• Some project members attended a ‘reporting’
meeting in Delhi in February (co-incident with
meeting on future funding call)
• I met with Ken Sperber (Scientific Oversight
Committee - SOC) to explain the project to him
• UK Changing Water Cycle meeting
• Forthcoming joint Indian and Pacific CLIVAR
panel – Wenju Cai (SOC) is co-chair of PP
Admin Stuff
• Please make your own name badge
• Underline the name you wish to go by e.g. Mat
Collins
• WIFI – temporary accounts supplied every day.
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• Weather: Dry with sunny spells, small chance of
a shower. 10-20°C
Project Dinner
Dinner Choices
Management and Oversight
• Regular email and telephone/Skype meetings between PIs
• 3 project meetings planned + local UK and India meetings.
– Kickoff meeting held at Pune in Feb 2012
– Next meeting being planned for Exeter, UK in June 24-26
2013
• Scientific Overview Committee comprising 3 international
scientists
– Ken Sperber, PCMDI, Co-chair CLIVAR Asian-Australian
Monsoon Panel
– Wenju Cai, CSIRO, Co-chair CLIVAR Pacific Implementation
Panel
– Olivier Boucher, LMD, Co-CLA IPCC AR5 Aerosols Chapter
• Technical Steering Committee in India to help in decision
making.
– K. AchutaRao (IITD), K. Ashok (IITM), E.N. Rajagopal
(NCMRWF), S. N. Tripathi (IITK), Dr. Vijay Kumar (MoES)
Scientific Objectives
• To investigate driving processes,
variability, predictability and forced
changes in South Asian precipitation on
multiple time scales.
• A key focus will be on interactions with
the Indian and remote ocean basins and
on the local and remote interactions with the
dynamic and radiative effects of aerosol.
Scientific Summary
• Strength of Monsoon in models sensitive to both largeand small-scale processes and features (Tibetan
Plateau, SSTs, land-surface, monsoon depressions, …).
Follow up on Arabian SST issue in CMIP5 (UoE)?
• Intriguing results on decadal variability and predictability.
• What are we verifying our models and predictions
against? Divergence in observational estimates of
rainfall. How to follow up?
• Aerosol impacts – how good are our models and how do
aerosols impact on monsoon rainfall? Potentially very
powerful set of experiments planned.
Wednesday AM Discussion Session
Possible topics
– Ideas for collaboration within the project and
future research topics (see previous slide)
– Pathways to impact
– Future funding opportunities (Monsoon
Mission?)
– Other opportunities (workshops etc.)
– Venue and timing of next meeting
Pathways to Impact
• All UK PDRAs to attend NERC media
training
• Social networking
• Engagement through Indian Network for
Climate Change Assessment (INCCA)
• Invite Indian policy makers to project
meeting (e.g. Ashok is part of UNFCCC
negotiations)