Currently, I work on weather and climate extremes, and how climate change impacts them. I also study physical mechanisms that can aid the early prediction of extreme events.

Publications

In case you do not have access to these articles, please email shipra.jain@ucl.ac.uk.

1. Connecting climate science and society: reflections from Early and Mid-Career Researchers at the World Climate Research Programme Open Science Conference 2023 (2024)

LB Diaz et al., 2024, Frontiers in Climate (under review)

2. Engagement of Early Career Researchers in Collaborative Assessments of IPCC Reports: Achievements and Insights (2024)

M Moreno-Ibáñez, M Casado, G Gremion, V Rabanal, O Adojoh, C Anoruo, A Arshad, FA Bahar, C Bello, H Bergstedt, JA Caccavo, N Champollion, ES Choy, MFDL Rios, H Detlef, R Dey, G Gamal, HR Guimaro, S Hancock, C Hansen, V Hare, J Hofer, T Jabir, S Jain, S Jawak, M Latonin, J Martin, JF Mojica, R O'Hara, O Onafeso, RA Prasath, EQ Alves, S Raez-Villanueva, P Rosenbaum, Sebastian Ruiz-Pereira, V Savaglia, M van-Soest, D Vural, Frontiers in Climate, 6, 1395040, 2024

3. Regional Climate Change: Consensus, Discrepencies and Ways Forward (2024)

T Shaw, PA Arias, M Collins, D Coumou, A Diedhiou, CI Garfinkel, S Jain, MK Roxy, M Kretschmer, L Ruby Leung, S Narsey, O Martius, R Seager, TG Shepherd, AA Sorensson, T Stephenson, M Taylor, L Wang,  Frontiers in Climate 6, 1391634, 2024

4. General Circulation and climate dynamics of the Southern Hemisphere troposphere in Monographs of Southern Hemispheric Meteorology (2024)

TG Shepherd, J Mindlin, R Barimalala, M Gudoshava, S Jain, S Narsey, H Pinheiro, R Goyal, Cambridge University Press, 2024

5. Importance of internal variability for climate model assessment (2023)

S Jain, AA Scaife, TG Shepherd, C Deser, N Dunstone, GA Schmidt, KE Trenberth, T Turkington, npj Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, 6, 68, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-023-00389-0

6. Windows of opportunity for predicting seasonal climate extremes highlighted by the Pakistan floods of 2022 (2023)

N Dunstone, DM Smith, SC Hardiman, P Davies, S Ineson, S Jain, G Martin, AA Scaife, Nature Communications, 14, 6544, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42377-1

7. Are we at risk of losing current generation of climate researchers to data science? (2022)

S Jain, J Mindlin, G Koren, C Gulizia, C Steadman, G Langendijk, M Osman, MA Abid, Y Rao, V Rabanal, AGU Advances, 2022

8. Future projections of daily hazy and clear weather conditions over the North China Plain using a Perturbed Parameter Ensemble (2022)

S Jain, RM Doherty, D Sexton, S Turnock, C Li, Z Jia, Z Shi, L Pei, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 22, 7443-7460, 2022

9. How extreme could the near term evolution of the Indian Summer Monsoon rainfall be? (2022)

S Jain, AA Scaife, Environmental Research Letters 17 (3), 034009, 2022

10. The impact of large-scale circulation on daily fine particulate matter (PM2.5) over major populated regions of China in winter (2022)

Z Jia, RM Doherty, C Ordóñez, C Li, O Wild, S Jain, X Tang, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 22 (10), 6471-6487, 2022

11. The Spatio-Temporal Onset Characteristics of Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall and Their Relationship with Climate Indices (2022) 

A Saini, N Sahu, SK Mishra, S Jain, S Behera, SK Dash, Atmosphere 13 (10), 1581, 2022

12. Historical and projected low-frequency variability in the Somali Jet and Indian Summer Monsoon (2021)

S Jain, SK Mishra, A Anand, P Salunke, JT Fasullo, Climate Dynamics 56 (3), 749-765, 2021

13. A New Graphical Method to Diagnose the Impacts of Model Changes on Climate Sensitivity (2021)

S Jain, R Chhin, RM Doherty, SK Mishra, S Yoden, Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan. Ser. II, 2021

14. Current chance of unprecedented monsoon rainfall over India using dynamical ensemble simulations (2020)

S Jain, AA Scaife, N Dunstone, D Smith, SK Mishra, Environmental Research Letters 15 (9), 094095, 2020

15. Advantage of NEX-GDDP over CMIP5 and CORDEX Data: Indian Summer Monsoon (2019)

S Jain, P Salunke, SK Mishra, S Sahany, N Choudhary, Atmospheric Research 228, 152-160, 2019

16. Appearance of the persistently low tropopause temperature and ozone over the Bay of Bengal region (2019)

S Jain, AR Jain, TK Mandal, Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics 131 (1), 81-88, 2019

17. Importance of the resolution of surface topography vis-à-vis atmospheric and surface processes in the simulation of the climate of Himalaya-Tibet highland (2019)

S Jain, SK Mishra, P Salunke, S Sahany, Climate Dynamics, 52, 4735–4748, 2019

18. Skill of Indian summer monsoon rainfall prediction in multiple seasonal prediction systems (2019)

S Jain, AA Scaife, AK Mitra, Climate Dynamics, 52, 5291–5301, 2019 

19. Past and future climate change over the Himalaya–Tibetan Highland: inferences from APHRODITE and NEX-GDDP data (2019)

SK Mishra, S Jain, P Salunke, S Sahany, Climatic Change 156 (3), 315-322, 2019

20. Assessment of CMIP5 multimodel mean for the historical climate of Africa (2019)

S Zebaze, S Jain, P Salunke, S Shafiq, SK Mishra, Atmospheric Science Letters 20 (8), e926, 2019

21. Performance of CMIP5 models in the simulation of Indian summer monsoon (2019)

S Jain, S Popat, M SK, S Sandeep, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 137, 1429–1447, 2019

22. Performance of the CMIP5 models in the simulation of the Himalaya-Tibetan Plateau monsoon (2019)

P Salunke, S Jain, SK Mishra, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 137, 909–928, 2019

23. Tropical rainfall predictions from multiple seasonal forecast systems (2019)

AA Scaife, L Ferranti, O Alves, P Athanasiadis, J Baehr, M Dequé, T Dippe, N Dunstone, D Fereday, RG Gudgel, RJ Greatbatch, L Hermanson, Y Imada, S Jain,A Kumar, C MacLachlan, W Merryfield, WA Müller, HL Ren, D Smith, Y Takaya, G Vecchi, X Yang, International Journal of Climatology 39 (2), 974-988, 2019

24. Fidelity of CMIP5 multi-model mean in assessing Indian monsoon simulations (2018)

SK Mishra, S Sahany, P Salunke, IS Kang, S Jain, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science 1 (1), 1-8, 2018

25. Transport of water vapour over the Tibetan plateau as inferred from the model simulations (2017)

S Jain, SC Kar, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar Terrestrial Physics 161, 64-75, 2017

26. Impact of monsoon‐associated deep‐penetrating clouds on the hydration of the tropical upper troposphere (2015)

S Jain, AR Jain, TK Mandal, Atmospheric Science Letters 16 (1), 38-43, 2015

27. Dry phase of tropical lower stratospheric water vapor: Role of BDC, convection and ozone variability (2014)

S Jain, AR Jain, TK Mandal, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 121, 257-270, 2014

28. Role of convection in hydration of tropical UTLS: implication of AURA MLS long-term observations (2013)

S Jain, AR Jain, TK Mandal, Annales Geophysicae 31 (5), 967-981, 2013

29. Tropopause and interchange of minor constituents in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS) region (2013)

AR Jain, V Panwar, CJ Johny, S Jain, SK Peshin, TK Mandal, SK Dhaka, Indian Journal of Radio and Space Physics, 42(5), 320-331, 0367-8393, 2013

Reports

1. Third National Climate Change Study of Singapore, 2023

Contributing author, Chapter 7

2. Annual Climate Assessment Report of Singapore, 2022

Contributing author

3. WMO State of the Climate Report SouthWest Pacific, 2022

Contributing author

4. ASEAN Specialized Meteorological Centre Bulletins, 2022-2023

Contributing author