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R Krishnan

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arXiv2022

Assessing the impact of soil moisture-temperature coupling on temperature extremes over the Indian region

While previous model sensitivity studies have mainly focused on discerning the soil moisture-precipitation feedback processes over the Indian region, the present study investigates the impact of soil moisture-temperature (SM-T) coupling on the temperature extremes (ExT) using the high-resolution (~60 km) model simulations. These simulations include the control and soil moisture (SM) sensitivity experiments (DRY-SM and WET-SM) initialized by perturbing (decreasing/increasing) SM from the historical (HIST: 1951-2010) and future 4K warming (FUT: 2051-2100) control runs. The analysis identifies the transitional regions of north-central India (NCI) as the hotspot of strong SM-T coupling. Over NCI, the HIST experiment shows an occurrence of 4-5 extreme events per year, with an average duration of 5-6 days per event and intensity exceeding 46oC. Whereas, FUT estimates indicate relatively severe, long-lasting, and more frequent extreme events. The SM sensitivity experiments reveal the significant influence of SM-T coupling on the ExT over NCI in both historical and future climates. We find that the DRY-SM results in significant enhancement of frequency, duration and intensity of ExT, in contrast to WET-SM. We note that the difference between DRY-SM and WET-SM 50-year return value of the block maxima GEV fit can reach upto 1.25oC and 3oC for historical and future climate, respectively. The enhanced (reduced) extreme temperature conditions in DRY-SM (WET-SM) simulation are caused by the intensification (abridgement) of sensible heat flux by limiting (intensifying) available total energy for evaporative cooling due to faster (slower) dissipation of positive soil moisture anomalies (also called as soil moisture memory). In addition, the influence of SM on ExT over NCI is found to be larger during the post-monsoon season as compared to the pre-monsoon and monsoon seasons.

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arXiv2020

Progress and Prospects in Weather and Climate Modelling

This popular article provides a short summary of the progress and prospects in Weather and Climate Modelling for the benefit of high school and undergraduate college students and early career researchers. Although this is not a comprehensive scientific article, the basic information provided here is intended to introduce students and researchers to the topic of Weather and Climate Modelling - which comes under the broad discipline of Atmospheric / Oceanic / Climate / Earth Sciences. This article briefly summarizes the historical developments, progress, scientific challenges in weather and climate modelling and career opportunities.

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arXiv2020

Symmetries of stationary points of the $G$-invariant potential and the framework of the auxiliary group

We classify the constraints on a stationary point of the potential invariant under a finite group into intrinsic and extrinsic based on whether they are independent of the coefficients in the potential or not. We find that the symmetry group of a set of stationary points can be larger than that of the potential and the stabilizer under this group generates intrinsic constraints. By applying these findings in the framework of the auxiliary group, we show that the constraints that can only be obtained extrinsically in an elementary theory can be generated intrinsically in an effective theory.

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arXiv2019

$\text{TM}_1$ neutrino mixing with $\sin \theta_{13}=\frac{1}{\sqrt{3}}\sin \frac{\pi}{12}$

We construct a neutrino model using the flavour group $S_4\times C_4 \times C_3\times C_2$ under the type-1 seesaw mechanism. The vacuum alignments of the flavons in the model lead to $\text{TM}_1$ mixing with $\sin \theta_{13}=\frac{1}{\sqrt{3}}\sin \frac{\pi}{12}$. The mixing also exhibits $\mu\text{-}\tau$ reflection symmetry. By fitting the eigenvalues of the effective seesaw mass matrix with the observed neutrino mass-squared differences, we predict the individual light neutrino masses. The vacuum alignment of the $S_4$ triplet appearing in the Majorana mass term plays a key role in obtaining the aforementioned $\text{TM}_1$ scenario. Since the symmetries of the flavour group are not sufficient to define this alignment, we apply the recently proposed framework of the auxiliary group in our model. Using this framework, the $S_4$ triplet is obtained by coupling together several irreducible multiplets that transform under an expanded flavour group consisting of the original flavour group as well as an auxiliary group. The vacuum alignment of each of these multiplets is uniquely defined in terms of its residual symmetries under the expanded flavour group. As a result, the $S_4$ triplet constructed from these multiplets also becomes uniquely defined.

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