Prashant Goswami (born 1959) is an Indian computational geoscientist, climatologist and the director of the

National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies (NISTADS) was a unit of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in India. It was involved in the studies of various aspects of interaction among science, society and stat ...

, New Delhi. He is a former scientist at the Fourth Paradigm Institute (formerly CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation) and is known for his studies on the tropical atmospheric variability across the time scales. The

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, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology Shanti or Shanthi may refer to: In Sanskrit * Inner peace, a state of being mentally and spiritually at peace, with enough knowledge and understanding to keep oneself strong in the face of discord or stress * Kshanti, one of the paramitas of B ...

, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences in 2001.

Biography

Prashant Goswami, born on the New Year's Day of 1959 in the Northeast Indian state of

Assam Assam (, , ) is a state in Northeast India, northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra Valley, Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . It is the second largest state in Northeast India, nor ...

, did his master's degree in physics at

Guwahati University Gauhati University also known as GU, is a collegiate public state university located in Guwahati, Assam, India. It was established on 26 January 1948 under the provisions of an Act enacted by the Assam Legislative Assembly and is the oldest un ...

and secured a PhD from the

Indian Institute of Science The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is a Public university, public, Deemed university, deemed, research university for higher education and research in science, engineering, design, and management. It is located in Bengaluru, Karnataka. The ...

in 1982; his doctoral thesis was in mathematical and theoretical physics. After completing his post-doctoral studies at IISc, he joined the

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT- Kanpur or IIT-K) is a public institute of technology located in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. As an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), it was declared an Institute of National Importance by th ...

as a visiting professor and in 1993, he moved to the CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation (C-MMACS) (presently known as Fourth Paradigm Institute) as a scientist where he became the head of the Climate and Environmental Modelling Programme. He served the institute for over 22 years till his move to the

(NISTADS) as its director in November 2015. In between, he also served as a visiting professor at

École Normale Supérieure École or Ecole may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by Secondary education in France, secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing i ...

during 2001–03 and as the dean of the Mathematical and Information Science at the

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. Goswami is known to have pioneered ''long-range, high-resolution dynamical forecasting of monsoon in India'' for which he developed innovative methodologies, algorithms, models and applications. His team is reported to have studies Cyclone Neelam that affected the southern parts of India in October 2012 which he has detailed in an article published in 2013. His studies have been documented in several peer-reviewed articles;

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, an online repository of scientific articles, has listed 131 of them. He contributed to the ''Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis: Working Group I Contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report of the

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'' and was one of the lead authors of the Chapter 14, ''Climate Phenomena and their Relevance for Future Regional Climate Change''. He was a member of the Steering and Program Organizing Committee of the International Conference Energy & Meteorology (ICEM) 2015 and retains his place in the committee for the 2017 conference. The

awarded him the

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Shanti or Shanthi may refer to: In Sanskrit * Inner peace, a state of being mentally and spiritually at peace, with enough knowledge and understanding to keep oneself strong in the face of discord or stress * Kshanti, one of the paramitas of B ...

, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2001.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Goswami, Prashant Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean & Planetary Sciences 1959 births Indian geophysicists Scientists from Assam Indian Institute of Science alumni Academic staff of the École Normale Supérieure Academic staff of IIT Kanpur Indian climatologists Living people 20th-century Indian earth scientists

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