Dr. Praveen Pothapakula
Dr. Praveen Pothapakula
Staff of Professorship for High-Resolution Weather and Climate Modelling
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Research area
- Kilometer Scale Global Climate Modelling
- Regional Coupled Climate Modelling
- Information Theory & Markov Chains
- Complex systems & Causal connections
Work Experience:
- Post-Doc in EXCLAIM (simulation expert) at ETH Zürich (2023- till date)
- Post-Doc at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (2022-2023)
- Research Assistant at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (2016-2022)
- Research Fellow at Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar (2015)
Education:
- Ph.D. Department of Geosciences, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (2016 - 2022)
- M.Tech. Climate Science & Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar (2013-2015).
- B.Tech. Aerospace Engineering, MRCET affliated to JNTUH, India. (2006-2010)
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Research Activities:
1. Member of Fresh Eyes on CMIP, Documentation sub-group (2023)
2. Member of ICON-COPAT, WG EVAL COordinated PArameter Testing project (ICON-CLM community) (2023)
3. Contributed to CORDEX South-Asia experiments, CORDEX FPS on third pole (Tibeten Platue) and MedCORDEX (2019-2022)
Recognitions:
1. Insitute of Physics (IOP) trusted reviewer 2023, for exceptional high review competency.
2. Travel grant award to Climate Informatics (CI) Workshop to paris (France), 2019.
3. Our article in Entropy Journal was highlighted as a cover paper and cover story, 2019.
4. Travel grant to MedCORDEX -II workshop, in Toulouse (France), 2021.
5. Institute Silver Medal for best academic performance at IIT Bhubaneswar, India, 2015.
6. Institute award for best academic performance at MRCET (JNTU affliated), Hyderabad, India, 2010.
Publications:
1. Collier, E., Ban, N., Richter, N., Ahrens, B., Chen, D., Chen, X., Lai, HW., Leung, R., Medvedova, A., Ou,T., Pothapakula,P.K., Potter, E., Prein,AF., Sakaguchi,K., Schroeder,M., Singh,P., Sobolowski,S., Sugimoto,S., Tang,J., Yu,H., & Ziska, C. The first ensemble of kilometer-scale simulations of a hydrological year over the third pole. Clim Dyn (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-024-07291-2
2. Prein, A.F., Ban, N., Ou, T.M., Tang, J., Sakaguchi, K., Collier, E., Jayanarayanan, S., Li, L., Sobolowski, S., Chen, X., Zhou X., Sugimoto, S., Zou, L., Hasson, S., Ekstrom, M., Pothapakula, P. K., Bodo Ahrens, Stuart, R., Steen-Larsen, H.C., Leung, R., Belusic, D., Kukulies, J., Curio J., Chen, D. (2022). Convection-Permitting Third Pole Experiment - Towards Ensemble-Based Kilometer-Scale Climate Simulations over the Third Pole Region. Climate dynamics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-022-06543-3
3. Krug, A., Pothapakula P.K., Primo, C., Ahrens B. (2021) Heavy Vb-cyclone precipitation: a transfer entropy application showcase. MetZ. DOI: 10.1127/metz/2021/1071
4. Soerland, S. L., Brogli, R., Pothapakula, P. K., Russo, E., Van de Walle, J., Ahrens, B., Anders, I., Bucchignani, E., Davin, E. L., Demory, M.-E., Dosio, A., Feldmann, H., Früh, B., Geyer, B., Keuler, K., Lee, D., Li, D., van Lipzig, N. P. M., Min, S.-K., Panitz, H.-J., Rockel, B., Schar, C., Steger, C., and Thiery, W. (2021) COSMO-CLM regional climate simulations in the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) framework: a review, Geosci. Model Dev. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-5125-2021
5. Pothapakula, P.K. , Primo, C., Soerland, S., Ahrens, B. (2020). The synergistic impact of ENSO and IOD on the Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall in observations and climate simulations - an information theory perspective. Earth System Dynamics. https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-11-903-2020
6. Pothapakula, P.K., Primo, C., Ahrens B. (2019). Quantification of Information Exchange in Idealized and Climate System Applications. Entropy 2019, 21, 1094. https://doi.org/10.3390/e21111094. (This article was featured as cover story and issue cover for Entropy volume 21, issue 11, 2019 and also appeared as one of the highly accessed article in Entropy website for Dec, 2019 )
7. Pothapakula, P.K., Osuri, K.K., Pattanayak, S., Mohanty, U.C., Sil, S., Nadimpalli, R. (2017). Observational perspective of SST changes during life cycle of tropical cyclones over Bay of Bengal. Natural Hazards. doi:10.1007/s11069-017-2945-9
Conference Proceedings:
1. Pothapakula, P.K., Primo, C., Ahrens, B (2019). Information exchange in the high dimensional idealized systems and in climate inter-model comparison. Conference proceedings on Climate Informatics-2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5065/y82j-f154 (A travel grant to participate in Climate Informatics-2019, Paris was offered based on this article). [peer reviewed]
2. Pothapakula, P.K., Sil, S., Mohanty, U.C. (2016) Impact of High Resolution ROMS-SST on the Simulation of Tropical Cyclone Phailin Over Bay of Bengal using ARW Modeling System, The Indian Ocean Bubble, Issue 5, Page 10 -11.