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Vinodh Kumar Buri

RESEARCH STAFF

Research Specialist ( July 2024 - Present)

Biography

Vinodh Kumar is a climate researcher focused on regional and local climate conditions and future climate extremes in changing climates. He has expertise in land surface and WRF modeling. He earned his master's in Satellite Meteorology and Weather Informatics from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India. He worked in the Government of Andhra Pradesh, where he specialized in early warning systems and assessed the impacts of severe weather phenomena like heatwaves, thunder storms, floods, etc.. At the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, he utilized high-resolution global and regional datasets to study extreme weather events in India. As a research fellow at the National Institute of Technology Rourkela, he concentrated on microclimate changes in the Himalayan region.

Research Interests

Vinodh focuses on Climate change and variability, future projections of rainfall and temperature extremes, urban climate, climate change impacts, risk assessments,and regional modeling. His research employs advanced modeling tools, including WRF, Noah-MP, and HRLDAS models, to estimate regional climate impacts.

Selected Publications

  • Vinodhkumar, B., Ullah, S., Kumar, T.V.L., & Al-Ghamdi, S. G. (2024). Amplification of temperature extremes in Arabian Peninsula under warmer worlds. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-67514-8
  •  Kumar, T. V. L., Vinodhkumar, B., Rao, K. K., Chowdary, J. S., Osuri, K. K. & Desamsetti, S. (2023) Insights from the bias-corrected simulations of CMIP6 in India’s future climate. Global and Planetary Change. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104137
  •  Vinodhkumar, B., Jose, A.M., Rao, K.K. et al. (2022). Future precipitation extremes over base Himalayan Uttarakhand region: analysis using the statistically downscaled, bias-corrected high-resolution NEX-GDDP datasets. Theor Appl Climatol. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-022-04111-7
  •  Vinodhkumar, B., Busireddy, N. K. R., Ankur, K., Nadimpalli, R. & Osuri, K.K. (2022).Onoccurrence of rapid intensification and rainfall changes in tropical cyclones overthe North Indian Ocean. Int. J. Climatol.  https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.7268.
  • Rao, K.K., Kulkarni, A., Patwardhan, S., Kumar, B.V. and Kumar, T.L.(2020) Future changes in precipitation extremes during northeast monsoon over south peninsular India. Theor Appl Climatol. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-020-03308-y
  • Kulkarni, A., Sabin, T.P., Chowdary, J.S., Rao, K.K., Priya, P., Gandhi, N., Bhaskar, P., Buri, V.K., Sabade, S.S., Pai, D.S. and Ashok, K., 2020. Precipitation changes in India. Assessment of climate change over the Indian region: a report of the ministry of earth sciences (MoES), Government of India. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4327-2_3

Education

  • MSc - Satellite Meteorology and Weather Informatics, JNTU Hyderabad, 2016

Professional Profile

  • Visiting Researcher, KAUST (Aug 2023- Jan 2024)
  • Senior Research fellow, National Institute of Technology Rourkela (Sep 2022- Aug 2023)
  • Junior Research fellow, National Institute of Technology Rourkela (Jan 2019- Aug 2022)
  • Project Assistant, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (Jan-2018 - Dec 2018)
  • Young Professional, APSDSP, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh (Aug 2016- Jan 2018)

KAUST Affiliations

• Climate and Livability Initiatives
• Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering
• Urban Lab

Research Interests Keywords

Climate change impact Land-Atmosphere-Ocean Interactions Regional Climate Modeling Land Surface Modelling WRF Urban Climate
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