Ashwini Ranade

Scientist 'E' OIC, Communication

Centre for Cryosphere and Climate Change Studies, National Institute of Hydrology Roorkee

ranadeashwini@gmail.com +918294453890

About

Dr. Ashwini Ranade is working as a scientist ‘D’ in climate Hydrology Division of National Institute of Hydrology Roorkee under the Ministry of Jal Shakti. Before joining NIH in 2015, she has worked as Assistant Professor at Birla institute of Technology, Mesra as well as project scientist C at National Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasting (NOIDA) and Ministry of Earth Sciences (New Delhi). She did her post-graduation in physics and M.Tech. in atmospheric sciences from the University of Pune. She did her PhD in Atmospheric and Space Sciences from the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune in 2011. Her main research areas are Hydro-meteorology, Global climatic changes, Asia-Pacific monsoon and extreme hydro-meteorological rain events. She has guided several postgraduate and doctoral students and published her work in numerous National and International Journals, conferences proceedings, research reports and book chapters. She is the reviewer of many national and international journals in the field of hydrometeorology and climate change. She has organized various national and international training courses in the field of hydro-meteorology. She has also completed many research projects sponsored by the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Department of Science and Technology etc.

Academic Qualifications

DegreeSubjectUniversityYear
Doctor of Philosophy Atmospheric and Space Sciences Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, University of Pune 2011
Master of Technology Atmospheric Physics University of Pune 2004
Master of Sciences Physics University of Pune 2000
Bachelor of Sciences Physics Shivaji University Kolhapur 1998

Experience

Administrative Roles

Research Interest

Publications

International Journal

  1. Long-term rainfall variability of Indian river basins in the context of global warming and climatic indices
    Ashwini Ranade and Sunil Gurrapu
    Journal of Water and Climate Change (2025 )
  2. Influence of large-scale teleconnections on annual and seasonal floods in Godavari and Narmada River basins
    Sunil Gurrapu, Ashwini Ranade and Jagadish Prasad Patra
    Journal of Water and Climate Change (2023 )
  3. Evaluation of 3D Structural Changes in General Atmospheric and Monsoon Circulations during Kedarnath Disaster India, 16-17 June 2013
    Ashwini Ranade and Nityanand Singh
    Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics (2021 )
  4. Equatorially/Globally conditioned meteorological analysis of heaviest rains over India during 23-28 July 2005
    Ashwini Ranade and Nityanand Singh
    Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics (2019 )
  5. Long-term rainfall variability in the Eastern Gangetic Plains in Relation to Global Temperature Change
    Aradhana Yaduvanshi and Ashwini Ranade
    Atmosphere-Ocean (2017 )
  6. A verification of spatio-temporal monsoon rainfall variability across Indian region using NWP model output
    Ashwini Ranade, A.K. Mitra, Nityanand Singh and Swati Basu
    Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics (2014 )
  7. Large-Scale and Spatio-temporal Extreme Rain Events over India: A Hydrometeorological Study
    Ashwini Ranade and Nityanand Singh
    Theoretical and Applied Climatology (2014 )
  8. The Wet and Dry Spells across India during 1951-2007
    Nityanand Singh and Ashwini Ranade
    Journal of Hydrometeorology, AMS (2010 )

National Journal

  1. Effect of La Niña-El Niño on Climatic Fluctuations over Major Hydro-ecozones across India
    Ashwini Ranade, Nityanand Singh and H.N. Singh
    Journal of Hydrological Research and Development (2010 )
  2. On variability of hydrological wet season, seasonal rainfall and rainwater potential of the river basins of India (1813-2006)
    Ashwini Ranade, Nityanand Singh, H.N. Singh and N.A. Sontakke
    Journal of Hydrological Research and Development (2008 )
  3. Studies of Chemical Species in Rainwater at Ballia, a Rural Environment in eastern Utter-Pradesh in India
    S. Tiwari, Ashwini Ranade, D. Singh, A.K. Pandey
    Indian Journal of Radio and Space Physics (2006 )

Book Chapter

  1. Brief History of Vedic through Recent Climatic and Cultural Changes in India
    Nityanand Singh and Ashwini Ranade
    ICHR Special Project on Environmental History of India – Volume-4 (2023 )
  2. Global temperature and India Monsoon
    Nityanand Singh and Ashwini Ranade
    Climate Change in India: section II, Geography and You Magazine (2014 )
  3. Extreme rain events
    Ashwini Ranade and Nityanand Singh
    Climate Change in India: section II, Geography and You Magazine, (2014 )
  4. Evolution, Climate Change and Oriental Monsoon
    Nityanand Singh, H.N. Singh an Ashwini Ranade
    Climate Change in India: section II, Geography and You Magazine (2014 )
  5. Utilizing Surplus rainwater in India
    Nityanand Singh and Ashwini Ranade
    Section II of the book Climate Change in India: section II, Geography and You Magazine (2014 )
  6. ’Rainfall Variability in India
    Nityanand Singh, H.N. Singh an Ashwini Ranade
    Climate Change in India: section II, Geography and You Magazine (2014 )

Technical Report

  1. Investigation on occurrences of extreme rain events across Northwest Himalya in relation to global atmospheric thermal and circulation changes
    Ashwini Ranade, P.K. Mishra and Sunil Gurrapu
    NIH Research report (2025 )
  2. Observed Linkage of Global Climatic Indices and Monsoonal Rainfall of Indian River Basins in Global Warming Scenario
    Ashwini Ranade
    NIH Research Report (2022 )
  3. Evaluation of the influence of low-frequency atmosphere-ocean oscillations on annual floods in the watersheds of the Indian subcontinent
    Sunil Gurrapu, Ashwini Ranade and Jagadish Patra
    NIH Research Report. (2021 )
  4. Evaluation of seasonal extreme rain events across river basins of India in 3D global temperature change scenario
    Ashwini Ranade and Archana Sarkar
    NIH Research Report (2021 )
  5. Effect of Changing Global Tropospheric Temperature on Asia-Pacific Monsoon Circulation and Rainfall Fields across India
    Ashwini Ranade
    DST-SERB Project (2018 )
  6. Determination of Onset and Withdrawal dates of Summer Monsoon across India using NCEP/NCAR reanalysis
    Nityanand Singh & Ashwini Ranade
    IITM Research Report No. 124 (2010 )
  7. Large scale wet spell and spatio-temporal rainfall extremes over India during 1951-2007
    Ashwini Ranade and Nityanand Singh
    IITM Research Report No. 126 (2010 )
  8. Climatology and fluctuation of wet and dry spells and their extremes across India
    Nityanand Singh & Ashwini Ranade
    IITM Research Report No. 122 (2009 )
  9. Characteristics of hydrological wet season over different river basins of India
    Ashwini Ranade, Nityanand Singh, H.N. Singh and N.A. Sontakke
    IITM Research Report No. 119 (2007 )

International Conference

  1. Dynamics and Climatic Changes in Large-Scale Extremes in the Northwest Himalaya: Implications for Regional Hydrology and Disaster Risk
    Ashwini Ranade
    International Groundwater Conference, IGWC-2025 (2025 )
  2. Observed Linkage of Global Climatic Indices and Monsoonal Rainfall of Indian River Basins in Global Warming Scenario
    Ashwini Ranade
    28th International conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources, River and Coastal Engineering (HYDRO-2023) at NIT Warangal (21-23 Dec 2023 )
  3. Inter-annual Variability in the Longest Instrumental Rainfall Records of Indus River Basin: Linkages of Global warming and Global Climatic Indices
    Ashwini Ranade
    International Conference on the “Future of Water Resources (ICFWR) organized by IIT Roorkee (18-20 Jan, 2024 )
  4. Characteristics Features and Changes in ‘Large-scale Long-period’ and ‘Spatio-temporal Isolated’ Extremes across Northwest Himalaya’
    Ashwini Ranade
    3rd Roorkee Water Conclave organized by IIT Roorkee and NIH Roorkee (03-06 Mar 2024 )
  5. Evaluation of unprecedented rain events using equatorially/globally conditioned meteorological analysis approach
    Ashwini Ranade
    21st Asia-Oceania geosciences conference (AOGS 2024), South Korea (23-28 June 2024 )
  6. Determine and display the commencement and cessation of monsoon condition and monsoon rains across India
    Ashwini Ranade
    AGU Annual Meeting-2024 (09-13 Dec, 2024 )
  7. Large-scale extreme rain event analysis of seven homogeneous zones of India in relation to global thermal changes
    Ashwini Ranade
    International Symposium on tropical Meteorology (INTROMET-2021), Cochin, Kerala (23-26 Nov2021 )
  8. Climatic Changes in Large-scale and Spatio-temporal Extreme Rain Events across Northwest Himalaya
    Ashwini Ranade, P.K. Mishra, Sunil Gurrapu
    International Conference on River Corridor Research and Management (RCRM-2023) at IIT Jammu (15-17 )
  9. Hydrometeorological Extremes across India under changing climate
    Ashwini Ranade
    Young Scientist Conference, India International Science festival (IISF-2022) at MANIT Bhopal) (Jan 2022 )
  10. Long-term trend and harmonic analysis of Basin-scale rainfall across India during 1813-2020
    Ashwini Ranade
    27th International conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources, Environmental and Coastal engineering (HYDRO-2022) Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh (22-24 Dec 2022 )
  11. The effects of Pacific Decadal Oscillaiton and El Nino Southern Oscillation on Annual floods in Godavari River Bain, India
    Sunil Gurrapu, Jagdish Patra and Ashwini Ranade
    AGU fall meeting 2022 (12-16 Dec 2022 )
  12. Climatic changes in seasonal and extreme rainfall characteristics of seven homogenous zones of India
    Ashwini Ranade
    9th International Groundwater conference (IGWC-2022), IIT Roorkee (2-4 Nov 2022 )
  13. Global Climatic Changes in 3-D structure of Atmospheric Temperature
    Ashwini Ranade
    International Conference on Climate and Weather –related Extremes (ICCWE-2022), IIT Roorkee (19-20 Sept 2022 )
  14. Effect of climatic changes on extreme weather events over subtropical Himalayan region
    Ashwini Ranade
    International Conference on Extreme Weather Events under Changing Climate (ICEWECC-2022), G.B. Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment, Kullu (10-11 Mar, 2022 )
  15. Time series analysis of seven homogeneous rainfall zones using longest instrumental monthly rainfall records
    Ashwini Ranade
    Roorkee Water Conclave, RWC-2022, IIT Roorkee (02-04 March 2022 )

Projects

Sponsored Projects 2

Effect of Changing Global Tropospheric Temperature on Asia-Pacific Monsoon Circulation and Rainfall Fields across India
Agency: Department of Science and Technology (DST), Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) | Duration: 4 Years | Role: PI
Surface process observational studies coupled with land surface transfer interaction along eastern end of monsoon trough
Agency: Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) | Duration: 3 Years | Role: PI

Internal Studies 3

Evaluation of seasonal extreme rain events across river basins of India in 3D global temperature change scenario
Agency: National Institute of Hydrology Roorkee | Duration: 3 Years | Role: PI
Investigation on occurrences of extreme rain events across Northwest Himalaya in relation to global atmospheric thermal and circulation changes
Agency: National Institute of Hydrology Roorkee | Duration: 3 Years | Role: PI
Evaluation of the influence of low-frequency atmosphere-ocean oscillations on annual floods in the watersheds of the Indian subcontinent
Agency: National Institute of Hydrology Roorkee | Duration: 3 Years | Role: Co-PI

Consultancy Projects 1

Impact of Metro Railroads Viaduct on Groundwater Recharge in NCT Delhi
Agency: Delhi Metro Rail Corporation New Delhi | Duration: 3 months | Role: Co-PI

Conference & Training

Training / Workshop / Brainstorming

Hydro-meteorological data analysis for climate change studies
National Duration: One Week (20-24 Nov, 2023) Location: National institute of Hydrology, Roorkee
Hydro-meteorological data analysis-Basics and Advanced Techniques
National Duration: One Week (27 Feb-03 March, 2023) Location: National institute of Hydrology, Roorkee
Hydro-meteorological data analysis-Basics and Advanced Techniques
National Duration: One Week (21-25 March, 2022) Location: National institute of Hydrology, Roorkee
Hydro-meteorological data analysis-Basics and Advanced Techniques
National Duration: One Week (01-05 March 2021) Location: National institute of Hydrology, Roorkee
Hydrology, Water Resources Management and Climate Change sponsored by UNDP
International Duration: One Month (25June–20 July 2018) Location: National institute of Hydrology, Roorkee

Achievements

Honors & Awards

Professional Memberships

Student Guidance

Doctoral Supervision
Land Surface Hydrological Processes over the Eastern Indian Gangetic Plains under the changing climatic conditions
Student: # | University/Institute: BIT, Mesra | Year: 2018 | Role: Guide
Global Atmospheric Changes and its effect on weathers across India
Student: # | University/Institute: BIT, Mesra | Year: 2019 | Role: Guide

Masters Supervision

Characterization of rainfall fluctuations due to climate change over peninsular river basins of India
Student: # | University/Institute: MMMUT, Gorakhpur | Year: 2018 | Role: Guide
Thermo-dynamical studies of Thunderstorm events using Radiosonde observations
Student: # | University/Institute: BIT, Mesra | Year: 2015 | Role: Guide

Miscellaneous

Foreign Visits

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