Scientist Profile

Dr.(Smt.) Swapna Panickal

Designation
: Scientist F

Phone
: +91-(0)20-25904538

Fax
: +91-(0)20-25865142

Email ID
: swapna[at]tropmet[dot]res[dot]in

Climate Change Research and Earth System Modeling
Degree University Year Stream
Ph.D. Goa University 2006 Marine Sciences
M.Tech. Cochin University of Science & Technology 1999 Atmospheric Science
M.Sc. Cochin University of Science & Technology 1997 Oceanography
B.Sc. University of Calicut 1994 Physics

  Climate Variability and Change, Earth System Modeling

  Sea level variability and change

 Changes in Monsoon Hydrological Cycle

  Ocean dynamics and air-sea coupled feedbacks

Award Name Awarded By Awarded For Year
Editorial Member Critical Insights in Climate Change - 2024 onwards
Member CMIP7 Strategic Ensemble Design Task Team, WCRP - 2023-2025
Member Steering Group Member, Scenario Model Intercomparison Project, WCRP - 2023 onwards
Member WCRP Safe Landing Climate Sea Level Rise working group - 2022 onwards
Dr. Anna Mani National Award for Women Scientist Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India Excellence in scientific research 2022
Member WCRP Working on Coupled Modeling (WGCM, WCRP) - 2021-2025
Lead Author Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report - 2021
Member Mega Science Vision on Climate Research, Govt. of India - 2020-2025
Editorial Member Nature Scientific Reports - 2020 onwards
Prof. A. D. Vernekar Award India Meteorological Society Best Modeling Paper 2017
Sliver Jubilee Award Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology Best Research paper 2017
Certificate of Merit Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India Outstanding Scientist in Atmospheric Sciences 2016
Year Designation Institute
2023-Present Scientist F Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune
2018-2023 Scientist E Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune
2014-2018 Scientist D Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune
2009-2014 Scientist C Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune
2007-2008 Post Doctoral Research Associate Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong
2004-2007 Research Associate Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune
1999-2003 Senior Research Fellow National Institute of Oceanography, Goa

Research Highlight


Future global climate: Scenario-based projections and near-term information. In: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. IPCC Sixth Assessment Report

(June-Yi Lee et al., P. Swapna and T. Zhou (2021).

Chapter-4 of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (IPCC AR6) assesses simulations of future global climate change, spanning time horizons from the near term (2021–2040), mid-term (2041–2060), and long term (2081–2100) out to the year 2300. Climate projections from IITM-ESM (Swapna et al., 2018) contributed to the CMIP6 and IPCC AR6.