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I am a graduate student (PhD) in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Purdue University, under the supervision of Noah S. Diffenbaugh.

Flashback
I was born in Kotli – a small city in Himalayan-Kashmir, where high day-time summer temperatures, cumulus clouds formations at the top of mountains in the late afternoon and subsequent thunderstorms in the evening were all I witnessed quite often in my childhood. Today, I call it summertime moist convective precipitation. I also remember sudden change of weather in late June, which elders used to call start of Sawan and Badhon – name of two rainy season months in Hindi. Today, I know that sudden change as onset of summer monsoon season over northwestern South Asia, which retreats in September. I remember winter as relatively dry season, but sometime it would surprise with week-long precipitation, which people used to call sat-jari (probably). Today, if someone asks me, I would hold strong western disturbances responsible for such winter events.  Perhaps, my specific knowledge about the South Asian climate is now little above than that of a layman. However, my transition from a layman to a graduate student in Atmospheric sciences was not gradual as my first real exposure to atmospheric science was only after my MS and MPhil in Physics from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan. Long story short, it was a combination of opportunities at Global Change Impact Studies Centre in Islamabad, Pakistan and Abdus Salam Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, which unraveled for me a whole new fascinating world of climate science.

Research Interests
At Purdue, my research interests stretch on time-scales ranging from paleoclimate to future-climate, which involve use of multi-scale Earth-System-Modeling tools such as global circulation model (NCAR-CCSM), high-resolution nested climate model (ICTP-RegCM) and high-resolution regional-hydrological model (UW-VIC). In particular, I am interested in understanding how South Asian monsoon responds to changes in radiative forcing at different time-scales and how simulated future climate changes would impact regional hydrological cycles.