Uma Charan Mohanty

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U. C. Mohanty, born on 29 June 1948 in the Indian state of Odisha, graduated in science from Utkal University in 1969 and completed his master's degree in physics from the same university in 1971.{{Cite web |url=http://www.iitbbs.ac.in/faculty/iit_1381289705.pdf |title=Prof. U. C. Mohanty - Faculty profile |date=2016 |publisher=IIT Bhubaneswar}} Subsequently, he enrolled for his doctoral studies at Hydrometeorological Centre of Russia and obtained a PhD in Tropical meteorology in 1978.{{Cite web |url=http://www.iitbbs.ac.in/profile.php/ucmohanty |title=Prof. U. C. Mohanty on IIT BBS |date=2016 |publisher=IIT Bhubaneswar}} Returning to India, he started his career at the Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar (IIT BBS) as a senior scientific officer, a post he held till 1992 when he was sent on deputation to the Department of Science and Technology as the joint director and head of the Research Division for a three-year term. On completion of his deputation, he returned to IIT BBS but stayed there only for three more years and joined the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) in 1998 as a professor at the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences. In 1998, he assumed the directorship of the Centre and served as a Higher Academic Grade (HAG) professor till his superannuation in 2013. On retirement, he returned to IIT BBS as a visiting professor and holds the rank of an emeritus professor. Since 2013, he has also been heading the Odisha Bigyan Academy as its president. He is also a former visiting scientist at the Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre, Thailand{{Cite web |url=http://www.scidev.net/global/policy/news/ignored-warnings-worsened-myanmar-cyclone-disaster.html |title=Ignored warnings 'worsened' Myanmar cyclone disaster |date=2008 |publisher=SciDeNet}} and is a faculty member at the University Network for Climate and Ecosystems Change Adaptation Research (UN-CECAR) of the United Nations.{{Cite web |url=http://cecar.unu.edu/courses/people/uc-mohanty |title=Visiting Faculty UC Mohanty |date=2016 |publisher=University Network for Climate and Ecosystems Change Adaptation Research}}

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Mohanty is known to have done extensive research on Indian summer monsoon and his studies have assisted in widening the understanding of the phenomena.{{cite web | url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | date=1999}} He developed several numerical models and simulations for weather prediction and his experiments helped predict tropical cyclones, rainfall events, thunderstorms and snow storms in the region.{{Cite web |url=http://s3.isp.unu.edu/groups/cecarweb/wiki/e7b61/UC_Mohanty.html |title=UC Mohanty on UN-CESAR - faculty profile |date=2016 |publisher=University Network for Climate and Ecosystems Change Adaptation Research}} He overseas a team of researchers engaged in the study of coastal inundation with a view to develop Land-Ocean-Atmospheric Modelling System for predicting extreme weather events.{{Cite web |url=http://www.ptinews.com/news/8213398_IIT-B-working-with-US-scientists-to-predict-storm-surge.html |title=IIT-B working with US scientists to predict storm surge |date=23 December 2016 |publisher=Press Trust of India}} His studies have been detailed in several peer-reviewed articles;{{Cite web |url=http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Mohanty=3AUma_Charan=3A=3A.html |title=Browse by Fellow |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}}{{Refn|group=note|Please see Selected bibliography section}} ResearchGate and Google Scholar, two online repositories of scientific articles, have listed 270{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/U_C_Mohanty |title=On ResearchGate |date=2016 }} and 323 of them respectively.{{Cite web |url=https://scholar.google.ae/citations?user=RPDTZXsAAAAJ&hl=en |title=On Google Scholar |date=2016 |publisher=Google Scholar}} He has also co-edited a book, Monitoring and Prediction of Tropical Cyclones in the Indian Ocean and Climate Change, published by Springer Science+Business Media in 2013.{{cite book|author1=U.C. Mohanty|author2=M. Mohapatra|author3=O.P. Singh, B.K. Bandyopadhyay, L.S. Rathore|title=Monitoring and Prediction of Tropical Cyclones in the Indian Ocean and Climate Change|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JhLHBAAAQBAJ|date=12 October 2013|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-94-007-7720-0}} He has edited the book, Advanced Numerical Modelling and Data Assimilation Techniques for Tropical Cyclone Prediction, published by Springer Science+Business Media in 2016.{{cite book|author1=U.C. Mohanty|author2=Sundararaman G. Gopalakrishnan|title=Advanced Numerical Modelling and Data Assimilation Techniques for Tropical Cyclone Prediction|date=21 November 2016 |publisher=Springer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4YyPDQAAQBAJ|isbn=978-9402408966}}

Mohanty is a member of the Core Group on Floods of the National Disaster Management Authority{{Cite web |url=http://ndma.gov.in/en/about-ndma/budget/20-media-public-awareness/natural-disaster/floods/58-groups-and-subgroups.html |title=Core Group on Floods |date=2016 |publisher=National Disaster Management Authority}} as well as the Scientific Review and Monitoring Committee (SRMC) of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology;{{Cite web |url=http://www.tropmet.res.in/monsoon/files/srmc.php |title=Scientific Review and Monitoring Committee (SRMC) |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology}} he was among the organizers of the National Symposium on Tropical Meteorology (TROPMET-2016) at the Siksha O Anusandhan University during 19–23 December 2016.{{Cite web |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2016/dec/18/bay-of-bengal-witnessed-500-cyclones-in-125-years-1550500.html |title=Bay of Bengal witnessed 500 cyclones in 125 years |date=18 December 2016 |newspaper=Indian Express}} He was also involved in the organization of the 22nd State Level National Children's Science Congress held at KIIT International School in 2014 where he served as a judge of the congress.{{Cite web |url=http://kiit-is.org/imgcsc9_11_2014.php |title=22nd State Level National Children's Science Congress - 2014 |date=2014 |publisher=KIIT International School}} He is known to have made over 45 international visits and has delivered plenary or invited addresses at several conferences and seminars including the lecture on Numerical Simulation of Track and Intensity of Orissa Super Cyclone-1999 at the 5th International Conference on Information Technology in 2002,{{Cite web |url=https://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~snaik//CIT02/cit02-advprg.pdf |title=5th International Conference on Information Technology |date=2002 |publisher=Orissa Information Technology Society}} the seminar on Numerical Modeling of Land Surface Processes for Improved-Simulation of Extreme Weather Events over the Indian Region of 2014{{Cite web |url=https://noaahrd.wordpress.com/2014/06/20/hrd-seminar-prof-u-c-mohanty-india-institute-of-technology-iit-bhubaneswar-odisha-india-18-june-2014/ |title=HRD seminar |date=2014 |publisher=Hurricane Research Division}} and the Colloquium on Recent Developments in Prediction of Tropical Cyclone and Associated Coastal Hazards of 2016,{{Cite web |url=http://tropmet2016.org/downloads/Colloquium_on_TC&CH_Brochure.pdf |title=Colloquium on Recent Developments in Prediction of Tropical Cyclone and Associated Coastal Hazards |date=2016 |publisher=TROPMET}} both held at IIT Bhubaneswar, and the National Workshop on GPS RO Techniques and Applications of 2015 held at SRM Institute of Science and Technology.{{Cite web |url=http://srmuniv.ac.in/downloads/invitation_gps_ro_workshop.pdf |title=National Workshop on GPS RO Techniques and Applications |date=2015 |publisher=SRM Institute of Science and Technology}}

Mohanty received the Prof. M. G. Deshpande Award in 1984, followed by the 12th MAUSAM Award of the Mausam journal of the India Meteorological Department in 1989 and the Silver Jubilee Award of the Aeronautics Research and Development Board in 1996.{{Cite web |url=http://www.oits.org/cit2002/fcfp02.html |title=AR & DB Silver Jubilee Award |date=2002 |publisher=Orissa Information Technology Society}} The Odisha Bigyan Academy presented him the Samanta Chandra Sekhar Award in 1999{{Cite web |url=http://orissabigyanacademy.nic.in/(S(jady00nncb3uae45galwvije))/award_scs_prv_winner.html |title=Details of the Previous Winners |date=2016 |publisher=Odisha Bigyan Academy}} and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards in 1993.{{Cite web |url=http://www.csir.res.in/External/Heads/career/award/BPRIZE/Earth_SCIENCES.htm |title=Earth Sciences |date=2016 |publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303200915/http://www.csir.res.in/external/heads/career/award/BPRIZE/Earth_SCIENCES.htm |archive-date=2016-03-03 }} He received the Sir Gilbert Walker Gold Medal of the Walker Institute, UK in 2009,{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JhLHBAAAQBAJ&pg=PR9 |title=Monitoring and Prediction of Tropical Cyclones in the Indian Ocean and Climate Change |last1=U.C. Mohanty |last2=M. Mohapatra |last3=O.P. Singh, B.K. Bandyopadhyay, L.S. Rathore |date=12 October 2013 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-94-007-7720-0 |pages=9– }} the National Award in Atmospheric Science and Technology of the Ministry of Earth Sciences in 2013.,{{Cite web |url=http://www.iitbbs.ac.in/news.php?id=212 |title=Prof. U C Mohanty has received Ministry of Earth Science (MoES) Life Time Excellence Award |date=2013 |publisher=IIT Bhubaneswar}} Biju Patnaik Award for Scientific Excellence in 2017.,{{Cite web |url=http://www.iitbbs.ac.in/news.php?id=212 |title=Prof. U C Mohanty has received Biju Patnaik Award for Scientific Excellence |date=2017 |publisher=IIT Bhubaneswar}} Faculty Research Award in 2017-18.,{{Cite web |url=http://www.iitbbs.ac.in/news.php?id=212 |title=Prof. U C Mohanty has received Faculty Research Award |date=2017–18 |publisher=IIT Bhubaneswar}} Odisha Citizens Award in Education in 2018.{{Cite web |url=http://www.iitbbs.ac.in/news.php?id=212 |title=Prof. U C Mohanty has received Odisha Citizens Award in Education |date=2018 |publisher=IIT Bhubaneswar}}

The Indian Academy of Sciences elected Mohanty as its fellow in 1993 and the other two major Indian science academies, the National Academy of Sciences, India and the Indian National Science Academy, followed suit in 1997 and 2014 respectively. In between, he was elected by the Indian Meteorological Society (1999), Indian National Academy of Engineering (2010){{Cite web |url=http://inae.in/search-of-fellows/ |title=INAE fellows |date=2016 |publisher=Indian National Academy of Engineering |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403030936/http://inae.in/search-of-fellows/ |archive-date=2015-04-03 }} and Indian Geophysical Union (2010) as their fellows.{{Cite web |url=http://www.iitbbs.ac.in/profile.php/ucmohanty/#menu1 |title=Prof. U. C. Mohanty Awards |date=2016 |publisher=IIT Bhubaneswar}} He also held the Senior Associate-ship of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics during 2002–09. Prof U. C. Mohanty elected as President, Odisha Bigyan Academy Odisha Bigyan Academy during 2013-2015.

• {{cite book|author1=U.C. Mohanty|author2=M. Mohapatra|author3=O.P. Singh, B.K. Bandyopadhyay, L.S. Rathore|title=Monitoring and Prediction of Tropical Cyclones in the Indian Ocean and Climate Change|date=12 October 2013|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-94-007-7720-0}}

• {{Cite journal |author1=Victor N. Mansfield |author2=John B. Carlson |author3=Gabriella Eichinger Ferro-Luzzi |author3-link=Gabriella Eichinger Ferro-Luzzi |author4=H. J. Eysenck |author5=Uma Charan Mohanty |author6=Balaji Mundkur |author7=Karl A. Wipf |title=Mandalas and Mesoamerican Pecked Circles [and Comments and Reply] |journal=Current Anthropology |date=June 1981 |volume=22 |issue=3 |pages=269–284 |doi=10.1086/202664|s2cid=162758590 }}
• {{Cite journal |author1=Prasad, K. |author2=Dash, S. K. |author3=Mohanty, U. C. |title=A logistic regression approach for monthly rainfall forecasts in meteorological subdivisions of India based on DEMETER retrospective forecasts |journal=International Journal of Climatology |date=2010 |volume=30 |issue=10 |pages=1577–1588 |doi=10.1002/joc.2019|bibcode=2010IJCli..30.1577P |s2cid=129498155 }}
• {{Cite journal |author1=Dash, S. K. |author2=Nair, Archana Anil |author3=Kulkarni, Makarand A. |author4=Mohanty, U. C. |title=Characteristic changes in the long and short spells of different rain intensities in India |journal=Theoretical and Applied Climatology |date=2011 |volume=105 |issue=3–4 |pages=563–570 |doi=10.1007/s00704-011-0416-x|bibcode=2011ThApC.105..563D |s2cid=122264919 }}
• {{Cite journal |author1=Osuri, Krishna K. |author2=Mohanty, U. C. |author3=Routray, A. |author4=Kulkarni, Makarand A. |author5=Mohapatra, M. |title=Customization of WRF-ARW model with physical parameterization schemes for the simulation of tropical cyclones over North Indian Ocean |journal=Natural Hazards |date=2012|volume=63 |issue=3 |pages=1337–1359 |doi=10.1007/s11069-011-9862-0|bibcode=2012NatHa..63.1337O |s2cid=129824186 }}
• {{Cite journal |author1=Nair, Archana |author2=Mohanty, U. C. |author3=Acharya, Nachiketa |title=Monthly prediction of rainfall over India and its homogeneous zones during monsoon season: a supervised principal component regression approach on general circulation model products |journal=Theoretical and Applied Climatology |date=2013 |volume=111 |issue=1–2 |pages=327–339 |doi=10.1007/s00704-012-0660-8|bibcode=2013ThApC.111..327N |s2cid=122723011 }}

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• {{Cite web |url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/bay-of-bengal-witnessed-500-cyclones-in-125-years-professor-at-climate-change-conferene-4432957/ |title=Bay of Bengal witnessed 500 cyclones in 125 years: Professor at climate change conferene [Sic] |date=18 December 2016 |newspaper=The Indian Express}}
• {{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTDDO79XRdw |title=Meso-scale modeling of extreme weather events in tropics - lecture 1 |last=U.C. Mohanty |date=11 August 2013 |publisher=International Centre for Theoretical Sciences |work=Lecture - YouTube video}}
• {{Cite web |url=https://www.iitsystem.ac.in/Externalpeer-uploads/c02c5181cf3e3b5.pdf |title=A Report for Internal Review |date=2014 |publisher=IIT Delhi |work=Centre for Atmospheric Sciences - Annual Report}}

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