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Nimmakanti Mahendra

Environmental Science · Purdue University West Lafayette

Mid career · publishing since 2009Rising activity

Publications

15

Citations

201

Est. group size

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

18

Publishing since 2009

Research summary
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Nimmakanti Mahendra studies the Indian summer monsoon and related atmospheric and oceanic patterns, focusing on how phenomena like El Niño, monsoon depressions, and large-scale wind and pressure systems influence rainfall variability and extreme rainfall events across India. This work aims to explain gaps between climate model predictions and real-world observations of monsoon trends. Earlier work (2017) also included structural engineering research on vibration-based damage detection, unrelated to the current climate focus.

Indian summer monsoon variabilityEl Niño and monsoon teleconnectionsExtreme rainfall eventsAtmospheric circulation and Rossby wavesOcean-atmosphere interactions

Publication output was sparse and irregular from 2017 to 2021 but has grown noticeably since 2022, with the most active years being 2024 and 2025.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.2/year recently
2017: 2 publications1718192020: 1 publication20212022: 1 publication222023: 2 publications232024: 4 publications4242025: 3 publications252026: 1 publication26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Atmospheric Research×3
  • Climate Dynamics×2
  • International Journal of Climatology×1
  • npj Climate and Atmospheric Science×1
  • Global and Planetary Change×1
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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