Nimmakanti Mahendra
Environmental Science · Purdue University West Lafayette
Publications
15
Citations
201
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
18
Publishing since 2009
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.
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
- Missing Summer Westerly Jet Barotropic Governor Effect Explains Climate Models—Observation Discrepancies in the Indian Monsoon Trends
AGU Advances · 2026
- Recent decades witness a strong east-west gradient of monsoon precipitation changes over Northern India
Atmospheric Research · 2025
- Stagnation of Atmospheric Circulation Leads to Historically Prolonged Extreme Rainfall Event Over Northwestern India in August 2024
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2025
- Unraveling the role of land use changes in shaping extreme rainfall in <scp>South India</scp>
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society · 2025
- Variability of summer monsoon depressions over the Bay of Bengal with special emphasis on El Niño cycle
Climate Dynamics · 2024
- Recent two decades witness an uptick in monsoon depressions over the northern Arabian Sea
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science · 2024
- A case study of deviant El Niño influence on the 2023 monsoon: An anecdote involving IOD, MJO and equivalent barotropic rossby waves
Climate Dynamics · 2024
- Contrasting influence of the 1997 and 2015 El Niño on the Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall: Role of the Southern Hemisphere
Global and Planetary Change · 2024
- The increased summer monsoon rainfall in Northwest India: Coupling with the Northwestern Arabian Sea warming and modulated by the Silk Road Pattern since 2000
Atmospheric Research · 2023
- Diversity of Indian Summer Monsoon Circulation and Rainfall During the Super El Niño Years
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2023
- A curious case of the Indian Summer Monsoon 2020: The influence of Barotropic Rossby Waves and the monsoon depressions
Atmospheric Research · 2022
- Interdecadal modulation of interannual <scp>ENSO‐Indian</scp> summer monsoon rainfall teleconnections in observations and <scp>CMIP6</scp> models: Regional patterns
International Journal of Climatology · 2020
- Experimental and Analytical Modal Analysis of Cantilever Beam for Vibration Based Damage Identification Using Artificial Neural Network
Journal of Testing and Evaluation · 2017
- Vibration Based Damage Identification Method for Cantilever Beam Using Artificial Neural Network
Lecture notes in civil engineering · 2017
- Atmospheric Research×3
- Climate Dynamics×2
- International Journal of Climatology×1
- npj Climate and Atmospheric Science×1
- Global and Planetary Change×1
- Zachary F. Johnson
Environmental Science · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Jialin Lin
Environmental Science · The Ohio State University
- Kwesi Twentwewa Quagraine
Environmental Science · Indiana University
- Mohammad Rubaiat Islam
Environmental Science · Indiana University
- Funing Li
Environmental Science · Purdue University West Lafayette
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.
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