Dr. Asutosh Acharya

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

• PhD (Climate Sciences): School of Earth, Ocean and Climate Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubaneswar, India. 
• Postgraduate Diploma in Environmental Law and Policy: National Law University- World Wide Fund, New Delhi, India (A grade).  
• M.Phil. (Oceanography): Berhampur University, Odisha, India (78%) 
• M.Sc. (Oceanography and Meteorology): Berhampur University, Odisha, India (Gold Medalist-82.62%) 
• B.Sc. (Physics hons. with distinction): Utkal University, Odisha, India (78.5%)

• Solar Geo-engineering/Climate Intervention
• Indian Monsoon
• Aerosol-Climate interactions 
• Climate Risk
• Regional and Global scale climate modelling
• Climate change/variabilities

• Air quality
• Arctic climatic processes
• Remote Sensing applications,
• Observations and instrumentations
• Oceanography

• Chief Climate Scientist : April 2024- Present: Aurassure, India (Building the most efficient sensor network to monitor environmental challenges focusing weather, air quality and flood. Contributing to climate risk assessment and  climate change modelling. 
• Post-Doctoral Researcher: April 2023-March 2024: National Center for Atmospheric Research,USA (Aerosol-monsoon interactions, Climate modeling, Geo-Engineering, Climate change and projection). 
• Climate Scientist: July 2022-April 2023 - Chubb Science Center (Natural perils, Climate Change, Atmospheric Science, Catastrophe Modelling). 
• Consultant-II: (June 2021-July 2022)- AON Reinsurance Solutions (Climate and Atmospheric Science Research, Catastrophe Modelling, and Model Evaluation). 
• Project Scientist-B: (June 2018 - June 2021)- ESSO-National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR), Goa (Aerosol, Cloud and Precipitation Monitoring/ Modelling in the Arctic). 
• Junior and Senior Research Fellow: (May 2014 - June 2018)- School of Earth Ocean and Climate Sciences (SEOCS), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubaneswar (Aerosol-Monsoon Interactions, Global and Regional climate modelling, field observation). 
•  JuniorResearchFellow: (March 2014 - May 2014)- Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. (Hydrologic sensitivity to Cryosphere Aerosol interaction in mountain processes). 
• Junior Research Fellow: (April 2013 - March 2014)- Department of Marine Sciences, Berhampur University. (INCOIS sponsored SATCORE Project) 

• Adjunct Professor, Centurion University, Bhubaneswar, India 
• Visiting Faculty (Climate Change and Climate Modelling),  School of Sustainability, XIM University, Bhubaneswar. Jan-June 2024. 
• Faculty for the Climate Change (BA sustainable development program) jointly offered by XIM University, Bhubaneswar, and Jesuit Online Learning (JWL), March-May 2024. 
• Teaching Assistant for the courses “Modeling and Visualization” and “Observation Techniques in Atmospheric Sciences” in the School of Earth Ocean and Climate Sciences for Master of Science/Technology (M.Sc./MTech) students for the year 2015 - 16, IIT Bhubaneswar, India. 
• Teaching Assistant for the course “Basics of Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences” for Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Geophysics at the Department of Geophysics for the year 2014 at Berhampur University, Odisha, India. 

1. A. Asutosh, V Vinoj, K Landu, H Wang (2024), Fast response of global monsoon area and precipitation to regional carbonaceous aerosols. Atmospheric Research.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2024.107354. (IF:5.5). 
2. A. Asutosh and V. Vinoj (2024), Understanding the roles of local absorbing aerosols in modulating Indian summer monsoon rainfall using a regional climate model. 168663.Scitotenv.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168663. (IF: 9.8). 
3. Suvarna Fadnavis#, A. Asutosh# Prashant Chavan, Rakshit Thaware, Simone Tilmes (2024), Amplified drying in South Asian summer monsoon precipitation due to anthropogenic sulfate aerosols. Environmental Pollution (#contributed equally). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2023.123175.  (IF: 8.9). 
4. A. Asutosh, V. Vinoj, H. Wang, K. Landu, Jin-Ho Yoon (2022), Response of Indian summer monsoon rainfall to remote carbonaceous aerosols at short time scales: Teleconnections and Feedbacks. Environmental Research.214,113898 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2022.113898. (IF: 8.3). 
5. A. Asutosh, Vinoj V, Murukesh N, Ramisetty R, Mittal N. (2022) Investigation of June 2020 giant Saharan dust storm using remote sensing observations and model reanalysis. Scientific Report. 12, 6114 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-10017-1. (IF: 4.6). 
6. A. Asutosh, Fadnavis S, Chavan P, Sabin TP and Müller R (2022), Abrupt emission reduction during COVID-19 intensified the spring 2020 rainfall over India. Front. Environ. Sci. 10:911363. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.911363. (IF: 4.6). 
7. A. Asutosh, SK Pandey, V Vinoj, R Ramisetty, N Mittal. (2021) Assessment of Recent Changes in Dust over South Asia Using RegCM4 Regional Climate Model. Remote Sensing. 13(21):4309. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13214309. (IF: 5.0). 
8. A. Asutosh, Fadnavis S, Nuncio M, Müller R and Tripathy SC (2021) The Arctic Temperature Response to Global and Regional Anthropogenic Sulfate Aerosols. Front. Environ. Sci.9:766538. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2021.766538. (IF: 4.6). 
9. A. Asutosh, Chatterjee S, MP Subeesh, A Radhakrishnan, N, Murukesh (2021). Observation of Cloud Base Height and Precipitation Characteristics at a Polar Site Ny- Ålesund, Svalbard Using Ground-Based Remote Sensing and Model Reanalysis. Remote Sensing. 2021; 13(14):2808. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13142808. (IF: 5.0). 
10. Rohit Srivastava, A. Asutosh, Sabu P, Anil kumar N., Investigation of Black Carbon characteristics over Southern Ocean: Contribution of fossil fuel and biomass burning. Environmental Pollution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2021.116645. (IF: 8.9). 
11. T. Mukherjee, A. Asutosh, S. K. Pandey, L. Yang, A. Panwar, P. P. Gogoi and V. Vinoj (2018) Increasing Potential for Air Pollution over Megacity New Delhi: A Study Based on 2016 Diwali Episode. Aerosol and Air Quality Research https://doi.org/10.4209/aaqr.2017.11.0440. (IF: 4.0). 
12. M. Nuncio, R. Athulya, Naveen Nandanan, Sourav Chatterjee, K. Satheesan, Asutosh Acharya, M. P. Subeesh & P. J. Vidya (2023). Hails in Ny Alesund, Svalbard atmospheric vertical structure and dependence on circulation. Nat Hazards https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-023-05907-0 . (IF: 3.9). 
13. Fadnavis, Suvarna, Prashant Chavan, Akash Joshi, Sunil Sonbawne, Asutosh Acharya, Panuganti Devara, Alexandru Rap, and Rolf Müller. (2022) Tropospheric warming over the North Indian Ocean caused by the South Asian anthropogenic aerosols: possible implications. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-7179-2022. (IF: 6.3). 
14. Nuncio, M., Satheesan, K., Acharya A., Chatterjee, S., Subeesh, M.P. and Athulya, R.,Atmospheric    and      SolarTerrestrial    Physics,           231,     p.105869. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2022.105869. (IF: 2.1). 
15. Fernandes et. al., “Comparing recent changes in the Arctic and the Third Pole: linking science and policy. (IF: 2.1).
16. S.K. Baliarsingh, S. Sahoo, Asutosh Acharya, H.B. Dalabehera, K.C. Sahu & Aneesh A. Lotliker (2014) Oil Pollution in Chilika Lagoon: An Anthropogenic Threat to Biodiversity. Current Science. (IF:1.1). 

1. Recipient of prestigious postdoctoral research fellowship from National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder USA.
2. Gold Medalist in M.Sc. (Oceanography) in the Department of Marine Sciences, Berhampur University for the academic session year 2010-2012.
3. Qualified UGC-CSIR NET/JRF (National level) for Earth, Atmosphere and Planetary Sciences category  for Lectureship and Junior Research Fellowship (All India Ranking 90).
4. First-class first position in Graduation ( Physics honors with distinction)

1. Recipient of NCAR early career award of $2000 to attend AGU 2023 conference.
2. Recipient of travel support to attend Gordon research conference on Climate Engineering (2024). 
3. P.G Merit Scholarship for the year 2010-12, by Dept. of Higher Education Govt. of Odisha (DHE-Odisha).
4. Recipient of prestigious Udayaraga samman by Timepass publication Bhubaneswar for story writing (Odia). 
5. Recipient of prestigious Young Author award -2018 by Pen In publication Bhubaneswar. 

• NPJ Climate and Atmospheric Science 
• Environmental Research Letter
• Atmospheric Research 
• Environmental Research
• Science of the Total Environment
• JGR-Atmosphere
• Environmental Modelling and Software
• Nature Scientific Reports
• Pure and Applied Geophysics