Reshmita Nath

中山大学大气科学学院 副教授




Research Interest:
Climate change and its impact on Hydrometeorological extremes e.g. drought, flood, etc. over Asian monsoon region and different river basins (Yangtze, Mekong, Indo-Gangetic, Nile, Amazon etc.) across the globe.
Future projection of extreme Hydrometeorological events using CMIP5/CMIP6/CESM model simulations under different RCP/SSP scenarios.
Impact of 1.5°/2.0° C warming on extreme drought/flood/aridity events over different river basins across the globe.
Relative contribution of external forcings factors and internal climate variability on climate change and its extremes over Asian monsoon region using CMIP5/CMIP6 and CESM large and medium ensemble model simulations.
Assessing relative contribution of aerosol, land, GHG, volcano, solar etc. only forcings on Hydrometeorological extremes using CMIP6/CMIP5/CCSM4 single forcing simulations.
Estimation of Potential Evapotranspiration, SPEI and SPI indices for detection and attribution of Hydrological cycles.
Academic Qualifications:
2013-2017 ? PhD Degree (Meteorology), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academic of Sciences, Beijing.
2006-2009 ? Master's Degree (Environment), Rabindra Bharathi University, India.
2003-2006 ? Bachelor's Degree (Science), Calcutta University, India.
Research/Employment Experience
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?Dec 2017 – Jun 2020
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Jun 2017 – Dec 2017
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Apr 2013 – Apr 2015
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Visiting Researcher
Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Visiting Researcher
College of Global change and Earth system science, Beijing Normal University

Jun 2008 – Oct 2009
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Jan 2016 – Feb 2016
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Jan 2018 – Feb 2018
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Jul 2019 – Aug 2019
Associate Project coordinator
SASHA-Fair Trade Organization, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Visiting Researcher
Agricultural University, Kalyani, West Bengal, India
Visiting Researcher
Vigyana Bharathi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India
Visiting Researcher
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India

Publications
International Journal Publications (# Corresponding Author)
Future projection of extreme Hot and Precipitation events over South-East Asian river basins under RCP8.5 scenario: Role of external forcings and natural variability.
Reshmita Nath and Yong Luo. International Journal of Climatology (Accepted), 2021.
The impact of atmospheric moisture transport on winter Arctic warming: Radiation versus latent heat release.
Mingju Hao, Yanluan Lin, Yong Luo, Reshmita Nath, Zong-Ci Zhao. International Journal of Climatology, 2021.DOI: 10.1002/joc.7054.
Nath Debashis#, Sasikumar Keerthi, Reshmita Nath# and Chen, Wen, 2021: Factors affecting COVID-19 outbreaks across the Globe: Role of Extreme Climate Change. Sustainability, 13, 3029. DOI:10.3390/su**.
Sasikumar, Keerthi, Nath, Debashis#, Reshmita Nath, and Chen, Wen, 2020: Impact of Extreme Hot Climate on COVID‐19 Outbreak in India. Geo Health, 4(12), DOI: 10.1029/2020GH000305.
Identification of Black Dragon forest fire in Amur River basin using satellite borne NDVI data and its impact on long range transport of pollutants: A case study.
Ankita Nath, Reshmita Nath. Journal of Applied Science Research, 2019.
Disentangling the influencing factors driving the cooling trend in boreal summer over Indo-Gangetic river basin, India: role of Atlantic multidecadal oscillation (AMO).
Reshmita Nath; Yong Luo. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, Springer, 2019.2.13, Vol. 02.
Integrating ecosystem services into effectiveness assessment of ecological restoration program in northern China's arid areas: Insights from the Beijing- Tianjin Sandstorm Source Region.
Chong Jiang; Reshmita Nath; Lev Labzovskii; Dewang Wang. Land Use Policy, Elsevier, 2018.3.6, Vol. 75: 201~214.
On the contribution of internal variability and external forcing factors to the Cooling trend over the Humid Subtropical Indo- Gangetic Plain in India.
Reshmita Nath; Yong Luo; Wen Chen; Xuefeng Cui. Scientific Reports, Nature, 2018.12.21, Vol. 8(18047): 1~11.
CMIP5 multi-model projections of extreme weather events in the Humid Subtropical Gangetic Plain region of India.
Reshmita Nath; Xuefeng Cui; Hans Graf; Wen Chen; Lin Wang; Hainan Gong; Qian Li. Earth's Future, AGU, 2017.2.1, Vol. 5: 1~16.
Impact of drought on agriculture in the Indo-Gangetic Plain, India.
Reshmita Nath; Debashis Nath; Qian Li; Wen Chen; Xuefeng Cui. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, Springer, 2017.3.1, Vol. 34: 335~346.
Changes in Arable Land Demand for Food in India and China: A Potential Threat to Food Security.
Reshmita Nath; Yibo Luan; Wangming Yang; Chen Yang; Wen Chen; Qian Li; Xuefeng Cui. Sustainability, MDPI, 2015.4.1, Vol. 7(5): 5371~5397.
Historical changes in land requirements for food in India.
Reshmita Nath; Xuefeng Cui; Yibo Luan; Wangming Yang; Wen Chen; Qian Li. Indian Journal of Applied Research, 2014.12.1, Vol. 4(12): 11~21.
Future projection of summer surface air temperature trend over Central India: Relative contribution of external forcing and internal variability.
Reshmita Nath; Yong Luo; Wen Chen. International Journal of Climatology, Wiley Online Library, 2019, doi.org/10.1002/joc.6258.
Future Arable Land Requirement of Pig Production in China.
Xiaolei Liu; Xuefeng Cui; Reshmita Nath. Journal of Agricultural Science, Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2016.12.1, Vol. 8(1).
Quantifying the economic sustainability of China: An ecological network analysis approach.
Hu Ke; Liu Xiaolei; Wei Xiwen; Reshmita Nath; Cui Xuefeng. Acta Ecologica Sinica, Elsevier, 2016.1.1, Vol. 36(24).
Reconstruction of the historical crop land data in China using the partition and layering-based gridded method.
Xiwen Wei; Lijuan Miao; Yuan Jiang; Reshmita Nath; Xuefeng Cui. Acta Geographica Sinica, Elsevier, 2016.3.1, Vol. 71(7): 1144~1156.
Subtropical Potential Vorticity Intrusion Drives Increasing Tropospheric Ozone over the Tropical Central Pacific.
Debashis Nath; Wen Chen; Hans Graf; Xiaoqing Lan; Hainan Gong; Reshmita Nath; Kaiming Hu; Lin Wang. Scientific Reports, Nature, 2016.2.1, Vol. 6.
Analysis on water consumption and influencing factors of pig production in China.
Liu Xiaolei; Yibo Luan; Hu Ke; Reshmita Nath; Cui Xuefeng. Resources Science, Springer, 2015.1.1, Vol. 10.
Dynamics of arable land requirements for food in South Africa: From 1961 to 2007.
Yibo Luan; Xuefeng Cui; Marrion Ferrat; Reshmita Nath. South African Journal of Science, Academy of Science of South Africa, 2014.9.1, Vol. 110(1/2): 1~8.
Vegetation dynamics and factor analysis in arid and semi-arid Inner Mongolia.
Lijuan Miao; Chong Jiang; Baolin Xue; Qiang Liu; Bin He; Reshmita Nath; Xuefeng Cui. Environmental Earth Sciences, Springer, 2014.8.1, Vol. 73(5): 1~10.
Analysis of the Phenology in the Mongolian Plateau by Inter-Comparison of Global Vegetation Datasets.
Lijuan Miao; Yibo Luan; Xiangzhong Luo; Qiang Liu; John C, Moore; Reshmita Nath; Bin He; Feng Zhu; Xuefeng Cui. Remote Sensing, MDPI, 2013.7.1, Vol. 5(10): 5193~5208.
Impact of Indian summer monsoon on agricultural drought and food security of India.
Reshmita Nath, Xuefeng Cui, Debashis Nath, Wen Chen. Proceedings of International workshop on High Impact Weather Research (WMO-CAMS workshop), 20-23 January 2015, Ningbo, China.
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Projects & Grants
1. Source of funding: National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Research Fund for International Youth Scientist Project, Project No. , Title: Impact of 1.5°/2.0° C warming on extreme drought events over nine river basins across the globe, Duration: 2018/01-2019/12, Total Fund: 340,000 RMB, Role: PI.
2. Source: Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Climate Change and Natural Disaster Studies, Sun Yat-sen University, Title: Future projection of extreme drought events over Southeast Asian river basins.
Fund: 40,000 RMB, Duration: 2021/01-2022/12, Role: PI.
3. Source of funding: Ministry of Science and Technology of China, Research Fund for International Youth Scientist Project, Project No. 2017YFA**, Title: Global climate-Land Surface-hydrological process and the risk of extreme hydrological events, China's adaptation study, Duration: 2017/07-2022/06, Total Fund: 2398,000 RMB, Role: Member.
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Honors and Awards:
CAS-TWAS President’s PhD fellowship award, September 2013, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Tsinghua University Postdoctoral Fellowship award, April 2017.
100 Top Talent Awardee, Sun Yat-sen University, 2020.
Membership of European Geophysical Union (EGU), European Meteorological Union (EMS), AOGS, CIAAS.
Reviewer of Agricultural Systems, Earth’s Future, eo Health, Climate Dynamics, Scientific Reports, International Journal of Climatology, etc.
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Other studies undertaken, including training/refresher course:
Professional Training Courses on Earth System Sciences and Changes, Educational Establishment: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Period: 2013/09-2014/01.
Chinese Language Study Training Courses, Educational Establishment: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Period: 2013/09-2014/01.
International Training Workshop on Asian Monsoon Variability and Predictability, 6-15 July, 2014, Beijing, China.
2014 Summer School on Frontier and Interdisciplinary Sciences, July, 2014, Beijing, China.
International workshop on high impact weather research, 20-23 January, 2015, Ningbo, China.
International workshop on the Madden-Julian Oscillation, 6-9 August 2015, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
14th CAS-TWAS-WMO Forum, Data assimilation summer school coupled data assimilation symposium, 1-8 July, 2015, Beijing, China.
15^th workshop on global environment and climate change monitoring and process study, 18-20 October, 2015, Xian, China.
16^th CAS-TWAS-WMO Forum, September, 2017, Beijing, China.
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International meetings/conferences attended:
List any signi?cant visits abroad not mentioned above
13th CAS-TWAS-WMO Forum, the International Symposium on Extreme Weather and Climate: Past, Present, Future. Beijing, China, 8-11 September, 2014.
Asia Oceania Geoscience Society (AOGS) 2014, 11th Annual meeting and geosciences world community exhibition, 28 Jul-01 Aug, 2014, Sapporo, Japan.
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Chapman Conference 2015 on?Evolution of the Asian Monsoon and its Impact on Landscape, Environment and Society, 13-18 June, 2015, Honkong.
The global land project third open science meeting (GLP2016), 24-27 October, 2016, Beijing, China.
AOGS 2017, 14th Annual meeting and geosciences world community exhibition, 06 Aug-12 Aug, 2017, Singapore.
India-China Association on Atmospheric Science and Pollution Studies meeting, 22-24 March, 2019, New Delhi, India.
European General Union (EGU) General Assembly, 07-12 April, 2019, Vienna, Austria.
European Meteorological Society (EMS) Annual Meeting, 09-13 September, 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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