Publications — Ashwin K. Seshadri

2026

1

A Gambhir et al.

The urgency of building systemic risk capacity in a polycrisis world

One Earth · 2026

Policy & risk
2

M Singh*, G Bala, and A K Seshadri

Accounting for the bias in the median track of Indian Summer monsoon low-pressure systems in an Earth system model

Journal of Climate

Climate dynamics
3

R Jha*, R Nanjundiah, and A K Seshadri

Mechanisms shaping active-break spell variability in flood and drought years of the Indian Summer Monsoon

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society · e70140

Climate dynamics
4

A Gangopadhyay and A K Seshadri

Balancing seasonal variability in low-carbon electricity systems: A review of technologies and strategies

Journal of Energy Storage · 151, 120532

Energy & decarbonization

2025

5

A Gangopadhyay and A K Seshadri

Designing deviation settlement mechanisms for wind energy in India: balancing forecast accuracy, fairness, and grid stability

Current Science · 129, 401–405

Energy & decarbonizationPolicy & risk
6

K Murthy*, S K Kumar*, and A K Seshadri

Effects of global warming trends on temperature-sensitive tri-trophic dynamics

Ecological Complexity · 64, 101138

Climate dynamicsNonlinear dynamics
7

S Kumar*, A K Seshadri, and G Bala

Contrast in slow climate response to methane and carbon dioxide forcings identified using the radiative kernel technique

Journal of Climate

Climate dynamics
8

H Kaur*, G Bala, and A K Seshadri

Why is climate sensitivity larger for polar forcing than for tropical forcing?

Climate Dynamics · 63, 1–21

Climate dynamics
9

R Masiwal*, V Dixit, and A K Seshadri

Intraseasonal convection–circulation coupling in the Northern Hemisphere Tropics: a vorticity-budget analysis

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society · e4969

Climate dynamics
10

A K Seshadri, A Gambhir, and R Debnath

Navigating systemic risks in low-carbon energy transitions in an era of global polycrisis

Global Sustainability · 8, 1–7

Energy & decarbonizationPolicy & risk

2024

11

H Kaur*, G Bala, and A K Seshadri

Climate response to interhemispheric differences in radiative forcing governed by shortwave cloud feedbacks

Environmental Research: Climate · 3, 1–21

Climate dynamics
12

A Gangopadhyay*, A K Seshadri, and P Balachandra

Wind-solar-storage trade-offs in a decarbonizing electricity system

Applied Energy · 353, 1–17

Energy & decarbonization

2023

13

A K Seshadri and S Lakshmivarahan

Minimal chaotic models from the Volterra gyrostat

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena · 456, 1–15

Nonlinear dynamics
14

R Masiwal*, V Dixit, and A K Seshadri

Contrasting controls on convection at latitude zones near and away from the equator for the Indian summer monsoon

Environmental Research Letters · 18, 1–10

Climate dynamics
15

A K Seshadri and S Lakshmivarahan

Invariants and chaos in the Volterra gyrostat without energy conservation

Chaos, Solitons, and Fractals · 173, 1–13

Nonlinear dynamics
16

H Kaur*, G Bala, and A K Seshadri

Why is climate sensitivity for solar forcing smaller than for an equivalent CO₂ forcing?

Journal of Climate · 36, 775–789

Climate dynamics
17

R Masiwal*, V Dixit, and A K Seshadri

Explaining dynamics and rapid onset of the Somali jet through its kinetic energy budget

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · 80, 833–847

Climate dynamics
18

A Gangopadhyay*, A K Seshadri, and R Toumi

Beneficial role of diurnal smoothing for grid integration of wind power

Environmental Research Letters · 18, 014022

Energy & decarbonization
19

A K Seshadri

Towards a robust and equitable global low carbon transition

Current Science · 125, 707–708

Policy & risk

2022

20

A K Seshadri and V Dixit

Kinetic energy generation in cross-equatorial flow and the Somali Jet

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres · 127, e2022JD036634

Climate dynamics
21

A Gangopadhyay*, A K Seshadri, N Sparks, and R Toumi

The role of wind-solar hybrid plants in mitigating renewable energy droughts

Renewable Energy · 194, 926–937

Energy & decarbonization

2022

22

A Gangopadhyay*, N Sparks, R Toumi, and A K Seshadri

Risk assessment of wind-droughts over India

Current Science · 122

Energy & decarbonization
23

S Chakravarty and A K Seshadri

A framework for evaluating India's net zero commitments

Current Science · 122, 759–760

Policy & risk

2021

24

A K Seshadri and J Srinivasan

Nobel Prize for climate science in 2021

Current Science · 121, 1390

Climate dynamics
25

A K Seshadri

Cumulative emissions accounting of greenhouse gases due to path independence for a sufficiently rapid emissions cycle

Climate Dynamics · 57, 787–798

Climate dynamics

2020

26

P Kopparla, A K Seshadri, T Imamura, and Y J Lee

A recharge oscillator model for interannual variability in Venus' clouds

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets · 125, e2020JE006568

Nonlinear dynamicsClimate dynamics

2019

27

S Prakash, A K Seshadri, J Srinivasan, and D S Pai

A new parameter to assess impact of rain gauge density on uncertainty in the estimate of monthly mean rainfall over India

Journal of Hydrometeorology · 20, 821–832

Climate dynamicsMethods

2018

28

A Mitra* and A K Seshadri

Detection of spatiotemporally coherent rainfall anomalies in Markov Random Fields

Computers and Geosciences · 122, 45–53

Climate dynamicsMethods
29

A K Seshadri

Statistics of spatial averages and optimal averaging in the presence of missing data

Spatial Statistics · 25, 1–21

Methods

2017

30

A K Seshadri and S Chakravarty

Dynamics versus optimization in nonconvex environmental economics problems with a single welfare function

Current Science · 112, 220–222

Policy & risk
31

A K Seshadri

Origin of path-independence between cumulative CO₂ emissions and global warming

Climate Dynamics · 49, 3383–3401

Climate dynamics
32

A K Seshadri

Energetics and monsoon bifurcations

Climate Dynamics · 48, 561–576

Climate dynamicsNonlinear dynamics
33

A K Seshadri

Fast–slow climate dynamics and peak global warming

Climate Dynamics · 48, 2235–2253

Climate dynamics

2016

34

A K Seshadri

Decarbonization rate and the timing and magnitude of the CO₂ concentration peak

Global and Planetary Change · 146, 22–29

Climate dynamicsPolicy & risk

2015

35

A K Seshadri

Economic tradeoffs in mitigation, due to different atmospheric lifetimes of CO₂ and black carbon

Ecological Economics · 114, 47–57

Policy & risk
36

M V Ramana and A K Seshadri

Negligence, capture and dependence: safety regulation of the design of India's Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor

Journal of Risk Research · 18, 1030–1050

Policy & risk
37

A K Seshadri

Nonconvex equilibrium prices in prediction markets

Decision Analysis · 12, 1–14

Methods

2006–2014

38

M V Ramana and A Kumar

'One in infinity': failing to learn from accidents and implications for nuclear safety in India

Journal of Risk Research · 17, 23–42, 2014

Policy & risk
39

A Kumar and C M Krousgrill

Mode-splitting and quasi-degeneracies in circular plate vibration problems: the example of free vibrations of the stator of a traveling wave ultrasonic motor

Journal of Sound and Vibration · 331, 5788–5802, 2012

Nonlinear dynamics
40

M V Ramana and A Kumar

Inadequate basis for safety of the PFBR

Economic and Political Weekly · 46, 2011

Policy & risk
41

A Kumar and M V Ramana

The limits of safety analysis: severe nuclear accident possibilities at the PFBR

Economic and Political Weekly · 46, 2011

Policy & risk
42

M V Ramana and A Kumar

Safety first? Kaiga and other nuclear stories

Economic and Political Weekly · 45, 47–54, 2010

Policy & risk
43

M V Ramana and A Kumar

Least cost principles and electricity planning for Karnataka

Energy for Sustainable Development · 13, 225–234, 2009

Energy & decarbonizationPolicy & risk
44

A Kumar and M V Ramana

Compromising safety: design choices and severe accident possibilities in India's Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor

Science and Global Security · 16, 87–114, 2008

Policy & risk
45

A Kumar, F Sadeghi, and C M Krousgrill

Effects of surface roughness on normal contact compression response

Journal of Engineering Tribology · 220, 65–77, 2006

Methods
46

A Kumar

Indo-US nuclear deal: separation of civilian and military nuclear facilities

Economic and Political Weekly · 40(53), 2006

Policy & risk