Education
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) – Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, UK , 2018–2022
Lead supervisor: Dr Andrew Turner, Professor in Monsoon Systems
- Master of Research in Climate and Atmospheric Science – University of Leeds, UK , 2017
Supervisor: Prof. Douglas Parker, Joint Met Office Professor of Meteorology
Dissertation: On the relationships between relative vorticity, propagation speed and
rainfall of Indian monsoon low-pressure systems
- B.Sc (Physics, Statistics, Mathematics) –
Institute of Science, Nagpur , India, 2015
Research Interests
- Indian Monsoon (seasonal predictions, ocean-atmosphere-land interaction,
dynamics and understanding precipitation processes of monsoon depressions) - Dynamics of extra-tropical cyclones over North India
- Tropical meteorology and variability of climate systems
- Effect of clouds and aerosols on the Earth’s climate
Internships and Work Experience
White Gold Trust, India , March-2015
Voluntarily working as a principal meteorologist with a responsibility of
providing weather advisories to over 150,000 farmers of Maharashtra state.- Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi , June-2014
Analysed India’s weather forecasting system and sent a proposal on making
India a ‘Weather-Ready’ nation to the Prime Minister of India and the
Ministry of Earth Sciences. Down To Earth , June 2014 – June 2016
Independent Weather Forecaster
Experience of forecasting the monsoon and several weather events across India
http://www.downtoearth.org.in/author/akshay-deoras-2290- UM-DAE Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, Mumbai , June-2013
Worked with India’s first citizen science project in astronomy, RAD@home
Analysed data from the TIFR GMRT Sky Survey, VLA FIRST and CRTS. - Tarun Bharat newspaper , Jan 2012 – Oct 2017
Independent Weather Forecaster
Experience of forecasting the weather across Vidarbha region of Maharashtra
state and providing weather inputs to people in vernacular language.
Achievements
- Best presentation prize in the Dynamics and Meteorological Applications category
RMetS Student and Early Career Scientists Conference 2020 (Virtual) - DST INSPIRE Scholarship (awarded by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India
to pursue baccalaureate education in natural sciences) – 2012 to 2015 - Youngest person to be invited to participate and present an action plan on improving Maharashtra’s Agro-
Weather Forecasting in a high level meeting chaired by the Chief Minister of Government of Maharashtra,
India – May 2015 - Scholarship for securing highest marks in statistics in summer 2013 university examination – 2014
(Awarded by Alumni Association of Institute of Science, Nagpur) - ‘Star Prize’ for best overall performance in school and junior college – 2011
(Awarded by Somalwar Nikalas Junior College) - Title of ‘Professor (of) Maths’ for outstanding performance in Prof. Maths contest organised by National
Education Society – 2003 - First prize in district level debate competition organised by District Council, Nagpur on environmental
issues – 2009 - Parents-Teachers-Students-Association: Student representative in middle and high school
(sessions 2004-05, 2009-10)
Conferences and other presentations
- Monsoon Working Group meeting (virtual) A. Deoras,
Oral presentation: Monsoon low-pressure systems in the S2S dataset - RMetS Student and Early Career Scientists Conference 2020 (Virtual)
Oral presentation: Comparison of the prediction of Indian monsoon low-pressure
systems by the Subseasonal-to-Seasonal prediction project - Quo Vadis, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading
Oral presentation: Comparison of the prediction of Indian monsoon low-pressure
systems by the Subseasonal-to-Seasonal prediction project - Annual Seminar 2019, ECMWF, Reading
Poster and express oral presentation: Investigating forecast lead times of Indian
monsoon low-pressure systems in the S2S models - RMetS Student and Early Career Scientists Conference 2019, University of Birmingham
Poster presented: On seasonal and sub-seasonal forecasting of Indian monsoon
low-pressure systems - Monsoon Working Group meeting, Met Office, Exeter
Oral presentation: On seasonal and sub-seasonal forecasting of Indian monsoon
low-pressure systems - Sustainable Perspectives on Future Challenges, University of Leeds
Poster and oral presentation: Connecting Indian Farmers – Present
Challenges and Future Prospects - SHOWCASE 2016, 7th annual University of Leeds Postgraduate Research Conference
Poster presented : Understanding the winter precipitation in Northwest India - Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science Annual Science Meeting 2016
Poster presented : An Investigation of Reduced Western Disturbance Activity
over Northwest India in November-December 2015 - Annual Monsoon Workshop – 2015 and National Symposium on Understanding
and Forecasting the Monsoon Extremes, IITM Pune
Poster presented : On intriguing relationship between Monsoon low pressures
and Maharashtra - Fifth National Research Conference on Climate Change, IIT Delhi
Poster presented : Need of a paradigm shift in the cyclone mitigation policy due
to an emerging cyclone frequency trend in the North Indian Ocean
Training
- NCAS Climate Modelling Summer School, University of Cambridge, UK 2019
- The Isle of Arran, UK Experience of conducting various experiments to study Earth’s radiational
balance, surface exchange processes; hill profiling, launching a radiosonde
and pilot balloon, trajectory analysis and weather forecasting using various
forecasting products.
Publications
- Comparison of the prediction of Indian monsoon low-pressure systems by the Subseasonal-to-Seasonal
prediction project. A Deoras,Weather and Forecasting , submitted 21 May 2020.
- Basu, S., Bieniek, P.A. and Deoras, A., 2017. An investigation of reduced western disturbance activity
over Northwest India in November-December 2015 compared to 2014-A case study.
Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 53(1), pp.75-83.
- Akshay Deoras. On Intriguing Relationship Between Monsoon Low Pressures and Maharashtra.
Bulletin of the Indian Meteorological Society, Pune Chapter (Vol.17, February 2016, pp. 42)
- Aditya Kranti, Salil Bhat, Akshay Deoras.Trend Analysis and Mapping of Severe Cyclonic Storms in Bay
of Bengal using ANN and Exponential Smoothing,International Journal of Engineering Development
and Research (IJEDR), 237-242, 2015, ISSN:2321-9939