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IITK
Sarosh Alam Ghausi

Sarosh Alam Ghausi

PhD (MPI-BGC) and (KIT), Germany

Assistant Professor, Kotak School of Sustainability

Research Interest

  • Land-atmosphere Interactions
  • Extreme Weather events
  • Earth system Modelling
  • Hybrid AI-Physics Frameworks for Climate Modelling
  • Thermodynamics

Education

2020 – 2024: Ph.D., Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (MPI-BGC) and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany.

2018 – 2020: M.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in Water Resources, Civil Engineering.

2014 – 2018: B.Tech., Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Civil Engineering.

Teaching Area

Hydrology

Climatology

Earth system modelling

Climate and Global change

AI for Hydroclimate

Selected Publications

Ghausi, S. A., Tian, Y., Zehe, E., & Kleidon, A. (2023). Radiative controls by clouds and thermodynamics shape surface temperatures and turbulent fluxes over land. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(29), e2220400120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2220400120

Ghausi, S.A., Zehe, E., Ghosh, S. et al. (2024). Thermodynamically inconsistent extreme precipitation sensitivities across continents driven by cloud-radiative effects. Nature Communications 15, 10669.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-55143-8

Ghausi, S. A., McColl, K., Zehe, E., & Kleidon, A. (2025). Explaining observed daily variations and decadal trends in the diurnal air temperature range. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(14), e2024GL113595. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL113595

Ghausi, S. A., Ghosh, S., & Kleidon, A. (2022). Breakdown in precipitation–temperature scaling over India predominantly explained by cloud-driven cooling. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 26(16), 4431-4446.https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-4431-2022

Ghausi, S. A., & Ghosh, S. (2020). Diametrically opposite scaling of extreme precipitation and streamflow to temperature in South and Central Asia. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL089386.https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL089386.

Awards & Fellowships

Innovative Student Project award at Master's level by Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) - 2020

Prof. UC Kothyari Best Master's Thesis Award by Indian Society of Hydraulics (ISH) - 2020

Best Paper Award at HYDRO 2018 International Conference - 2018

Keywords

Climate modelling, Climate change, Extreme events

Professional Experience

2024 – 2025: Postdoc, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (MPI-BGC), Germany

2022 – 2023: Visiting Researcher, Harvard University, USA

2017: Visiting Researcher, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India