Sulochana Gadgil is a meteorologist with a large and influential body of work on the Indian monsoon. Born in 1944 in Pune, she studied mathematics in India and the USA. After obtaining a PhD in Applied Mathematics at Harvard University, she worked as a Research Fellow in MIT. In 1971, she returned to India and […]
The first national effort to understand the meteorological phenomenon For about four months from May to September 1990, the Indian summer monsoon was the subject of unprecedented nationwide attention. While the monsoon winds raced from Kerala to the northwest of India in 35 days, less than its usual 45, researchers on land, air and sea […]
