Climate Change Signals and Response

Section I: Regional Climate Change Signals.- 1. Land surface feedback and impacts of land use change to Indian Monsoon Rainfall.- 2. Intraseasonal short-term suppression of monsoon by aerosols.- 3. Future hydrologic scenarios in India under climate change.- 4. Links between global climate teleconnections and Indian monsoon rainfall.- 5. Urbanisation and Surface Urban Heat Island Intensity (SUHII).- 6. Future Heat Wave Projections and Impacts.- 7. Decadal GMB Estimations for Glaciers in Western Himalayas.- 8. Atmosphere and ocean mixing processes.- 9. Nearshore Sediment Transport in a Changing Climate.- Section II: National and Sub-national Responses to Climate Change.- 10. A comprehensive social vulnerability analysis at a national scale.- 11. Review of energy-economics modelling for India.- 12. Sectoral energy intensity and climate impact.- 13. Scenarios of SLCP emissions and mitigation pathways to 2050.- 14. Drivers of climate change adaptation and measurement of adaptive capacity.- 15. Carbon Mitigation Potential of Alternative Bioenergy Pathways.- 16. Cross sectional institutional linkages in climate change responses.- 17. Present day emissions and low carbon growth pathways for the brick sector.- 18. Consumer response to policy interventions in energy efficiency: Climate policy implication.

Chandra Venkataraman is a Professor of Chemical Engineering and Associate Faculty at the Interdisciplinary Programme in Climate Studies, IIT Bombay. She works on environmental and climate science and aerosol nanoparticle engineering. Her research has contributed in uential scientific knowledge on black carbon aerosols, climate change and air quality degradation over South Asia. She has built research networks for climate and air quality studies. She is the National Coordinator of the NCAP-COALESCE project leading 17 institutions investigating regional climate impacts of carbonaceous aerosols (MoEFCC). At IIT Bombay, she was instrumental in the establishment of Interdisciplinary Programme in Climate Studies and was Principal Investigator of the DST-supported Centre of Excellence in Climate Studies. She is the recipient of a Fulbright-Nehru Research Fellowship (2012), Vikram Sarabhai Award (2005), Fellowship of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (2016), the National Academy of Science, India (2017), and the Indian Academy of Science (2017).Trupti Mishra is an Associate Professor at Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management and Associate Faculty at Interdisciplinary Programme in Climate Studies, IIT Bombay. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from IIT Kharagpur. Her research interest is focused on economics of pollution, economic assessment of climate change vulnerability, adaptation and mitigation options and corporate environmental sustainability. Her research involves developing different low carbon scenario in sectors, identifying cost-effective mitigation option for industry, suggesting environmental compliances measures to achieve low carbon growth. She has published her research findings in various chapters and journal papers. She is also working on climate change impact and adaptation at city and community level. Her co-authored 2017 publication in Climate and Development (Taylor & Francis) on assessing the socio-economic vulnerability of cities in India