Mr. Saurabh Bhardwaj, The Energy and Resources Institute 1.

Personal details Name: Date of Birth: Nationality: Sex:

Mr. Saurabh Bhardwaj 10 November 1981 Indian Male

2. Profile Mr. Saurabh Bhardwaj is Associate Fellow, Earth Science and Climate Change Division at TERI. His specializations are in the field of coupled ocean atmosphere modeling, high resolution regional modeling, Indian summer monsoon and its variability, climate change studies including extreme events pertaining to meteorological parameters. Apart from above his past experience have given him expertise on parallel processing architecture, machine benchmarking, bug fixing and model code porting. 3. Qualifications M.Tech (2006) in Atmospheric Sciences from Pune University. M.Sc (2004), in Space Sciences from Pune University. B.Sc (2002) in Physics (Hons.) from Delhi University.

4. Professional experience June 2010 till date: Adjunct Faculty at TERI University, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi. August 2009 till date: Associate Fellow at the Centre for Global and Environmental Research, Earth Science and Climate Change Division, The Energy Resource Institute, New Delhi September 2008 July 2009: Scientific Application Developer, R&D wing, CGGVeritas Services India Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai, India September 2006 August 2008: Member technical Staff, Computational Atmospheric Sciences, Scientific & Engineering Computing Group, Centre for Development of Advance Computing (C-DAC), Pune, India

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Trainings/Presentations/Honours/awards Invited Lecture on "Science of Climate Change" at IAS training Workshop,TERI, October 2011. Presented Lecture on Unix concepts and took hands on activities at TERI-BCCR Climate Research School, October 2011. Poster presentation at NorWRF International Workshop at BCCR Norway, Sept 2011. Training on Earth System Modeling at BCCR, Bergen Norway, May, 2011.10.18 Training and paper presentation at WRF Lecture Series at the Bjerknes Centre, 2010, Norway. Invited lecture on Importance of high resolution climate modeling over Indian region at national workshop organized by Government of Kerala, Trivandrum, 2010. Invited lecture on Physical Science behind Climate Change at IFS mid career training workshop, Dehradun, 2010. Participation and lecture in NANSEN winter school on Indian Ocean Challenges in Meteorology and Oceanography at Cochin, 2010 Pune University 1st in the department from 2002-2006. Scholarship award during M.Sc 2002-2004.

6. Selected recent publications and articles Veldore, V., Mesquita, M.d.S., Lunde, T.M., Bhardwaj, S. and Jansen, E. (2011) Sensitivity Studies to Assess the Representation of Rainfall and Temperature over India using the WRF model in a Tropical Channel Setup. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2011, Vol. 13, Vienna, Austria. Abstract EGU2011-8991. Mesquita, M.d.S., Veldore, V., Bhadwal, S., Jansen, E , Bhardwaj, S., and Machineni, N., An Indo-Norwegian Research Collaboration on Climate Change, American Geophysical Union Research letters, Vol 5 issue 1, March 2011. P. Ernest Raj and Saurabh Bhardwaj, Spatial Variation of aerosol mode radius from satellite based atmospheric extinction measurements, Pollution Research, 24 (3), 499 504, 2005.