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{{Short description|Indian meteorologist (born 1950)}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Bhupendra Nath Goswami
| image = Bhupendra Nath Goswami.jpg
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1950|8|1}}
| birth_place = Patbaushi, [[Barpeta district, Assam]], India
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| fields = {{ublist | [[Meteorology]] | [[Climatology]] }}
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[IIT Delhi]] | [[Indian Institute of Science]] | [[University of Maryland]] | [[Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory]] | [[Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology]] | [[NASA Goddard Space Flight Center]] }}
| alma_mater = {{ublist | [[Cotton College, Guwahati]] |[[Gauhati University]] | [[Physical Research Laboratory]] | [[Gujarat University]] | [[Cambridge–MIT Institute]] }}
| doctoral_advisor = {{ublist| [[Bimla Buti]]}}
| doctoral_students =
| academic_advisors = [[Jule Charney]] (postdoc advisor)<ref name="TWAS profile">{{Cite web |url=http://www.beijing.twas.org/sites/default/files/member/bng-cv-2016.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221109222251/https://www.beijing.twas.org/sites/default/files/member/bng-cv-2016.pdf |archive-date=9 November 2022 |url-status=dead |title=TWAS profile |date=2016 |publisher=The World Academy of Sciences}}</ref>
| known_for = Studies on Indian monsoon dynamics
| awards = {{ublist | 1994 [[Physical Research Laboratory|PRL]] Hari Om Ashram Prerit Vikram Sarabhai Award | 1995 [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize|S. S. Bhatnagar Prize]] | 2008 [[Indian National Science Academy|INSA]] K. R. Ramanathan Medal | 2008 [[Kamal Kumari National Award]] | 2012 [[VASVIK Industrial Research Award]] | 2019 [[Assam State Science Award]] | [[Ministry of Earth Sciences|MoES]] National Award in Atmospheric Science and Technology }}
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'''Bhupendra Nath Goswami''' (born 1950) is an Indian [[meteorologist]], climatologist, a former director of the [[Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology]] (IITM).<ref name="India should prepare to face extreme weather, warn scientists">{{Cite news |url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/india-should-prepare-to-face-extreme-weather-warn-scientists-115032400458_1.html |title=India should prepare to face extreme weather, warn scientists |date=24 March 2015 |publisher=Business Standard|newspaper=Business Standard India }}</ref> and a Pisharoty Chair Professor at the [[Indian Institute of Science Education and Research]].<ref name="TWAS profile" /> He is known for his researches on the Indian monsoon dynamics<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/content/Detail.aspx?AID=466 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2016 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref> and is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. [[Indian National Science Academy]],<ref name="Indian fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/detail.php?id=P03-1335 |title=Indian fellow |date=2016 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy |access-date=26 December 2016 |archive-date=24 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224180942/https://www.insaindia.res.in/detail.php?id=P03-1335 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Indian Academy of Sciences]],<ref name="Fellow profile">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Goswami,_Prof._Bhupendra_Nath |title=Fellow profile |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}}</ref> and the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]]<ref name="NASI fellows">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.org.in/Year%20Book%202015.pdf |title=NASI fellows |date=2016 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150806211716/http://www.nasi.org.in/Year%20Book%202015.pdf |archive-date=2015-08-06 }}</ref> as well as [[The World Academy of Sciences]].<ref name="TWAS fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://twas.org/member/goswami-bhupendra-nath |title=TWAS fellow |date=2016 |publisher=The World Academy of Sciences |access-date=26 December 2016 |archive-date=29 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170829202111/https://twas.org/member/goswami-bhupendra-nath |url-status=dead }}</ref> The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]], one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences in 1995.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx | title=View Bhatnagar Awardees | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Long link - please select award year to see details}}

== Biography ==
[[File:P R L.JPG|thumb|235px|left|Physical Research Laboratory]]
Goswami was born on 1 August 1950 at Patbaushi, a small village in [[Barpeta district]] of the [[Northeast India|northeast]] Indian state of [[Assam]],<ref name="Biography">{{Cite web |url=http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2009/doc/lectures/Bio_Bhupendra%20Nath%20GOSWAMI.pdf |title=Biography |date=2016 |publisher=Asia Oceania Geosciences Society}}</ref> completed his early schooling at local schools in 1965 and graduated in science (BSc hons) from [[Cotton College, Guwahati]] in 1969.<ref name="TWAS profile" /> His master's degree in physics came from [[Guwahati University]] in 1971 after which he did his doctoral studies at [[Physical Research Laboratory]] (PRL) under the guidance of [[Bimla Buti]] to secure a PhD from the [[Gujarat University]] in 1976 for his thesis, ''Nonlinear waves in dispersive media and current driven instabilities in magnetoplasmas''.<ref name="Former Director, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology">{{Cite web |url=http://www.tropmet.res.in/~bng/ |title=Former Director, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology}}</ref> After working for two years at PRL as a research associate, he moved to the US in 1978, where he did his post-doctoral studies at the laboratory of [[Jule Gregory Charney]] of [[Cambridge–MIT Institute]] during 1978–80.<ref name="Indian fellow" /> He continued in the US for three more years; the initial two years as a Resident Research Associate of [[National Research Council (United States)|National Research Council]] and the final year as a visiting scientist of [[Universities Space Research Association]], both the tenures based at [[NASA Goddard Space Flight Center]].<ref name="Annual Awards 2014">{{Cite web |url=http://www.moes.gov.in/writereaddata/files/National_Award_BNGoswami%20-%202014-3.pdf |title=Annual Awards 2014 |date=2016 |publisher=Ministry of Earth Sciences |access-date=26 December 2016 |archive-date=27 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227125450/http://www.moes.gov.in/writereaddata/files/National_Award_BNGoswami%20-%202014-3.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

On his return to India, Goswami joined the Centre for Atmospheric Studies of the [[Indian Institute of Technology Delhi]] as a Senior Scientific Officer in 1983 but moved to the [[Indian Institute of Science]] in 1985 at their Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences as an assistant professor.<ref name="TWAS profile" /> He served the centre until 2006, holding positions of a senior visiting research associate (1988–1989), associate professor (1992–1998), professor (1998–2005) and became the chairman of the Centre in August 2005. In between, he had various stints abroad; he served as a senior visiting research associate at the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Interactions (1988–1989) and Institute for Global Environment and Society (1998) of [[University of Maryland]], went on deputation to the International Centre For Science and High Technology of the [[United Nations Industrial Development Organization]] (UNIDO) as a consultant from July to August 1992, and had three month-long assignments at the [[University of Princeton]] as a visiting research scientist, once in 1994 and twice in 1995.<ref name="Indian fellow" /> In June 2006, he was appointed as the director of the [[Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology]] (IITM) and he stayed at the post until 2014 when he moved to the [[Indian Institute of Science Education and Research]] to hold the [[Ministry of Earth Sciences|MoES]] Pisharoty Chair Professor at the Earth and Climate Science Department of the institute. He retired from service in November 2015.<ref name="TWAS profile" />

Goswami is married to Bandana and the couple has two children, Lipika and Bikiran.<ref name="B. N. Goswami - Profile on IISc">{{Cite web |url=http://caos.iisc.ernet.in/faculty/bng/person.html |title=B. N. Goswami - Profile on IISc |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Institute of Science |access-date=26 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170426120046/http://caos.iisc.ernet.in/faculty/bng/person.html |archive-date=26 April 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The family lives in [[Pune]].<ref name="TWAS profile" />

== Legacy ==
[[File:Sstanom 199711 krig.jpg|thumb|235px|Indian Ocean Dipole]]
Goswami is known to have been the first to measure the predictability of tropical climate using coupled ocean-atmosphere system and his studies have widened the understanding of the monsoon dynamics.<ref name="Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners">{{cite web | url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | date=1999 | access-date=26 December 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043957/http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | archive-date=4 March 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref> The principal areas of his studies have been [[geophysical fluid dynamics]] and tropical air-sea interactions and he identified a ''radiative-convective-dynamical feedback mechanism for generating the northward propagating 30-50 day mode'', reported to be a first time find.<ref name="Indian fellow" /> He is also credited with the first time discovery that a ''convectively coupled gravest [[Rossby wave]] is responsible for the observed quasi-biweekly oscillation of monsoon'' and was a member of the first set of climatologists to discover the [[Indian Ocean Dipole]] along with N H Saji, [[P. N. Vinayachandran|P Vinayachandran]] and T yamagata which is a phenomenon where the temperatures alternatively oscillate between the western and eastern side of the Indian Ocean. His findings were first published in an article, ''A dipole mode in the tropical Indian Ocean'', in ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' in 1999<ref name="A dipole mode in the tropical Indian Ocean">{{Cite journal |last=N. H. Saji, B. N. Goswami, P. N. Vinayachandran, T. Yamagata |title=A dipole mode in the tropical Indian Ocean |journal=Nature |date=23 September 1999 |volume=401 |issue=6751 |pages=360–363|doi=10.1038/43854 |pmid=16862108 |bibcode=1999Natur.401..360S |s2cid=4427627 }}</ref> and the article has a citation count of over 2405.<ref name="Annual Awards 2014" /> His work on the monsoon intraseasonal oscillations<ref name="Intraseasonal Oscillations and Interannual Variability of the Indian Summer Monsoon">{{Cite journal |last=B. N. Goswami, R. S. Ajaya Mohan |title=Intraseasonal Oscillations and Interannual Variability of the Indian Summer Monsoon |journal= Journal of Climate|volume=14 |issue=6 |pages=1180–1198 |date=6 May 1999 |doi=10.1175/1520-0442(2001)014<1180:IOAIVO>2.0.CO;2|citeseerx=10.1.1.484.3901 |s2cid=55529597 |issn=1520-0442 }}</ref> for quantifying the seasonal mean monsoon assisted in the development of an extended range prediction system.<ref name="Annual Awards 2014" />

Goswami's studies have been detailed in several peer-reviewed articles;<ref name="Browse by Fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Goswami=3ABhupendra_Nath=3A=3A.html |title=Browse by Fellow |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Please see ''Selected bibliography'' section}} [[ResearchGate]] and [[Google Scholar]], two online repositories of scientific articles, have listed 223<ref name="On ResearchGate">{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/B_N_Goswami/publications |title=On ResearchGate |date=2016 }}</ref> and 323 of them respectively.<ref name="On Google Scholar">{{Cite web |url=https://scholar.google.ae/citations?user=RPDTZXsAAAAJ&hl=en |title=On Google Scholar |date=2016 |publisher=Google Scholar}}</ref> He has also mentored 10 scholars in their studies of which five were doctoral researchers.<ref name="Biography" /> He headed the ''Monsoon Mission of India'' project constituted by the [[Ministry of Earth Sciences]] for improving the forecast of seasonal and intra-seasonal monsoon<ref name="Annual Awards 2014" /> and has participated in many workshops on climatology including the Media Workshop on Climate Change organized by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in 2009.<ref name="India's monsoon at risk from Greenland's melting ice">{{Cite web |url=http://www.scidev.net/global/earth-science/news/india-s-monsoon-at-risk-from-greenland-s-melting-i.html |title=India's monsoon at risk from Greenland's melting ice |date=2 September 2009 |publisher=SciDevNet}}</ref> He was involved in several projects of various government agencies such as the [[Department of Science and Technology (India)|Department of Science and Technology]], [[National Disaster Management Authority (India)|National Disaster Management Authority]], Science and Engineering Research Council and Indian Climate Research Programme and was associated with the [[World Climate Research Programme]] as a member of their National Committee (1995–97) and the CLIVAR Monsoon Panel (1999–2002).<ref name="TWAS profile" /> He sat in the science education panel (2004–06) and the council (2010–12) of the Indian Academy of Sciences and served as the secretary of the [[Indian Meteorological Society]] during 1996–2000 where he is a life member. He is also a member of the [[American Meteorological Society]] and has served as a member of the editorial boards of science journals such as [[Current Science]], Mausam, [[International Journal of Climatology]] and Planet Earth.<ref name="TWAS profile" />

== Awards and honors ==
Goswami received the Om Ashram Prerit Vikram Sarabhai Award of the [[Physical Research Laboratory]] in 1994<ref name="Awards/Recognitions/Affiliations">{{Cite web |url=http://caos.iisc.ernet.in/faculty/bng/awards.html |title=Awards/Recognitions/Affiliations |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Institute of Science |access-date=26 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170426084641/http://caos.iisc.ernet.in/faculty/bng/awards.html |archive-date=26 April 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and the [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]], one of the highest Indian science awards in 1995.<ref name="Earth Sciences">{{Cite web |url=http://www.csir.res.in/External/Heads/career/award/BPRIZE/Earth_SCIENCES.htm |title=Earth Sciences |date=2016 |publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303200915/http://www.csir.res.in/external/heads/career/award/BPRIZE/Earth_SCIENCES.htm |archive-date=2016-03-03 }}</ref> He received two major awards in 2008, the
Kalpathi Ramakrishna Ramanathan Medal of the Indian National Science Academy<ref name="The Kalpathi Ramakrishna Ramanathan Medal">{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/recipients.php#1113 |title=The Kalpathi Ramakrishna Ramanathan Medal |date=2016 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy |access-date=26 December 2016 |archive-date=16 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916233840/http://insaindia.res.in/recipients.php#1113 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and the [[Kamal Kumari National Award]].<ref name="Kamal Kumari National Award 2008">{{Cite web |url=http://www.e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=25..210409.apr09 |title=Kamal Kumari National Award 2008 |date=20 April 2009 |publisher=E-Pao}}</ref> He received the 24th Silver Jubilee Award of the [[Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology]] in 2011<ref name="Honors on IITM">{{Cite web |url=http://www.tropmet.res.in/Awards-9-Page |title=Honors on IITM |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology}}</ref> and the [[VASVIK Industrial Research Award]] in 2012.<ref name="VASVIK Award">{{Cite web |url=http://www.vasvik.org/Environmental_Sciences_%26_Technology.html |title=VASVIK Award |date=2016 |publisher=Vividhlaxi Audyogik Samshodhan Vikas Kendra |access-date=26 December 2016 |archive-date=15 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210515070630/http://vasvik.org/Environmental_Sciences_%26_Technology.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The Ministry of Earth Sciences awarded him the National Award in Atmospheric Science and Technology in 2014.<ref name="National Award in Atmospheric Science & Technology">{{Cite web |url=http://www.moes.gov.in/content/prof-bhupendra-nath-goswami |title=National Award in Atmospheric Science & Technology |date=2016 |publisher=Ministry of Earth Sciences }}{{Dead link|date=October 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name="Awards (Archive)">{{Cite web |url=http://dod.nic.in/awards/archive?theme=moes_orange |title=Awards (Archive) |date=2016 |publisher=Ministry of Earth Sciences }}{{Dead link|date=June 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The Indian Academy of Sciences elected Goswami as its fellow in 1996<ref name="Fellow profile" /> and the other two major Indian science academies, the National Academy of Sciences, India<ref name="NASI fellows" /> and the Indian National Science Academy, followed suit in 2000 and 2003 respectively.<ref name="Indian fellow" /> He became a fellow of [[The World Academy of Sciences]] in 2009.<ref name="TWAS fellow" /> He is a founding Fellow of the Physics Academy of the North East (FPANE).<ref name="Fellows of PANE">{{cite web |title=Fellows of PANE |url=https://www.paneindia.org/pane-fellows |access-date=10 December 2025}}</ref> He has also delivered several award orations including the Professor K. R. Ramanathan Memorial lecture of 2014.<ref name="K. R. Ramanathan Memorial lecture">{{Cite web |url=http://www.igu.in/lectures.htm |title=K. R. Ramanathan Memorial lecture |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Geophysical Union}}</ref>

== Selected bibliography ==
* {{Cite journal |author1=Chattopadhyay, R. |author2=Sahai, A. K. |author3=Goswami, Bhupendra Nath |title=Objective identification of nonlinear convectively coupled phases of monsoon intraseasonal oscillation: implications for prediction |journal=Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences |date=2008 |volume=65 |issue=5 |pages=1549–1569 |doi=10.1175/2007JAS2474.1|citeseerx=10.1.1.331.2105 |bibcode=2008JAtS...65.1549C }}
* {{Cite journal |author1=Chattopadhyay, R. |author2=Goswami, Bhupendra Nath |author3=Sahai, A. K. |author4=Fraedrich, K. |title=Role of stratiform rainfall in modifying the northward propagation of monsoon intraseasonal oscillation |journal=Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres |date=2009 |volume=114 |issue=D19 |pages=D19114 |doi=10.1029/2009JD011869|bibcode=2009JGRD..11419114C |doi-access=free }}
* {{Cite journal |author1=Mukhopadhyay, P. |author2=Taraphdar, S. |author3=Goswami, B. N. |author4=Krishnakumar, K. |title=Indian summer monsoon precipitation climatology in a high-resolution regional climate model: impacts of convective parameterization on systematic biases |journal=Weather and Forecasting |date=2010 |volume=25 |issue=2 |pages=369–387 |doi=10.1175/2009WAF2222320.1 |bibcode=2010WtFor..25..369M |url=http://moeseprints.incois.gov.in/798/1/Indian%20Summer%20Monsoon.pdf }}{{Dead link|date=October 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
* {{Cite journal |author1=Mujumdar, M. |author2=Salunke, K. |author3=Suryachandra Rao, A. |author4=Ravichandran, M. |author5=Goswami, B. N. |title=Diurnal cycle induced amplification of sea surface temperature Intraseasonal oscillations over the Bay of Bengal in summer monsoon season |journal=IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters |date=2011 |volume=82 |issue=2 |pages=206–210 |doi=10.1109/LGRS.2010.2060183|bibcode=2011IGRSL...8..206M |s2cid=18209765 }}
* {{Cite journal |author1=Saha, Subodh Kumar |author2=Halder, Subhadeep |author3=Suryachandra Rao, A. |author4=Goswami, B. N. |title=Modulation of ISOs by land-atmosphere feedback and contribution to the interannual variability of Indian summer monsoon |journal=Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres |volume=117 |issue=D13 |date=2012 |pages=n/a |doi=10.1029/2011JD017291|bibcode=2012JGRD..11713101S |doi-access=free }}

== See also ==
* [[Monsoon of South Asia]]
* [[Indian Monsoon Current]]
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== Notes ==
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Cite web |url=http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/08/indian-monsoon-disappoints.html |title=Indian monsoon disappoints |date=8 August 2012 |publisher=Nature |access-date=26 December 2016 |archive-date=27 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927051323/http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/08/indian-monsoon-disappoints.html |url-status=dead }}
* {{Cite journal |title=Studies show increasing monsoon variability, intensity |journal = Nature India|date=3 July 2015 |doi=10.1038/nindia.2015.88 }}
* {{Cite web |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21829233-300-indian-flood-deaths-blamed-on-mindless-construction/ |title=Indian flood deaths blamed on 'mindless' construction |date=26 June 2013 |publisher=New Scientist}}

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