Dr. Akarsh A

Honors & Awards

• POSTECH Initiative for Fostering Unicorn of Research & Innovation (PIURI) Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea.
• The Water Advanced Research and Innovation (WARI ) Fellowship: Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), and the Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute at the University of Nebraska (DWFI).
• Information Technology Research Academy (ITRA) Ph.D. Fellowship: under the project "Measurement to Management: Improved Water Use Efficiency and Agricultural Productivity through Experimental Sensor Network (M2M)."
• IIT Gandhinagar international travel support to attend The European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2019 in Vienna, Austria.
• American Geophysical Union(AGU) student travel grant to attend AGU fall meeting 2018 in Washington DC, USA.
• Department of Science and Technology (DST) international travel support to attend AGU fall meeting 2017 in New Orleans, USA.
• Information Technology Research Academy (ITRA) international travel support to attend AGU fall meeting 2015 in San Francisco, USA.

Publications

1. Asoka, Akarsh, Brian Wardlow, Tadesse Tsegaye, and Vimal Mishra. "A satellite-based assessment of the relative contribution of hydroclimatic variables on vegetation growth in global agricultural and non-agricultural regions.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 126, no. 5 (2021): e2020JD033228. link . [IF: 4.26]
2. Asoka, Akarsh, and Vimal Mishra. "Anthropogenic and climate contributions on the changes in terrestrial water storage in India.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres (2020):e2020JD032470. link . [IF: 4.26]
3. Asoka, Akarsh, and Vimal Mishra. "A strong linkage between seasonal crop growth and groundwater storage variability in India.” Journal of Hydrometeorology (2020). link . [IF: 3.89]
4. Asoka, Akarsh, Yoshihide Wada, Ram Fishman, and Vimal Mishra. "Strong Linkage Between Precipitation Intensity and Monsoon Season Groundwater Recharge in India.” Geophysical Research Letters 45, no. 11 (2018): 553644. link . [IF: 4.58]
5. Asoka, Akarsh, Tom Gleeson, Yoshihide Wada, and Vimal Mishra. "Relative Contribution of Monsoon Precipitation and Pumping to Changes in Groundwater Storage in India.” Nature Geoscience 10, no. 2 (2017): 109-17. link . [IF: 13.94]
6. Asoka, Akarsh, and Vimal Mishra. "Prediction of Vegetation Anomalies to Improve Food Security and Water Management in India.”  Geophysical Research Letters 42, no. 13 (2015): 52905298. link . [IF: 4.58]
7. Dangar, Swarup, Akarsh Asoka, and Vimal Mishra. ”Causes and implications of groundwater depletion in India: A review.” Journal of  Hydrology (2021): 126103. link . [IF: 5.72]
8. Mishra, Vimal, Anukesh Krishnankutti Ambika, Akarsh Asoka, Saran Aadhar, Rohini Kumar, Jonathan Buzan, and Matthew Huber ”Moist heat stress extremes in India enhanced by irrigation.” Nature Geoscience (2020). link . [IF: 13.94]
9. Mishra, Vimal,Akarsh Asoka, Kamal Vatta, and Upmanu Lall.”Groundwater Depletion and Associated CO2 Emissions in India.” Earth's Future 6, no. 12 (2018): 16721681. link . [IF: 5.78]
10. Mishra, Vimal, Saran Aadhar, Akarsh Asoka, Sivananda Pai, and Rohini Kumar. ”On the Frequency of the 2015 Monsoon Season Drought in the Indo-Gangetic Plain.” Geophysical Research Letters 43, no. 23 (2016). link . [IF: 4.58]

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Research Scholars

Educational Qualification

PhD

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Proffessional Affiliations