Hi, I'm Sagar Pokale!

Meteorology Researcher

Research Intrest

Climate Extremes

Tropical meteorology and climatology, with special focus on extreme events

Climate Change

Climate Change related to anthropogenic activity and future climate change.

Weather Extremes

Particularly interested in cold and snowy spells, heatwaves and extreme convective events.

Cloud Microphysics

Performing and analysing on field Cloud seeding operations.

Work Experience

Feb 2024 - Present

Doctoral Researcher

Meteorological Institute, University of Bonn,

Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

July 2020 - Jan 2024

Project Engineer

Centre for Development in Advanced Computing

Pune, Maharashtra, India

June 2019 - June 2020

Meteorologist

Kyathi Climate Modification Consultants LLP

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Education

2017 - 2019

Master of Technology : Atmospheric Science

Department of Atmospheric and Space Sciences,

Savitribai Phule Pune University,

Pune, Maharashtra, India

2012 - 2016

Bachelor of Engineering : Mechanical Engineering

Bhivrabai Sawant College of Engineeirng & Research

Pune, Maharashtra, India

2011 - 2012

Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSC)

S.V. Union High School and Junior College,

Pune, Maharashtra, India

2009 - 2010

Secondary School Certificate (SSC)

Jawahar Navoday Vidyalaya

Beed, Maharashtra, India

Software Skills

WRF-ARW Model
73%
Fortran
90%
Python
35%
C-Language
70%
HTML/CSS/JAVASCRIPT
60%
TITAN
80%
RAOB/Bufkit19
45%
Grads
83%
NCAR Command Language (NCL)
80%
CDO
95%

Project and Publications

Masters Thesis

2019 :

    Title : "Present and future aspects of Indian summer monsoon rainfall extremes using consortium of CMIP5 and CORDEX models"

Publications

2024 :

  1. Kale, Manish P., et al. "Operational Forest-Fire Spread Forecasting Using the WRF-SFIRE Model." Remote Sensing 16.13 (2024): 2480.   https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16132480

2023 :

  1. Valappil V K, et al. "Assessing the performance of WRF ARW model in simulating heavy rainfall events over the Pune region: in support of operational applications." Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics (2023): 2-16.   https://doi.org/10.1007/s00703-023-00952-7

2021 :

  1. Kaginalkar Akshara, et al. "Integrated urban environmental system of systems for weather ready cities in India." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (2021): 1-1.   https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0279.1

Personal Details

Date of Birth : 25th July
Nationality : INDIAN
Gender : Male
Language : English, Hindi, Marathi (Mother tongue)

Portfolio

Maharashtra Cloud Seeding Project 2019

Weather Extremes (City Weather)

Contact

Email
[email protected]