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Prof. Jagadish Shukla, born in a village in Ballia, Uttar Pradesh, and educated at BHU and MIT, showed that seasonal climate — such as the strength of the monsoon — can be predicted months ahead, even though day-to-day weather is chaotic. He helped set up India's National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting.
Key contributions
- Showed that seasonal climate is predictable, the basis of modern seasonal forecasts
- Founded the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)
- International Meteorological Organization Prize (2007); Padma Shri (2012)