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&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Uma Charan Mohanty&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (born 1948) is an Indian  [[meteorologist]] and an emeritus professor at the School of Earth, Ocean and Climate Sciences of the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar]].&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Timid bay cyclone kills more than tough pacific hurricane&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite web |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/odisha/2016/dec/18/timid-bay-cyclone-kills-more-than-tough-pacific-hurricane-1550442.html |title=Timid bay cyclone kills more than tough pacific hurricane |date=18 December 2016 |newspaper=Indian Express}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Odisha to Bear Brunt of Extreme Weather: Experts&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite web |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/odisha/2015/dec/28/odisha-to-bear-brunt-of-extreme-weather-experts-861620.html |title=Odisha to Bear Brunt of Extreme Weather: Experts |date=28 December 2015 |newspaper=Indian Express}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; He is the president of Odisha Bigyan Academy&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;National Energy Conservation Day – 2013&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite web |url=http://orissabigyanacademy.nic.in/(S(3gfnb5zt1jqmpo45stsuy255))/capital_high_school.html |title=National Energy Conservation Day – 2013 |date=2013 |publisher=Odisha Bigyan Academy |access-date=24 December 2016 |archive-date=25 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161225080558/http://orissabigyanacademy.nic.in/(S(3gfnb5zt1jqmpo45stsuy255))/capital_high_school.html |url-status=dead }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Interactive Meet of Students and Science Teachers with Scientists to Develop Scientific Temper&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite web |url=http://orissabigyanacademy.nic.in/(S(3gfnb5zt1jqmpo45stsuy255))/govt_high_school.html |title=Interactive Meet of Students and Science Teachers with Scientists to Develop Scientific Temper |date=2014 |publisher=Odisha Bigyan Academy }}{{Dead link|date=September 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and is known for his researches on the Indian summer monsoon.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Brief Profile of the Awardee&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/content/Detail.aspx?AID=193 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2016 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=12 November 2016}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Besides being an elected fellow of the [[Indian Geophysical Union]], he is also an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. [[Indian National Science Academy]],&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Indian fellow&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/detail.php?id=P15-1686 |title=Indian fellow |date=2016 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy |access-date=24 December 2016 |archive-date=2 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210502193849/https://www.insaindia.res.in/detail.php?id=P15-1686 |url-status=dead }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; [[Indian Academy of Sciences]],&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Fellow profile&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Mohanty,_Prof._Uma_Charan |title=Fellow profile |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]].&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;NASI fellows&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.org.in/Year%20Book%202015.pdf |title=NASI fellows |date=2016 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India |access-date=24 December 2016 |archive-date=6 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150806211716/http://www.nasi.org.in/Year%20Book%202015.pdf |url-status=dead }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; 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 1993.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;View Bhatnagar Awardees&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{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}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;{{Refn|group=note|Long link - please select award year to see details}}&lt;br /&gt;
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== Biography ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Master Plan of IIT Bhubaneswar Main Building.jpg|thumb|235px|left|IIT Bhubaneswar Main Building]]&lt;br /&gt;
U. C. Mohanty, born on 29 June 1948 in the Indian state of [[Odisha]], graduated in science from [[Utkal University]] in 1969 and completed his master&amp;#039;s degree in physics from the same university in 1971.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Prof. U. C. Mohanty - Faculty profile&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite web |url=http://www.iitbbs.ac.in/faculty/iit_1381289705.pdf |title=Prof. U. C. Mohanty - Faculty profile |date=2016 |publisher=IIT Bhubaneswar}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Subsequently, he enrolled for his doctoral studies at [[Hydrometeorological Centre of Russia]] and obtained a PhD in [[Tropical meteorology]] in 1978.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Prof. U. C. Mohanty on IIT BBS&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite web |url=http://www.iitbbs.ac.in/profile.php/ucmohanty |title=Prof. U. C. Mohanty on IIT BBS |date=2016 |publisher=IIT Bhubaneswar}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Returning to India, he started his career at the [[Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar]] (IIT BBS) as a senior scientific officer, a post he held till 1992 when he was sent on deputation to the [[Department of Science and Technology (India)|Department of Science and Technology]] as the joint director and head of the Research Division for a three-year term. On completion of his deputation, he returned to IIT BBS but stayed there only for three more years and joined the [[Indian Institute of Technology Delhi]] (IITD) in 1998 as a professor at the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences. In 1998, he assumed the directorship of the Centre and served as a Higher Academic Grade (HAG) professor till his superannuation in 2013. On retirement, he returned to IIT BBS as a visiting professor and holds the rank of an emeritus professor.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Prof. U. C. Mohanty - Faculty profile&amp;quot; /&amp;gt; Since 2013, he has also been heading the Odisha Bigyan Academy as its president.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Prof. U. C. Mohanty on IIT BBS&amp;quot; /&amp;gt; He is also a former visiting scientist at the Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre, Thailand&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Ignored warnings &amp;#039;worsened&amp;#039; Myanmar cyclone disaster&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite web |url=https://www.scidev.net/global/policy/news/ignored-warnings-worsened-myanmar-cyclone-disaster.html |title=Ignored warnings &amp;#039;worsened&amp;#039; Myanmar cyclone disaster |date=2008 |publisher=SciDeNet}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and is a faculty member at the University Network for Climate and Ecosystems Change Adaptation Research (UN-CECAR) of the United Nations.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Visiting Faculty UC Mohanty&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite web |url=http://cecar.unu.edu/courses/people/uc-mohanty |title=Visiting Faculty UC Mohanty |date=2016 |publisher=University Network for Climate and Ecosystems Change Adaptation Research }}{{Dead link|date=September 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Legacy ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Aug2011monsoon.JPG|thumb|235px|Monsoon over India]]&lt;br /&gt;
Mohanty is known to have done extensive research on Indian summer monsoon  and his studies have assisted in widening the understanding of the phenomena.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{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}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; He developed several numerical models and simulations for weather prediction and his experiments helped predict tropical cyclones, rainfall events, thunderstorms and snow storms in the region.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;UC Mohanty on UN-CESAR - faculty profile&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite web |url=http://s3.isp.unu.edu/groups/cecarweb/wiki/e7b61/UC_Mohanty.html |title=UC Mohanty on UN-CESAR - faculty profile |date=2016 |publisher=University Network for Climate and Ecosystems Change Adaptation Research }}{{Dead link|date=September 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; He overseas a team of researchers engaged in the study of coastal inundation with a view to develop Land-Ocean-Atmospheric Modelling System for predicting extreme weather events.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;IIT-B working with US scientists to predict storm surge&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite web |url=http://www.ptinews.com/news/8213398_IIT-B-working-with-US-scientists-to-predict-storm-surge.html |title=IIT-B working with US scientists to predict storm surge |date=23 December 2016 |publisher=Press Trust of India}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; His studies have been detailed in several peer-reviewed articles;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Browse by Fellow&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite web |url=https://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Mohanty=3AUma_Charan=3A=3A.html |title=Browse by Fellow |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;{{Refn|group=note|Please see &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Selected bibliography&amp;#039;&amp;#039; section}} [[ResearchGate]] and [[Google Scholar]], two online repositories of scientific articles, have listed 270&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;On ResearchGate&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/U_C_Mohanty |title=On ResearchGate |date=2016 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and 323 of them respectively.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;On Google Scholar&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite web |url=https://scholar.google.ae/citations?user=RPDTZXsAAAAJ&amp;amp;hl=en |title=On Google Scholar |date=2016 |publisher=Google Scholar}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; He has also co-edited a book, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Monitoring and Prediction of Tropical Cyclones in the Indian Ocean and Climate Change&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, published by [[Springer Science+Business Media]] in 2013.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;MohantyMohapatra2013&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author1=U.C. Mohanty|author2=M. Mohapatra|author3=O.P. Singh, B.K. Bandyopadhyay, L.S. Rathore|title=Monitoring and Prediction of Tropical Cyclones in the Indian Ocean and Climate Change|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JhLHBAAAQBAJ|date=12 October 2013|publisher=Springer Science &amp;amp; Business Media|isbn=978-94-007-7720-0}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; He has edited the book, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Advanced Numerical Modelling and Data Assimilation Techniques for Tropical Cyclone Prediction&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, published by [[Springer Science+Business Media]] in 2016.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;MohantyGopalakrishnan2016&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author1=U.C. Mohanty|author2=Sundararaman G. Gopalakrishnan|title=Advanced Numerical Modelling and Data Assimilation Techniques for Tropical Cyclone Prediction|date=21 November 2016 |publisher=Springer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4YyPDQAAQBAJ|isbn=978-9402408966}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Mohanty is a member of the Core Group on Floods of the [[National Disaster Management Authority (India)|National Disaster Management Authority]]&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Core Group on Floods&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite web |url=http://ndma.gov.in/en/about-ndma/budget/20-media-public-awareness/natural-disaster/floods/58-groups-and-subgroups.html |title=Core Group on Floods |date=2016 |publisher=National Disaster Management Authority}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; as well as the Scientific Review and Monitoring Committee (SRMC) of the [[Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology]];&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Scientific Review and Monitoring Committee (SRMC)&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite web |url=https://www.tropmet.res.in/monsoon/files/srmc.php |title=Scientific Review and Monitoring Committee (SRMC) |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; he was among the organizers of the National Symposium on Tropical Meteorology (TROPMET-2016) at the [[Siksha O Anusandhan University]] during 19–23 December 2016.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Bay of Bengal witnessed 500 cyclones in 125 years&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite web |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2016/dec/18/bay-of-bengal-witnessed-500-cyclones-in-125-years-1550500.html |title=Bay of Bengal witnessed 500 cyclones in 125 years |date=18 December 2016 |newspaper=Indian Express}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; He was also involved in the organization of the 22nd State Level National Children&amp;#039;s Science Congress held at [[KIIT International School]] in 2014 where he served as a judge of the congress.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;22nd State Level National Children&amp;#039;s Science Congress - 2014&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite web |url=http://kiit-is.org/imgcsc9_11_2014.php |title=22nd State Level National Children&amp;#039;s Science Congress - 2014 |date=2014 |publisher=KIIT International School |access-date=24 December 2016 |archive-date=30 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171230230806/http://kiit-is.org/imgcsc9_11_2014.php |url-status=dead }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; He is known to have made over 45 international visits&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Prof. U. C. Mohanty on IIT BBS&amp;quot; /&amp;gt; and has delivered plenary or invited addresses at several conferences and seminars including the lecture on &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Numerical Simulation of Track and Intensity of Orissa Super Cyclone-1999&amp;#039;&amp;#039; at the 5th International Conference on Information Technology in 2002,&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;5th International Conference on Information Technology&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite web |url=https://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~snaik//CIT02/cit02-advprg.pdf |title=5th International Conference on Information Technology |date=2002 |publisher=Orissa Information Technology Society}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; the seminar on &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Numerical Modeling of Land Surface Processes for Improved-Simulation of Extreme Weather Events over the Indian Region&amp;#039;&amp;#039; of 2014&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;HRD seminar&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite web |url=https://noaahrd.wordpress.com/2014/06/20/hrd-seminar-prof-u-c-mohanty-india-institute-of-technology-iit-bhubaneswar-odisha-india-18-june-2014/ |title=HRD seminar |date=2014 |publisher=Hurricane Research Division}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and the &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Colloquium on Recent Developments in Prediction of Tropical Cyclone and Associated Coastal Hazards&amp;#039;&amp;#039; of 2016,&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Colloquium on Recent Developments in Prediction of Tropical Cyclone and Associated Coastal Hazards&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite web |url=http://tropmet2016.org/downloads/Colloquium_on_TC%26CH_Brochure.pdf |title=Colloquium on Recent Developments in Prediction of Tropical Cyclone and Associated Coastal Hazards |date=2016 |publisher=TROPMET |access-date=24 December 2016 |archive-date=25 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161225082646/http://tropmet2016.org/downloads/Colloquium_on_TC%26CH_Brochure.pdf |url-status=dead }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; both held at IIT Bhubaneswar, and the &amp;#039;&amp;#039;National Workshop on GPS RO Techniques and Applications&amp;#039;&amp;#039; of 2015 held at [[SRM Institute of Science and Technology]].&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;National Workshop on GPS RO Techniques and Applications&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite web |url=http://srmuniv.ac.in/downloads/invitation_gps_ro_workshop.pdf |title=National Workshop on GPS RO Techniques and Applications |date=2015 |publisher=SRM Institute of Science and Technology |access-date=24 December 2016 |archive-date=18 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150318041853/http://www.srmuniv.ac.in/downloads/invitation_gps_ro_workshop.pdf |url-status=dead }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Awards and honours ==&lt;br /&gt;
Mohanty received the Prof. M. G. Deshpande Award in 1984,&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Prof. U. C. Mohanty - Faculty profile&amp;quot; /&amp;gt; followed by the 12th MAUSAM Award of the &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Mausam&amp;#039;&amp;#039; journal of the [[India Meteorological Department]] in 1989 and the Silver Jubilee Award of the Aeronautics Research and Development Board in 1996.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;AR &amp;amp; DB Silver Jubilee Award&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite web |url=http://www.oits.org/cit2002/fcfp02.html |title=AR &amp;amp; DB Silver Jubilee Award |date=2002 |publisher=Orissa Information Technology Society}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The Odisha Bigyan Academy presented him the Samanta Chandra Sekhar Award in 1999&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Details of the Previous Winners&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite web |url=http://orissabigyanacademy.nic.in/(S(jady00nncb3uae45galwvije))/award_scs_prv_winner.html |title=Details of the Previous Winners |date=2016 |publisher=Odisha Bigyan Academy |access-date=24 December 2016 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023441/http://orissabigyanacademy.nic.in/(S(jady00nncb3uae45galwvije))/award_scs_prv_winner.html |url-status=dead }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and the [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]], one of the highest Indian science awards in 1993.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Earth Sciences&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{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 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; He received the Sir Gilbert Walker Gold Medal of the Walker Institute, UK in 2009,&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Monitoring and Prediction of Tropical Cyclones in the Indian Ocean and Climate Change&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JhLHBAAAQBAJ&amp;amp;pg=PR9 |title=Monitoring and Prediction of Tropical Cyclones in the Indian Ocean and Climate Change |last1=U.C. Mohanty |last2=M. Mohapatra |last3=O.P. Singh, B.K. Bandyopadhyay, L.S. Rathore |date=12 October 2013 |publisher=Springer Science &amp;amp; Business Media |isbn=978-94-007-7720-0 |pages=9– }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; the National Award in Atmospheric Science and Technology of the [[Ministry of Earth Sciences]] in 2013.,&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Prof. U C Mohanty has received Ministry of Earth Science (MoES) Life Time Excellence Award&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite web |url=http://www.iitbbs.ac.in/news.php?id=212 |title=Prof. U C Mohanty has received Ministry of Earth Science (MoES) Life Time Excellence Award |date=2013 |publisher=IIT Bhubaneswar}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Biju Patnaik Award for Scientific Excellence in 2017.,&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Prof. U C Mohanty has received Biju Patnaik Award for Scientific Excellence&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite web |url=http://www.iitbbs.ac.in/news.php?id=212 |title=Prof. U C Mohanty has received Biju Patnaik Award for Scientific Excellence |date=2017 |publisher=IIT Bhubaneswar}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Faculty Research Award in 2017-18.,&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Prof. U C Mohanty has received Faculty Research Award&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite web |url=http://www.iitbbs.ac.in/news.php?id=212 |title=Prof. U C Mohanty has received Faculty Research Award |date=2017–18 |publisher=IIT Bhubaneswar}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Odisha Citizens Award in Education in 2018.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Prof. U C Mohanty has received Odisha Citizens Award in Education in 2018&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite web |url=http://www.iitbbs.ac.in/news.php?id=212 |title=Prof. U C Mohanty has received Odisha Citizens Award in Education |date=2018 |publisher=IIT Bhubaneswar}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The Indian Academy of Sciences elected Mohanty as its fellow in 1993&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Fellow profile&amp;quot; /&amp;gt; and the other two major Indian science academies, the National Academy of Sciences, India&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;NASI fellows&amp;quot; /&amp;gt; and the Indian National Science Academy, followed suit in 1997 and 2014 respectively.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Indian fellow&amp;quot; /&amp;gt; In between, he was elected by the [[Indian Meteorological Society]]  (1999), [[Indian National Academy of Engineering]] (2010)&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;INAE fellows&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite web |url=http://inae.in/search-of-fellows/ |title=INAE fellows |date=2016 |publisher=Indian National Academy of Engineering |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403030936/http://inae.in/search-of-fellows/ |archive-date=2015-04-03 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and [[Indian Geophysical Union]] (2010) as their fellows.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Prof. U. C. Mohanty Awards&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite web |url=http://www.iitbbs.ac.in/profile.php/ucmohanty/#menu1 |title=Prof. U. C. Mohanty Awards |date=2016 |publisher=IIT Bhubaneswar}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; He also held the Senior Associate-ship of the [[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]] during 2002–09.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Prof. U. C. Mohanty - Faculty profile&amp;quot; /&amp;gt; Prof U. C. Mohanty elected as President, Odisha Bigyan Academy [[Odisha Bigyan Academy]] during 2013-2015.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Selected bibliography ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Books ===&lt;br /&gt;
* {{cite book|author1=U.C. Mohanty|author2=M. Mohapatra|author3=O.P. Singh, B.K. Bandyopadhyay, L.S. Rathore|title=Monitoring and Prediction of Tropical Cyclones in the Indian Ocean and Climate Change|date=12 October 2013|publisher=Springer Science &amp;amp; Business Media|isbn=978-94-007-7720-0}}&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Articles ===&lt;br /&gt;
* {{Cite journal |author1=Victor N. Mansfield |author2=John B. Carlson |author3=Gabriella Eichinger Ferro-Luzzi |author3-link=Gabriella Eichinger Ferro-Luzzi |author4=H. J. Eysenck |author5=Uma Charan Mohanty |author6=Balaji Mundkur |author7=Karl A. Wipf |title=Mandalas and Mesoamerican Pecked Circles [and Comments and Reply] |journal=Current Anthropology |date=June 1981 |volume=22 |issue=3 |pages=269–284 |doi=10.1086/202664|s2cid=162758590 }}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{Cite journal |author1=Prasad, K. |author2=Dash, S. K. |author3=Mohanty, U. C. |title=A logistic regression approach for monthly rainfall forecasts in meteorological subdivisions of India based on DEMETER retrospective forecasts |journal=International Journal of Climatology |date=2010 |volume=30 |issue=10 |pages=1577–1588 |doi=10.1002/joc.2019|bibcode=2010IJCli..30.1577P |s2cid=129498155 }}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{Cite journal |author1=Dash, S. K. |author2=Nair, Archana Anil |author3=Kulkarni, Makarand A. |author4=Mohanty, U. C. |title=Characteristic changes in the long and short spells of different rain intensities in India |journal=Theoretical and Applied Climatology |date=2011 |volume=105 |issue=3–4 |pages=563–570 |doi=10.1007/s00704-011-0416-x|bibcode=2011ThApC.105..563D |s2cid=122264919 }}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{Cite journal |author1=Osuri, Krishna K. |author2=Mohanty, U. C. |author3=Routray, A. |author4=Kulkarni, Makarand A. |author5=Mohapatra, M. |title=Customization of WRF-ARW model with physical parameterization schemes for the simulation of tropical cyclones over North Indian Ocean |journal=Natural Hazards |date=2012|volume=63 |issue=3 |pages=1337–1359 |doi=10.1007/s11069-011-9862-0|bibcode=2012NatHa..63.1337O |s2cid=129824186 }}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{Cite journal |author1=Nair, Archana |author2=Mohanty, U. C. |author3=Acharya, Nachiketa |title=Monthly prediction of rainfall over India and its homogeneous zones during monsoon season: a supervised principal component regression approach on general circulation model products |journal=Theoretical and Applied Climatology |date=2013 |volume=111 |issue=1–2 |pages=327–339 |doi=10.1007/s00704-012-0660-8|bibcode=2013ThApC.111..327N |s2cid=122723011 }}&lt;br /&gt;
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== See also ==&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Monsoon of South Asia]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Indian Monsoon Current]]&lt;br /&gt;
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* {{Cite web |url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/bay-of-bengal-witnessed-500-cyclones-in-125-years-professor-at-climate-change-conferene-4432957/ |title=Bay of Bengal witnessed 500 cyclones in 125 years: Professor at climate change conferene [Sic] |date=18 December 2016 |newspaper=The Indian Express}}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTDDO79XRdw |title=Meso-scale modeling of extreme weather events in tropics - lecture 1 |last=U.C. Mohanty |date=11 August 2013 |publisher=International Centre for Theoretical Sciences |work=Lecture - [[YouTube]] video}}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{Cite web |url=https://www.iitsystem.ac.in/Externalpeer-uploads/c02c5181cf3e3b5.pdf |title=A Report for Internal Review |date=2014 |publisher=IIT Delhi |work=Centre for Atmospheric Sciences - Annual Report }}{{Dead link|date=September 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}&lt;br /&gt;
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