Professional Activities
Shukla's contributions to the understanding of the predictability of weather and climate include the Asian monsoon dynamics, deforestation and desertification. He is the author or co-author of over 150 scientific papers.
He helped found weather and climate research centers in India and was the founding scientific leader at the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF) in New Delhi. He has also established research institutions in Brazil, Italy, and the USA.
He has been associated with the World Climate Research Programme since its inception and was involved in their Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere program (TOGA), the first coupled atmosphere-ocean initiative. Since 2001, he has been a member of its Joint Scientific Committee and chair of its Modelling Panel.
He founded and directed the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, which aims to improve understanding of climate variability and predictability on intraseasonal to decadal time scales within a changing climate.
He is a Distinguished University Professor at George Mason University, USA, and chair of the Climate Dynamics department.
He was a founder member of the weather and climate research group at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy and led the group's activities until 1997.
He has established Gandhi College in his village for education of rural students especially women.
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