11 Facts About Sulochana Gadgil

Sulochana Gadgil is an Indian meteorologist who retired as Professor from the Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences in Bangalore, India.

Sulochana Gadgil has studied the how and why of monsoon, including farming strategies to cope with rainfall variability and modeling ecological and evolutionary phenomena.

Sulochana Gadgil's research led to the discovery of a basic feature of the sub-seasonal variation in the monsoon cloud bands.

Sulochana Gadgil demonstrated that the monsoon is not a gigantic land-sea breeze but instead is a manifestation of the seasonal migration of a planetary scale system which is seen over non-monsoonal regions as well.

Sulochana Gadgil did her early schooling in Pune, in the Marathi medium.

Sulochana Gadgil then went on for high-school education in English to Rishi Valley, a boarding school in Andhra Pradesh.

Sulochana Gadgil came back to Pune for her undergraduate studies at Fergusson College where she opted for natural sciences and majored in Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics.

Sulochana Gadgil worked in the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology as a CSIR pool officer for two years.

Sulochana Gadgil was recruited to the Centre for Theoretical Studies as a member.

Sulochana Gadgil's husband was recruited to CTS as a mathematical ecologist.

Sulochana Gadgil is married to Madhav Gadgil, an ecologist and they have a daughter and a son.