산짓 쿠마 몬달 Sanjit Kumar Mondal

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Email: sanjit@pusan.ac.kr

Research Interests

  • Climatic extremes: drought, extreme precipitation, and heatwaves

  • Socioeconomic impacts of climatic extremes

  • Land–atmosphere interactions

  • Climate hysteresis, reversibility, and tipping points

  • Carbon dioxide removal

  • Hydrology and water resource management

Education

2022 PhD in 3S (GIS, GPS and RS) Integration and Meteorological Applications, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology (NUIST), China

Work Experience

2025. 04 2025. 09 Special Research Assistant at Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
2022. 08 2025. 02 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Irreversible Climate Change Research Centre, Yonsei University, South Korea

Fellowships, Awards, and Honors

2018-2022 Chinese Government Scholarship

Publications

  1. Mondal, S. K., An, S.-I., Min, S.-K., Jiang, T., Su, B., Paik, S., & Kim, S.-K. (2025). Hysteresis
    and irreversibility of global drought patterns in response to CO2 mitigation efforts.
    Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ade608
  2. Mondal, S.K., An, SI., Min, SK. et al. Enhanced soil moisture–temperature coupling could
    exacerbate drought under net-negative emissions.     npj Climate and Atmospheric Science,
    265 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-024-00820-0
  3. Mondal, S. K., Su, B., Huang, J., Zhai, J., Wang, G., Kundzewicz, Z. W., et al. (2024). Climate
    Change Will Aggravate South Asian Cropland Exposure to Drought by the Middle of 21st
    Century.     Earth’s Future, 12(5). https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EF003872
  4. Mondal, S. K., An, S. Il, Min, S. K., Kim, S. K., Shin, J., Paik, S., et al. (2023). Hysteresis and
    irreversibility of global extreme precipitation to anthropogenic CO2 emission.     Weather and
    Climate Extremes    , 40(April), 100561. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2023.100561
  5. Mondal, S.K., Wang, Y., Zhai, J., Su, B., Jiang, S., Huang, J., Jing, C., Lin, Q., Zhou, J., Gao, M., Jiang,
    T., 2022. Projected urban exposure to extreme precipitation over South Asia.     Science of the
    Total Environment    . 822, 153664. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153664
  6. Mondal, S.K., Huang, J., Wang, Y., Su, B., Kundzewicz, Z.W., Jiang, S., Zhai, J., Chen, Z., Jing, C.,
    Jiang, T., 2021. Changes in extreme precipitation across South Asia for each 0.5 °C of warming
    from 1.5 °C to 3.0°C above pre-industrial levels.     Atmospheric Research. 105961.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2021.105961
  7. Mondal, S.K., Huang, J., Wang, Y., Su, B., Zhai, J., Tao, H., Wang, G., Fischer, T., Wen, S., Jiang, T.,
    2021. Doubling of the population exposed to drought over South Asia: CMIP6 multi-modelbased analysis.     Science of the Total Environment. 771, 145186.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145186
  8. Mondal, S.K., Tao, H., Huang, J., Wang, Y., Su, B., Zhai, J., Jing, C., Wen, S., Jiang, S., Chen, Z., Jiang,
    T., 2021. Projected changes in temperature, precipitation and potential evapotranspiration across
    Indus River Basin at 1.5–3.0 °C warming levels using CMIP6-GCMs.     Science of the Total
    Environment    . 789, 147867. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147867
  9. Huang, J1., Mondal, S.K.1, Zhai, J., Fischer, T., Wang, Y., Su, B., Wang, G., Gao, M., Jiang, S., Tao, H.,
    Lin, Q., Jiang, T., 2022. Intensity-area-duration-based drought analysis under 1.5°C–4.0 °C
    warming using CMIP6 over a climate hotspot in South Asia.     Journal of Cleaner Production.
    Prod. 131106.     https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.131106. (1First authors (equal contribution): JianqingZhai
    and Sanjit Kumar Mondal    )
  10. Zhai, J1., Mondal, S.K.1, Fischer, T., Wang, Y., Su, B., Huang, J., Tao, H., Wang, G., Ullah, W., Uddin,
    M.J., 2020. Future drought characteristics through a multi-model ensemble from CMIP6 over
    South Asia.     Atmospheric Research. 246, 105111.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2020.105111.     (1First authors (equal contribution): JianqingZhai
    and Sanjit Kumar Mondal    )
  11. Zhou, J., Jiang, S., Mondal, S.K.*, Huang, J., Su, B.*, Kundzewicz, Z.W., Chen, Z., Xu, R., Jiang, T.,
    2022. China’s Socioeconomic and CO2 Status Concerning Future Land-Use Change under the
    Shared Socioeconomic Pathways.     Sustainability. 14, 3065. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14053065
    (*Corresponding author)
  12. Su, B., Huang, J., Mondal, S.K., Zhai, J., Wang, Y., Wen, S., Gao, M., Lv, Y., Jiang, S., Jiang, T., Li, A.,
    2021. Insight from CMIP6 SSP-RCP scenarios for future drought characteristics in China.
    Atmospheric Research. 250, 105375. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2020.105375
  13. Paik, S., Kim, D., An, S.-I., Oh, H., Shin, J., Goswami, B. B., Min, S.-K., & Mondal, S. K. (2024).
    Exploring causes of distinct regional and subseasonal Indian summer monsoon precipitation
    responses to CO2 removal.     Npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 7(1), 305.
    https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-024-00858-0