Prof. Karumuri Ashok’s research covers the Indian summer monsoon, tropical Indo-Pacific drivers, their variability and impacts, weather through seasonal prediction, decadal climate variability, and climate change. He had led the development of the first prototype of the Indian earth system model at the IITM, India. Now a Professor in the Centre for Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Hyderabad (India), Ashok is currently working on mid-Holocene & last millennium modelling, theoretical aspects of the active-break cycle of the Indian summer monsoon, and city level extreme event prediction.