Priyanka Yadav is an Assistant Research Scientist with the University of Maryland Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center and the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Her research focuses on improving predictability of the atmospheric circulation on subseasonal to seasonal (S2S) timescales using observational data, climate models, and advanced statistical techniques.
Priyanka successfully demonstrated that the phase speed of the MJO controls the strength and duration of the tropospheric and stratospheric pathway in MJO teleconnections. In addition, she has contributed to various national and international research initiatives. Her scientific contributions span across a wide range of research projects, including teleconnections arising from fast and slow MJO episodes via tropospheric and stratospheric pathways, stratosphere-troposphere coupling in S2S models, the North American monsoon, the South Asian monsoon and its links to the ENSO and IOD, air pollutant dispersion modeling, and studying the stratospheric ozone depletion using TOMS data.