^{CURRUCULUM VITAE}

^{NAME: Lal, Murari}

^{DATE OF BIRTH: March 5, 1949}

^{NATIONALITY:Indian}

^{ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:}

^{B.Sc. (Hons) Faculty of Science, Banaras Hindu University, India (1967)}

^{M.Sc. (Geophysics)Department of Geophysics, Banaras Hindu University, India (1969)}

^{Ph. D. (Geophysics)Department of Geophysics, Banaras Hindu University, India (1972)}

^{CONTACT DETAILS:}

^{13 Taxila Apartments, IIT Campus, Hauz Khas, New Delhi-110016 (INDIA)}

^{Phones: +91-11-6581983 / +91-11-6591910, E-Mail: lal321@hotmail.com}

^{FIELD OF SPECIALISATION:}

^{Global and Regional Climate, Modeling the Climate & Its Variability, Regional Environmental Change – Integrated Approach, Vulnerability Assessment, Regional Adaptation and Mitigation Potentials (Energy and Ecology), GHG Inventories for National Communication, Carbon Sequestration Potentials of Forests, Sustainable Development}

^{KEY PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:}

^{1995 - Contd. Chief Scientific Officer (Professor’s Cadre), IIT Delhi}

^{1990 - 1995 Principal Scientific Officer, IIT Delhi}

^{1982 - 1990 Senior Scientific Officer, IIT Delhi}

^{1977 - 1979 India Meteorological Department, Pune}

^{1975 - 1977 Atmospheric Environment Service, Toronto, Canada}

^{MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:}

^{Indian Meteorological Society, New Delhi (Life Member)}

^{American Meteorological Society, Boston (Member)}

^{Royal Meteorological Society, London (Fellow)}

^{Indian Association of Hydrologists (Fellow)}

^{HONOURS / AWARDS:}

^{· Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences in January 2000.}

^{· Only faculty from IIT Delhi to have participated in Indian Antarctic Expedition, 1986-87.}

^{· Certificates of Appreciation from UNEP for contributions in the Assessment of the Scientific, environmental, technological and economic aspects of the Protection of Ozone Layer important for Policy Decisions to the Parties of Montreal Protocol in 1995 and 1997.}

^{· UGC’s Young Scientist Career Award for the year 1981-82.}

^{RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS:}

^{Papers published in National and International Scientific Journals: 86}

^{Papers published/presented in Conference Proceedings (National & Intl): 80}

^{Technical Reports: 21}

^{Books (Published by Tata McGraw Hill, edited): 1}

^{NUMBER OF Ph.D.s SUPERVISED: Eight Ph.D.s awarded under my supervision}

^{Teaching Experience: Have tought Environmental and Atmospheric Science Courses at Master’s and Ph D Levels in IIT Delhi for over 10 years.}

^{RECOGNISITION IN SCIENTIFIC LEADERSHIP:}

^{· Coordinator, Climate Modeling Research Activities of the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, IIT Delhi (1982-contd.)}

^{· Member, Steering Committee on Environment, Forestry, Wildlife and Wastelands of the Planning Commission, Govt. of India. Also Member-Secretary of the Task Force on Environmental (Air) Pollution for the Ninth Five Year Plan.}

· Member, Expert Group on Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories, Scenarios and National Communications constituted by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India.

^{· Member, Expert Group on Impacts of Climate Change constituted by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India.}

^{· Member, Core Group of the Committee of the Planning Commission, Government of India on Regional Climate Change Issues.}

^{· Authored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Reports on 'Radiative Forcing of Climate Change - 1994’ and ‘Climate Change - 1995’ published by Cambridge University Press, UK.}

^{· Co-authored “Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion, 1994 and 1998” Reports of the International Ozone Assessment Panel of UNEP, NOAA and NASA.}

^{· Authored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Technical Paper II entitled ‘An Introduction to Climate System Models Used by IPCC for the Projections of Future Climate’ prepared for Policy Makers and published by Cambridge University Press, UK.}

^{· Convening Lead Author for Chapter 11 of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Special Report on Regional Impacts of Climate Change published by Cambridge University Press, UK.}

^{· Member of the Task Group on ‘Climate Scenarios for Impact Assessment’ of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change by WMO - IPCC Secretariat, Geneva.}

^{· Co-ordinating Lead Author for Chapter 11 of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Third Assessment Report of Working Group II and Lead Author of Chapter 13 of IPCC’s WG I TAR.}

^{· Member, Core Writing Team of the Synthesis Report of the IPCC Third Assessment Report.}

^{· Have more than a decade of work experience in the subject of environmental issues (viz., climate change, forestry, energy and ecology) in India.}

^{SPONSORED PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN:}

· Global Warming & Associated Sea Level Rise with Particular Reference to Indian Ocean (DST)

· Development & Validation of Land Surface Hydrology Scheme in Regional Model Sensitivity Studies to Investigate the Nature of Biosphere-Hydrosphere Interactions over the Indian Subcontinent (DST)

· Biodiversity Status of Indian Forests & Their Carbon Sequestration Potential (ICFRE)

· Model Development & Numerical Experiments to Assess the Climate Change Scenario over Indian Subcontinent and its Impact as a Consequence of Greenhouse Warming (MOEF)

· Climate Variability & Rice Productivity in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal (Consultancy - RW Consortium)

· Simulation of Intra-seasonal and Inter-annual Variability and Its likely Changes in Asian Monsoon due to Global Warming in Global and Regional Climate Models (Dept of Space – ISRO GBP)

· Global Warming & India’s Food Security (The Rockefellor Foundation)

^{· Study of Air Pollution and Climate Change in the Sultanate of Oman (Consultancy, MRME – CES)}

^{· Data support for Asia-Pacific Integrated Assessment Model (Consultancy - FRIC, Japan)}

^{COMPUTER EXPERTISE:}

^{Wide experience of the use of various computing systems e.g., PCs (Windows and Macintosh), C-90, CRAY-YMP, CRAY-1A, CDC-7600, CDC-6600, CDC-3600, IBM-360/44, ICL-3960, HP-9000, Sun SPARC Workstations etc. (UNIX Environment) for development of BASIC, FORTRAN and C / C++ based software, HTML, GIS and ADVANCED GRAPHICS LANGUAGES (e.g., IDL) to conduct numerical modeling and data processing / diagnostic studies.}

^{OTHER KNOWLEDGE & COMPETENCIES:}

^{· Have more than a decade of teaching and research experience in the subject of environmental issues (viz., climate change, agriculture, forestry, energy and ecology) in India.}

^{· Familiar with UN Conventions on Climate Change, Biodiversity, Desertification and Montreal Protocol and have assisted the Ministry of Environment & Forests, Department of Science & Technology and Planning Commission of the Government of India on Policy matters related to these conventions from time to time.}

^{· Have acted as Resource Scientist for regional meetings on vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Issues organized by UNDP-GEF.}

^{· Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of a book series entitled “Advances in Global Change Research” published by Kluwer Academic Publishers.}

^{· Possess management and analytical skills on building up partnerships and resource mobilization.}

^{(M. Lal)}

^{April 20th, 2002}

^{New Delhi, India}