Awards & Achievements

• • Paul Crutzen Publication Award, Runners' up: Flynn, C. M., Huusko, L., Modak, A., and Mauritsen, T.: Strong aerosol cooling alone does not explain cold-biased mid-century temperatures in CMIP6 models, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 15121–15133, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-15121-2023 , 2023.

  • Editor highlight @ JGR Atmosphere "On the Effect of Historical SST Patterns on Radiative Feedback"

  • The Roddam Family Medal, for Best PhD thesis "Efficacy of Solar irradiance, Methane and Black carbon aerosols"

  • India Top cited author award: Environmental Sciences IOP publishing for Modak et al. (2016) in ERL 

  • Modak et al. (2016) - April 2016 monthly highlights of ERL 

http://iopscience.iop.org/journal/1748-9326/page/2016%20monthly%20highlights

• • Best Poster award in 5th National Climate Change Conference, IIT-Delhi, December 2014.

  • Grantham fellow, awarded by Divecha Center for Climate Change, CAOS, IISc Bangalore.

  • First Class with Distinction for Master Degree (M.Tech, Climate science), 2012, IISc Bangalore.

  • Gold Medal (received from APJ Abdul Kalam) for being the best outgoing student of my batch in Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in the year 2010.

  • Gold medalist in the course ‘Certificate Course in Maintenance Engineering, Electronics (Intermediate equivalent) in the year 2006.

  • School Topper, Xth standard, Kendriya Vidyalaya, NERIST

  • Secured 83% marks in the 42nd Annual All India UN Information Test conducted by the council for UN Information, a Wing of USO, on 31st August 1999.