2025 - Present: Assistant Professor at Kotak School of sustainability, IIT Kanpur
2024 - 2025 : Postdoctoral Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany.
2022-2023: Visiting scientist at Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.
2020 - 2024: Ph.D at Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
2018 - 2020: Masters in Water Resources, Civil Engineering from IIT Bombay, India
2014 - 2018: Bachelors in Civil Engineering from AMU, India
Ghausi, S. A., Tian, Y., Zehe, E., & Kleidon, A. (2023). Radiative controls by clouds and thermodynamics shape surface temperatures and turbulent fluxes over land. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(29), e2220400120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2220400120
Ghausi, S.A., Zehe, E., Ghosh, S. et al. (2024). Thermodynamically inconsistent extreme precipitation sensitivities across continents driven by cloud-radiative effects. Nature Communications 15, 10669. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-55143-8
Ghausi, S. A., McColl, K., Zehe, E., & Kleidon, A. (2025). Explaining observed daily variations and decadal trends in the diurnal air temperature range. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(14), e2024GL113595. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL113595
Ghausi, S. A., & Ghosh, S. (2020). Diametrically opposite scaling of extreme precipitation and streamflow to temperature in South and Central Asia. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL089386. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL089386.
Ghausi, S. A., Ghosh, S., & Kleidon, A. (2022). Breakdown in precipitation–temperature scaling over India predominantly explained by cloud-driven cooling. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 26(16), 4431-4446. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-4431-2022
Tian, Y., Kleidon, A., Lesk, C. Ghausi, S.A et al. (2024). Characterizing heatwaves based on land surface energy budget. Communications Earth and Environment 5, 617. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01784-y
Tian, Y., Ghausi, S. A., Zhang, Y., Zhang, M., Xie, D., Cao, Y., ... & Kleidon, A. (2023). Radiation as the dominant cause of high-temperature extremes on the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01784-y
Tian, Y., Zhong, D., Ghausi, S. A., Wang, G., and Kleidon, A. (2023). Understanding variations in downwelling longwave radiation using Brutsaert's equation, Earth System Dynamics., 14, 1363–1374. https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-14-1363-2023
Sahastrabuddhe, R., Ghausi, S. A., Joseph, J., & Ghosh, S. (2023). Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall in a changing climate: a review. Journal of Water and Climate Change, 14(4), 1061-1088. https://doi.org/10.2166/wcc.2023.127
Ghausi, S.A., Muzzammil, M. (2021). Grey Water Characterization and Its Management. In: Jha, R., Singh, V.P., Singh, V., Roy, L., Thendiyath, R. (eds) Water Resources Management and Reservoir Operation . Water Science and Technology Library, vol 107. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79400-2_21
Ghausi, S.A. and Kleidon, A., 2025. Identifying regional drivers shaping daily maximum temperatures and their extremes (No. EGU25-12438). Copernicus Meetings.
Ghausi, S. A., McColl, K., & Kleidon, A. (2023). Determining the radiative and hydrologic controls on the diurnal air-temperature range using the thermodynamic limit of maximum power (No. EGU23-7721). Copernicus Meetings.
Ghausi, S. A., Kleidon, A., and Ghosh, S.: Radiative cooling by clouds affects the precipitation - temperature scaling derived from observations, EMS Annual Meeting 2021, online, 6–10 Sep 2021, EMS2021-108, https://doi.org/10.5194/ems2021-108, 2021.
Ghausi, S. and Kleidon, A.: How much of the surface energy partitioning can be explained by controls imposed by thermodynamics?, EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022, EGU22-4528, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-4528, 2022.
Ghausi, S. A., Kleidon, A., and Ghosh, S.: Attributing the negative scaling of extreme precipitation with temperature over India to cloud radiative cooling during the monsoon season, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-7902, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-7902, 2021
Ghausi, S. A., Zehe, E., Ghosh, S., Tian, Y., & Kleidon, A. (2024). Extreme precipitation–temperature scaling: disentangling causality and covariation (No. EGU24-10848). Copernicus Meetings.
Ghausi, Sarosh Alam, Axel Kleidon, and Subimal Ghosh. "Cloud radiative cooling explains the global variability in precipitation-temperature scaling derived from observations." AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. Vol. 2021. 2021.
Ghausi, S A, Tian Y, Zehe E, and Kleidon A. "How much land-surface information is required to predict the seasonal variation in turbulent fluxes and surface temperatures?" AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. Vol. 2022. 2022.
Innovative Student Project award at Master's level by Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) - 2020
Prof. UC Kothyari Best Master's Thesis Award by Indian Society of Hydraulics (ISH) - 2020
Best Paper Award at HYDRO 2018 International Conference - 2018