Publications

Journal Publications

• Kulkarni, S. S.*, & Sawada, Y. (2025). Near-global Agro-climatological Drought Monitoring Dataset. Scientific Data,12, 2038. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-06316-7 

• Kulkarni, S. S.*, & Sawada, Y. (2025). Droughts with no agro-climatological extremes. Scientific Reports, 15, 36783. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-20617-2

• Kulkarni, S. S.*, Sawada, Y., Bayissa, Y. A., Wardlow, B. D. (2025). Global assessment of socio-economic drought events at the subnational scale: a comparative analysis of combined versus single drought indicators. HESS, 29, 4341–4370. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-4341-2025

• Kulkarni, S. S.*, Kumar, V., Bhanage, V. N., Gedam, S. S. (2023). Exploring the Association between Changing Crop Types and Water Scarcity: A Case Study over West-Central India. Climate, 11(5), 93. https://doi.org/10.3390/cli11050093 

• Bhanage, V. N., Kulkarni, S. S.*, Sharma, R., Lee HS., Gedam, S. S. (2023). Enumerating and Modelling the Seasonal Alterations of Surface Urban Heat and Cool Island: A Case Study over Indian Cities. Urban Science, 7(2), 38. https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci7020038 

• Kulkarni, J. R., Kulkarni, S. S., Inamdar, M. U., Tamhankar, N. M., Waghmare, S. B., Thombare, K. R., ... & Kumar, V. (2022). “Satark”: Landslide Prediction System over Western Ghats of India. Land, 11(5), 689. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11050689 

• Kulkarni, S. S.*, Gedam, S. S., & Dhorde, A. G. (2021). Comparative study of rainfall trends in Konkan-Goa and Marathwada meteorological subdivisions of India. Applied Ecology and Environmental Sciences 9(10), 885-894.10.12691/aees-9-10-6

• Kulkarni, S. S.*, Wardlow, B. D., Bayissa, Y. A., Tadesse, T., Svoboda, M. D., & Gedam, S. S. (2020). Developing a remote sensing-based combined drought indicator approach for agricultural drought monitoring over Marathwada, India. Remote Sensing, 12(13), 2091. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12132091

• Kulkarni, S. S.*, & Gedam, S. S. (2018). Geospatial approach to categorize and compare the agro-climatological droughts over the Marathwada region of Maharashtra, India. ISPRS Annals of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing & Spatial Information Sciences, 4(5). 10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-5-279-2018

Book Chapter

• Dakwala, M., Kumar, P., Kumar, J., & Kulkarni, S. (2023). Farm-Wise Estimation of Crop Water Requirement of Major Crops Using Deep Learning Architecture. Digital Ecosystem for Innovation in Agriculture (vol 121). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0577-5_11 

• Mukhopadhyay, S., Kulkarni, S., Kulkarni, P., & Dutta, S. (2016). Rainfall statistics change in West Bengal (India) from period 1901-2000. Geostatistical and geospatial approaches for the characterization of natural resources in the environment (pp. 173-181). Springer, Cham.

International / National Conferences

• Kulkarni, S. S., & Sawada, Y. (2026). Rethinking Droughts: Socio-Economic Drivers Beyond Agro-Climatological Extremes. Geospatial Technologies and Sustainable Landscapes, Pune, India. (Best Paper Award)

• Kulkarni, S. S., & Sawada, Y. (2026). Evaluating Global Socio-Economic Drought Impacts: Performance of Combined vs Single Drought Indicators. International Conference on Water, Land and Life: Geographical Perspectives on Sustainability, Pune, India. (Invited Session Chair)

• Kulkarni, S. S., & Sawada, Y. (2025). Advancing Agro-Climatological Drought Monitoring: The Global Combined Drought Monitoring Dataset. IGARSS, IEEE, Brisbane, Australia. (Invited Session Chair)

• Kulkarni, S. S., & Sawada, Y. (2025). Droughts with no Agro-Climatological Extremes. The 2nd International Sociohydrology Conference, Tokyo, Japan.

• Kulkarni, S. S., & Sawada, Y. (2025). Near-global Combined Drought Monitoring Dataset. AOGS, Singapore. (Session Chair)

• Kulkarni, S. S., & Amin, T. (2025). Optimizing CMIP6 Model Selection for Agro-climatological Drought Assessment in South Asia. AOGS, Singapore.

• Kulkarni, S. S. (2025). Droughts over Marathwada… Natural or Human-Induced?  International Conference on Cultural Nationalism, Secularism & Developed India, Gujarat, India. (Invited Keynote Speaker)

• Kulkarni, S. S., & Sawada, Y. (2024). Droughts without Agro-Climatological Extremes. The 9th Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX) Open Science Conference, Hokkaido, Japan. 

• Kulkarni, S. S., & Sawada, Y. (2024). Assessing Socio-economic Impacts in Subnational Global Droughts: A Comparative Analysis of Combined Versus Single Drought Indicators. AOGS,  Pyeongchang, South Korea. 

• Kulkarni, S. S., & Bhanage, V. N (2024). Developing a Standardized Water Demand Indicator to Identify Water Stress and Prioritize Areas for Irrigation in India.  AOGS,  Pyeongchang, South Korea. 

• Kulkarni, S. S., & Sawada, Y. (2023). Droughts with No Hydro-Climatological Extremes. AGU  Fall  Meeting, San Francisco, USA. 

• Kulkarni, S. S., & Sawada, Y. (2023). Monitoring and Assessment of Global Patterns of Subnational droughts using Combined Drought Indicator and Geocoded Disaster Dataset (No. EGU23-3914). Copernicus Meetings, EGU-2023, Vienna, Austria https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-3914

• Kulkarni, S. S., Kumar, V., Linoj, D., & Gedam, S. S (2022). Impact of climate change-induced droughts on staple crops of the Marathwada region. 2nd International Conference on Aerosol, Air Quality and Climate Change, Uttarakhand, India.

• Kulkarni, S. S., & Gedam, S. S. (2021). Droughts over Marathwada, India...Natural or Human-Induced?. The 42nd IIG Annual Meet 2021 and International E-Conference.

• Kulkarni, S. S., Gedam, S. S., & Bhanage, V. N. (2018). Estimation of Water Stress and Identification of Priority Areas for Irrigation over the Drought-Prone Semi-Arid Region of India. AGU  Fall  Meeting, Washington D. C, USA. 

• Kulkarni, S. S., Gedam, S. S., & Adinarayana, J. (2018). Impacts of changing agricultural practices on the drought intensities over Marathwada, India. AFITA/WCCA, Mumbai, India. 

•  Kulkarni, S., Gedam, S., & Dhorde, A. (2017). Assessment of impacts of agro-climatological droughts over Marathwada, India, using remote sensing technologies. ACRS http://www.a-a-r s.org/acrs/administrator/components/com_jresearch/files/publications/601.pdf, New Delhi, India. 

• Kulkarni, S., & Dhorde, A.(2015). Comparative study of rain trends in Konkan, Goa, and Marathwada meteorological subdivisions of India. National Symposium on Vagaries of Monsoon, IITM. Pune, India. (Best Paper Award)

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