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Dr Kanhu Charan Pattnayak (born 26 June 1981) is an Indian climate scientist at University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom. He works on the different aspects of Indian summer monsoon, Amazon climate and African Monsoon. He is the lead author of the popular book Indian Summer Monsoon Circulation in the Warming Atmosphere.

Research
Kanhu Charan Pattnayak's research interests are in the following areas:


 * Regional Climate Modelling of Indian summer monsoon.
 * Hydrological cycle of Amazon basin.
 * Hindcast of Droughts and Floods.
 * Climate change study of Central-North African.
 * Climate Modelling, Climate Change, Climate Projections.

Research highlights
Dr. Kanhu Charan Pattnayak is among the Indian researchers who initiated the studies on the relationship between tropospheric temperature and the Indian monsoon. Most of the earlier studies were focused on the relationship of Indian summer monsoon with surface temperature. But Dr. Pattnayak found that tropospheric temperature is equally important to manifest the Indian summer monsoon. His manifold contributions include one distinctive Research-level Books: “Indian Summer Monsoon Circulation in the Warming Atmosphere” (Lambert Academic Publishing ), while some of the significant works with his collaborators are:

(a) He is one of the pioneer who produced the future climate change information for the BIMSTEC countries (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Srilanka, and Thailand). Entanglement being at the core of QI, this work has stimulated applications of Quantum Statistics in QI processing, apart from being used in studies on free electron Quantum Computation.

(b) A hitherto unexplored use of intraparticle path-spin entanglement was conceived for empirically verifying Quantum Contextuality, subsequently tested by the Vienna group, followed recently by suggesting its information-theoretic applications.

(c) A widely cited analysis of the Quantum Zeno effect (Annals of Physics 258, 237 (1997)), preceded by the formulation of a unified framework for such effects (Physics Letters A 173, 327 (1993)).

(d) Proposed a novel experiment to show simultaneous wave and particle – like behaviour in the same setup using optical tunneling of single photon states (Physics Letters A 153, 403 (1991)), subsequently tested (Physics Letters A 168, 1 (1992)) at Hamamatsu Photonics laboratory, Japan.

(e) Conceived an innovative biomolecular example to probe the Quantum Measurement Problem (Physical Review Letters 76, 2836 (1996)), preceded by a demonstration of the quantum mechanical violation of classical realism for multiparticle systems even under strong macroscopic limiting conditions (Physical Review A 52, 4959 (1995)).

Home’s research works have been cited in 19 relevant technical/popular books (Appendix B), with the total citation number of his works about 850 (ISI Web index).

Publications
Home has 98 peer-reviewed published articles listed in Scopus. The most cited of them is Home, D., Whitaker, M.A.B., "A conceptual analysis of quantum zeno; paradox, measurement, and experiment" (1997) Annals of Physics, 258 (2), pp. 237–285.
 * Books:
 * Dr Kanhu Charan Pattnayak, Andrew Whitaker: Einstein's struggles with quantum theory: a reappraisal, Springer, 2007, ISBN 978-0-387-71519-3
 * Articles:

Awards & Recognition

 * 2011 Fellow of The National Academy of Sciences, India
 * 2002 Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship
 * 2001 Darshan Vigyan Samman (Award for contributions in Philosophy of Science)
 * 1995 B. M. Birla Science Prize
 * 1995 Associate Membership of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
 * 1993 Homi Bhabha Fellowship
 * 1990 Commission of the European Community Fellowship
 * 1987 Associateship of the Indian Academy of Sciences
 * 1986 Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Medal for Young Scientists