Short Term Climate Variability and Prediction Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM-MoES) Pune, India. Ashwini Kulkarni has a Ph.D. in Statistics (1992) from the Pune University. She has 30 years of research experience in the field of Atmospheric Science. Her main research interests include climate variations and teleconnections over South, East, and Southeast Asia; Asian monsoon variability in coupled and regional climate model simulations and projections; applications of statistics in climate research. She has published more than 50 research papers in reviewed scientific international journals. She received the 10th IITM Silver Jubilee award for best research contribution in 1997, and she is “Adjunct Professor” of Department of Atmospheric and Space Science, Savitribai Phule Pune University since 2000. She has been providing guidance to Ph.D., M.Tech./M.Sc. students for their thesis/projects and has a vital contribution into human resource development of IITM, IMD, and SPPU. She is a member of international committees, viz. Empirical Statistical Downscaling Group-Asia and Upper Indus Basin Network. She is also a Senior Scientist at International CLIVAR Monsoon Project Office at IITM. She is a contributory author of Chapter 14 of IPCC AR5 and Reviewer of IPCC special reports.Short Term Climate Variability and Prediction Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM-MoES) Pune, India. Ashwini Kulkarni has a Ph.D. in Statistics (1992) from the Pune University. She has 30 years of research experience in the field of Atmospheric Science. Her main research interests include climate variations and teleconnections over South, East, and Southeast Asia; Asian monsoon variability in coupled and regional climate model simulations and projections; applications of statistics in climate research. She has published more than 50 research papers in reviewed scientific international journals. She received the 10th IITM Silver Jubilee award for best research contribution in 1997, and she is “Adjunct Professor” of Department of Atmospheric and Space Science, Savitribai Phule Pune University since 2000. She has been providing guidance to Ph.D., M.Tech./M.Sc. students for their thesis/projects and has a vital contribution into human resource development of IITM, IMD, and SPPU. She is a member of international committees, viz. Empirical Statistical Downscaling Group-Asia and Upper Indus Basin Network. She is also a Senior Scientist at International CLIVAR Monsoon Project Office at IITM. She is a contributory author of Chapter 14 of IPCC AR5 and Reviewer of IPCC special reports.