Bio

I joined Stanford's Earth System Science department as an assistant professor 2018. Prior to this, I was a a Junior Fellow of the Simons Foundation in New York, and a postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia University’s Department of Applied Physics and Applied Math and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. I got my Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science at MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, in the Program for Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate, where I worked with R. Alan Plumb. I’m broadly interested in atmosphere and ocean dynamics, climate variability, and general circulation.

I'm particularly interested in fundamental questions in atmospheric dynamics, which I address using a combination of theory, observations, and both idealized and comprehensive numerical experiments. Current areas of focus include the dynamics, variability, and change of the mid-latitude jets and storm tracks, the stratospheric polar vortex, and atmospheric gravity waves.

Academic Appointments

Honors & Awards

  • Google scholar award, Google (2023)
  • Junior Fellow, Simons Society of Fellows (2015-2017)
  • Best student presentation award, AMS conference on the middle atmosphere (2015)
  • Lord foundation fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2012-2013)
  • Dean of Science Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2010-2011)
  • J.N. Tata Fellowship, J. N. Tata endowment (2007-2008)

Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations

  • Steering committee member, Stratospheric network for the assessment of predictability (2017 - Present)

Professional Education

  • Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Atmospheric Science (2015)
  • S. M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Aeronautics and Astronautics (2009)
  • B. E., R. V. College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering (2007)

Contact

Additional Info

  • Mail Code: 4216

2025-26 Courses

Stanford Advisees

All Publications

  • Offline Performance of a Nonlocal Deep Learning Parameterization for Climate Model Representation of Atmospheric Gravity Waves JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN MODELING EARTH SYSTEMS Gupta, A., Sheshadri, A., Roy, S., Anantharaj, V. 2025; 17 (10)

    View details for DOI 10.1029/2025MS004977

    View details for Web of Science ID 001598640600001

  • Unified 0.25-degree gridded infrastructure-critical extreme weather for the United States from 1979 to 2100. Scientific data Sun, T., Zanocco, C., Flora, J., Sheshadri, A., Rajagopal, R. 2025; 12 (1): 1544

    Abstract

    Extreme weather events can severely disrupt critical infrastructure, triggering cascading effects on power, transportation, and essential services. However, standard weather and climate datasets often lack specialized variables necessary for hazard assessments. We present a unified dataset of infrastructure-critical weather and climate variables across the United States at 0.25° resolution, covering daily or sub-daily intervals from 1979 to 2100. The dataset includes temperature, dew point, wind gusts, precipitation partitioned by rain, snow, and freezing rain or ice pellets, lightning, and wildfire metrics. Historical conditions (1979-2023) are synthesized from observations and reanalysis products, while future projections are derived from 14 CMIP6 global climate models (historical, SSP245, and SSP585 experiments). Physically based and data-driven methods are used to estimate variables not directly provided by existing models. By integrating these variables into a single unified dataset, we enable consistent, high-resolution assessments of weather-related infrastructure risks across past and future periods, supporting wide-ranging applications in energy, transportation, water resources, emergency management, and beyond.

    View details for DOI 10.1038/s41597-025-05918-5

    View details for PubMedID 40940354

    View details for PubMedCentralID 5773887

  • Connecting Tropical Cyclones, Precursor Disturbances, and the ITCZ in Aquaplanet Simulations JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN MODELING EARTH SYSTEMS Burnett, A. C., Sheshadri, A., Robinson, T., Lin, P. 2025; 17 (7)

    View details for DOI 10.1029/2024MS004868

    View details for Web of Science ID 001529670700001

  • Machine Learning for Climate Physics and Simulations ANNUAL REVIEW OF CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS Lai, C., Hassanzadeh, P., Sheshadri, A., Sonnewald, M., Ferrari, R., Balaji, V. 2025; 16: 343-365

    View details for DOI 10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-043024-114758

    View details for Web of Science ID 001441665900017

  • Gravity Wave Momentum Fluxes from 1 km Global ECMWF Integrated Forecast System. Scientific data Gupta, A., Sheshadri, A., Anantharaj, V. 2024; 11 (1): 903

    Abstract

    Progress in understanding the impact of mesoscale variability, including gravity waves (GWs), on atmospheric circulation is often limited by the availability of global fine-resolution observations and simulated data. This study presents momentum fluxes due to atmospheric GWs extracted from four months of an experimental "nature run", integrated at a 1 km resolution (XNR1K) using the Integrated Forecast System (IFS) model. Helmholtz decomposition is used to compute zonal and meridional flux of vertical momentum from ~1.5 petabytes of data; quantities often emulated by climate model parameterization of GWs. The fluxes are validated using ERA5 reanalysis, both during the first week after initialization and over the boreal winter period from November 2018 to February 2019. The agreement between reanalysis and IFS demonstrates its capability to generate reliable flux distributions and capture mesoscale dynamic variability in the atmosphere. The dataset could be valuable in advancing our understanding of GW-planetary wave interactions, GW evolution around atmospheric extremes, and as high-quality training data for machine learning (ML) simulation of GWs.

    View details for DOI 10.1038/s41597-024-03699-x

    View details for PubMedID 39169007

    View details for PubMedCentralID 7471968

  • Insights on Lateral Gravity Wave Propagation in the Extratropical Stratosphere From 44 Years of ERA5 Data GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS Gupta, A., Sheshadri, A., Alexander, M., Birner, T. 2024; 51 (14)

    View details for DOI 10.1029/2024GL108541

    View details for Web of Science ID 001269395400001

  • Data Imbalance, Uncertainty Quantification, and Transfer Learning in Data-Driven Parameterizations: Lessons From the Emulation of Gravity Wave Momentum Transport in WACCM JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN MODELING EARTH SYSTEMS Sun, Y., Pahlavan, H. A., Chattopadhyay, A., Hassanzadeh, P., Lubis, S. W., Alexander, M., Gerber, E. P., Sheshadri, A., Guan, Y. 2024; 16 (7)

    View details for DOI 10.1029/2023MS004145

    View details for Web of Science ID 001276254900001

  • Uncertainty Quantification of a Machine Learning Subgrid-Scale Parameterization for Atmospheric Gravity Waves JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN MODELING EARTH SYSTEMS Mansfield, L. A., Sheshadri, A. 2024; 16 (7)

    View details for DOI 10.1029/2024MS004292

    View details for Web of Science ID 001269075700001

  • Bayesian History Matching Applied to the Calibration of a Gravity Wave Parameterization JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN MODELING EARTH SYSTEMS King, R. C., Mansfield, L. A., Sheshadri, A. 2024; 16 (4)

    View details for DOI 10.1029/2023MS004163

    View details for Web of Science ID 001203530100001

  • Gravity Wave Momentum Fluxes Estimated From Project Loon Balloon Data JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES Green, B., Sheshadri, A., Alexander, M., Bramberger, M., Lott, F. 2024; 129 (5)

    View details for DOI 10.1029/2023JD039927

    View details for Web of Science ID 001180565600001

  • Atmospheric Gravity Waves: Processes and Parameterization JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES Achatz, U., Alexander, M., Becker, E., Chun, H., Doernbrack, A., Holt, L., Plougonven, R., Polichtchouk, I., Sato, K., Sheshadri, A., Stephan, C., VAN Niekerk, A., Wrightj, C. J. 2024; 81 (2): 237-262

    View details for DOI 10.1175/JAS-D-23-0210.1

    View details for Web of Science ID 001153786500002

  • Updates on Model Hierarchies for Understanding and Simulating the Climate System: A Focus on Data-Informed Methods and Climate Change Impacts JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN MODELING EARTH SYSTEMS Mansfield, L. A., Gupta, A., Burnett, A. C., Green, B., Wilka, C., Sheshadri, A. 2023; 15 (10)

    View details for DOI 10.1029/2023MS003715

    View details for Web of Science ID 001085868000001

  • Calibration and Uncertainty Quantification of a Gravity Wave Parameterization: A Case Study of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in an Intermediate Complexity Climate Model JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN MODELING EARTH SYSTEMS Mansfield, L. A., Sheshadri, A. 2022; 14 (11)

    View details for DOI 10.1029/2022MS003245

    View details for Web of Science ID 000888553200001

  • Machine Learning Gravity Wave Parameterization Generalizes to Capture the QBO and Response to Increased CO2 GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS Espinosa, Z., Sheshadri, A., Cain, G. R., Gerber, E. P., DallaSanta, K. J. 2022; 49 (8)

    View details for DOI 10.1029/2022GL098174

    View details for Web of Science ID 000783197300001

  • Midlatitude Error Growth in Atmospheric GCMs: The Role of Eddy Growth Rate GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS Sheshadri, A., Borrus, M., Yoder, M., Robinson, T. 2021; 48 (23)

    View details for DOI 10.1029/2021GL096126

    View details for Web of Science ID 000730019700003

  • The Atlantic Jet Response to Stratospheric Events: A Regime Perspective JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES Goss, M., Lindgren, E. A., Sheshadri, A., Diffenbaugh, N. S. 2021; 126 (7)

    View details for DOI 10.1029/2020JD033358

    View details for Web of Science ID 000640969000003

  • Tropical cyclone frequency under varying SSTs in aquaplanet simulations Geophysical Research Letters Burnett, A. C., Sheshadri, A., Silvers, L. G., Robinson, T. 2021

    View details for DOI 10.1029/2020GL091980

  • Seasonal and Latitudinal Variability of the Gravity Wave Spectrum in the Lower Stratosphere JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES Lindgren, E. A., Sheshadri, A., Podglajen, A., Carver, R. W. 2020; 125 (18)

    View details for DOI 10.1029/2020JD032850

    View details for Web of Science ID 000576404200017

  • The role of wave-wave interactions in sudden stratospheric warming formation Weather and Climate Dynamics Lindgren, E. A., Sheshadri, A. 2020; 1: 93-109

    View details for DOI 10.5194/wcd-1-93-2020

  • Frequency-dependent behavior of zonal jet variability Geophysical research letters Lindgren, E. A., Sheshadri, A., Plumb, R. A. 2020; 47: 1-8

    View details for DOI 10.1029/2019GL086585

  • The Importance of Greenland in Setting the Northern Preferred Position of the North Atlantic Eddy-Driven Jet GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS White, R. H., Hilgenbrink, C., Sheshadri, A. 2019

    View details for DOI 10.1029/2019GL084780

    View details for Web of Science ID 000500766500001

  • Model Hierarchies for Understanding Atmospheric Circulation REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS Maher, P., Gerber, E. P., Medeiros, B., Merlis, T. M., Sherwood, S., Sheshadri, A., Sobel, A. H., Vallis, G. K., Voigt, A., Zurita-Gotor, P. 2019; 57 (2): 250–80

    View details for DOI 10.1029/2018RG000607

    View details for Web of Science ID 000477616400002

  • Orography and the Boreal Winter Stratosphere: the Importance of the Mongolian mountains Geopysical Research Letters White, R. H., Battisti, D. S., Sheshadri, A. 2018

    View details for DOI 10.1002/2018GL077098

  • Sudden stratospheric warming formation in an idealized General Circulation Model using three types of tropospheric forcing Journal of Geophysical research: Atmospheres Lindgren, E. A., Sheshadri, A., Plumb, R. A. 2018; 123

    View details for DOI 10.1029/2018JD028537

  • The vertical structure of annular modes Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Sheshadri, A., Plumb, R. A., Lindgren, E. A., Domeisen, D. I. 2018; 75: 3507-3519

    View details for DOI 10.1175/JAS-D-17-0399.1

  • Propagating Annular Modes: Empirical Orthogonal Functions, Principal Oscillation Patterns, and Time Scales JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES Sheshadri, A., Plumb, R. A. 2017; 74 (5): 1345-1361

    View details for DOI 10.1175/JAS-D-16-0291.1

    View details for Web of Science ID 000400730900001

  • A perspective on climate model hierarchies Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems Jeevanjee, N., Hassanzadeh, P., Hill, S., Sheshadri, A. 2017; 9 (4): 1760-1771

    View details for DOI 10.1002/2017MS001038

  • Observed Changes in the Southern Hemispheric Circulation in May JOURNAL OF CLIMATE Ivy, D. J., Hilgenbrink, C., Kinnison, D., Plumb, R. A., Sheshadri, A., Solomon, S., Thompson, D. W. 2017; 30 (2): 527-536

    View details for DOI 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0394.1

    View details for Web of Science ID 000391856300006

  • The Relationship between Age of Air and the Diabatic Circulation of the Stratosphere JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES Linz, M., Plumb, R. A., Gerber, E. P., Sheshadri, A. 2016; 73 (11): 4507-4518

    View details for DOI 10.1175/JAS-D-16-0125.1

    View details for Web of Science ID 000386007800014

  • Sensitivity of the surface responses of an idealized AGCM to the timing of imposed ozone depletion-like polar stratospheric cooling GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS Sheshadri, A., Plumb, R. A. 2016; 43 (5): 2330-2336

    View details for DOI 10.1002/2016GL067964

    View details for Web of Science ID 000373109800067

  • Seasonal Variability of the Polar Stratospheric Vortex in an Idealized AGCM with Varying Tropospheric Wave Forcing JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES Sheshadri, A., Plumb, R. A., Gerber, E. P. 2015; 72 (6): 2248-2266

    View details for DOI 10.1175/JAS-D-14-0191.1

    View details for Web of Science ID 000355108500004

  • Can the Delay in Antarctic Polar Vortex Breakup Explain Recent Trends in Surface Westerlies JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES Sheshadri, A., Plumb, R. A., Domeisen, D. I. 2014; 71 (2): 566-573

    View details for DOI 10.1175/JAS-D-12-0343.1

    View details for Web of Science ID 000335491400007

  • Modeling Traveling Waves using Mode Superposition PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASME 29TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON OCEAN, OFFSHORE AND ARCTIC ENGINEERING, 2010, VOL 1 Jaiswal, V., Sheshadri, A., Vandiver, J. K. 2010: 521-527

    View details for Web of Science ID 000290548800059

  • AN EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF VORTEX-INDUCED VIBRATION OF A RISER BUNDLE WITH GAPS OMAE 2009, VOL 5 Vandiver, J. K., Cheng, Y., Jaiswal, V., Sheshadri, A., Yu, A. 2009: 695-705

    View details for Web of Science ID 000282991700074