Dr Jerry B Samuel

Jerry is a postdoctoral research assistant at the School of Geography and the Environment. He is a climate scientist interested in tropical climate, monsoons and land-atmosphere processes. He did his PhD at the Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru. His thesis focussed on certain aspects of land-atmosphere interactions during the Indian monsoon season. His current research focusses on future climate variability in the tropics.

Journal articles

• Samuel, J.B., Zilli, M.T., Hart, N.C., Halladay, K., Kahana, R., Chadwick, R. and Folwell, S. (2025) Simulated Delay in the Onset of the Rainy Season in Central-East Brazil under Global Warming Influenced by Plant Physiological Response. Journal of Climate, 38(23): 6853-6872.
• Chakraborty, A., Samuel, J.B. and Paleri, A. (2023) Role of Land Surface Vegetation in the March of Indian Monsoon Onset Isochrones in a Coupled Model. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 149(750): 115-132.
• Samuel, J.B., Chakraborty, A. and Paleri, A. (2023) Deciphering the relationship between vegetation and Indian summer monsoon rainfall. Environmental Research Letters, 18(4): 044023.
• Samuel, J.B. and Chakraborty, A. (2023) Integration of a Groundwater Model to the Noah Land Surface Model for Aquifer-Soil Interaction. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 15(7), e2022MS003153.

Conference Papers

• Tropical-extratropical cloudbands over South America in state-of-the-art seasonal forecast systems. Jerry B Samuel, Marcia T Zilli, and Neil C G Hart. European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna, Austria (2026).
• Future changes in the characteristics of the dry-to-wet transition period in the monsoonal regions of Southern Africa and South America. Marcia Zilli, Jerry Samuel, Francesca Morris, and Neil Hart. European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna, Austria (2026).
• The delayed onset of South American monsoon under global warming in convection-permitting regional climate simulations. Jerry B Samuel, Marcia T Zilli, Neil C G Hart, and Fran Morris. European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna, Austria (2025).
• Impact of Integrating Groundwater Effects in the Noah Land Surface Model. Jerry B. Samuel and Arindam Chakraborty. Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) 19th Annual Meeting (2022).
• Impact of vegetation on the boreal summer monsoon precipitation over India: an energetics viewpoint. Jerry B Samuel, Arindam Chakraborty, and Anagha Paleri. European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna, Austria (2023).