1. Urban Climate and Land-atmosphere interactions
2. High-resolution Mesoscale Modeling (WRF)
3. Extreme weather events and Aerosol-Climate interactions

1. G. Nandini, V. Vinoj, S. S. Sethi, et al., “A modelling study on quantifying the impact of urbanization and regional effects on the wintertime surface temperature over a rapidly-growing tropical city,” Computational Urban Science, vol. 2, no. 1, p. 40, 2022. î DOI: 10.1007/s43762-022-00067-6.
2. G. Nandini, V. Vinoj, and S. K. Pandey, “Arabian sea aerosol-Indian summer monsoon rainfall relationship and its modulation by el-nino southern oscillation,” npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, vol. 5, no. 1, p. 25, 2022. î DOI: 10.1038/s41612-022-00244-8.
3. H. P. Nayak, G. Nandini, V. Vinoj, et al., “Influence of urbanization on winter surface temperatures in a topographically asymmetric tropical city, Bhubaneswar, India,” Computational Urban Science, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 1–14, 2023. î DOI: 10.1007/s43762-023-00112-y.

1. Nandini Gopinath, and V Vinoj, The Interplay between the Location of the City and the Background Winds in Modifying the Rainfall Patterns over an Eastern Indian Tropical City, European Geophysical Union General Assembly 2025, from 27 April to 02 May 2025, Vienna, Austria. 2. Nandini Gopinath, and V Vinoj. Deciphering Urbanization and Climate Change led Thermal Signatures over the Smart City Bhubaneswar using Urban Scale Model Simulations, National Symposium TROPMET 2024 organised by the Indian Meteorological Society from 10-12 December 2024, at National Institute of Technology Rourkela. 3. Nandini Gopinath and Vinoj V, Impact of urbanization and regional effects of climate change on the temperature changes over an eastern Indian tropical city: A Modeling Perspective, 20th Annual meeting of Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, AOGS-23, 30 July to 04 August 2023, Singapore. 4. Nandini Gopinath and V. Vinoj, Does El-Nino amplify the Arabian Sea aerosol and Indian monsoon relationship?, Seventh WMO international workshop on monsoon (IWM-7), 22-26 March 2022. 5. Nandini Gopinath, and V. Vinoj, Amplification of Short-term Arabian Sea Aerosol Monsoon Relationship by El-Nino Southern Oscillation, Annual monsoon E-workshop 2021, and National E-Symposium on “Changing Climate and Extreme Events: Impacts, Mitigation and Role of Oceans, 21-23 February 2022 (Won the best oral and interactive poster presentation award). 6. Nandini Gopinath and Vinoj V, The wintertime simulation of urban heat island over the city of Bhubaneswar and its relation to climate change and land use land cover, International Symposium on Tropical Meteorology (INTROPMET 21), 23-26 November 2021.