2020: Post Graduate Diploma in Advance Maritime Law,NALSAR University of Law 2006: Post-Doctoral fellow (Research Associates), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,India. 2005: Ph.D in Physics entitled Water Vapour Circulation over the Tropical Indian Ocean during and prior to south-west monsoon Worked in Space Applications Centre, ISRO, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India Degree awarded by GUJARAT UNIVERSITY, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, INDIA on February 2007. 2000: M.Sc. in Physics ( Nuclear) with 70.9% (University 3rd Rank) From M S University of Baroda, Baroda, Gujarat,India. 1997: B.Sc. (Hons). in Physics From Burdwan University, Burdwan,West Bengal,India; with 62% in Physics Honours.
Research Interests
Development of global and regional ocean models.
Air-sea interaction processes on seasonal and intraseasonal time scale over the Indian Ocean using satellite data and model.
Impact of ocean initial condition in coupled model.
Assimilation of institute temperature and salinity profile data in Global Ocean Data Assimilation System (GODAS) based on Modular Ocean Model (MOM).
Career Details
Scientist-F : 2021 - present Scientist-E: 2016 - 2020 Visiting Scientist: September - December 2014, Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation(JCSDA)- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/National Centers for Environmental Prediction(NCEP) , USA Scientist D: 2011-2015 Visiting Scientist: March-September 2010, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) , USA 2006-2010 : Scientist C Jan 2006- Nov 2006: Research Associate, Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (CAOS), Indian Institute of Science (IISc),Bengaluru,India 2001-2005 : Research Fellow Space Application Centre, (SAC),Indian Space Research Organization ,Ahmedabad,India
Seminar on Radiometric observation during SK-190 in ship cruise SK-190,2003.
Seminar on Monsoon onset studies: Special emphasis on 2004 onset, in MOG/SAC, Ahmedabad, 2004.
Given a talk on Computational challenges in Ocean Modeling - Research Perspective on first CLIMAX workshop held on 16th Feb 2009 a CRL,Pune
Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) and Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP, Trieste, Italy) have organized an Advanced School on Earth System Modelling (ESM) during (18-27 July 2016 at IITM, Pune. I was one of the faculty member and given a talk on Framework of MOM.
University Centre for Earth and Space Science, (UCESS), University of Hyderabad have started two years MSc course on Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences. I have taken classes for the second and fourth semester students.
Awards
Visiting Scientist Position at NOAA/NCEP for 2014, awarded and funded by Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA), Colorado State University, Colorado, USA.
Indo-US Research fellowship for the year 2009 by Indo-US Science & Technology Forum (IUSSTF) .
ISRO Junior Research Fellowship award from 2001-2006.
Second prize for the presentation Global warming: Ocean perspective in the National Hindi Seminar on Global Warming organized by the Ministry of Earth Science, Government of India, 12 November 2007,New Delhi, India
Guidance to Students
Student Name
Institute/University
Degree
Year
P L N Murty
Andhra University
MTech Project
2008
Nehru Machineni
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad
MSc Project
2008
Sunil. Vanama
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad
MSc Project
2014
Jagadeesh Kumar Naik
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT),Kharagpur
MSc project internship
2015
Arijeet Dutta
University of Hyderabad
MSc Project
2016
Reviewer in peer-reviewed Journals:
Nature Scientific Reports
Journal of Geophysical Research
Ocean Modelling
Advances in Space Research
Atmospheric Science Letter
International Journal of Remote Sensing
International Journal of Climatology
Journal of Earth System Science
Ocean Dynamics
Deep-Sea Research Part I:
Expert Reviewer : Working Group I contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis
Ocean Science (EGU)
Pure and Applied Geophysics (PAAG)
Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology & Oceanography
Member in International Committee Represents as a principle contact for Earth Systems Science Organisation (ESSO), Ministry of Earth Sciences and Government of India in the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS).
Represented Indian at The 20th Meeting of the United Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea on "Ocean Science and the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development" during 10-14 June 2019 ,UN Headquarters, New York as one of the Indian delegate.