My research focuses on instabilities, turbulence and mixing in fundamental fluid mechanics as well as phenomena observed in geophysical flows.

  • Marginal instability and deep-cycle turbulence in the Eastern Pacific ocean

  • Air-sea interaction and monsoonal variability in the Bay of Bengal

  • Vertical transport and coherent structures in the ocean surface boundary layer

  • Mixed layer instabilities: baroclinic and symmetric instabilities

  • Diurnal warm layer

  • Ekman layer

  • Gravity current

  • Shear instabilities: Kelvin-Helmholtz and Holmboe instabilities

  • Internal gravity wave