Teaching

Here are the courses I am teaching at the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences (CAS), IIT Delhi. Please sign up for the course on the ERP. If you have any questions about course topics, feel free to visit my office.

The details of the course at CAS, IIT Delhi are available here

ASL736 : Science of Climate Change

Offered: Jan24-May26

 Credits (3-0-0)

Description of the climate system (General circulation, hydrological cycle, carbon cycle). Natural greenhouse effect and the effect of trace gases and aerosols. Forcings (natural & anthropogenic), Fast and Slow Feedbacks, Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity, Transient Climate Response. Climates of the past (ice ages, proxy records, abrupt climate change, instrumental record of climate). Climate variability and time-scales; MJO, ENSO, PDO, Milankovic cycles. Modeling climate: Simple EBMs, Coupled Climate Models. Natural and Anthropogenic Climate Change. Future climate projections.

ASL762: Air-Sea Interaction

Offered: July26-Ongoing

 Credits (3-0-0)

State of matter near the air-sea interface, marine boundary layer, transfer properties between atmosphere and ocean, solar and terrestrial radiation, sea surface radiation budget, surface wind waves, air-sea interaction processes using examples of ENSO, hurricane, Indian monsoon, turbulent transfer near the interface, bubbles and spray, transport of trace gases across the interface; latent, sensible, and momentum fuxes in the surace boundary layer over the sea, bulk parameterizations, large-scale forcing by sea surface buoyancy fuxes, spatio-temporal variability o ocean surace fuxes with reference to Indian ocean.