Current Research

My current research interests revolve around the following topics, please feel free to get in touch if they sound exciting to you!

• What role does clouds and convection play in estimations of renewable energy (Solar and Wind) generation estimates? How can we use simulations and datasets to explore role of clouds?

• Monsoon dynamics: What can be the simplest model for understanding seasonal cycle of monsoons and its variability? Can the energetic theory to understand the Inter-tropical convergence zones be extended to understand the fundamental aspects of monsoons.

• Land-Atmosphere Interactions: I am interested to know how land-atmosphere interactions on small-scales ultimately influence different large-scale features of tropical climate. I am particularly interested in changes in air circulation, ability to form convective clouds in surrounding regions and associated precipitation. This upcoming project involves close collaborations with Civil Engineers and/or Land modelers.

• How do gigantic tropical rain-bands form? How can we characterize them using satellite data? Why do satellite images show two distinct rain-bands during summer season only over south Asia while they are missing elsewhere. How can we characterize the precipitation in these rain-bands and explore their associations with flash-floods? This project uses hourly IMERG satellite data to understand precipitation characteristics and compare them to the high-resolution model simulations.

My postdoctoral research explorations are summerized here.

This page briefly presents a simple language summary of some of the publications.