Hi, thank you for visiting my website. I am a postdoctoral research associate in the Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame. I am a part of the ASTRaL and MISO-BOB projects. I am trying to understand the structure and evolution of the atmospheric boundary layer using observations from ships and aircraft. I am also involved in the SWEX project, which studies the downslope windstorms over the mountains of Southern California. These hot and dry winds fan the wildfires in this region. Previously, I was at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), University of Leeds, where I studied the interaction between monsoonal jet and the Western Ghats from observations and model simulations as a part of the IMPROVE project

I did my Ph.D. at the Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. For my Ph.D. thesis, I wrote an automated cloud-tracking algorithm to study the organization of deep convection from the INSAT satellite data. With the help of WRF model simulations, I also proposed an orographic blocking mechanism for the extreme rainfall events responsible for the 2015 South India floods. This was the first study to link extreme rainfall over the east coast of India to the Eastern Ghats mountains.

Research Interest:

• Tropical Dynamics
• Orographic Effects
• Mesocale Dynamics
• Numerical Weather Prediction

Education:

• Ph.D. (2020), Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
• M.Tech. (2012), Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
• B.E. (2008), Sardar Patel College of Engineering, Mumbai, India

Spreading education: Note book distribution as a part of NoteBook Drive initiative of Indian Institute of Science

Curriculum vitae

Reviewer Service:

• Journal of Climate, American Meteorological Society
• Scientific Reports, Nature Portfolio
• Meteorological Applications, Royal Meteorological Society.
• Earth and Space Science, American Geophysical Union.
• Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Springer Science