Academic Faculty

 

Name

Specialisation

E-mail  Address (@tropmet.res.in)

Academic Qualifications

Prof. Ravi S. Nanjundiah,
Director

Monsoon variability and predictability, HPC for climate and weather related studies

ravisn

 M.E., Ph.D.

Dr. R. Krishnan

Climate Modelling, Monsoon variability and predictability, Phenomenon of monsoon-breaks and droughts, Dynamics of monsoon and midlatitude interactions, Climate dynamics and modelling with special focus on the Asian monsoon coupled atmosphere-ocean-land system, Large-scale organization of convection over the tropics and monsoon region

krish 

M.Sc., Ph.D.

Dr. G. Beig

Atmospheric Chemistry, Ozone Pollution, Greenhouse Gases-3D Chemical – Climate Modelling

beig

M.Sc., Ph.D.

Dr. A.K. Sahai

Climate Variability and Predictability

sahai

M.Sc., Ph.D.

Dr. A. Suryachandra Rao 

Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Dynamics, Climate Variability and Prediction, Physical Oceanography, Ocean Modelling and Coupled Climate Modelling, Air-Sea interactions in the Indian Ocean

surya

M.Sc., M.Tech., Ph.D.

Dr. C. Gnanaseelan

Ocean Modelling and Data Assimilation

seelan

M.Sc., M.Tech., Ph.D.

Dr. S. D. Pawar

Atmospheric Electricity, Aerosol Physics

pawar

M.Sc., Ph.D.

Dr.(Smt.) T. Prabhakaran

Boundary Layer Meteorology; Boundary layer and canopy turbulence
simulation

thara

M.Sc., M.Tech.,  Ph.D.

Dr. S. Chakraborty

Study of past climate using the chemical and isotpic tracers in natural archives, such as tree ring, corals, terrestrial and marine sediments

supriyo   
supriyoc@gmail.com

M.Sc., Ph.D.

Dr. D.M. Chate

Air Pollution Studies

chate

M.Sc., Ph.D.

Dr. G. Pandithurai

 Atmospheric Aerosols and Remote Sensing

pandit

M.Sc., PGDCA, Ph.D.

Dr.(Smt.) A.A. Kulkarni

Monsoon Variability and Teleconnections

ashwini

M.Sc., Ph.D.(Stats)

Dr. Kaushar  Ali

 Cloud Physics and Radar Meteorology, Air Pollution Studies

kaushar

 M.Sc. (Tech.), Ph.D.

Dr. B.S. Murthy

Theoretical and Experimental Studies of Atmospheric Boundary Layer

murthy 

M.Sc., Ph.D.

Dr. Anupam Hazra

Cloud microphysics, Ice nucleation parameterization, Ice nucleation of Biological, Anthropogenic and mineral dust aerosols, Aerosol-cloud interactions, Meso-scale modelling and Global climate modelling, Aerosol scavenging, Weather modification 

hazra 

 M.Sc., Ph.D.

Dr. J. Sanjay

Numerical Weather Prediction with Special Emphasis to Mesoscale Modelling and Boundary Layer Processes

sanjay 

M.Sc., Ph.D.

Dr. P.D. Safai

Atmospheric Aerosols and Precipitation Chemistry 

pdsafai 

M.Sc., Ph.D.

Shri V. Gopalkrishnan 

Cloud Physics, Atmospheric Electricity

gopal 

 

M.Sc.

Dr. Suresh Tiwari

Air Pollution, Precipitation Chemistry

smbtiwari@yahoo.co.uk

M.Sc., Ph.D.

Dr.(Smt). S.S.Fadnavis

Atmospheric Chemistry, Ozone Pollution, Greenhouse Gases- 3-D Chemical-Climate Modelling

suvarna

B.E., M. Tech., Ph.D.

Dr. P. Mukhopadhyay

NWP and Meso-scale Modelling of Thunderstorms, Heavy Precipitation Events

mpartha

M.Sc., M.Tech., Ph.D.

Dr. Vinu Valsala

pCO2, biogeochemical modelling and data assimilation, Planetary wave dynamics and associated particle/tracer trajectories/pathways, Application of tracer techniques to detect variability of ocean circulation, Climate variability of Indian-Pacific Oceans, Reduced gravity layered models, Quasi-geostrophic models, Ocean Tracer Transport Model (OTTM) Ocean General Circulation Models (OGCM), Indonesian Throughflow and climate variability, Numerical Ocean modelling and development

valsala

M.Sc., Ph.D.

Shri S. Mahapatra

Numerical Weather Prediction, Regional and Mesoscale Modelling, Initialization Techniques

mahap

M.Sc. (Tech.),

M.Tech.

Dr. Ramesh Vellore

Climate Change, Global and regional climate modeling, Dust storms and Aerosol Transport Modeling, Dynamical downscaling, Predictability and ensemble forecasting, Air-sea interaction

rameshv

M.Sc., M.Tech (Atm. Sc.), MS (Appl. Maths), MS(Atm. Phy.), Ph.D.

 Dr. H.S. Chaudhari

 Climate Modelling, Weather Prediction with Spherical Geodesic Grids, Computational Aspects of Climate Models, Asian Monsoon and Climate Variability

hemantkumar

M.Sc., M.Tech., Ph.D.

Dr. Devendraa Siingh

Atmospheric Electricity, Global Electric circuit, sferic and whistlers, ELF/VLF emission in ionosphere/ magneto sphere, space weather

devendraasiingh

M.Sc., Ph. D.

Dr. Subodh K. Saha

Land surface processes, atmosphere land-surface interaction and their influence on the Indian Monsoon

subodh

M.Sc., M.Tech., Ph.D.

Dr. (Smt) B. Padma Kumari

Climate change,
Aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions,
Remote sensing of atmospheric aerosols, clouds and radiation

padma

M. Sc., M. Tech. Ph. D.

Dr. C. G. Deshpande

Aerosol Physics, Atmospheric Electricity

cgdesh

M.Sc., Ph.D.

 Shri P. Murugvel

Atmospheric Electricity, Atmospheric Physics

pmvelu

 B.E., M.Tech.

Dr. Anoop Mahajan

Atmospheric chemistry

anoop

M.Sc. (Env. Sc.), M.Sc.(Atm. Chem.), Ph.D.

Dr. Shivsai Dixit

Fluid Dynamics, Turbulence, Boundary Layers, Cloud Flows, Laboratory Experiments and Numerical Simulations

sadixit

B.E.(Mech), M.E.(Aerosp. Engg.), Ph.D (Aerosp. Engg.)

Dr. M.N. Patil

Land Surface-Atmosphere Interactions

patil

M.Sc., Ph.D.

Dr. (Smt). J.V. Revadekar

Climate Change, Monsoon Variability and Prediction, Dendroclimatology, Climate Impact Studies

jvrch

B.Sc.(Maths, Phy., Stats),B.Sc.(Comp. Sc.), M.Sc.(Phy), Ph.D.(Atm. & Space Sc.)

Shri K.K. Dani

Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Aerosols and Trace Gases

kundan

M.Sc.

Dr. R.S. Maheshkumar

Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Aerosols and Trace Gases, Cloud Physics

mahesh

M.Sc., M.Tech., Ph.D.

Dr. S.D. Ghude

Aerosol studies in relation to climate change, Trace gases measurement

sachinghude

M.Sc.,Ph.D.

Dr. (Smt.) S.K. Patwardhan

Climate Change, Monsoon Variability and Teleconnections

patwar

M.Sc., Ph.D.

Dr.(Smt.) N.R. Deshpande

Hydrometeorological Studies for Different River Basins and Regions

nrdesh

M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Dr. T. Dharmaraj

Atmospheric Boundary-Layer, Instrumentation

dharam

B.E., M.Tech., Ph.D.

Dr.(Smt.) S.B. Morwal

Atmospheric Boundary Layer

morwal

M.Sc., Ph.D.

Dr. Y. Jaya Rao

Optical and Radio Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere

jrao

 M.Sc., M.Tech., Ph.D.

Dr.(Smt). S.K. Mandke

Climate Modelling

amin

M.Sc., M.Tech., Ph.D.

Shri S.D. Bansod

Monsoon Variability and Teleconnection

erp

M.Sc.

Dr. G.S. Meena

Atmospheric Minor Constituents

gsm

M.Sc., Ph.D.

Dr. Milind Mujumdar

Climate Modelling

mujum

M.Sc.,M.Phil.,Ph.D.

Dr.(Kum.)S.S.Nandargi

Hydrometeorological Studies for different River Basins and Regions

nshobha

M.Sc., Ph.D.

Smt. Shompa Das

 Information resource management and services

shompa

M.Sc., M. Lib. Sc.

Dr.(Smt.) A.A. Deo

Application of Ocean modeling, Studies of Upper Oceanic Processes in Different Time and Space Scales

aad

M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Dr. S.G. Narkhedkar

Objective Analysis, Including Satellite Data in Weather Forecasting

narkhed

M.Sc., Ph.D.

Dr. (Smt). S. Joseph

Interactions between intraseasonal and interannual variabilities of Indian summer monsoon

susmitha

M.Sc., Ph.D.

Dr. Sreenivas  Pentakota

Physical Oceanography 

sreenivas

M.Sc.

Dr. K.M.C. Reddy 

Remote sensing in Atmosphere/Meteorology, Cloud and Precipitation studies 

madhucomcom@rediff.com

M.Sc.(Tech), Ph.D.

 Dr. S. Abhilash

 Tropical Convective Systems, Cloud Resolving Modeling and Cloud- Environment Interactions

abhi

 M.Sc., Ph.D.

Dr.(Smt.) P. Swapna

Coupled Ocean-Atmospheric Dynamics, Ocean Modelling

swapna

 M.Tech., Ph.D.

Dr. Roxy Mathew Koll

Ocean-atmospheric dynamics and interaction, Tropical intraseasonal variability, SST-convection feedback, Tropical Indo-Pacific Ocean and Asian Monsoon interrelationship, Coupled General Circulation - Earth System Modeling for climate variability predictions. 

roxy  ,

rocksea@gmail.com

M.Sc., Ph.D.

Dr. Samir Pokherel

Rainfall retrieval, radiative transfer modelling

samir

M.Sc., Ph.D.

Dr. A.B. Parekh

Variability of Indian Ocean, Physics of Indian Ocean, Air-sea interaction, Ocean
Models Diagnoses study, Remote Sensing of Ocean 

anant 

 M.Sc, Ph.D.

Dr. Bipin Kumar

Numerical Methods for modelling, Parallel Numerical Algorithms, Cloud Microphysics, Computational Fluid Dynamics (Multiphase Fluid Flows) , Code Optimizations, High Performance Computing, Model Development, Direct Numerical Simulations 

bipin 

M.Sc., MS(Research), PhD.

Dr. H. Varikoden

Monsoon Boundary Layer, Monsoon Variability, Climate Change and its Dynamics

hamzavarikoden  ,
hamzavarikoden@gmail.com

 M.Sc., Ph.D.

Dr. S.M. Deshpande

Radar Meteorology, Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Winds and Clouds 

sachinmd 

M.Sc., M.Tech.,  Ph.D.

Dr. R.K. Yadav 

Seasonal Forecasting

yadav 

M.Sc. (Tech), Ph.D.

Dr. (Smt) Preethi Bhaskar

Monsoon Variability

preethi

M.Sc., M.Tech.

Shri Prem Singh

Ocean Modelling and Simulation Studies

psg

M.Sc., M.Phil.

Dr. (Smt.) Latha R.

Atmospheric boundary layer dynamics and pollution

latha 

B.Tech., Ph.D. (Tech) 

Dr. K. Chakravarty

Radar Meteorology, Remote Sensing, Satellite Communication

kaustav  , kaustav.chty@gmail.com

 M.Sc., Ph.D

Shri. S. De

Deterministic predictability in the perspective of nonlinear error characteristics study of a prognostic model in the medium range tropical weather forecast

sde

M.Sc., M.Tech.

Dr. Y.K. Tiwari

Greenhouse Gas Modelling and its measurement

yktiwari

M.Sc.(Tech.), Ph.D

Dr. Saikat Sengupta

Study of hydrologic cycle using chemical and isotopic tracers in various natural water samples such as precipitation, vapour, ocean and snow

saikat

M.Sc., M.Tech., Ph.D.

Dr. Subrato Kumar Das

Laser Remote Sensing of Cirrus clouds and Aerosols Interaction, Radar and Satellite Meteorology techniques in cloud physics

subrata

M.Sc.(Phy), PGDBM, PGDCA, Ph.D. (Phy)

Dr. Jasti S. Chowdhary

 Interannual and Decadal variability of the Indian Ocean climate,  Air-sea interactions over the Indo-western Pacific region, Variability and Predictability of the Asian summer monsoon

jasti

M.Sc., M.Tech., Ph.D.

Dr. Deen Mani Lal

 Cloud Physics

dmlal

M.Sc., PGDCA, Ph.D.

Dr. P. R.C. Reddy

Ocean Modelling Application of Satellite Data for Ocean Studies

rahul

M.Sc., M.Tech., Ph.D.

Dr. Prashant A. Pillai

Diagnostic and modeling studies of Asian monsoon, ENSO-monsoon teleconnection, Asian monsoon and tropospheric biennial oscillation

prasanth

M.Sc., Ph.D.

Dr. Naveen Gandhi

Paleoclimatology, Oxygen and carbon isotopic study of speleothem, Dendrochronology and tree-ring isotopic studies, Ocean Biogeochemistry: Nitrogen and carbon cycling in the oceans

naveen

M.Sc., Ph.D.

Dr. Rajib Chattopadhyay

Monsoon Seasonal Prediction, Monsoon Intraseasonal Prediction, Empirical techniques in statistical analysis

rajib

M.Sc., M.Tech.(Atm. Phy.), Ph.D.

Dr. Abhilash S. Panicker

Aerosols-radiative and cloud interaction studies

panicker

M.Tech., Ph.D

Shri N.K. Agarwal

Atmospheric Energetics in Wavenumber Frequency Domain

nka

M.Sc., M.Phil., PGDCA

Shri S.S. Sabade

Monsoon Variability and Tele connections

sabade

M.Sc.

Shri D.K. Trivedi

Numerical Weather Prediction, Tropical Cyclone Modelling

trivedi

M.Sc.

Shri S.B. Kakade

Monsoon Variability and Prediction with NAO and ENSO

kakade

M.Sc.

Shri Abhay S. D. Rajput

Science Communication/ popularization, Media/Information Management, Technical writing

abhaysdr

M.Sc.

Shri M.Mahakur

Satellite Meteorology and Aplications of Satellite Data inWeather Forecasting

mmahakur

M.Sc., M.Tech., P.G. Dip in Satmet and Global Climate, LL.B

Smt. M.N. Kulkarni

Atmospheric Electricity

mnkulk

M.Sc.

Smt. R.V. Bhalvankar

Simulation techniques in cloud physics

rohini

M.Sc.

Dr. A. K. Srivastava

Remote Sensing and Modelling Studies of Atmospheric Aerosols and Clouds

atul

M.Sc.(Tech.), Ph.D

Dr. Phani M. Krishna

Numerical Modelling, High Performance Computing, Climate Modelling

rphani

M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Shri T.P. Sabin

SST and its impact on deep convection in the tropics, Intraseasonal variability of Indian summer monsoon

sabin

M.Sc.

Dr. (Smt.) A.A. Prabhu

Satellite Data Applications for Weather Forecasting

amitaprabhu

M.Sc., Ph.D.

 Shri M.I.R. Tinmaker

 Physics of Lightning

iqbal

M.Sc., Ph.D.

 Dr. (Smt.) M.S. Deshpande

 Numerical Modeling of Tropical Cyclones and Monsoon Cloud Parameterization in numerical models

medha_d

 M.Sc., M.Phil. Ph.D.

Dr. K.P. Sooraj

Climate change and the behaviour of Asian summer monsoon, ENSO–monsoon teleconnection aspects, Seasonal prediction of the Tropical climate, Monsoon Intraseasonal variability, Summer monsoon onset mechanisms

sooraj 

 M.Sc., Ph.D.

Dr. M. Konwar

Cloud and Rain Microphysics, Soft Computation

mkonwar

M.Sc., Ph.D.

Shri Siddharth Kumar

Cloud Physics

siddharth.cat

B.Tech. (Mech.), M.Tech. (Climate Sc.)

Shri S. M. Sonbawne

Aerosol Study through observative programmme, Remote Sensing Studies

sunil

B.E.(Instru.), M.Tech.(Atm. Sc.)

Smt. Sompriti Deb Roy

Atmospheric Chemistry, Ozone Pollution, Greenhouse Gases-3-D Chemical-Climate Modelling

sompriti

M.Sc., ADCA

Dr. H.N. Singh

Application of RS-GIS in Hydrometeorological Studies

narendra

M.Sc., M.Tech., P.G. Dip in Satmet and Global Climate, Ph.D.

Smt. Anika Arora

Tropical variability and Ocean-atmosphere feedbacks

anika.cat

 M.Sc., M.Tech (Climate Sc.)

Shri S.P. Ghanekar

Studies of Monsoons and Tropical Weather Systems

ghanekar

M.Sc.

Smt. Ayantika Dey Choudhury

Large-scale dynamics and organization of convective systems over Asian monsoon region 

ayantika

M.Tech (Atmo. Phy.)

Shri G.R. Chintalu

 

Air sea interaction studies in tropical monsoons & Atmospheric boundary layer process studies over land and ocean

chintalu 

M.Sc. 

Shri Somaru Ram

Long-term Climate Variability Over Monsoon Asia, Dendroclimatology, Palaeoclimatology

somaru

 M.Sc. (Tech.)

Shri Bhupendra Bahadur Singh

Climate change, Monsoon variability, Earth system science, Physical Oceanography 

bhupendra.cat 

M.Sc.(Tech.) 

Shri Balaji B.

Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Monsoon, Remote Sensing

balaji.cat

B.Tech, M.Tech

Smt. Mercy Varghese

Aerosols and CCN,  Aerosol-cloud interaction

mercy.cat

B.Tech, M.Tech

Smt. Asha Nath

Atmospheric Electricity

asha 

M.Sc.

Shri M.D. Chipade

Climate Change, Monsoon Variability, Teleconnections and Prediction, Energetics of Tropospheric Zonal Waves and Indian Monsoon

mdchipade

M.Sc.

Shri S.K. Saha

Optical Remote sensing of Atmospheric Aerosols and Trace Gases, Aerosol- Climate Interactions 

saha

M.Sc.

Dr. (Smt.). P.P. Leena

Atmospheric Aerosols, aerosol-cloud interaction and Remote Sensing

leena

M.Sc., Ph.D.

Shri A.R. Dandi

Monsoon studies

daramu  , ramud82@gmail.com

 M.Sc., M.Tech.

Smt.Renu S.Das

Atmospheric Dynamics, Modelling and Simulation Techniques

renu

 M.Sc., M.Tech(Modelling & Simulation)

Shri Subharthi Chowdhuri

Boundary Layer Meteorology

subharthi.cat

 B.E. (Mech.)

Smt. U.S. Iyer

Boundary Layer Meteorology and Air sea Interaction Process

usha

M.Sc.

Shri Prajeesh A.G.

Earth system modeling, Physical Oceanography

prajeesh.cat   prajeeshag@gmail.com

M.Sc (Oceanog.)

Shri Tanmoy Goswami

Ocean and Radiation modelling

tanmoy.cat

M.Sc.

Shri Malay Ganai

Numerical modelling, Indian Summer monsoon, Diurnal variability of precipitation

malay.cat

M.Sc.

Shri Sudarsan Bera

Cloud Physics, Atmospheric aerosol, Aerosol-climate interaction

sbera.cat

M.Sc.

Smt. Archana Rai

Land surface processes and its interaction with Monsoon, Monsoon and Surface temperature variability over Indian region

archanarai.cat@trompet.res.in

M.Sc.

Shri Vivek Singh

 

 

 

Shri Sandeep Narayanasetti

Earth System Modelling, Physical Oceanography

sandeep.cat

M.Sc (Chemistry)

Shri M. Pradhan

 Monsoon and its teleconnections, Ocean-Atmosphere coupling, Seasonal Prediction of monsoon

maheshwar.cat

 B.Tech. (Instru. & Electro.)

Shri Ankur Srivastava

Climate variability and prediction, Intra-seasonal & synoptic variability, monsoons and its teleconnections

ankur.cat

B.Tech.(E&I)

Shri M.S. Biswas

Atmospheric Chemistry

mriganka.cat

M.Sc.(Chemistry)

Kum. Snehlata Tirkey

 

 

 

Smt.Rashmi A. Khandekar

Ocean Modelling, Data Assimilation, Air-Sea Interaction

rashmi.cat

M.Sc.(Maths), B.Ed.

Shri R. Mandal

Monsoon variability and predictability

raju.cat

M.Sc.(Physics)

Shri Avijit Dey

Intraseasonal variability and predictability

avijit.cat

M.Sc.(Physics)

Kum. Chaitri Roy

Atmospheric Chemistry, Climate change modelling

chaitri.cat

M.Sc.(Chemistry)

Kum. Shikha Singh

 

shikha.cat

 

Shri S. Sarkar

Intraseasonal Variability, Atmospheric dynamics and thermodynamics, Energetics of Indian Summer Monsoon, Numerical Modelling

sahadat.cat

M.Sc.(Physics)

Kum. S. Malviya

Intraseasonal variability and predictability, Dynamics of Madden Julian Oscillation, Ensemble Prediction System

shilpa.cat

B.E.(E&TC)

Kum J.S. Deepa

 Sea level variability

deepa.cat

 M.Sc.(Maths)

Kum. Aditi Modi

Earth System Modeling, Ocean Biogeochemistry

aditi.cat

B.Tech(Civil)

Shri Manmeet Singh

 Climate Modelling

 

manmeet.cat

  B.E.(Civil)

Kum. Smrati Gupta

Green house gases observation & modelling, DMS climatology

smrati.cat

B.E.(E&I)

Shri Subrata Mukherjee

Relation and effect of biogenic and anthropogenic Volatile organic compounds(VOCs) on aerosol(through Secondary organic aerosol formation) and its impact on new particle formation (NPF), Cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) activation and other cloud micro-physical processes

subrata.cat

M.Sc. (Chem.)

Shri Pramit Kumar Deb  Burman

 

pramit.cat

 

Shri Sujit Maji

 

sujit.cat

 

Shri Ambuj Kumar Jha

 

ambuj.cat