Welcome to the Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. Growing from a department focused on the Indian monsoon, our research now spans the entire realm of atmosphere, ocean & climate science. CAOS is one of the few centres in the world, most certainly in India, where these problems are tackled using a combination of observational, experimental, numerical modeling, data analysis and theoretical techniques.

Worldwide efforts over the past few decades, including those at CAOS, have revealed the details and complexities of the atmosphere, ocean and climate system. Our vision for the next decade is ambitious. We believe that it is an exciting time in our field of science with the opportunity to bring things together and address grand challenges. In CAOS, with a focus on the tropical climate, we hope to build a coherent framework that accounts for both local details and global teleconnections.