Courses offered by the Centre, with the course code, credits, instructor, a short description of the contents and the main references. See the programmes page for how they fit into the PhD and MTech programmes, and the Scheme of Instructions for the courses running in a given term.
Instructor: Jai Suhas Sukhatme
Large-scale rotating-earth flows, potential vorticity, Kelvin, Rossby and Poincaré waves, quasi-geostrophic flow, and equatorial dynamics.
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Instructor: Arindam Chakraborty
Atmospheric structure, thermodynamics of dry and moist air, stability, nucleation, aerosols, clouds and convection.
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Instructor: P. N. Vinayachandran
Seawater properties, ocean circulation, air-sea interaction, Ekman and Sverdrup flows, and ocean waves.
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Instructor: Jai Suhas Sukhatme
Basic atmospheric equations, balanced flows, thermal wind, boundary layer turbulence, quasi-geostrophic systems and atmospheric waves.
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Instructor: V. Venugopal
Probability and statistics, hypothesis testing, Fourier-based time-series analysis and principal component analysis.
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Instructor: Ashwin K. Seshadri and Ravi S. Nanjundiah
Discretization, finite difference and finite volume schemes, spectral methods, sub-grid parameterization and data-driven approaches.
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Instructor: G. S. Bhat
Measurement principles, error analysis, in-situ atmospheric and ocean measurements, radiosondes, CTD, ADCP and ARGO.
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Instructor: Bishakhdatta Gayen
Buoyancy-driven flows, gravity currents, internal waves, plumes, double-diffusive convection, hydraulics and turbulent mixing. The course includes lectures, tutorials and simple laboratory experiments.
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Instructor: Govindasamy Bala
Atmosphere and ocean equations, energy and water exchange, the global water and carbon cycles, radiation and climate feedbacks.
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Instructor: Arindam Chakraborty. Prerequisite: Atmospheric Dynamics, Ocean Dynamics or Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Weather, seasonal and decadal prediction, ensemble forecasting, ocean forecasting systems, data assimilation, and PDE-constrained optimization with full waveform inversion.
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Instructor: Faculty
Project course for the joint MTech programme in Earth and Climate Sciences.
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Instructor: P. N. Vinayachandran
Ocean governing equations, one-dimensional and primitive equation models, mixed layer parameterization and numerical schemes.
Instructor: Ashwin K. Seshadri
Nonlinear dynamics, bifurcation, chaos, Galerkin projection, low-order climate models and data-driven methods.
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