Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (CAOS)

Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore

080- 22932505

office.caos@iisc.ac.in

Faculty Profile



On-going projects


  1. BOBBLE: Bay of Bengal Boundary Layer Experiment, a Joint Project between MoES India and MoES, UK, 2015-2020.
  2. J C Bose Fellowship and Research Grant, (Prinicipal Investigator), 2018-2022.
  3. Development and implementation of river discharge and biogeochemical module for the global climate model setup of INCOIS, (Prinicipal Investigator) 2018-2020.
  4. Intel Parallel Computing Centre for Modeling Monsoons and Tropical Climate", Intel Corporation, USA, (Co-investigator), 2014-2020.


Completed Projects


  1. As Principal Investigator
    1. Modeling physical-biological interaction in the Indian Ocean, INCOIS, Ministry of Earth Sciences, 2013-2017.
    2. High resolution modeling of Indian Ocean using MOM and ROMS, INCOIS, Ministry of Earth Sciences, 2008-2013
    3. Oceanographic observations in the southern Bay of Bengal during CTCZ, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, 2009-2012.
    4. Development of a data assimilation system for the Indian Ocean, DOD (INCOIS), 2003-2008.
    5. Analysis and synthesis for the Indian Argo Programme, DOD (INCOIS), 2002-2005.
    6. Underwater radiation and chlorophyll measurements during CTCZ (2011-2012), 2011-2016.
    7. Retrieval of Ocean parameters (phytoplankton blooms), ISRO (SAC), 2004-2008.
    8. Interpretation of Ocean Color variability in the Bay of Bengal using an ocean general circulation model, ISRO (SAC), 2001-2003.
    9. Implementation of Regional Ocean Modeling System for the Indian Ocean on a Windows compute cluster, Microsoft Corporation, USA, 2008-2011.
  2. As co-investigator
    1. Common computing facility for ocean modeling at CAOS, Department of Ocean Development (INCOIS), 2003-2008, Co-investigator. (PI: Chairman, CAOS).
    2. Study of teleconnections and Ocean-Atmosphere coupling over Indian Region using AOGCM? INCOIS, Ministry of Earth Sciences, 2013-2017, (Co-investigator).
    3. Modeling Oxygen Minimum in the Arabian Sea, National Science Foundation (NSF), USA, 2007-2010, Co-investigator. (PI: Prof. Jay McCreary, IPRC, Hawaii).
    4. Study of Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction and its impact on ocean state over northern Indian using a coupled climate system model, Ministry of Earth Sciences, INCOIS, MoES, 2008-2013, Co-investigator. (PI: Prof. Ravi Nanjundiah, IISc).
    5. Assimilation of Argo data into the ROMS model of the Indian Ocean, Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, MoES, 2008-2011, Co-investigator (PI: Prof. Amit Apte, TIFR).
    6. The Indian monsoon & the coupled atmosphere - Equatorial Indian Ocean system, INCOIS, MoES, 2007-2010, Co-investigator. (PI: Prof. Sulochana Gadgil, IISc).
    7. Constraining the tsunami cyclicity along the southeast coast of India based on near-source (Andamans) * far-field (east coast of India) investigations, 2008-2012, Co-investigator.
    8. Implementation of dynamical seasonal prediction system, India Meteorological Department, 2006-2009, Co-investigator. (PI: Prof. Ravi Nanjundiah, IISc).
    9. Reconstruction of late quaternary tropical sea surface temperature-salinity, 2005-2006, Co-investigator.