Welcome to the Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (CAOS) at the Indian Institute of Science. Our research involves the understanding of tropical climate and its variability on intraseasonal, seasonal and decadal timescales. In addition to this, faculty in the Centre have interests that span the entire realm of atmosphere-ocean-climate science. Over the past decade, faculty and students have worked on variety of problems that include climate modeling and extremes, the space-time structure of rainfall, geoengineering, mixing and fine-scale upper ocean structure in the Bay of Bengal, river runoff and ocean circulation, tropical intraseasonal oscillations, monsoon cloud structure, aerosol physics and chemistry and geophysical turbulence. Moreover, problems are tackled using a combination of observational, experimental, numerical modeling, data analysis and theoretical techniques.

CAOS is committed to provide students with a stimulating and rewarding learning experience and offers a vibrant academic environment for higher education at the masters and doctoral levels. Specifically, two degree programmes are offered: (i) M.Tech. in Earth & Climate Science which is a terminal two-year degree program and (ii) PhD in Atmosphere-Ocean and Climate Sciences.

In view of a host of new observation platforms, sophisticated satellite data, powerful computational resources and newer data driven techniques, the next decade promises to be an exciting one for atmospheric, oceanic and climate sciences. We welcome students and scientists to join us in this exciting venture!