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Research

PhD thesis, M.Sc. thesis and summer internships, with objectives and supervisors.

01 PhD thesis

Wildfire spread over mountainous India

Ongoing at CoEDMM, IIT Roorkee.

PhD thesis

Modelling and Analysis of Atmospheric Conditions Conducive to the Spread of Wildfires over Mountainous Region in India

The thesis combines numerical weather prediction models with observational and reanalysis datasets.

Prof. Piyush Srivastava, Assistant Professor, Centre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation & Management, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

Current focus

01

Coupled fire-atmosphere modelling

WRF-SFIRE simulations of fire spread under Himalayan terrain and weather.

02

Fire weather index over the Northwest Himalaya

Numerical weather prediction based assessment of fire weather conditions over the forests of the Indian Himalayan Region.

03

Climate projections

CMIP6 scenarios used to estimate future fire-weather conditions.

02 M.Sc. thesis

Cyclonic storms over the Arabian Sea

Master thesis at IISER Kolkata.

M.Sc. thesis

Investigation on the increased frequency of cyclonic storms over Arabian Sea (1982-2019)

Objectives

  1. Vorticity and divergence analysis during cyclonic days.
  2. Study of sea surface temperature, wind shear and accumulated cyclone energy.
  3. Synoptic analysis of the genesis potential parameter along the cyclone track.
  4. Future projection of cyclonic storms over the Arabian Sea and prediction of their severity.
  5. Analysis of path speed, CI number and central pressure of cyclones, with their future projection.

Dr. M.G. Manoj, Scientist-D, ACARR, CUSAT, Kalamassery, Cochin, Kerala, India
Dr. Sayantan Sarkar, Associate Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, IIT Mandi (at IISER Kolkata during the thesis)

03 Summer internships

Two internships

Short research projects during the M.Sc. programme.

Internship

Heat wave analysis over different parts of India and its effect on human mortality

Objectives

  1. Trend analysis of temperature over the mega cities of India.
  2. Temperature and mortality correlation, and projection of mortality due to global warming.

Dr. Pankaj Kumar, Assistant Professor, IISER Bhopal

Internship

Black body radiation and determination of Planetary Boundary Layer over the gateway of Indian Monsoon

Objectives

  1. Black-body radiation studies to determine the temperature rise associated with the monsoon.
  2. PBL determination over the Cochin region to reduce health risk and pollution.

Dr. M.G. Manoj, Scientist-D, ACARR, CUSAT, Kalamassery, Cochin, Kerala, India