Faculty

Samiran Mandal is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi in India. Before joining the Centre, Samiran was associated with the Ocean Engineering Laboratory as an Institute Post Doctoral Fellow at IIT Bombay in India. Samiran’s broad research interest lies in exploring the physical and dynamical processes within the upper ocean at multiple spatio-temporal scales (from tidal to interannual and sub-mesoscales to mesoscales) to investigate the coastal and open ocean processes in the Northern Indian Ocean and within the Maritime Continents. Samiran’s research interests particularly include investigating the tides and tidal current hydrodynamics in the Gulfs and coastal ocean, understanding the oceanic processes associated with mesoscale and sub-mesoscale eddies, and the upper ocean response to the tropical cyclones from multiple new-generation observation platforms, specifically the High-Frequency Radars (HFR) and hydrodynamic tidal models along the Indian coast. On the basin scale, Samiran is working on investigating the surface and subsurface marine heatwaves in the northern Indian Ocean to relate them to the boundary currents, tropical cyclones, and marine productivity.