Prof. Vimal Koul

Vimal Koul joined as an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in September 2025. Vimal Koul was an Associate Research Scholar at the Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System, Princeton University and NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. He completed his Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering at Nagpur University (2011), Master's in Atmospheric Science at Pune University and Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (2016), and obtained his doctoral degree from the International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and University of Hamburg (2020). Following postdoctoral research at University of Hamburg and Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon (2020-2023), he joined Princeton University and NOAA-GFDL in 2023.

Vimal's research employs an interdisciplinary approach at the intersection of climate and marine ecosystem predictions, with a particular focus on near term (1-10 year) climate predictions. His interest lies in developing prediction systems and understanding how long term change and natural variability influence the large scale ocean circulation, and how such open ocean signals impact the shelf-seas. Vimal's work has contributed to advances in decadal climate prediction systems, delivering the first decade-long forecasts of fish stocks in European seas. His work spans Earth System Models to high-resolution regional ocean-sea-ice-biogeochemical models, including leading the development of dynamically downscaled physical-biogeochemical decadal predictions for the US East Coast.

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