Storms caused massive Antarctic sea ice loss in 2016
A series of unprecedented storms over the Southern Ocean likely caused the most dramatic decline in Antarctic sea ice seen to date, a new study finds. Antarctic sea ice – […]
Pranab Deb
West Antarctic Climate Modeller
I joined the British Antarctic Survey as a climate modeller in 2014 after finishing my PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.
I investigate the climate of West Antarctica using high resolution atmosphere-only regional-scale model.
Research interests
My current research involves setting up a high resolution regional atmospheric model (the Polar optimised version of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model) over the highly variable West Antarctic region. We aim to produce a high resolution climatology of West Antarctica and understand the climatic changes observed in the recent past. We also aim to capture the impact of complex orography and surface forcing which characterise the region and to investigate the interaction of mesoscale processes (e.g., polar lows) with large scale processes and orography. Another goal is to use the high-resolution model to generate climate projection for the next century over West Antarctica.
I also have experience of working with ocean-sea ice coupled models (NEMO-LIM) over the Southern Ocean. My previous work involves investigating tropics – pole teleconnection over the Indian Ocean sector of the Antarctic.
2014 Pranab Deb, Mihir Kumar Dash, Prem Chand Pandey, Effect of Pacific warm and cold events on the sea ice behavior in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean, Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, Volume 84, February 2014, Pages 59-72, ISSN 0967-0637, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2013.10.002.
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Seminar Organiser, Atmosphere, Ice and Climate