Dr Bidyut Bikash Goswami
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Muller Group, ISTA
Hi, I am Bidyut.
I did my Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, India. For my post-doctoral research I worked with Prof Boualem Khouider at the University of Victoria, Canada; Prof Andrew Majda at the New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE; and Prof S-I An at the Yonsei University, South Korea. Currently, I am working in the Muller group (of Prof. Caroline Muller) at ISTA.
If you have any queries about my research or any possible collaboration, please write to me at bgoswami@ist.ac.at
If you are a student and you want to pursue a career in Atmospheric Sciences, I will be happy to discuss possible future plans.
Research
My research interests are to study the organization of clouds & convection and the dynamics & thermodynamics of the tropical climate.
I am from Assam, India. Because of its critical geographical location, which is sandwiched between the mighty Himalayas in the north and the Garo, Khasi, Jayantia, Mizo, Naga, and Patkai hills in the south, and because it falls under the Indian summer monsoon zone, it has its unique weather and climate. I was naturally attracted to and curious about clouds and rainfall. My first research publication addressed the extreme rainfall events in this region. I found these events occur due to the multiscale interaction of the large-scale circulation and the local orography.
I have moved from where I started my research. My paper on extreme rainfall events motivated me to study the large-scale, Indian Monsoon, in more detail. The Indian monsoon is one of the most complex atmospheric phenomena varying almost at all time scales. Within a given season, the Indian monsoon exhibits two prominent fluctuations (or oscillations). Scientists call them the 10-20-day and 30-60-day oscillations. My Ph.D. research was to understand these oscillations. The approach that I used for my research is called Superparameterization.
One thing led to another. I defended my Ph.D. and moved to Canada to do my post-doctoral research. The research approach changed as well. I was working on the SMCM in Canada. Then I moved to NYUAD for my next assignment to further develop the SMCM.
Time for some change and I moved to Seoul in 2019. Some tough times studying climate change in Seoul. Nonetheless, when the going gets tough, the tough get going. I learned a lot about various tricks of the trade while in Korea.
Back to clouds working with Caroline at ISTA.
