Center for Ocean, River, Atmosphere and Land Sciences

                              Indian Institute of Technology,  Kharagpur

 

   

Dr. Arun Chakraborty

  Professor
  Center for Ocean, River, Atmosphere and Land Sciences
  Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
  West Bengal  - 721 302, India

  E-mail : arunc@coral.iitgp.ernet.in
  Phone
: 91-3222-281826 (O)
  Phone : 91-3222-281827 (R)
 

 Educational Background :

 PhD      :  Atmosphere and Ocean Science, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India 1999

 MTech  :   Atmospheric Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India 1994

 MSc     :  Physics, Specialization in Solid State physics with Super-Conductivity,

                Vidyasagar University,  Midnapur ,West Bengal, India 1991

 

Positions Held :

Associate Professor  : Center for Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences (CORAL)

                                  IIT -Kharagpur,  16 July 2012 to till date

Assistant Professor  : Center for Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences (CORAL)

                                  IIT -Kharagpur,  2006 to 15 July 2012

Research Scientist   :  Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, The University of Tokyo,

                                   Japan and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., 2002 to 2006


Research Associate
: Department of Meteorology, Florida State University ,USA, 2000 to 2002


Lecturer                  : Mody College of Engineering & Technology, Lakshmangarsh , Sikar,

                                  Rajasthan, India, 1999 to 2000


Project Scientist      : Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology,

                                   New Delhi, India, 1999

 

Research Interests :

  • Development of Bay of Bengal Ocean Circulation Prediction Model
  • Ocean Circulation Modeling, Air-Sea Interaction and Data Assimilation
  • Climate Studies
  • Modeling for Fluid Dynamical Problems
  • Visualization of Modeling Fields

 

 Technical-Skills :

  • System : SUN-SPARC, Dec-Alpha, Silicon Graphics Indy, IBM/SP and PCs.
  • Environments : Unix, LINUX, DOS and WINDOWS.
  • Programming Languages: Fortran-77,90,95,C and C++.
  • Packages: GrADs (Graphics Package for Atmospheric and Oceanic application), Grapher Surfer, LaTEX Matlab ,Havard Graphics, GnuPlot, etc.

 

Special Training :

Sr. No.

 

Type of School

Topic

Institute

During the month

1

Short term training programme on digital signal and image processing

Digital and Image Processing

Department of Electronics and Computer Science and Engineering, Sri Guru Govinda Singhji College of Engineering and Technology, Vishnupuri, Nanded-431606, M. S.

 

June 5, 2000 to June 17, 2000

2

Summer SERC School

Advanced Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

 

Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India

 

May - June, 1996

 

3

Modelling and Monitoring of Coastal Marine Processes (MAMCOMP)

 

Marine Processes

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

November

1995

4

Development of Software Package for Flux retrieval Scheme

 

Satellite Data Analysis

Space Application Center, ISRO, Ahmedabad, India

June-December 1993