Dr Indrani Roy
Associate Research Fellow
Extension: 5910
Telephone: 01392 725910
I am working in ‘SAPRISE’ (South Asian Precipitation: A Seamless Assessment) project, that involves several UK and Indian organisations and aims to improve overall understanding on monsoon. My areas of research interest are solar variability, QBO (Quasi-Biannual Oscillation), ENSO (El-Niño Southern Oscillation), other major modes of climate variability, stratosphere-troposphere coupling, climate change, atmosphere-ocean coupling and monsoon. I am a Fellow of Royal Meteorological Society (FRMetS) and reviewer for journals- Nature Geoscience, Tellus, Climate Dynamics, Geophysical Research Letters (GRL), Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR) and Journal of Climate.
Education:
Ph.D. Space and Atmospheric Physics Group, Imperial College London. Thesis: Solar Signals in Sea Level Pressure and Sea Surface Temperature. Funded by UK Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) and supervised by Prof. J.D.Haigh, Head of the Department, Physics, Imperial College, London.
M.Phil. Solar Physics Group, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Sheffield, U.K.. Thesis: Magnetoacoustic-gravity surface waves for parallel propagation with Flow.
M.Sc. (1st class), Fluid Dynamics as special paper, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. B.Sc., Physics (Hons), St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, India.
Employment:
I worked in India Meteorological Department (IMD) for more than 12 years. I worked as a Research Associate (2010-11), Imperial College, London and was visiting Researcher (2011-12), UCL (University College London), London working on CMAT2 model (Coupled Middle Atmosphere and Thermosphere General Circulation Model).
Publications:
[1] Roy, I., 2013, ‘The role of the sun in atmosphere-ocean coupling’ International Journal of Climatology, in press.
[2] Roy, I. and Haigh, J.D., 2012, ‘Solar Cycle Signals in the Pacific and the Issue of Timings, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2012, 69, 4, 1446-1451, ISSN:0022-4928. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-11-0277.1. [Pdf]
[3] Roy, I. and Haigh, J.D., 2011, ‘The influence of solar variability and the quasi-biennial oscillation on lower atmospheric temperatures and sea level pressure’, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP), 11, 11679-11687, ISSN:1680-7316. doi: 10.5194/acp-11-11679-2011. Research highlights, Nature Geoscience, (2012), 5, 5 doi:10.1038/ngeo1370.
[4] Roy, I. and Haigh, J.D., 2010, ‘Solar cycle signals in sea level pressure and sea surface temperature’, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP), 10, 6, 3147–3153, ISSN:1680-7316,doi:10.5194/acp-10-3147-2010.
[5] Roy, I. and Bondyopadhaya, R., 2000, ‘Effect of altitude on the variation of pre-monsoon thunderstorm frequency during periods of higher sun spot number’,Mausam, 2000, 51, 3, 235-244.
[6] Roy, I. and Sen, P.K., 1998, ‘A statistical study of duststorm frequency over NW India during pre-monsoon season’, Vayu Mandal, 1998,1, 46-49.
[7] Kar1,I. and Bondyopadhaya, R.,1998, ‘A climatological study of premonsoon thunderstorm frequency over Sriniketan, Alipore and Kalaikunda’, Mausam, 1998, 49, 2, 262-264.
[8] Kar, I. and Bondyopadhaya, R.,1996, ‘Analysis of pre-monsoon thunderstorm frequency over Sriniketan, Alipore and Kalaikunda- The possible association with solar activity’, Mausam, 1996, 47, 4, 383-394.
1my maiden name was Kar.
