Moist convective dynamics of Monsoons

Cloud clusters cover a wide range of scales: from the turbulent cloud cluster that we observe in the sky with our naked eyes to the gigantic organized cloud bands such as Monsoons, The Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), Cyclones,  the Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO) etc. that satellites observe. On these different scales clouds either aggregate through their own local cloud-circulation feedbacks or sometimes they are seen to ride on top of vortices linked to waves and instabilities. Although the monsoon dynamics has been studied for a long time, how monsoon convection organizes on a variety of time-scales is an unresolved enigma. This program will be organized around this unresolved scientific direction.Topics covered will include:Geophysical fluid dynamics of moist flows: Intro to GFD, Shallow Water equations, Two-layer models, Moist dynamics on equatorial beta plane, Waves and Instabilities, Idealised modeling, parameterisation of precipitation in GFD models.Physics of convectiv...