Dr. Dipanjan Dey Assistant Professor
School of Earth, Ocean and Climate Sciences

Research Interests

Global hydrological cycle; Indian Ocean circulation; Water-mass transformation; Indian Monsoon; Large Scale atmosphere-ocean Circulation

Contact Details

  • +91 6747135534
  • dipanjandey@iitbbs.ac.in

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Education

 Degree Discipline Year School
  Ph.D Atmospheric Sciences and Oceanography 2021 Stockholm University, Sweden
  M.Tech Climate Science and Technology 2016 IIT Bhubaneswar, India
  Equivalent to BE/B.Tech Aeronautical Engineering 2014 The Aeronautical Society of India
 

Biosketch

 

Teaching

Spring Semester : Air-Sea Interaction , Numerical Simulation Laboratory - Oceanic Processes
 
Autumn Semester : Modelling of Dynamical Processes of Ocean and Atmosphere , Application of Statistics and Mathematics in Climate Science Laboratory

Projects

Principal Investigator: SUrface Buoyancy fLux variations over the Indian Ocean and Meridional Exchange (SUBLIME). Commencement: 12-06-2024 Completion: 12-06-2026. Funding agency: IIT Bhubaneswar Seedgrant

Co-Principle Investigator, Co-production of a community engagement group for people from ethnic minority backgrounds, 01st August 2022 – 31st July 2023 (Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Southampton).

Co-Principle Investigator, TRACing moisture sources of extreme rainfall over India - a tool for Better monsoon pRedIction at Synoptic TImescales (TRAC-BRISTI), 01st August 2023 – 31st July 2024 (Global Partnership Award 2023, University of Southampton).

Recent Publications (International Journals)

1Dey, D., Joseph, L., Ray, A., Marsh, R., Skliris, N., Turner, AG., Dey Choudhury, A., Mukhopadhyay, P., Chakraborty, A., & Sil, S. (2025). Interactions between subpolar and subtropical jet streams lead to extreme rainfall events over the North Indian Subcontinent in June 2013 and July 2023. Climate Dynamics 63, 230. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-025-07712-w
2Dey, D., Marsh, R., Drijfhout, S., Josey, S. A., Sinha, B., Grist, J., & Döös, K. (2024). Formation of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation lower limb is critically dependent on Atlantic-Arctic mixing. Nature Communications, 15(1), 7341. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51777-w
3Joseph, L., Skliris, N., Dey, D., Marsh, R., & Hirschi, J. (2024). Increased summer monsoon rainfall over Northwest India caused by Hadley cell expansion and Indian Ocean warming. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2024GL108829. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL108829
4Harris, E., Dey, D., Marsh, R., Grist, J. (2024). Meridional Heat Convergence Will Increase Tropical North Atlantic Heat Content Available for Hurricane Intensification. In: Collins, J., Done, J., Zhu, YJ., Wilson, P. (eds) Advances in Hurricane Risk in a Changing Climate. Hurricane Risk, vol 3. Springer, Cham. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-63186-3_4
5Marsh, R., Dey, D., Lenn, YD. et al (2024). Shifts from surface density compensation to projected warming, freshening and stronger stratification in the subpolar North Atlantic. Climate Dynamics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-024-07336-6
6Dey, D., Geen, R., Lambert, F. H., Agrawal, S., Vallis, G., Marsh, R., & Döös, K. (2023). Identification of the atmospheric water sources and pathways responsible for the East Asian summer monsoon rainfall. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4621
7Geen, R., Pietschnig, M., Agrawal, S., Dey, D., Lambert, F. H., & Vallis, G. K. (2023). The Relationship between Model Biases in East Asian Summer Monsoon Rainfall and Land Evaporation. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 2029–2042. DOI: https:// doi.org/10.1007/s00376-023-2297-1
8Dey, D., Aldama Campino, A., & Döös, K. (2023). Atmospheric water transport connectivity within and between ocean basins and land. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 27(2), 481-493. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-481-2023
9Dey, D., & Döös, K. (2021). Tracing the origin of the South Asian summer monsoon precipitation and its variability using a novel Lagrangian framework. Journal of Climate, 34(21), 8655-8668. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0967.1
10Dey, D., & Döös, K. (2020). Atmospheric freshwater transport from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean: A Lagrangian analysis. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(6), e2019GL086176. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL086176
11Pramanik, S., Sil, S., Mandal, S., Dey, D., & Shee, A. (2019). Role of interannual equatorial forcing on the subsurface temperature dipole in the Bay of Bengal during IOD and ENSO events. Ocean Dynamics, 69, 1253-1271. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10236-019-01303-0
12Dey, D., & Döös, K. (2019). The coupled ocean–atmosphere hydrologic cycle. Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography, 71(1), 16504. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/16000870.2019.1650413
13Dey, D., Sil, S., Jana, S., Pramanik, S., & Pandey, P. C. (2017). An assessment of TropFlux and NCEP air-sea fluxes on ROMS simulations over the Bay of Bengal region. Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, 80, 47-61. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2017.09.002
 

Academic Honors & Awards

  • International Meteorological Institute (IMI) visitor fellowship (2024) by the Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University
  • Life member of The Aeronautical Society of India.
  • Silver Medalist in M.tech (2014 - 2016) from Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India
  • Research on "Atmospheric freshwater transport from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean: A Lagrangian analysis" was selected for featuring as an Editor’s Highlight: https://eos.org/editor-highlights/a-new-perspective-on-a-classic-climate-conundrum
 

Research Scholar

Co-supervision of Ph.Ds:
Name: Verena Nadine Jung
Registered at: Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University, Sweden
Started: September 2023
 
 
Name: Pritee Priyanka Mohapatra
Registered at: School of Earth, Ocean and Climate Sciences, IIT Bhubaneswar
Started: 2024
 
 
 
 

Professional Experience

August 2021 - October 2021 : Research assistant at the Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University, Sweden. October 2021 - March 2022: Postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Exeter, United Kingdom (UK). Line manager: Prof. Geoffrey Vallis. April 2022 - December 2023 - Postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, UK. Line manager: Prof. Robert Marsh

International Cricket Player. Played for Sweden in 2021

https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/dipanjan-dey-1273282

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