

Project Leader: Oceanographic Observations in the Northern Bay of Bengal Deep Convection Region During CTCZ.Program manager: Extended range Prediction of Summer Monsoon Co-Project Leader: Estimation and validation of Fresh water flux and its influence on ocean circulation and Hydrography.Co-Project Leader: Development of coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Model for strategy of Indian Summer Monsoon.Project Leader: Variations in the Indian Ocean Warmpool and its association with the Indian Summer Monsoon.Project member: Process studies and seasonal prediction experiment using coupled general circulation model.Project member: Investigation of the generation of maritime dessert and clarification and prediction of its variability by the general circulation model using the Earth Simulator.Project leader: Environmental Impact Assessments studies in Gulf of Paria.Project leader: Gulf of Paria: Hydrography and circulation.Project member: TOGA-I, XBT observations in Indian Ocean Seas.

Lead talk at IBSA-Ocean workshop, Goa, India Rao, 2009: Climate variability in the Indian Ocean and its impact on global climate.

