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Program: Moist Convective Dynamics of Monsoons - II
ORGANIZERS: Gilles Bellon (CNRS, France), Maxime Colin (Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research, Germany), Vishal Dixit (IIT Bombay, India), Eric Maloney (Colorado State University, USA), Rajat Masiwal (University of Chicago, USA), Divya Sri Praturi (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany), S. Ravichandran (IIT Bombay, India) and Jim Thomas (ICTS-TIFR and TIFR-CAM, India)
DATE & TIME: 11 May 2026 to 22 May 2026
VENUE: Ramanujan Lecture Hall, ICTS, Bengaluru
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. The program will be organized around this unresolved scientific direction.
The program will tie threads across the three themes:
Geophysical fluid dynamics
Physics of atmospheric convection
Understanding variability in monsoon dynamics
and will follow up from the previous workshop: icts.res.in/program/Monsoon
CONTACT US: monsoon@icts.res.in
PROGRAM LINK: icts.res.in/program/monsoon2
Program: Moist Convective Dynamics of Monsoons - II
ORGANIZERS: Gilles Bellon (CNRS, France), Maxime Colin (Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research, Germany), Vishal Dixit (IIT Bombay, India), Eric Maloney (Colorado State University, USA), Rajat Masiwal (University of Chicago, USA), Divya Sri Praturi (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany), S. Ravichandran (IIT Bombay, India) and Jim Thomas (ICTS-TIFR and TIFR-CAM, India)
DATE & TIME: 11 May 2026 to 22 May 2026
VENUE: Ramanujan Lecture Hall, ICTS, Bengaluru
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. The program will be organized around this unresolved scientific direction.
The program will tie threads across the three themes:
Geophysical fluid dynamics
Physics of atmospheric convection
Understanding variability in monsoon dynamics
and will follow up from the previous workshop: icts.res.in/program/Monsoon
CONTACT US: monsoon@icts.res.in
PROGRAM LINK: icts.res.in/program/monsoon2
