Dr. Abhishek Savita

Research Division 1: Ocean Circulation and Climate Dynamics
Research Unit: Maritime Meteorology

Office: Room:  4.309
Phone: +49 431 600-1533

Fax: +49 431 600-1533
Email: asavita(at)geomar.de

Address: Wischhofstr. 1-3, 24148 Kiel, Germany

Research Interest

  • Air-Sea Interactions and Climate Extreme
  • Ocean/Atmosphere/Coupled Climate Modelling
  • Global Ocean Heat and Salt Budget
  • Ocean Warming & Sea Level Rise
  • Water Mass Transformation
  • Indian Monsoon

Work and Education

2021.05-present :     Postdoctorial researcher at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean
                                   Research  Kiel, Germany

2021.02-2021.04 :     Ocean data analysist at University of Tasmania,
                                   Australia

2017.06-2021.02 :     PhD in Physical Oceanography at University of Tasmania (UTAS) 
                                  & Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), 
                                  Australia

2015-2017           :    Junior Research Fellow at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur,
                                  India

2013-2015           :    M. Tech (Master of Technology) in Physical Oceanography at Indian Institute of 
                                 Technology  (IIT) Kharagpur, India

2011-2013           :     M.Sc. (Master of Science) in Mathematics at Indian Institute of 
                                  Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India

2008-2011           :     Bachelor of science in Mathematics at C.S.J.M University, India

Publications

Academic Supervision Activity

Master Thesis:
Denise Fukai (November 2021 to April 2023; completed)
Topic: South Atlantic Water Masses Characterisation in CMIP6 Earth System simulations

Lukas Schreiber (since November 2022 to April 2023; completed)
Topic: Intercomparison of Salt Budget in CMIP6 Coupled Climate Models

Teaching & Tutorials

1) Numerical Methods (tutorials)

2) Tropospheric & Stratospheric Dynamics and Physics (tutorials)

3) Data Analysis and Statistics (tutorials)

4) Climate Modelling (few Lectures)

Awards/Recognitions

2021            :  A best performance Cash Reward for work on the CMIP6 submission, CSIRO,
                       Australia.
2017-2021  :   International IMAS Tasmania Graduate Research Scholarship, Univ. Tasmania,
                       Australia
2017- 2021 :  Quantitative Marine and Science international scholarship top-up, Univ. Tasmania,
                       CSIRO, Australia
2020            :  American Geophysical Union (AGU) travel grant to attend ocean science meeting 2020
                       at San Diego USA
2013-2017   : Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (Gate) Fellowship from Ministry Human
                       Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India.