Dr. Abhishek Savita
Research Division 1: Ocean Circulation and Climate Dynamics
Research Unit: Maritime Meteorology
Office: Room: DW-020
Phone: +49 431 600-1533
Fax: +49 431 600-1533
Email: asavita(at)geomar.de
Address: Düsternbrooker Weg 20, D-24105 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.
