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P. N. Vinayachandran

P. N. Vinayachandran

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Earth Science

D-Index
48
Citations
14667
World Ranking
3713
National Ranking
16

Overview

P. N. Vinayachandran is a researcher affiliated with the Indian Institute of Science in India, specializing in Earth and Planetary Sciences with a focus on Oceanography and related fields. Their work spans a broad range of topics centered on oceanographic and atmospheric processes, climate variability, marine ecosystems, and tropical cyclone research.

Their main fields of study include Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Within these, subfields of study emphasize Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, and Environmental Chemistry.

Key research topics covered by Vinayachandran include:

  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Climate variability and models
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics

Frequent coauthors collaborating on scientific publications are:

  • Jenson V. George
  • Anoop A. Nayak
  • Amol Prakash
  • Abhisek Chatterjee
  • V. Vijith

Vinayachandran has published extensively in journals such as Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Progress In Oceanography, Ocean Modelling, and Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. These venues have hosted multiple publications highlighting their work on ocean dynamics and climate-related phenomena.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Vinayachandran include:

  • Reviews and syntheses: Physical and biogeochemical processes associated with upwelling in the Indian Ocean, 2021, Biogeosciences
  • Closing the sea surface mixed layer temperature budget from in situ observations alone: Operation Advection during BoBBLE, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Unprecedented Surface Chlorophyll Blooms in the Southeastern Arabian Sea During an Extreme Negative Indian Ocean Dipole, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • High-Resolution Operational Ocean Forecast and Reanalysis System for the Indian Ocean, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Injection of Oxygenated Persian Gulf Water Into the Southern Bay of Bengal, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters

Best Publications

  • A Dipole Mode in the Tropical Indian Ocean

    N. H. Saji;Bhupendra Nath Goswami;Puthenveettil NarayanaMenon Vinayachandran;T. Yamagata

  • The monsoon currents in the north Indian Ocean

    D. Shankar;P.N. Vinayachandran;A.S. Unnikrishnan

  • Hydrography and circulation in the western Bay of Bengal during the northeast monsoon

    S. R. Shetye;A. D. Gouveia;D. Shankar;S. S. C. Shenoi

  • Extremes of the Indian summer monsoon rainfall, ENSO and equatorial Indian Ocean oscillation

    Sulochana Gadgil;P. N. Vinayachandran;P. A. Francis;Siddhartha Gadgil

  • Observations of barrier layer formation in the Bay of Bengal during summer monsoon

    P. N. Vinayachandran;V. S. N. Murty;V. Ramesh Babu

  • Phytoplankton bloom in the Bay of Bengal during the northeast monsoon and its intensification by cyclones

    P. N. Vinayachandran;Simi Mathew

  • Intrusion of the Southwest Monsoon Current into the Bay of Bengal

    P. N. Vinayachandran;Yukio Masumoto;Tetsuya Mikawa;Toshio Yamagata

  • BOBMEX: The Bay of Bengal Monsoon Experiment

    G. S. Bhat;S. Gadgil;P. V. Hareesh Kumar;S. R. Kalsi

  • Response of the equatorial Indian Ocean to an unusual wind event during 1994

    P. N. Vinayachandran;N. H. Saji;Toshio Yamagata

  • Monsoon Response of the Sea around Sri Lanka: Generation of Thermal Domesand Anticyclonic Vortices

    P. N. Vinayachandran;Toshio Yamagata

  • Indian Ocean dipole mode events in an ocean general circulation model

    P.N. Vinayachandran;Satoshi Iizuka;Toshio Yamagata

  • On the roles of the northeast cold surge, the Borneo vortex, the Madden‐Julian Oscillation, and the Indian Ocean Dipole during the extreme 2006/2007 flood in southern Peninsular Malaysia

    Fredolin T. Tangang;Liew Juneng;Ester Salimun;P. N. Vinayachandran

  • Droughts of the Indian summer monsoon: Role of clouds over the Indian Ocean

    Sulochana Gadgil;P. N. Vinayachandran;P. A. Francis

  • Biological response of the sea around Sri Lanka to summer monsoon

    P. N. Vinayachandran;P. Chauhan;M. Mohan;S. Nayak

  • A summer monsoon pump to keep the Bay of Bengal salty

    P. N. Vinayachandran;D. Shankar;Siddharth Vernekar;K. K. Sandeep

  • Indian Ocean response to anomalous conditions in 2006

    P. N. Vinayachandran;Jaison Kurian;C. P. Neema

  • The warm pool in the Indian Ocean

    P. N. Vinayachandran;S. R. Shetye

  • Reviews and syntheses: Physical and biogeochemical processes associated with upwelling in the Indian Ocean

    Puthenveettil Narayana Menon Vinayachandran;Yukio Masumoto;Michael J. Roberts;Michael J. Roberts;Jenny A. Huggett

  • Biophysical Processes in the Indian Ocean

    J.P. McCreary;R. Murtugudde;J. Vialard;P.N. Vinayachandran

  • Dynamics of Andaman Sea circulation and its role in connecting the equatorial Indian Ocean to the Bay of Bengal

    Abhisek Chatterjee;D. Shankar;J. P. McCreary;P. N. Vinayachandran

  • Mechanisms of formation of the Arabian Sea mini warm pool in a high-resolution Ocean General Circulation Model

    Jaison Kurian;P. N. Vinayachandran

  • Observations of barrier layer formation in the Bay of Bengal during summer monsoon : The role of surface salinity on upper ocean dynamics, air-sea interaction, and climate (SURFSAL)

    P. N. Vinayachandran;V. S. N. Murty;V. Ramesh Babu

Frequent Co-Authors

D. Shankar
D. Shankar National Institute of Oceanography
Toshio Yamagata
Toshio Yamagata Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Adrian J. Matthews
Adrian J. Matthews University of East Anglia
Sulochana Gadgil
Sulochana Gadgil Indian Institute of Science
Julian P. McCreary
Julian P. McCreary University of Hawaii at Manoa
Yukio Masumoto
Yukio Masumoto University of Tokyo
S. S. C. Shenoi
S. S. C. Shenoi Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services
Raleigh R. Hood
Raleigh R. Hood University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
S. R. Shetye
S. R. Shetye National Institute of Oceanography
Kyung-Ja Ha
Kyung-Ja Ha Pusan National University

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