About Me

Hello! I am Rajat, a PhD candidate in the Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at Princeton University, advised by Dr. Rong Zhang. I have a broad interest in the field of climate dynamics and my PhD thesis, focuses on investigating the teleconnection mechanisms associated with the weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). To investigate these teleconnections, I typically analyse the model output from the idealised hosing experiments conducted using the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory high-resolution fully coupled climate model. Besides my thesis project, I am also interested in research problems related to extreme weather events such as tropical cyclones (intense ones called as hurricanes), extratropical storms, heat waves, and atmospheric rivers.

Before coming to Princeton, I completed my Master’s in Climate Science at the Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, where I worked with Prof. V. Venugopal. My master’s thesis looked at how Indian monsoon floods evolve on sub-seasonal timescales during La Niña and non-La Niña years.