Moist Turbulent Convection
High-resolution simulations of conditionally unstable atmospheric convection.
During my FARE fellowship at IIT Kanpur, I worked on high-resolution simulations of dry and moist turbulent convection in Earth’s troposphere.
Atmospheric convection couples buoyant turbulence, moisture, and large-scale circulation.
The project studies how moisture, conditional instability, and intermittency alter turbulent transport. It connects fundamental convection physics with processes relevant to atmospheric flows and monsoon dynamics.
Research questions
- How does latent heating reorganize turbulent transport?
- What controls intermittency in conditionally unstable convection?
- How do dry and moist systems differ across spatial scales?