Geophysical Flows Lab

With its hub at IIT Madras, GFL is a conglomerate of academic and industrial researchers from around the world. GFL is envisaged as a centre with a unified approach, combining field measurements, climate modelling and laboratory modelling (theory/simulations/experiments towards geophysical flows.While significant recent progress has been achieved in physical oceanography, laboratory studies, and numerical ocean & atmospheric modelling, a synergistic approach combining the three is the need of the hour. At GFL, we rigorously combine (i) new fine-scale field measurements, (ii) fine-scale laboratory (experimental/numerical/theoretical) modelling of upper ocean physical processes, and (iii) large-scale coupled ocean-atmosphere modelling to improve our understanding of air-sea interactions in the northern Indian Ocean, especially the poorly observed/understood coastal regions