Beena Balan Sarojini

I'm a post-doctoral Research Scientist at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS)- Climate Division, which is part of the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading and Walker Institute for Climate System Research.

Research Interests

I am interested in studying aspects of the future and present climate, using climate models/measurements, that have global impacts. Recently, I have started analysing the climate projections of changes in the water cycle using historic and natural forcings, as part of the PAGODA project. Prior to this, my research focus has been mainly on the role of ocean in the climate and climate variability. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a major component of the climate system due to its associated northward heat transport. I have analysed output from global coupled climate models to understand the physical causes of the variability of the AMOC and also evaluated it using the recent AMOC measurements. During my PhD, I investigated how day-to-day weather fluctuations affected large-scale ocean circulations using a hybrid coupled model.

Publications

B. Balan Sarojini, J.M Gregory, R. Tailleux, G. Bigg, A. Blaker, D. Cameron, N.Edwards, A. Megann, L. Shaffrey, B. Sinha (July, 2011) High frequency variability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. Ocean Science, Vol 7, 471-486, DOI: 10.5194/os-7-471-2011

B.S.Beena and J.S. von Storch (April, 2009) Effect of daily surface flux anomalies on the time-mean oceanic circulation. Climate Dynamics, Vol. 33, No.1, 1-18, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-009-0575-y

B.S.Beena (November, 2006) Effect of daily surface flux anomalies on the time-mean oceanic circulation. Reports on Earth System Science, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany Vol. 31 (Ph.D. thesis), ISSN 1614-1199

J.S. von Storch, J.P. Montavez and B.S.Beena (December, 2005) EMAD: An Empirical Model of Air-Sea Fluxes. Meteorologische Zeitschrift, Vol. 14, No.6, 755-762, DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2005/0080