Dr Jalihal studies the climate of the last 150,000 years using a combination of complex Earth system models and simple theoretical models. The paleo perspective has the potential of throwing a new light on monsoon and its variability, especially during transitions between ice ages and warm climatic states. This means that he uses climate data that come from times before instrumental measurements were possible.
Within the framework of the Humboldt Research Fellowship, he now wants to use the paleo perspective to decipher the variability of the monsoon. Since the monsoon influences the lives of nearly 2 billion people in South Asia, understanding its variability in a changing climate is of great importance. To this end, Chetankumar Jalihal will conduct sensitivity experiments with the fully coupled Max Planck Institute Earth System Model (MPI-ESM). The consistent modeling of climate that this will enable will explore the physical link between the AMOC and the monsoon.
What is a Humboldt Research Fellowship?
Scientists* from abroad with above-average qualifications who are at the beginning of their scientific career can apply to the Bonn Foundation for a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship. This gives fellows the opportunity to carry out a long-term research project of their own choice (6-24 months) in cooperation with an academic host of their own choice at a research institution in Germany.
Further information
About Chetankumar Jalihal
Working group “Physics of the Ocean"
Humboldt Foundation
Contact
Dr Chetankumar Jalihal
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
Phone: 040 41173 181
Email: chetankumar.jalihal@mpimet.mpg.de
Uwe Mikolajewicz
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
Phone: 040 41173 243
Email: uwe.mikolajewicz@mpimet.mpg.de