आईआईटीएम
IITM

SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENTS

3. Secured All India Rank 11 in CSIR NET (Earth Sciences) 2014 and Rank 22 in CSIR NET (Engg.) 2014

2. Topped in Fundamentals of Radars for Atmospheric Research (FORFAR-2014), at Cochin University of Science and Technology, under the support of SERB, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.

1. Secured All India Rank 67 in GATE 2007 in Electronics and Communications stream

Publications in peer-reviewed journals

1. Chakraborty K., Joshi A.P., Ghoshal P.K., Balaji B., Valsala V., Sarma V.V.S.S., … et al., Indian Ocean acidification and its driving mechanisms over the last four decades (1980–2019), Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 38: e2024GB008139, September 2024, DOI:10.1029/2024GB008139, 1-24
2. Paul B., Balaji B., Paul A., A study of forecast sensitivity to observations in the Bay of Bengal using LETKF, Frontiers in Marine Science, 11:1340129, March 2024, DOI:10.3389/fmars.2024.1340129, 1-14
3. Patil C., Malap N., Sathyanadh A., Balaji B., Prabhakaran Thara, Karipot A., Moisture transport enhanced by the nocturnal low-level jet in association with the passage of a monsoon depression over the Indian subcontinent, Atmospheric Research, 272: 106123, July 2022, DOI:10.1016/j.atmosres.2022.106123, 1-15
4. Ghosh J., Chakraborty K., Bhattacharya T., Valsala V., Balaji B., Impact of coastal upwelling dynamics on the pCO2 variability in the southeastern Arabian Sea, Progress in Oceanography, 203: 102785, May 2022, DOI:10.1016/j.pocean.2022.102785, 1-14
5. Biswamoy Paul, Balaji Baduru, Arya Paul, P.A. Francis, Satish R. Shetye. Absence of the annual cycle in shelf current inshore of the East Indian Coastal Current, Continental Shelf Research, Volume 215, 2021, 104355,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2021.104355.
6. Sathyanadh A., Prabhakaran Thara, Subharthi Chowdhuri S., Balaji B., Resmi E.A., Karipot A., Evaluation of PBL parameterization schemes against direct observations during a land depression over Central India, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 144, April 2021, DOI:10.1007/s00704-021-03532-0, 253-271
7. Kolukula, S.S., Balaji Baduru., Murty, P.L.N., Pavan Kumar, J., Pattabhi Rama Rao, E.,  S. S. C. Shenoi., Gaps Filling in HF Radar Sea Surface Current Data Using Complex Empirical Orthogonal Functions. Pure Appl. Geophys. 177, 5969–5992 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-020-02613-x
8. Francis P. A, Jithin A. K, Effy B. John, Abhisek Chatterjee, Kunal Chakraborty, Arya Paul, Balaji B, S. S. C. Shenoi, Biswamoy P, Arnab Mukherjee, Prerna Singh, Deepsankar B, Siva Reddy S, Vinayachandran P. N, Girish Kumar M. S, Udaya Bhaskar T. V. S, Ravichandran M, Unnikrishnan A. S, Shankar D, Amol Prakash, Aparna S. G, Harikumar R, Kaviyazhaku K, Suprit K, Venkat Shesu R, Kiran Kumar N, Srinivasa Rao N, Annapurnaiah K, Venkatesan R, Suryachandra Rao A, Rajagopal E. N, Prasad V. S, Munmun Das Gupta, Balakirishnan Nair T. M, Pattabhi Rama Rao E, Satyanarayana B. V. 2020. High-resolution Operational Ocean Forecast and reanalysis System for the Indian Ocean. Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc. BAMS-D-19-0083.1. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0083.1
9.  Girishkumar, M.S., Ashin, A., McPhaden, M. J., Balaji, B., Praveen Kumar, B., 2020. Estimation of vertical heat diffusivity at the base of mixed layer in the Bay of Bengal. J. Geophys. Res. Ocean. 125, e2019JC015402. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019jc015402
10.  Samanta, S., Gayatri, K., Murugavel, P., Balaji, B., Malap, N., Jaya Rao, Y., Deshpande, S.M., Sonbawne, S.M., Suneetha, P., Prabha, T. V., 2019. Case Study of a Convective Cluster Over the Rain Shadow Region of Western Ghats Using Multi-platform Observations and WRF Model. Pure Appl. Geophys. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-019-02360-8
11. Balaji, B., Biswamoy Paul, Deep Sankar, B., Sivareddy, S., Arya Paul. 2019. Ensemble based regional ocean data assimilation system for the Indian Ocean: Implementation and evaluation. Ocean Modelling. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2019.101470.
12. Sivareddy, S., Deep Sankar, B., Balaji, B., Biswamoy Paul, Arya Paul, Kunal Chakraborty, Ibrahim Hoteit. 2019. Impact of Dynamical Representational Errors on an Indian Ocean Ensemble Data Assimilation System. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3649
13. Resmi, E. A., Murugavel, P., Dinesh, G., Balaji, B., Leena, P. P., Mercy, V., Sathy, N., Subharthi, C., Yogesh, T., Karipot, A., Prabha, T. V., 2019. Observed diurnal and intraseasonal variations in boundary layer winds over Ganges valley. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 188, 11–25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2019.03.012
14. Balaji, B., Prabha, T. V., Jaya Rao, Y., Kiran, T., Dinesh, G., Chakravarty, K., Sonbawne, S.M., Rajeevan, M., 2017. Potential of collocated radiometer and wind profiler observations for monsoon studies. Atmos. Res. 194, 17–26. doi:10.1016/j.atmosres.2017.04.023
15. Sathyanadh, A., Prabha, T. V., Balaji, B., Resmi, E.A., Karipot, A., 2017. Evaluation of WRF PBL parameterization schemes against direct observations during a dry event over the Ganges valley. Atmos. Res. 193, 125–141. doi:10.1016/j.atmosres.2017.02.016
16. Murugavel, P., Malap, N., Balaji, B., Mehajan, R.K., Prabha, T. V, 2016. Precipitable water as a predictor of LCL height. Theor. Appl. Climatol. 1–10. doi:10.1007/s00704-016-1872-0
17. Ghude, S.D., Bhat, G.S., Prabhakaran, T., Jenamani, R.K., Chate, D.M., Safai, P.D., Karipot, A.K., Konwar, M., Pithani, P., Sinha, V., Rao, P.S.P., Dixit, S.A., Tiwari, S., Todekar, K., Varpe, S., Srivastava, A.K., Bisht, D.S., Murugavel, P., Ali, K., Mina, U., Dharua, M., Jaya Rao, Y., Padmakumari, B., Hazra, A., Nigam, N., Shende, U., Lal, D.M., Chandra, B.P., Mishra, A.K., Kumar, A., Hakkim, H., Pawar, H., Acharja, P., Kulkarni, R., Subharthi, C., Balaji, B., Varghese, M., Bera, S., Rajeevan, M., 2017. Winter fog experiment over the Indo-Gangetic plains of India. Curr. Sci. 112, 767–784. doi:10.18520/cs/v112/i04/767-784

Other Publications

Technical Reports:

1. Balaji B., Deep Sankar Banerjee, Biswamoy Paul, S. Sivareddy, P. A. Francis, Abhisek Chatterjee & Arya Paul, 2018. LETKF-ROMS: An improved predictability system for the Indian Ocean. Technical Report. INCOIS, Hyderabad. http://moeseprints.incois.gov.in/4572/1/ESSO-INCOIS-MDG-TR-03%20%282018%29.pdf
2. Y Jaya Rao, B. Balaji, Thara Prabhakaran, M. Rajeevan. 2015. Technical Report: 1280 MHz Wind Profiler: Validation of wind measurements using high resolution GP-Radiosonde observations at IITM, Pune.
3. A Research Report on the 2015 Southwest Monsoon Edited by Milind Mujumdar, C. Gnanaseelan and M. Rajeevan. Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India. Chapter 4 - Observational Features of Monsoon 2015 from a Local Perspective by Resmi E. A, B. Balaji, Mercy Varghese, Subharthi Chowdhuri, S. Morwal and Thara Prabhakaran. https://www.tropmet.res.in/~lip/Publication/RR-pdf/RR-185.pdf

Proceedings:

1. Balaji Baduru, Thara Prabhakaran, Y. Jaya Rao, Kaustav Chakrvarty, Sunil M. Sonbawne, Asha Nath, Kundan K. Dani, Madhavan Nair N. Rajeevan. 2016. Observed dynamic and thermodynamic signatures of Monsoon convection, SPIE Conference, APRIL 2016, SPIE Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing
2. Jaya Rao Yeddu, Balaji Baduru, Thara Prabhakaran, Sunil M. Sonbawne, Asha Nath, Kundan K. Dani, Madhavan N. Rajeevan, Latha G., Suresh V., Hema Kumari P., 2016. Jet waves and instabilities as observed by continuous UHF wind profiler measurements during monsoon, SPIE Conference, APRIL 2016, SPIE Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing