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About me

Moin moin...

I am Geet George (he/him), an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences at TU Delft.

My fascination for clouds drives my research, which circles around the coupling of circulation and clouds, largely focused on the tropics. For these investigations, my primary weapons of choice are measurements (or observations) of the Earth's atmosphere, especially those made from aircraft and satellites. Head over to the Research section to know more. I also contribute to the scientific research community by means of open-source data and software, although admittedly less often as I would love to.

I use this webpage as a platform for providing information about my research. Ocassionally (read "almost never") I indulge in digital social media (see icons in sidebar) to talk about things that do not strictly belong to the domain of academia. Come meet me there or contact me the old school way. :)

Cheers,
Geet

Research

I am interested in studying the interaction of tropical clouds with their mesoscale environments, especially in terms of atmospheric dynamics. My primary tools in this investigation are measurements made during field campaigns such as EUREC4A. Recently I have been employing satellite observations to further such investigations.


For my doctoral research, I described the trade-wind meso-scale environments using measurements mainly from dropsondes, and quantified cloudiness via different measures using different airborne and spaceborne remote-sensing instruments. At the core of describing mesoscale environment was the estimation of kinematic factors such as divergence, vorticity and vertical velocity. This characterisation from colocated measurements made it possible to understand the interplay between clouds, moisture and mesoscale circulations.

Current Research

My current obsession is with the ubiquitous presence of Shallow Mesoscale Overturning Circulations (SMOCs) in the northern Atlantic trade-wind regions. I found their signals in measurements made during the EUREC4A field campaign.

The work is now published in Nature Geoscience :)



Publications

For a full list of my publications, please visit my Google Scholar page

Current Position

Assistant Professor

09/2023 onwards

Geosciences & Remote Sensing

Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences

TU Delft


Resume

(For a complete CV, please contact me).

Former positions

Postdoctoral researcher


09/2021 - 09/2023

Max Planck Institute for Meteorology

Tropical Cloud Observations group

Visiting researcher


09/2022 - 11/2022

CNRM / MeteoFrance, Toulouse

Dr. Fleur Couvreux & the TROPICS group

Education

Ph.D. - Earth Sciences

(magna cum laude)
2018 - 2021

Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (affil. IMPRS & UHH)

  • Advisors: Prof. Dr. Bjorn Stevens, Dr. Sandrine Bony, Dr. Marcus Klingebiel
  • Thesis: Observations of meso-scale circulation and its relationship with cloudiness in the tropics

M.Tech. - Environmental Engineering

2015 - 2017

IIT Kanpur

  • Advisor: Prof. Dr. S. N. Tripathi
  • Thesis: Characterisation of cloud vertical structure and cloud radiative forcing over Kanpur

B.Tech. - Civil Engineering

(Hons.)
2009 - 2014

CEPT University

  • Advisor: Prof. Bhargav Tewar
  • Thesis: Comparative study of pile capacity calculation methods using static formulae

Field Work Experience

Arctic Meteorology

Mar – Apr, 2022 (6 weeks)

HALO-(AC)3
Kiruna, Sweden

  • Dropsondes operations (HALO aircraft) & data-processing
  • Mission PI for HALO’s flight on 12.04.2022

Marine Tropical Atmosphere

Jan – Feb, 2020 (5 weeks)

EUREC4A
Barbados

  • Dropsondes operations (HALO aircraft) & data-processing
  • Mission PI for HALO’s flight on 31.01.2020

Indo-Gangetic Plain Meteorology

2016 – 2017 (operational)

Monsoon Mission
Kanpur supersite, IIT Kanpur

  • Operation and data-retrieval of HATPRO microwave radiometer
  • Helped operations and maintenance of Eddy-covariance flux tower

Indian Summer Monsoon

Jul - Aug, 2016 (5 weeks)

INCOMPASS
Kanpur, IIT Kanpur

  • Coordination and operations of 3-hourly radiosonde launches
  • Post-processing and extraction of cloud vertical structure

Contact



Geet George

(he/him)



Room number: 2.22
Building 23, Stevinweg 1
Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences
TU Delft
Delft, The Netherlands

Email: g.george@tudelft.nl
Mail: PO box 5048, 2600 GA Delft