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Research

Research activities

• Coastal operational ocean modeling (western North Atlantic (MARCOOS), Brazil Current system, Trinidad-North Brazil Current ring region, Gulf of Maine/Georges Bank)
• Basin-scale circulation modeling to understand the North Atlantic Oscillation and its impact on the Gulf Stream, the Gulf of Maine and the ecosystem
• Synthesis of multi-scale, multi-disciplinary data sets from satellite and in-situ observations with numerical models in different parts of the world ocean
• Recent Changes in Shelfbreak Exchange on the New England Shelf: Process-Oriented Observations of Salinity Maximum Intrusions, Funded by NSF (08/2019--07/2022).

Research

Research interests

• Ocean circulation and numerical modeling
• Applying mesoscale and finer resolution models for operational synoptic ocean forecasting
• Understanding the multi-scale response of ecosystems to multi-scale climatic forcing using innovative basin-scale modeling and data-model assimilation and synthesis approaches

Select publications

• Gangopadhyay, A., G. Gawarkiewicz, N. Etige, M. Monim and J. Clark (2019).
  An Observed Regime Shift in the Formation of Warm Core Rings from the Gulf Stream
  Scientific Reports, 9
  
• Shee, A., Sil, S., Gangopadhyay, A., Gawarkiewicz, G., & Ravichandran, M (2019).
  Seasonal evolution of oceanic upper layer processes in the northern Bay of Bengal following a single Argo float
  Geophysical Research Letters, 46
  
• Gawarkiewicz, G., R.E. Todd, W. Zhang, J. Partida, A. Gangopadhyay, M.-U.-H. Monim, P. Fratantoni, A. Malek Mercer, and M. Dent. (2018).
  The changing nature of shelf-break exchange revealed by the OOI Pioneer Array
  Oceanography, 31(1):, 60–7.
  

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• An operational modeling implementation for the Trinidad-Venezuela region using feature models
• Multiscale forecasting in the western North Atlantic: Sensitivity of model forecast skill to glider data assimilation
• Optimal Planning and Sampling Predictions for Autonomous and Lagrangian Platforms and Sensors in the Northern Arabian Sea
• Secular change and inter-annual variability of the Gulf Stream position, 1993–2013, 70°−55°W
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