Research Interest:

• Monsoons 
• Clouds and Climate Processes
• Climate Modeling
• Modeling Solar and Wind Energy Intermittency
  

• Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru 
• Masters (Mechanical Engineering), Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru 
• B.E. (Mechanical Engineering), Mumbai University

1. Masiwal, Rajat, Vishal Dixit, and Ashwin K. Seshadri. “Contrasting controls on convection at latitude zones near and away from the equator for the Indian summer monsoon”, Environmental Research Letters, Volume 18, Number 11 (2023) [Journal web-page]
2. Masiwal, Rajat, Vishal Dixit, and Ashwin K. Seshadri. “Explaining Dynamics and Rapid Onset of the Somali Jet Through Its Kinetic Energy Budget.” Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences (2022) [Journal web-page]
3. Bao, Jiawei, Vishal Dixit, and Steven C. Sherwood. “Zonal temperature gradients in the tropical free troposphere.” Journal of Climate (2022): 1-28. [Journal web-page]
4. Seshadri, Ashwin K., and Vishal Dixit. “Kinetic Energy Generation in Cross‐Equatorial Flow and the Somali Jet.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 127.13 (2022): e2022JD036634. [Journal web-page]
5. Dixit, Vishal, Louise Nuijens, and Kevin C. Helfer. “Counter‐gradient momentum transport through subtropical shallow convection in ICON‐LEM simulations.” Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 13.6 (2021): e2020MS002352.
6. Dixit, Vishal, Olivier Geoffroy and Steven C. Sherwood,  “Control of ITCZ width by low-level radiative heating from upper-level clouds in aquaplanet simulations”, Geophysical Research Letters, 45.11 (2018) : 5788-5797[Journal web-page]
7. Dixit, Vishal, Steven Sherwood, Olivier Geoffroy and Damianos Mantsis,  “The Role of Non-linear Drying above the Boundary Layer in the Mid-Holocene African Monsoon”, Journal of Climate, 31.1 (2018) : 233-249. [Accepted version]
8. Dixit, Vishal, and J. Srinivasan,”The role of vertical shear of the meridional winds in the northward propagation of ITCZ”, Geophysical Research Letters (2011), 38, no.8., [Journal web-page]
9. For the full list of all the publications please visit my personal webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/vishaldixit/home

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