Abhishek Panchal

Scientist/Engineer SD (March 2016-Present)

• System administration of Petascale Computing System at NARL including user management, user support, library installations.
• DevelopedWebGIS-based website to visualize near real-time weather forecast data. Involved in the operational running of WRF-based daily weather forecast at NARL
• Developed a flask-based software interface to visualize data from weather monitoring instruments.
• Day-to-day management of BMS, Chillers, Cooling Towers, UPS,etc for the support of the petascale computing system at NARL.
• Participated in disseminating weather forecast data to support the ISRO launch activities at SDSC, SHAR.
• Part of research activities related to improving the understanding of dynamical processes behind extreme weather events like cyclones, thunderstorms, and western disturbances.
• Management of meteorological instruments on weather tower, and automated retrieval of weather parameters.
• Developed python teaching modules and organized python training at the laboratory for the capacity building of junior scientists and Research scholars.
• Member of Project Execution Committee for National Clean Air Program. Planned execution of sampling and analysis campaign for the project.
• Member, Editorial Team, NARL Newsletter

• Python
• OpenMP, MPI , CUDA
• Full-Stack Web Development
• C++
• Fortran
• TensorFlow, Keras
• Bash
• REST CRUD API

• Bhate, Jyoti, Amit Kesarkar, Arpita Munsi, Kasturi Singh, Asish Ghosh, Abhishek Panchal, Ramkumar Giri, and MM Ali. 2023. “Observations and Mesoscale Forecasts of the Life Cycle of Rapidly Intensifying Super Cyclonic Storm Amphan (2020).” Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics 135 (1): 7.
• Munsi, A, AP Kesarkar, JN Bhate, K Singh, A Panchal, G Kutty, MM Ali, Ashish Routray, and RK Giri. 2022. “Atmosphere-Upper-Ocean Interactions During Three Rare Cases of Rapidly Intensified Tropical Cyclones over North Indian Oceans.” Journal of Oceanography, 1–13.
• Munsi, Arpita, Amit Kesarkar, Jyoti Bhate, Abhishek Panchal, Kasturi Singh, Govindan Kutty, and Ramkumar Giri. 2021. “Rapidly Intensified, Long Duration North Indian Ocean Tropical Cyclones: Mesoscale Downscaling and Validation.” Atmospheric Research 259: 105678.
• Munsi, Arpita, Amit Kesarkar, Jyoti Bhate, Kasturi Singh, Abhishek Panchal, Govindan Kutty, and Ramkumar Giri. 2022. “Simulated Dynamics and Thermodynamics Processes Leading to the Rapid Intensification of Rare Tropical Cyclones over the North Indian Oceans.” Journal of Earth System Science 131 (4): 211.
• Para, JA, Amit Kesarkar, J Bhate, V Singh, A Panchal, A Munsi, Y Shivamurthy, S Lotus, N Ahmad, and JA Sheikh. 2020. “Large-Scale Dynamics of Western Disturbances Caused Extreme Precipitation on 24–27 January 2017 over Jammu and Kashmir, India.” Modeling Earth Systems and Environment 6: 99–107.
• Patnaik, Kavita, Amit P Kesarkar, Subhrajit Rath, Jyoti N Bhate, Abhishek Panchal, Anantharaman Chandrasekar, and Ramakumar Giri. 2023. “A 1-d Model to Retrieve the Vertical Profiles of Minor Atmospheric Constituents for Cloud Microphysical Modeling: I. Formulation and Validation.” Science of The Total Environment, 163360.