My name is Prajvala Kurtakoti, and I am currently a George S. Benton Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University. I am a physical oceanographer by training, and I have worked extensively in studying ocean processes and air-sea interactions associated with open-ocean deep convection within polynyas in the Weddell Sea in a high-resolution Earth System Model. I have also worked on Bjerknes Compensation (BJC) on decadal to longer timescales across the CMIP6 (Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project Phase 6) DECK (Diagnostic, Evaluation and Characterization of Klima) experiments to identify critical processes that contribute to the inter-model spread of BJC and the role of sea ice and cloud radiative effects in the Labrador, Nordic, and Barents Seas. At present, my research focuses on identifying the processes influencing the variability in meridional ocean heat transport on sub-decadal to multi-decadal timescales in the sub-polar North Atlantic region [47–65°N, 0–60°W] and into the Nordic Seas across pre-industrial simulations in CMIP6.

ORCID: 0000-0002-1499-5980