Publications

Manuscripts in Preparation

Nihar Paul, J. T. Farrar (2026).
Effect of 20–50-Day Variability on Upwelling in the Arabian Sea.
Manuscript in preparation for submission to Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.

Abhilash Kokkairala, Nihar Paul, Debasis Sengupta, Manikandan Mathur (2026).
Post-Monsoon Winds Drive Deep Near-Inertial Energy Penetration in the Bay of Bengal.
Manuscript in preparation for submission to Geophysical Research Letters.

Preprints

Nihar Paul, Amala Mahadevan (2026).
Near-inertial waves enhance vertical transport at ocean fronts.
Journal of Physical Oceanography (under revision).
Preprint DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.23460

Journal Articles

K. Mishra, Bishakhdatta Gayen, Kathryn L Gunn, P. N. Vinayachandran, Nihar Paul (2026).
Tracing the Abyssal Water Pathways in the Indian Ocean.
Geophysical Research Letters.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2026GL124017

Nihar Paul, M. Mathur, J. Sukhatme, J. T. Farrar, D. Sengupta (2026).
Influx of Bay of Bengal Waters and Stirring Trends in the Arabian Sea Based on Satellite Altimetry.
Geophysical Research Letters.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL113884

Nihar Paul, J. Sukhatme, B. Gayen, D. Sengupta (2023).
Eddy-Freshwater Interaction Using Regional Ocean Modeling System in the Bay of Bengal.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 128(4), e2022JC019439.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JC019439

Nihar Paul, J. Sukhatme, D. Sengupta, B. Gayen (2021).
Eddy Induced Trapping and Homogenization of Freshwater in the Bay of Bengal.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 126(6), e2021JC017180.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JC017180

Nihar Paul, J. Sukhatme (2020).
Seasonality of Surface Stirring by Geostrophic Flows in the Bay of Bengal.
Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 172, 104684.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2019.104684

Thesis

Nihar Paul (2022).
Stirring and Mixing Driven by Mesoscale Eddies in the Stratified Bay of Bengal.
Ph.D. Thesis, Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences,
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India.
Thesis: https://etd.iisc.ac.in/handle/2005/5855