Publications

Please reach out to me in case you are interested to obtain a copy of in-review papers as well as to discuss some of the in-prep papers

Journal

Kerhalkar, S., Kannad, A., Kinsella, A., Tandon, A., Sprintall, J., & Lee, C. M. (2025). Monsoon-Frontal Interactions Drive Cyclone Biparjoy’s Wake Recovery in the Arabian Sea, Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2024GL112413. link pdf
Kerhalkar, S., Tandon, A. & MacKinnon, J.(in review). Impacts of Salinity Stratification on sub-seasonal SST warming in the Northern Indian Ocean., Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.
Kerhalkar, S., Tandon, A., Farrar, J. T., MacKinnon, J., Schlosser, T., Johnson, L., Lucas, A.J., Hormann, V. & Centurioni, L. (in review). Modulation of Diurnal SST and Diurnal Warm Layer Variability by Salinity-Driven Stratification in the Bay of Bengal., Journal of Physical Oceanography.
Pham, H.T., Sarkar, S.,Kerhalkar, S., & Tandon, A. (in prep). How do the interactions between winds, heat fluxes and frontal currents / jets affect the vertical and cross-front thermal transport in the Dense Water Filament?, Journal of Physical Oceanography.
Sarkar, D.,Kerhalkar, S., & Tandon, A. (in prep) Inaccuracies in reanalysis products: A case study of the Arabian Sea from 2017 to 2018, Journal of Climate

Kerhalkar, S., Tandon, A., Hormann, V., & Centurioni, L. (2022, February). Using drifter observations to unearth the mysteries of Monsoons in the Bay of Bengal. In OCEANS 2022-Chennai (pp. 1-7). IEEE. link pdf

Kerhalkar, S.(2026), Salinity Stratification and Lateral Variability in the Northern Indian Ocean: From Calm Diurnal Cycles to Cyclone-Induced Recovery, PhD Thesis. link
Kerhalkar, S., & Francis, P.A. (2018), Studying the Oceanic Vertical Mixing in Bay of Bengal using the KPP Boundary Layer Scheme, Technical Report in Indian Academy of Sciences. link pdf