Siddhant (Sid) Kerhalkar

Siddhant (Sid) Kerhalkar

Postdoc, Department of Oceanography

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

In-Prep/In-Review

  • 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.

  • Pham, H.T., Sarkar, S.,Kerhalkar, S., & Tandon, A. (submitted). Intense turbulence by stabilizing and destabilizing Ekman buoyancy fluxes at submesoscale ocean fronts, Geophysical Research Letters.

  • Sarkar, D.,Kerhalkar, S., & Tandon, A. (in prep) Air-Sea Heat Flux Biases in Reanalyses Products in the Arabian Sea, Journal of Climate

Accepted/Published

  • Kerhalkar, S., Tandon, A., Farrar, J. T., MacKinnon, J., Schlosser, T., Johnson, L., Lucas, A.J., Hormann, V. & Centurioni, L. (in press). Modulation of Diurnal SST and Diurnal Warm Layer Variability by Salinity-Driven Stratification in the Bay of Bengal., Journal of Physical Oceanography. https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/phoc/aop/JPO-D-25-0134.1/JPO-D-25-0134.1.xml PDF

  • 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. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL112413 PDF

Datasets

  • Kerhalkar, S., Tandon, A., Farrar, J. T., MacKinnon, J., Schlosser, T., Johnson, L., Lucas, A., Centurioni, L., & Hormann, V. (2025, June 6). Datset for ``Modulation of Diurnal SST and Diurnal Warm Layer Variability by Salinity-Driven Stratification in the Bay of Bengal” (Version v1) [Dataset]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15507276

Conference

  • 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

Reports

  • Kerhalkar, S.(2025), Salinity Stratification and Lateral Variability in the Northern Indian Ocean: From Calm Diurnal Cycles to Cyclone-Induced Recovery, PhD Thesis. Embargoed until March 12 2026

  • 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