A research project carried out under the ICTS Long-Term Visiting Students Programme (LTVSP) has received notable international recognition.
Krithin Gowthaman, a former LTVSP student and now a PhD candidate at Yale University, worked on a project with Prof. Jim Thomas that led to a publication in the prestigious Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. Their work focused on developing a novel data-driven model to capture turbulent flows that are often overlooked in coarse-resolution climate and ocean models.
The significance of this research was further recognized at the Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, held in January 2026. Presented under the Atmosphere and Ocean Fluid Dynamics (AOFD) series, Krithin won the poster presentation award.
While congratulating Krithin Gowthaman and Prof. Thomas, Centre Director Rajesh Gopakumar expressed confidence in the success of LTVSP program. He said, “I am sure we will see many more such examples of strong undergraduate research coming out of the LTVSP program, which is something more or less unique to ICTS.”