Department of
Earth and Climate Science

Argha Banerjee obtained his PhD in theoretical physics in 2010 from TIFR, Bombay. He was a postdoctoral fellow at IMSc, Chennai, and INSPIRE faculty fellow at IISER Kolkata before joining IISER Pune in 2015.

Research

Himalayan glaciers Argha is interested in a range of problems related to Himalayan glaciers, with a broader objective of contributing to a quantitative understanding of the co-evolution of the Himalayan ice, water, climate and landscape. Some of the specific problems being studied are decadal to millennialscale variability of Himalayan glaciers, impacts of supraglacial debris-cover on the recent ice-loss in the Himalaya, the sensitivity of the glaciers on meteorological forcing, hydrology of Himalayan catchments, mountainglacier contribution to sea-level rise, and erosional evolution of fluvial and glacial landscapes. He uses computer simulations, field experiments, and remote-sensing methods to address the issues.

Selected Publications

Pankaj Kumar, M S Saharwardi, Argha Banerjee, M F Azam, Aditya K Dubey, Raghu Murtugudde (2019). Snowfall Variability Dictates Glacier Mass Balance Variability in Himalaya-Karakoram, Scientific Reports, 9: 18192.

Sunil S Singh, Argha Banerjee, Harish C Nainwal, R Shankar (2019). Estimation of the total subdebris ablation from point-scale ablation data on a debris-covered glacier, Journal of Glaciology, 65 (253): 759-769.

Argha Banerjee, Tejal Shirsat, and Reshama Kumari (2018). Prevalence of power‐law profiles in passive margin escarpments, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 123: 1699–1709.

Argha Banerjee, and Bilal A Wani (2018). Exponentially decreasing erosion rates protect the highelevation crests of the Himalaya, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 497, 22.

Argha Banerjee (2017). Brief communication: Thinning of debris-covered and debris-free glaciers in a warming climate, The Cryosphere, 11 (1): 133.