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Prasanth Appukuttan Pillai Postdoctoral Fellow[Past Staff] International Pacific Research Center School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology University of Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 Email: |
Education
- 2009 - Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences, Cochin University of Science
and Technology, Cochin, India
Topic: Studies on the role of Tropospheric Biennial Oscillation on Interannual variability of Indian summer monsoon - 2002 - M.Sc. in Meteorology, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, India
- 2000 - B.Sc. in Physics, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India
Research Interests
- Mechanism of interannual variability of Asian summer monsoon
- Role of Tropospheric Biennial Oscillation in Asian summer monsoon
- ENSO – Monsoon relationship
- Asian monsoon and climate change
Scientific Work Experience
- Postdoctoral Fellow, International Pacific Research Center, SOEST, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 2009 – April 2011
- Research Fellow, NMITLI Project phase -II, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, India, October 2008 – May 2009.
- Research Scholar, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, India, March 2004 – September 2008
- Junior Research Fellow, NMITLI Project for monsoon related predictions, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, India, December 2002 – March 2004
Refereed Publications
- Pillai, P.A, and K. Mohankumar, 2009: Individual and combined influence of El Nino Southern Oscillation and Indian Ocean Dipole in Tropospheric Biennial Oscillation. Quarterly Journal of Royal Meteorological Society, (accepted).
- Pillai, P.A, and K. Mohankumar, 2008: Possible link of stratospheric QBO with TBO associated with Indian-Australian monsoon system. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics (revision over).
- Pillai, P.A, and K. Mohankumar, 2007: Seasonal modification of Walker Circulation Cells associated with Tropospheic Biennial Oscillation cycle. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics (under review).
- Pillai, P.A, and K. Mohankumar, 2009: Effect of late 1970's climate shift on Tropospheric Biennial Oscillation- Role of local Indian Ocean processes on Asian Summer monsoon monsoon. International Journal of Climatology (published online).
- Pillai, P.A, and K. Mohankumar, 2009: Role of TBO and ENSO scale Ocean-Atmosphere interaction in the Indo-Pacific region on Asian summer monsoon variability. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, DOI 10.1007/s00704-008-0053-1.
- Mohankumar, K., and P.A Pillai, 2008: Stratosphere-Troposphere interaction associated with Biennial oscillation of Indian summer monsoon. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 77, 764 – 773. DOI:10.1016/j.jastp.2007.12.001.
- Pillai, P.A, and K. Mohankumar, 2008: Local Hadley circulation over Asian monsoon region associated with Tropospheric biennial oscillation. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 91, 171 – 179. DOI 10.1007/s00704-007-0305-5.
- Pillai, P.A, and K. Mohankumar, 2007: Tropospheric biennial oscillation of Indian summer monsoon with and without El-nino southern oscillation. International Journal of Climatology, 27 (15), 2095 – 2101.