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Pallav Ray Postdoctoral Fellow[Past Staff] International Pacific Research Center School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology University of Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 Email: |
Education
- 2008 - Ph.D., Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (RSMAS), University of Miami, Miami, FL.
Thesis: The initiation of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO). - 2002 - M.S. (Engineering), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
- 1998 - B.Eng. (Civil), Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.
Research Interests
- Tropical meteorology
- Madden-Julian Oscillation
- Tropics-extratropics interactions
- Regional climate modeling
- Model evaluation using satellite data
Scientific Work Experience
- Postdoctoral Fellow, IPRC, University of Hawaii, 2010 - 2012
- Postdoctoral Associate, Rosenstiel School Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (RSMAS), University of Miami, 2008 - 2010
- Visiting Scholar, Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology division, NCAR, Boulder, June 2007 - August 2007
- Graduate Student Fellow, Advanced Study Program (ASP) of the NCAR, Boulder, July 2006 - March 2007
Publications
- Ray, P., and T. Li, 2013: Relative roles of circumnavigating waves and extratropics on the MJO and its relationship with the mean state. J. Atmos. Sci., 70, 876-893, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-12-0153.1. IPRC-925.
- McNeeley, S.M., S.A. Tessendorf, H. Lazrus, T. Heikkila, I.M. Ferguson, J.S. Arrigo, S.Z. Attari, C.M. Cianfrani, L. Dilling. J.J. Gurdak, S.K. Kampf, D. Kauneckis, C.J. Kirchhoff, J. Lee, B.R. Lintner, K.M. Mahoney, S. Opitz-Stapleton, P. Ray, A.B. South, A.P. Stubblefield, and J. Brugger, 2012: Catalyzing Frontiers in Water-Climate-Society Research: A View from Early Career Scientists and Junior Faculty. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 93 (4), 477‐484, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00221.1. IPRC-826.
- Ray, P., 2012: Mean State and the MJO in a High Resolution Nested Regional Climate Model. In I. Yucel (Ed.), Atmospheric Model Applications, ISBN 978-953-51-0488-9, 69-84. IPRC-850.
- Ray, P., C. Zhang, J. Dudhia, T. Li, and M. W. Moncrieff, 2012: Tropical Channel Model. In L.M. Druyan (Ed.), Climate Models, InTech Open Access Publisher, ISBN 979-953-307-338-4, 3‐18. IPRC-823.
- Ray, P., and B.J. Soden, 2011: An analysis of the vertical structure of cloud ice under different precipitation regimes: CloudSat versus GCM simulations. Clim. Dyn.. submitted.
- Ray, P., C. Zhang, M.W. Moncrieff, J. Dudhia, J. Caron, L.R. Leung, and C. Bruyere, 2011: Role of the atmospheric mean state on the initiation of the Madden-Julian oscillation in a tropical channel model. Clim. Dyn., DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0859-2.
- Ray, P., and C. Zhang, 2010: A case study of the mechanics of extratropical influence on the initiation of the Madden-Julian oscillation. J.. Atmos. Sci., 67, 515-528.
- Ray, P., 2009: The initiation of the Madden-Julian oscillation. ISBN 978-3-639-13054-6, VDM Verlag publishing, Germany, 137 pp.
- Ray, P., C. Zhang, J. Dudhia, and S.S. Chen, 2009: A numerical case study on the initiation of the Madden-Julian oscillation. J. Atmos. Sci., 66, 310-331.
- Sengupta, D., P. Ray, and G.S. Bhat, 2002: Spring warming of the eastern Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal from buoy data. Geophys. Res. Lett., 29, 10.1029/2002GL015340.
- Ray, P., D. Sengupta, and G.S. Bhat, 2001: Annual cycle of heat flux and sea surface temperature in the North Indian Ocean. CAOS Report 2001 AS3, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.