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K.P. Sooraj Postdoctoral Fellow[Past Staff] International Pacific Research Center School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology University of Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 Email: |
Education
- 2005 - Ph.D. in Meteorology, Cochin University of Science and
Technology, Cochin, India
Topic: A Diagnostic and Modeling study of the Summer Monsoon onset over South Asia - 1999 - M.Sc. in Meteorology, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, India
- 1995 - B.Sc. in Mathematics, Calicut University, Calicut, India
Research Interests
- ENSO and IOD events and its relationship with Asian Monsoon and Global climate
- South Asian Summer Monsoon Onset Mechanisms and Intraseasonal Variability
- ENSO-WWB Interaction
- Seasonal Predictability of the Tropical Coupled Ocean-atmosphere system
Scientific Work Experience
- Postdoctoral Fellow, International Pacific Research Center, SOEST, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, Jan. 2009 ñ March 2011
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Climate Environment System Research Center, Seoul National University, Korea, Apr. 2006 – Oct. 2008
- Research Associate, Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, Jan. 2005 – Mar. 2006
- Research Fellow, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, India, Aug. 1999 – Dec. 2004
Refereed Publications
- Kug, J.-S., K.P. Sooraj, F.-F. Jin, and J.-J. Luo, 2009: Impact of Indian Ocean Dipole on high-frequency atmospheric variability over the Indian Ocean. Atmospheric Research, in press.
- Kug, J.-S., K.P. Sooraj, T. Li, F.-F. Jin, and I.-S. Kang, 2010: Precursors of the El Niño/La Niña onset and their inter-relationship. J. Geophys. Res., 115, D05106, doi:10.1029/2009JD012861.
- Sooraj, K.P., D. Kim, J.-S. Kug, S.-W. Yeh, F.-F. Jin, and I.-S. Kang, 2009: Effects of the Low-Frequency zonal wind variation on the High Frequency atmospheric variability over the tropics. Clim. Dyn., DOI 10.1007/s00382-008-0483-6.
- Kug, J.-S., K.P. Sooraj, D. Kim, I.-S. Kang, F.-F. Jin, Y.N. Takayabu, and M. Kimoto, 2008: Simulation of state-dependent high frequency atmospheric variability associated with ENSO. Clim. Dyn., DOI 10.1007/s00382-008-0434-2.
- Kug J.-S., F-F. Jin, Sooraj K. P. and I.-S. Kang, 2007: Evidence of the state-dependent atmospheric noise associated with ENSO. Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1029/2007GL032450.
- Joseph, P.V., K.P. Sooraj, and C.K. Rajan, 2006: The Summer Monsoon onset Process over South Asia and an Objective method for the Date of Monsoon Onset over Kerala. International Journal of Climatology, 26, 1871–1893.