Assistant Professor
Tel. (919) 515-7973
E-mail: anantha_aiyyer@ncsu.edu
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B.Sc., Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, 1992

M.Sc., Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, 1994

M.S., State University of New York, Albany, NY, 1999

PhD, State University of New York, Albany, NY, 2003

Tropical meteorology, atmospheric dynamics and climate variability.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Aiyyer, A., and J. Molinari, 2003: Evolution of mixed Rossby-gravity waves in MJO type environments. Journal of the Atmospheric Sc., 60, 2837-2855.

Nagarajan B., and A. Aiyyer, 2004: Performance of the ECMWF operational analysis during INDOEX and JASMINE. Monthly Weather Review, 132, 2275-2282.

Lapenis, A., A. Shivdenko, D. Shepaschenko, S. Nilsson, and A. Aiyyer, 2005: Acclimation of Russian forests to recent changes in climate. Global Change Biology, 11, 2090-2102.

Aiyyer, A., and C. Thorncroft, 2006: Climatology of vertical shear over the tropical Atlantic. Journal of Climate, 19, 2969-2983.

Aiyyer, A., and C. Thorncroft, 2006: Interannual to multidecadal variability of vertical shear in the tropics. Journal of Climate (submitted).

Aiyyer, A., and J. Molinari, 2006: MJO and tropical cyclogenesis in the Gulf of Mexico and eastern North Pacific: Case study and idealized numerical modeling. Journal of the Atmospheric Sc. (submitted).

Mekonen, A., C. Thorncroft, and A. Aiyyer, 2006: Analysis of convection and its association with African easterly waves. Journal of Climate (in press) Corbosiero, K. L., J. Molinari, A. Aiyyer and M. L.Black, 2006: The Structure and Evolution of Hurricane Elena (1985) Part II: Convective Asymmetries and Evidence for Vortex Rossby Waves. Monthly Weather Review (in press).

Atallah, E., L. F. Bosart, and A. Aiyyer 2006: Precipitation distribution associated with landfalling tropical cyclones over the eastern United States. Monthly Weather Review (accepted pending revisions).

Galarneau, T.J.Jr., L. Bosart and A. Aiyyer, 2006: A 54-Year Global Closed Anticyclone Climatology. Fred Sanders monograph, American meteorological society (in press).