Professor
Tel. (919) 515-1440
E-mail: sethu_raman@ncsu.edu
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Curriculum Vitae

1966 A.M.I.E. (B.S. equiv.), Institution of Engineers, India, Civil Engineering

1969 M. E. (Hons.), University of Roorkee, Roorkee, India Specialization in hydraulics. M.E. Thesis on the drag coefficient of a sphere rolling along a rough boundary.

1972 PhD, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA Specialization in fluid dynamics. Ph.D. Thesis on the physical modeling of an urban heat island.

TEACHING AND RESEARCH AREAS

Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction, Scale Interactions in Climate Change, Biosphere-Atmosphere Interction, Planetary Boundary Layer, Hurricanes, Monsoon Dynamics, Air Pollution Modeling, Numerical Weather Forecasting and Mesoscale Dynamics. Over 350 publications including 135 in refereed international journals.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Hong,X.*, S.Chang, S.Raman, L.K.Shay, and R.Hodur, 1999: The ineraction between Hurricane Opal(1995) and a warmcore eddy in the Gulf of Mexico, Monthly Weather Review, 128, 1347-1365.

Hong,X.*, S.Raman, R.Hodur, and L.Xu, 1999: The mutual response of the tropical squall line and the ocean, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 155, 1-32.

Cione,J.*, R.A.Neuherz, S.Raman, L.J.Pietrafesa, K.Keeter, and X.Li, 1998: The use of boundary layer baroclinicity in determining and operationally implementing the Atlantic surface cyclone intensification, Boundary Layer Meteorology, 8, 211-224.

Wu,Y.*, and S.Raman, 1998: The summer time Great Plain low level jet and the effect of its origin on moisture transport, Boundary Layer Meteorology, 88, 445-466.

Roswintiarti, O.*, D.S.Niyogi, and S.Raman, 1998: Teleconnections between the tropical Pacific sea surface temperature anamolies and North Carolina precipitation anomolies during El Nino events, Geophysical Research Letters, 25, 4201-42.