Sharan Majumdar

Assistant Professor
Meteorology and Physical Oceanography (MPO)
Rosenstiel School of Marine and 
Atmospheric Science (RSMAS)
University of Miami
4600 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, FL 33149-1098
U.S.A.

Phone : (305) 421 4779
Fax : (305) 421 4696
e-mail : smajumdar at rsmas dot miami dot edu

Site last updated: 1/27/10

Monterey

Students and Collaborators

Publications

Presentations

Teaching

Everything Else

Hurricane Wilma Pix

National Geographic Article

MSC 243: Fall 09



Assimilating satellite data into high-resolution hurricane models (NOPP)

New Graduate Research Assistantship Available Starting Fall 2010 CIMSS Tropical Cyclones
NRL Tropical Cyclones


PREDICT 2010: Ensemble Forecasts and Predictability of Tropical Cyclogenesis (NSF)

New Graduate Research Assistantship Available Starting Fall 2010 Ryan Torn's Page
NSF EOL Page
Project Summary


Coordinated Motion of Unmanned Aerial Systems in Tropical Cyclones (NSF)

New Graduate Research Assistantship Available Starting Fall 2010 Derek Paley's Page
2007 Noel News Release
Video of Aerosonde
Bob Hart's AMSU Phase Space
Sharan's NCEP GFS plots
CIMSS AMSU
NRL Monterey: Noel
NOAA UAS


Sources of error in 1-8 day hurricane forecasts (NOAA/HFIP)

Adaptive Sampling paper: also published as ECMWF Tech Memo (.pdf)
Atlantic ETKF vs TESV Comparisons
Old JHT Project Page


Tropical Cyclone Predictability and Adaptive Sampling: TCS-08 and T-PARC (ONR)

Field Catalog
Munehiko's Page
Will's Page
UMiami Targeting Page
2007 ETKF Guidance
2006 ETKF Guidance


Assimilation of QuikSCAT data and its influence on tropical cyclone forecasts (NOAA/NASA)

New Webpage and Preliminary GFS/GSI results
Preliminary Results: MM5/4dVar
The QuikSCAT controversy
Congressional Hearing


WISDOM: Launching horizontal balloon sondes to improve hurricane forecasts (NOAA/DHS)

Official WISDOM Website
WISDOM Training Photos
2008 Daily Bulletins


Evaluating Global Ensemble Forecasts of Hurricanes and Typhoons (ONR/UMiami)

Manuscript submitted to WAF (June 2009) Summer 2008 cases


Adaptive Sampling and Prediction in Monterey Bay (ONR)

ROMS model ensemble forecasts of the coastal ocean, and guidance on adaptive sampling of autonomous underwater vehicles
Home ASAP Virtual Control Room Virtual Pilot (Mar '06)
Meteorology Princeton ASAP Page AOSN-II


Predicting the influence of observations on medium-range winter weather forecasts (NOAA/THORPEX)

THORPEX: A decade-long program to understand and improve the predictability of 1-14 day weather forecasts
Manuscript submitted to MWR (June 2009) Adaptive Sampling guidance extended to the medium range 2009 Winter T-PARC
Kathryn Sellwood's Research Page
Dan Hodyss's Research Page


African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis: Adaptive Sampling and Predictability (NASA)

Guidance on regions to collect additional observations to improve forecasts of African easterly wave activity and tropical cyclogenesis
Home
NASA N-AMMA Home
AMMA International
AMMA-US


Lateral Influences on the Madden-Julian Oscillation (NSF)

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