Sharan Majumdar

Associate 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: 3/30/12

Monterey

Research Group and Collaborators

Everything Else

MPO 674: Spring 2012

MSC 243: Fall 2011

MSC 118: 2/15/12

Hurricane Wilma Pix

National Geographic Article

Cricket Article in the Times (UK)

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

UM PREDICT SITE

EOL Field Catalog

Ryan Torn's PREDICT page

Montgomery Research Group

Ryan Torn's Homepage

EOL PREDICT Front Page

Assimilation of satellite data into high-resolution hurricane models (NOPP: NOAA/HFIP and ONR)

Ting-Chi Wu's research page

CIMSS Tropical Cyclones

NRL Tropical Cyclones

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

Derek Paley's page

Video of Aerosonde

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

	Majumdar, Chen and Wu (2010, QJRMS): ETKF properties	Yamaguchi and Majumdar (2010, MWR): Ensemble perturbation growth	Wu et al. (2009, MWR): Targeting Intercomparison	Yamaguchi MS Thesis (2010)	Komaromi MS Thesis (2010) (87 MB!)
	IWTC-VII: 7th WMO International Workshop on Tropical Cyclones, La Reunion	Field Catalog	UMiami Targeting Page	2007 ETKF Guidance	2006 ETKF Guidance

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

Aberson et al. (2010, MWR): Observing System Experiments

Reynolds et al. (2007, MWR): Interpretation of adaptive observing guidance

Majumdar et al. (2006, MWR): Intercomparison of adaptive observing guidance

Atlantic ETKF vs TESV Comparisons

Old JHT Project Page

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

Chou et al. (2010, JGR): QuikSCAT Validation

GFS/GSI results

Preliminary Results: MM5/4dVar

The QuikSCAT controversy

Congressional Hearing

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

Majumdar and Finocchio (2010, WAF): Evaluating ensembles

Summer 2008 cases

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

	Majumdar et al. (2010, MWR): ETKF properties for medium-range	Sellwood et al. (2008, QJRMS): Evaluation of ETKF	Hodyss and Majumdar (2007, QJRMS): Contamination of 'data impact'	Toth and Majumdar (2007, BAMS): NOAA THORPEX Science Workshop	Petersen, Majumdar and Thorpe (2007, QJRMS): ETKF properties for short-range
	THORPEX-DAOS Working Group Meeting, 2010, Montreal, Canada	Adaptive Sampling guidance extended to the medium range	2009 Winter T-PARC	Kathryn Sellwood's M.S. Research Page

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

Official WISDOM Website

WISDOM Training Photos

2008 Daily Bulletins

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

Chao et al. (2008, Limnol. Oceanogr.): Applications of AUVs and models	Lermusiaux et al. (2006, Oceanography): Quantifying Uncertainty	Home	ASAP Virtual Control Room
Virtual Pilot (Mar '06)	Meteorology	Princeton ASAP Page	AOSN-II

African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis: Saharan Air Layer, Adaptive Sampling and Predictability (NASA)

Investigation of AIRS in SAL; Adaptive sampling guidance

Hildebrand MS Thesis (2010)

NASA N-AMMA Home

AMMA International

Lateral Influences on the Madden-Julian Oscillation (NSF)