Prof. A. Chandrasekar
Area of Research
Area of Research
Numerical modeling of the atmosphere, data assimilation, mesoscale modeling, land-atmosphere interaction.
Department
Education
- Ph.D. from IISc, Bangalore.
- M.Sc. from Department of Marine Sciences, Cochin University.
- B.Sc. from University of Madras.
Past Affliation
- Head, Center for Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences, IIT Kharagpur (July 2008 – June 2009).
- Professor in Department of Physics & Meteorology. IIT-Kharagpur (Aug 2004 – 2009).
- Associate Professor in Department of Physics & Meteorology, IIT-Kharagpur (May 1999 – Aug 2004).
- Assistant Professor in Department of Physics & Meteorology, IIT-Kharagpur (Jan 1996 – May 1999).
- Lecturer in Department. of Physics & Meteorology, IIT-Kharagpur (July 1988 – Dec 1995).
- SRF and JRF, IISc, Bangalore (1984 – 1987).
Member of Professional Bodies
- Member: The National Academy of Sciences, India.
- Life Member: India Meteorological Society.
- Life Member: Indian Society for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.
Member, Editorial Board
- Disaster Advances Journal.
- Open Journal of Marine Science
Member, Editorial Advisory Committee : The Open Atmospheric Science Journal
Publication of Books:
- Chandrasekar, A.and M. Govindankutty, 2013. “Studies on the impacts of 3DVAR assimilation of satellite observations on the simulation of monsoon depressions over India“, Springer;ISBN 978-3-642-35087-0 ( pp 643-705) in “Data Assimilation for Atmospheric, Oceanic and Hydrologic Applications (Vol. II)” eds. by Seon Ki Park and Liang Xu
- A book titled“Basics of Atmospheric Science” (2010)byA. Chandrasekar(446 pages and costing Rs 375) has been published byPHI Learning Private Limited, New Delhi.
Click here to view the Cover Page, Foreword, and Contents of the book. - A book titled“Numerical methods for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences” (2022) by A. Chandrasekar (519 pages and costing Rs 1500) has been published by Cambridge University Press.
Click here to view the Front Page, Back Page, First Page, Foreword, Preface and Contents of the book. - The second edition of the book titled "Basics of Atmopsheric Science" (2022) by A. Chandrasekar(472 pages and costing Rs 895) has been published by PHI Learning Private Limited, New Delhi.
Click here to view the Cover Page of the second edition of the above book.
Projects:
- ‘Impact of assimilating high temporal resolution data from INSAT-3D in high-resolution mesoscale model for prediction of severe weather systems over Bay of Bengal and neighbouring land region,’- Funded bySAC, ISRO
- ‘Assimilation of Oceansat-2 scatterometer in mesoscale model’- Funded bySAC, ISRO
- Impact of assimilating SAPHIR and GPS-ROS data from MEGHA TROPIQUES in high resolution mesoscale model for prediction of severe weather systems over IndiaFunded byIIST