Curriculum Vitae

11/21/2005

Dr. Ramalingam Saravanan

Education

October 1990:	Ph.D. (Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences)
	Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A.
	Graduate course-work in meteorology, oceanography and applied mathematics, followed by doctoral research.
May 1986:	Master of Science (Physics)
	Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.
	Five-year integrated masters program. Basic course-work in science, engineering, and the arts. Advanced course-work in physics, with emphasis on theory.

Professional Experience

Sep. 2005–present:	Professor
	Department of Atmospheric Sciences Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
June 2000–Aug. 2005:	Scientist III
	Climate & Global Dynamics Division National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
March 1993–June 2000:	Scientist I/II
	Climate & Global Dynamics Division National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
Sep. 1990–Feb. 1993:	Post-doctoral Research Associate
	Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England
Sep. 1986–Aug 1990:	Graduate Research Associate
	Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

Professional Service

Associate Editor, Journal of Climate, 2005-

Co-chair, Program Committee for the 14th AMS Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics, San Antonio, Texas, June 2003

Co-convener, NCAR/ASP Colloquium on the Dynamics of Decadal-to-Centennial Climate Variability, July 2000.

Member, AMS Committee on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics (2000-2003)

Member, U.S. CLIVAR Pacific Sector Implementation Panel (1999-2000)

Member, NASA Seasonal-to-Interannual Predictability (NSIPP) Science Team (2000-2005)

Postdoctoral Advisees

2001-2003: Alessandra Giannini (currently a scientist at IRI/Columbia University)

Teaching/Supervising

Fall 2004:	Taught part of a course on Statistical Methods in Climate Research at Texas A&M University
Summer 1994, 1995:	Supervised undergraduate student research under the NCAR Summer Employment Program
Lent Term 1991	Tutored undergraduates in Fluid Mechanics course at the University of Cambridge (England)

Served on the Ph.D Thesis Defense Committees of Chris Walker (U.C. Irvine), Leonard Rivier (Columbia University), Marcelo Barreiro (Texas A&M), Li Zhang (Texas A&M)

Awards, Scholarships

National Talent Search scholarship awarded by the National Council for Educational Research and Training (India), 1980–86.

Professional Societies

Member of the American Meteorological Society

Member of the American Geophysical Union

Thesis

Saravanan, R., 1990: Mechanisms of equatorial superrotation: Studies with two-level models. Ph.D. Thesis, Princeton University, 183pp.

Peer-reviewed Publications

Barreiro, M., P. Chang, L. Ji, R. Saravanan, A. Giannini, 2005: Dynamical Elements of Predicting Boreal Spring Tropical Atlantic Sea-Surface Temperatures. Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, 31, 61-85.

Barreiro, M., P. Chang, and R. Saravanan, 2005: Simulated Precipitation Response to SST Forcing and Potential Predictability in the Region of the South Atlantic Convergence Zone. Climate Dynamics, 24, 105-114.

Giannini, A., R. Saravanan, P. Chang, 2005: Dynamics of the boreal summer African monsoon in the NSIPP1 atmospheric model. Climate Dynamics, 25, 517-535.

Giannini, A., Saravanan, R., Chang, P., 2004: The preconditioning role of Tropical Atlantic Variability in the development of the ENSO teleconnection: implications for the prediction of Nordeste rainfall, Climate Dynamics, 22, 839-855.

Saravanan, R. and P. Chang, 2004: Thermodynamic coupling and predictability of tropical sea surface temperature. In: Earth's Climate: The Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction, Geophysical Monograph 147, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC. C. Wang, S-P. Xie, J.A. Carton, eds. 171-180pp.

Barreiro, M., A. Giannini, P. Chang, and R. Saravanan, 2004: On the role of the Southern Hemisphere Atmospheric circulation in tropical Atlantic variability. . In: Earth's Climate: The Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction, Geophysical Monograph 147, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC. C. Wang, S-P. Xie, J.A. Carton, eds. 171-180pp.

Chang, P., R. Saravanan, F. Wang, L. Ji, 2004: Predictability of linear coupled systems. Part II: An application to a simple model of Tropical Atlantic variability. Journal of Climate, 17, 1487–1503.

Chang, P., R. Saravanan, F. Wang, L. Ji, and T. DelSole, 2004: Predictability of linear coupled systems. Part I: Theoretical Analyses. Journal of Climate, 17, 1474–1486.

Deser, C., G. Magnusdottir, R. Saravanan, and A. Phillips, 2004: The effects of North Atlantic SST and sea-ice anomalies on the winter circulation in CCM3: Part II: Direct and indirect components of the response. Journal of Climate, 17, 877–889.

Magnusdottir, G., C. Deser, and R. Saravanan, 2004: The effects of North Atlantic SST and sea-ice anomalies on the winter circulation in CCM3: Part I: Main features and storm-track characteristics of the response. Journal of Climate, 17, 857-876.

Giannini, A., R. Saravanan, and P. Chang, 2003: Oceanic forcing of Sahel rainfall on interannual to interdecadal time scales. Science, 302, 1027-1030.

Chang, P., R. Saravanan, L. Ji, 2003: Tropical Atlantic seasonal predictability: the roles of El Niño remote influence and thermodynamic air-sea feedback. Geophysical Research Letters, 30, 10.1029/2002GL016119.

Barreiro, M., Chang, P., Saravanan, R., 2002: Variability of the South Atlantic Convergence Zone simulated by an Atmospheric General Circulation Model. Journal of Climate, 15, 745–763.

Marshall, J., Y. Kushnir, D. Battisti, P. Chang, A. Czaja, R. Dickson, J. Hurrell, M. McCartney, R. Saravanan, M. Visbeck, 2001: North Atlantic climate variability: phenomena, impacts and mechanisms. International Journal of Climatology, 21, 1863-1898

Pierce, D.W., T.P. Barnett, N. Schneider, R. Saravanan, D. Dommenget, and M. Latif, 2001: The role of ocean dynamics in producing decadal climate variability in the North Pacific. Climate Dynamics, 18, 51-70.

Chang, P., Ji, L., and R. Saravanan, 2001: A hybrid coupled model study of tropical Atlantic variability. Journal of Climate, 82, 361-390.

Blackmon, M., B. Boville, F. Bryan, R. Dickinson, P. Gent, J. Kiehl, R. Moritz, D. Randall, J. Shukla, S. Solomon, G. Bonan, S. Doney, I. Fung, J. Hack, E. Hunke, J. Hurrell, J. Kutzbach, J. Meehl, B. Otto-Bliesner, R. Saravanan, E.K. Schneider, L. Sloan, M. Spall, K. Taylor, J. Tribbia, W. Washington, 2001: The Community Climate System Model. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 82, 2357–2376.

Polvani, L. M., and R. Saravanan, 2000: The three-dimensional structure of breaking Rossby waves in the polar wintertime stratosphere. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 57, 3663–3685.

Saravanan, R., G. Danabasoglu, S. C. Doney and J. C. McWilliams, 2000: Decadal variability and predictability in the midlatitude ocean–atmosphere system. Journal of Climate, 13, 1073–1097.

Saravanan, R., and P. Chang, 2000: Interaction between tropical Atlantic variability and El Niño-Southern Oscillation. Journal of Climate, 13, 2177-2194.

Chang, P., R. Saravanan, L. Ji, G. C. Hegerl, 2000: The effect of local sea-surface temperatures on atmospheric circulation over the tropical Atlantic sector. Journal of Climate, 13, 2195–2216.

Saravanan, R., and P. Chang, 1999: Oceanic mixed layer feedback and Tropical Atlantic variability. Geophysical Research Letters, 26, 3629–3632.

Magnusdottir, G., and R. Saravanan, 1999: The response of atmospheric heat transport to zonally averaged SST trends. Tellus, 51A, 815–832..

Barnett, T. P., D. W. Pierce, R. Saravanan, N. Schneider, D. Dommenget, M. Latif, 1999: Origins of the midlatitude Pacific decadal variability. Geophysical Research Letters, 26, 1453–1456.

Barnett, T. P., D. W. Pierce, M. Latif, D. Dommenget, R. Saravanan, 1999: Interdecadal interactions between the tropics and midlatitudes in the Pacific basin. Geophysical Research Letters, 26, 615–618.

Saravanan, R., 1998: Atmospheric low frequency variability and its relationship to midlatitude SST variability: Studies using the NCAR Climate System Model. Journal of Climate, 11, 1386–1404.

Sutyrin, G. G, J. C. McWilliams, R. Saravanan., 1998: Co-rotating stationary states and vertical alignment of geostrophic vortices with thin cores Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 357, 321–349.

Saravanan, R., and J. C. McWilliams, 1998: Advective ocean–atmosphere interaction: an analytical stochastic model with implications for decadal variability. Journal of Climate, 11, 165–188.

Saravanan, R., and J. C. McWilliams, 1997: Stochasticity and spatial resonance in interdecadal climate fluctuations. Journal of Climate, 10, 2299–2320.

Capotondi, A., and R. Saravanan, 1996: Sensitivity of the thermohaline circulation to surface buoyancy forcing in a two-dimensional ocean model, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 26, 1039–1058.

Saravanan, R., and J. C. McWilliams, 1995: Multiple equilibria, natural variability, and climate transitions in an idealized ocean–atmosphere model, Journal of Climate, 8, 2296–2323.

Dritschel, D.G., and R. Saravanan, 1994: Three–dimensional quasi–geostrophic contour dynamics, with an application to stratospheric wave breaking, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 120, 1267–1297.

Saravanan, R., 1993: Equatorial superrotation and the maintenance of general circulation in two–level models, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 50, 1211–1227.

Saravanan, R., 1990: A multi–wave model of the quasi–biennial oscillation. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 47, 2465–2474.

Saravanan, R., J. K. Bhattacharjee, K. Banerjee, and O. Narayan, 1985: Chaos in a periodically–forced Lorenz system, Physical Review A31, 520–522.

Bhattacharjee, J.K., K. Banerjee, D. Chowdhury, R. Saravanan and S. Manna, 1984: Limit Cycles in A Forced Lorenz System, Physics Letters A, 104, 33-35.

Book Reviews

Saravanan, R., 1991: Book Review - “Dynamics in Atmospheric Physics” by Richard Lindzen, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 117, 1375-1376.