Mohan Ramamurthy, Ph.D. Director, Unidata, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Dr. Mohan Ramamurthy is the Director of UCAR’s Unidata Program and is a scientist in NCAR’s Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division. Unidata provides a broad array of data for use in geoscience education and research. In addition to providing data, Unidata also develop software for data access, processing, management, analysis, and visualization. Unidata is a diverse community of over 160 institutions vested in the common goal of sharing data. As a scientist, Dr. Ramamurthy studies weather processes and prediction, including mesoscale phenomena such as snowbands and hurricanes. Dr. Ramamurthy joined UCAR in 2003 after spending 17 years on the faculty in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Ramamurthy has a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physics from the University of Poona in India. He earned his Ph. D. from the University of Oklahoma and his doctoral research dealt with the analysis of data and modeling of disturbances associated with monsoons. To view presentation click on Satellite Data Access and Use: Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities for Academia. |
