Vinay Kumar, Adjunct Professor for Physics
Background
Education:
- BSc (Physics, Math, Chemistry), Rohilkhand University, India
- MSc (Physics), IIT Roorkee, India
- M.Tech. (Atmospheric Physics), Pune University, India
- Ph.D. (Physics), Pune University, India
Research Interests:
- Climate Change, Extreme events, Landslides
- Monsoon, monsoonal droughts and Predictability
- Weather events, Fog, Aerosols
- Teaching
Professional Experience
- Research Scientist, TAMUK, 2019-2021
- Assistant Research Scientist, TAMUCC, 2016-2018
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, FSU, 2008-2016
Honors and Awards
- Associate Editor of "Weather and Forecasting" an American Meteorology Society (AMS) Journal
- Guest Editor of MDPI Journals (Atmosphere, Remote Sensing)
- Best Research Paper award 2010 from IITM, Pune
Publications
- 2022, Kumar, V, R Patil, RL Bhawar, P.R.C. Rahul and S. Yelisetti, ‘Atmosphere’, “Increasing Wind Speeds Fuel the Wider Spreading of Pollution Caused by Fires over the IGP Region during the Indian Post-Monsoon Season”
- 2022, Kulkarni, et al., ‘Land’, “Satarak”: Land slide prediction system over Western Ghats of India”.
- 2021, Rohini Bhawar, R, S. Fadnavis, V. Kumar, R. Reddy, T. Sinha, L. Simone, ‘Front. Environ. Sci.‘, “Radiative Impacts of Aerosols During COVID-19 Lockdown Period Over the Indian Region”
- 2020, Kumar, V, PK Pradhan, T Sinha, SVB Rao, Chang Hao-Po, ‘Atmosphere’, ”Interaction of a low-pressure system, off-shore trough and mid-tropospheric dry air intrusion: Kerala flood August 2018.
- 2019, Pradhan, PK, MLR Liberato, V Kumar, SVB Rao, J Ferreira, T Sinha, ‘Climate Dynamics’, “Simulation of mid-latitude winter storms over the North Atlantic Ocean: impact of boundary layer parameterization schemes
- 2018, V. Kumar, S. Jana, A. Bhardwaj, R. Deepa, S. K. Sahu, P. K. Pradhan, S. A. Sirdas, ‘The Open Ecology Journal’, “Greenhouse gas emission, rainfall and crop production over north-western India”
- 2017, Krishnamurti, V. Kumar, A. Simon, A. Thomas, A. Bhardwaj and Sweta Das, ‘Climate Dynamics’, “March of buoyancy elements during extreme rainfall over India”
- 2016, Krishnamurti, TN, V Kumar, A Simon, A Bhardwaj, T Ghosh, R Ross, ‘Reviews of Geophysics’, “A Review of Multimodel Superensemble Forecasting for Weather, Seasonal Climate, and Hurricanes”
Contact Information
Department of Physics and Geosciences
Manning Hall 135
MSC 175 Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Kingsville, Texas 78363-8202
voice: 361-593-2767
email: vinay.kumar@tamuk.edu