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Dr. Sreekanth T.S

Project Scientist B, Atmospheric Processes Group (AtP)

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Education:

Ph. D. : 2017, Physics, University of Kerala
M.Phil : 2006-2007, Physics, Bharathidasan University, Tamil Nadu, INDIA
M. Sc. : 2004-2006, Physics, University of Kerala, INDIA
B. Sc : 2001-2004, Physics, University of Kerala, INDIA

Professional career:

2017 - Present Project Scientist B, National Centre for Earth Science Studies
2016 - 2017 Project Assistant II, National Centre for Earth Science Studies
2013 - 2015 Project Fellow, National Centre for Earth Science Studies
2011 - 2013 Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Earth Science Studies
2008 - 2010 Junior Research Fellow, Centre for Earth Science Studies

Training:

  • Statistics Workshop, Kerala School of Mathematics, Kozhikode, Mar 05-06, 2010(Sponsored by Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment)
  • SERC School on Global Warming & Climate Change, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, Dec 1-21, 2010 (Sponsored by Dept. of Science & Technology)
  • Workshop on Atmospheric Deposition: Processes and Enviromental Impacts, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy, May 21 – 25, 2012.
  • Workshop on Hazards of Lightning and Protection Strategies for Kerala, Kanakakkunnu Palace Hall, Thiruvananthapuram, India, organised jointly by the Kerala State Council for Science, Technology, and Environment (KSCSTE) and the Centre for Innovation in Science and Social Action (CISSA) 30 May, 2014.
  • ICTP-IITM-COLA Targeted Training Activity (TTA) on “Modelling and Prediction of Asian Monsoons: Improving Physical Processes” organized by The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy; Indian Institute for Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Ministry of Earth Sciences. India Pune February 09-20, 2015.
  • Training program on “Introduction to ArcGIS Desktop”, jointly organized by ESRI-India and NCESS, 11-13, March, 2015.
  • Training “Workshop on Lightning and Extreme Weather events”, organized by IITM, Pune, April 4 – 7, 2017

Research Interest:

  1. Cloud Physics
  2. Precipitation micro-physics
  3. Atmospheric Electricity, Lightning & Instrumentation

Achievements & Awards:

  1. Travel Support of 400 Euros from COSPAR to attend 39th COSPAR Scientific Assembly during July 14 – 21, 2012, Mysore, India.
  2. Partial travel support of 300 Euros and waived the registration fee worth 330 Euros from International Commission on Clouds and Precipitation (ICCP) to attend the16th International Conference on Clouds & Precipitation July 30-August 03, 2012, Leipzig, Germany
  3. Full travel grant support from Department of Science and technology (DST) to attend the 16th International Conference on Clouds & Precipitation July 30-August 03, 2012, Leipzig, Germany
  4. Full travel grant support from ICTP to attend the Workshop on Atmospheric Deposition: Processes and Environmental Impacts, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy, May 21 – 25, 2012.

Publications:

  1. Sreekanth T. S., Varikoden H., Mohan Kumar G., and Resmi E. A. (2019) Microphysical Features of Rain and Rain events during different Seasons over a Tropical Mountain location using an Optical Disdrometer. 9:19083 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-55583-z.
  2. Sumesh R K, Resmi E A, Unnikrishnan C K, Dharmadas Jash, Sreekanth T S, Mol Resmi M C, Rajeevan K, Nita S, Ramachandran K K. (2019) Microphysical aspects of tropical rainfall during Bright Band events at mid and high-altitude regions over Southern Western Ghats, India. Atmospheric Research, 227 178–197. (IF:3.7).
  3. Sreekanth, T. S., Varikoden, H., Sukumar, N., and Mohankumar, G. (2017) Microphysical characteristics of rainfall during different seasons over a coastal tropical station using Disdrometer. Hydrological Process., doi: 10.1002/hyp.11202 (Impact Factor 3.014)
  4. Anjali Retnamayi, Mohan Kumar Ganapathy & Sreekanth Thulaseedharan Santha (2011) Anomalous variations in atmospheric carbon monoxide associated with the Tsunami, Asian Journal of Atmos. Env, 5(1), 47-55. doi: 10.5572/ajae.2011.5.1.047
  5. R Vishnu, V.Anil Kumar, T.S Sreekanth, V.N Suby Simon, S.Murali Das & G. Moan Kumar (2011) Formation of thunder clouds in a region of high lightning incidence, inferred from AWS, Ceilometer and an Electric Field Mill, IEEE Digital library, DOI : 10.1109/APL.2011.6111089, Print ISBN: 978-1-4577-1467-2, 135-139. (Impact Factor: 1.27)
  6. R. Vishnu, V.Anil Kumar, Hamza Varikoden, K. Sarath Krishnan, T.S Sreekanth, V.N Suby Simon, S.Murali Das & G. Mohan Kumar (2013), Convective thunder cloud development over the western Ghats mountain slope in Kerala, Current Science, vol. 104, no. 11, 10 June 2011.(Impact Factor: 0.967)

Book:

  1. Quantum Mechanics Made Easy, T. S Sreekanth & S. Santhosh Kumar, Lambert Academic Publishers, 308 pp, ISBN-13: 978-3-659-58449-7, ISBN-10: 3659584495, EAN: 9783659584497.