https://www.oceanexpert.org/expert/Vijaykumar

PhD

Research

Physical Oceanography

 Research Interest

•  Surface turbulent air-sea fluxes
• Oceanic/atmospheric boundary layers
• Coupled air-sea interaction processes
• Instrumentation/Engineering
• Experience
• Air-sea gas transfer: air-sea flux measurements from a research ship
• Turbulence: temperature and water vapor structure functions, relationship to meteorological conditions, shipboard measurement techniques, short wave, and longwave radiative transfer·         Boundary-Layer Physics: surface energy budget, wind, temperature, humidity, and pressure, atmospheric column precipitable water and their interactions
• Technology design and development: ship-mounted eddy covariance system, ship/land autonomous weather system, sea-level gauge (pressure and radar), real-time sea surface temperature

Indian Ocean

English