Amal Chandran
Biographical Sketch:
Present Research Interests:
- Gravity waves in middle atmosphere: sources, propagation and effects of wave breaking.
- Polar Mesopheric Clouds: formation and evolution, GW effects on PMCs.
- Middle atmosphere circulation, space based instrumentation.
Professional Memberships and Awards:
- Outstanding Student Paper Award in Space Physics and Aeronomy Section, 2008 Fall AGU Meeting, San Francisco, USA
- Outstanding Student Paper Award in Space Physics and Aeronomy Section, 2008 AGU Joint Assembly (Spring) Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, USA
- Graduate Research Assistantship, Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences and LASP, University of Colorado, 2005-2009
- Graduate Research Assistantship, Department of Aerospace & Ocean Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2003-2004
Positions Held:
- 2007-Present, Graduate Research Assistant, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), Boulder, CO
- Summer 2006, Visiting Scientist (Graduate Student), Arecibo Observatory, Arecibo, Puerto Rico
- 2005-2006, Graduate Research Assistant, Colorado Research Associates (CoRA), Boulder, CO
- Summer 2003, 2004, 2005, Project Engineer, Nanosonic Inc, Blacksburg, VA
- 2003-2004 Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Virginia Tech. Blacksburg, VA
Selected Publications:
- Chandran, A. , D. W. Rusch, A. W. Merkel, S. E. Palo, G. E. Thomas, M. J. Taylor, S. M. Bailey, J. M. Russell III, Polar Mesospheric Cloud structures observed from the CIPS experiment on the AIM spacecraft: Atmospheric gravity waves as drivers for longitudinal variability in PMC occurrence, J.Geophys. Res., under review, submitted September 2009.
- Chandran, A., Rusch D. W., Palo, S.E., Thomas, G.E., and Taylor M.J., Gravity wave observations in the summertime polar mesosphere from the Cloud Imaging and Particle Size (CIPS) Experiment on the AIM Spacecraft, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics., 71, 3-4, 392-400, 2009.
