Principal Investigator - South Africa
| Title | Prof. |
| First Names | Sivakumar |
| Family Name | Venkataraman |
| Nationality | Indian / South African Resident |
| Year of Birth | 1974 |
He has obtained his Ph.D Degree in physics focusing his research towards middle atmosphere temperature structure and tropical cirrus cloud system using LiDAR and RADAR.read more
Recent Project (Funded/approved and Ongoing) leader of
| 2009-2010 | : 2-Channel X-Y Mobile Scanning lidar (CSIR-South Africa) |
| 2008-2010 | : Lidar and Atmosphere Remote Sensing (CSIR and University of Pretoria) |
| 2008-2010 | : South-African French LiDAR (SAFiR) network for study of upper troposphere and lower stratosphere aerosol distributions and dynamics |
| 2008-2009 | : Characterization and Optimization of LiDAR for field campaign measurement of aerosols (particulate matter) around South Africa. |
| 2007-2010 | : Lidar for atmosphere research over Africa |
More Recent Publications:
- Multi-Scale organization of water vapour in the low- and mid- tropical Africa, Advances in geosciences, 2009 (In Press).
- Mean Ozone and water vapour height profiles for Southern Hemisphere region using Radiosonde/Ozonesonde and HALOE satellite data, Advances in geosciences, 2009 (In Press).
- Global temperature estimates in the troposphere and stratosphere: a validation study of COSMIC/ FORMOST-3 measurements, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9?897-908, 2009.
- LiDAR for ground- and airborne trace gas detection, Chapter in a text book, 'Lasers in Chemistry', Wiley-VCH publications, Germany, 2008.
- Stratospheric ozone climatology and variability over a southern subtropical site; Reunion Island (21°S; 55° E), Ann. Geophys.,25, 2321-2334, 2007.
- 20 year LiDAR observations of stratospheric sudden warming over a mid-latitude site, Observatoire de Haute Provence (44 N, 6 E): Case study and statistical characteristics, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 7, 15739-15779, 2007.
- Diurnal and seasonal variability of TKE dissipation rate in the ABL over a tropical station using UHF wind profiler, J. Atmos. Terr. Phys., 69, 419-430, 2007.