Vinay Kumar, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Meteorology

Background

Education:

• BSc (Physics, Math, Chemistry), Rohilkhand University, India

• MSc (Physics), IIT Roorkee, India

• M.Tech. (Atmospheric Physics), Pune University, India

• Ph.D. (Meteorology/Physics), Pune University, India

Research Interests:

• Climate Change, Extreme events, Landslides

• Monsoon, monsoonal droughts and Predictability

• Severe weather, Fog, Aerosols and climate

Professional Experience:

• Assistant Professor of Meteorology, 2023-Present, University of the Incarnate Word (UIW), San Antonio, TX, USA

• Adjunct Professor of Physics, 2022-2023, Texas A&M Kingsville (TAMUK), TX, USA 

• Research Scientist, 2019-2021, Texas A&M Kingsville (TAMUK), TX, USA 

• Assistant Research Scientist, 2016-2018, Texas A&M Corpus Christi (TAMUCC), TX, USA

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2008-2016, Florida State University (FSU), Tallahassee, FL, USA

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, IITM, Pune, India

• Book Editor (Publisher: Intech Open)

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

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As a teacher and researcher, I have more than 23 yrs of experience in various flavors of Meteorology (Creeping Droughts, Flash Flood, Fleeting Fog, Arctic Ice melt and Aerosols). I spend most of my spare time reviewing the latest research work and book chapters, and reading current development in science and technology.

Get in touch at 

Room # 135, Manning Hall, Department of Physics and Geophysics, Texas A & M University, Kingsville, Tx-78363, USA

           +1-361-593-2767 (Office), E-mail: vinay.kumar@tamuk.edu

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