Krishna Kumar Email & Phone Number

Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Krishna provides technical support and oversight as the EPIC Program Coordinator and Senior Program Scientist to EPIC Program, EPIC Contracts, WPO Management and OAR and EPIC Cloud Projects. Krishna is the Project Manager for multiple EPIC Program funded projects such as JCSDA, OAR Cloud High Performance Computing Incubator, EPIC innovation projects and UFS-R2O Data Assimilation/Reanalysis & Reforecast and Project Engineering.Krishna has 30 years of combined operational and research experience in Numerical Weather Prediction, Data Assimilation, Observing System Experiments, Observing System Simulation Experiments, GFS forecast skill dropout prediction and diagnosis, forecast skill Summary Assessment Metrics, tropical (monsoon) meteorology and climate studies, software development, software engineering, Operations to Research, Research to Operations and High Performance Computing at NCEP Central Operations, EMC, NOAA/JCSDA, NESDIS/STAR, NASA/GSFC and India’s premier research institutes National Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF) and Physical Research Laboratory (PRL).

Noaa/Oar/Weather Program Office, Silver Spring, Md

The Earth Prediction Innovation Center, or “EPIC,” will advance Earth system modeling skills, reclaim and maintain international leadership in Earth system prediction and its science, and improve the transition of Research to Operations (R2O) and Operations to Research (O2R) within NOAA to create a community global weather research modeling system by working closely with partners across the weather enterprise. Dr. Kumar provides technical and programmatic support as the EPIC Program Coordinator and Senior Program Scientist to EPIC operations and developmental research funded within the NOAA/OAR/WPO office. He is one of the Unified Forecast System - Research to Operations (UFS-R2O) Project Engineers. He leads the OAR Cloud Tiger Team of about 30 members representing OAR Laboratories and Programs as the Executive Secretary of the OAR Cloud Team.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

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College Park, Maryland

Dr. Kumar worked as the Project Manager and Senior Research Scientist of NOA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR) in its activities aimed at handling emerging technologies (observing systems, numerical techniques, data assimilation, data and products), and supporting advanced programs under the project Research & Technology Maturation for the Exploitation of Emerging Technologies (RTMEE). The tasks under RTMEE explored using Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based techniques and other advanced techniques for satellite remote sensing, radiative transfer modeling, surface emissivity modeling, data assimilation (DA) and data fusion, to produce a global, high resolution product, that exploits all data efficiently.

College Park, Maryland

Dr. V. Krishna Kumar joined the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA) in June 2013 as a member of the Advanced Satellite Data Assimilation team pursuing research and key software integration responsibilities in the O2R and R2O environments on the Center’s S4 and JIBB super computers. Krishna comes to the JCSDA with significant operational and research experience spanning 15 years at NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Central Operations (NCO). At NCO, he worked with high performance computers developing and implementing NCEP’s various NWP software applications into operations. As a member of NCEP’s cross-cutting team that examined forecast skill dropouts – i.e., forecast busts – of NOAA’s Global Forecast System (GFS), he contributed significantly to the development of techniques for predicting and diagnosing dropouts.

Maryland, Usa

Primarily involved in various aspects of operations and research of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction's (NCEP) Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models.-Member of the NCEP Global Forecast System (GFS) forecast skill dropout "Dropout Team" and Model Evaluation Group-A key architect for developing a real time GFS forecast divergence system to predict and diagnose NCEP forecast skill dropouts -A key member of the software development team pertaining to GRIB2 parallel project-Developed and implemented into NCEP operations the radar super-ob radial wind data ingestion system and the WSR-88D level 2 system-Developed many quality control (QC) diagnostics pertaining to NWP-A key architect of the development of a real time data monitoring system for all observational data types at NCEP http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod/realtime/

Ncep Central Operations, Noaa Science Center, Camp Springs, Md

Development and maintenance of NCEP's Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) operational software, research and development pertaining to NWP, quality control (QC) of meteorological/oceanographic data, decoders, data ingest, and model post processing/verification.

Climate & Radiation Branch, Nasa/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md

Conducted research on the tropical intraseasonal, interannual and decadal variability using a nonlinear simple climate model studying the sensitivity of boundary forcings on various time scales. Made important theoretical contributions to the study of Asian Monsoon Transition. Studied the sensitivity of BM cumulus parameterization scheme using a single‑column model version of the NASA Goddard's GEOS GCM assimilating TOGA COARE data from the Goddard's Cumulus Ensemble Model (CEM).

Climate & Radiation Branch, Nasa/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md

Studied the interannual tropical climate variability and its nonlinear interaction with the ENSO and intraseasonal oscillation in the tropical atmosphere using the state‑of‑the‑ art climate models (simple and complex), analysis and diagnostics of model anlayses and other observational data sources.

Climate & Radiation Branch, Nasa/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md, Usa

Primarily involved in the study of the tropical (monsoon) climate variability on different time scales using simple analytical models and GLA GCM model. Using theoretical and GCM models, a possible mechanism on the abrupt transition of Asian monsoon was provided.

New Delhi, India

Involved in the detailed GCM model diagnostics, model verification and tropical (monsoon) energetics using India's first super computer (CRAY‑XMP) for Numerical Weather Prediction.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Atmospheric Sciences And Meteorology

Theoretical Physics Division, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India https://www.prl.res.in/

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Meteorology (2Nd Rank)

Bachelor'S Degree, Physics