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Shakeel Asharaf

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Address:

4800 Oak Grove Drive
M/S 233-304

Pasadena, CA 91109

Phone:

818-393-5358

Curriculum Vitae:

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Member of:

Ocean Circulation And Air Sea Interaction

Biography

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Education

  • Ph.D., Natural Sciences, J. W. Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Germany, 2016
  • M.Tech., Earth System Science & Technology, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India, 2008
  • M.Sc., Applied Geology, Allahabad University, Allahabad, India, 2006
  • B.Sc., Math, Physics, and Chemistry, Allahabad University, Allahabad, India, 2004

Professional Experience

  • Asst. Project Scientist, JIFRESSE University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA (02/2021 – Present)
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, JIFRESSE UCLA/JPL, USA (11/2017 – 01/2021)
  • Research Scientist, German Weather Service (DWD), Offenbach/Main, Germany (07/2013 – 09/2016)
  • Research Scientist, J. W. Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany (12/2008 – 07/2013)

Research Interests

  • Ocean Surface Wind / Heat Fluxes
  • Satellite / in-situ data validation
  • Atmospheric Rivers
  • Land-Atmosphere-Ocean interaction

Selected Awards

  • Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) – 2006 with All India Rank 92
  • Awarded assistantship at IIT Kharagpur (2006-2008) by HRD Ministry Govt. of India
  • Awarded funding from World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to attend the international training course on producing high resolution climate information: scientific basis and application, Seoul, S. Korea, October 13-24, 2013

Selected Publications

  1. Asharaf, S., Guan, B., & Waliser, D. E. (2024). ROTATE: A Coordinate System for Analyzing Atmospheric Rivers. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2023GL106736. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL106736
  2. Asharaf, S., D.J. Posselt, F. Said, C. Ruf (2023), Updates on CYGNSS Ocean Surface Winds Validation in Tropics, J. Atmospheric and Oceanic Tech.,40(1), 37-51. https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-21-0168.1
  3. Wang, X., D.E. Waliser, X. Jiang, S. Asharaf, F. Vitart, W. Jie (2023), Evaluating Nortwestern Pacific Tropical Storm Forecast in the Subseasonal to Seasonal Predition Project Database, Frontier in Earth Sciences,10
  4. Asharaf, S., D.E. Waliser, D.J. Posselt, C. Zhang, C. Ruf, A.W. Putra (2021), CYGNSS Ocean Surface Winds Validation in Tropics, J. Atmospheric and Oceanic Tech., 38(4), 711-724.
  5. Ruf, C., S. Asharaf, R. Balasubramaniam, S. Gleason, T. Lang, D. McKague, D. Twigg, D. Waliser (2019): In-Orbit Performance of the Constellation of CYGNSS Hurricane Satellites. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc.,100 (10), 2009-2029, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0337.1.
  6. Crespo, J., Posselt, D. J., S. Asharaf (2019), CYGNSS Surface Heat Flux Product Development, Remote Sensing, 11, 2294.
  7. DeFlorio, M. J., D. E. Waliser, F. M. Ralph, B. Guan, A. Goodman, P. B. Gibson, S. Asharaf, L. Delle Monache, Z. Zhang, A. C. Subramanian, F. Vitart, H. Lin, and A. Kumar (2019), Experimental subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) forecasting of atmospheric rivers over the western United States, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 124, 11242-11265.
  8. Nikulin, G., S. Asharaf, M.E., Magarino, S. Calmantie, R.M. Cardoso, J. Bhend, J. Fernandez, M.D. Frias, K. Fröhlich, B. Früh, S.H. Garcia, R. Manzanas, J.M. Gutierrez, U. Hansson, M. Kolax, M.A. Liniger, P.M.M. Soares, C. Sprig, R. Tome, and K. Wyser (2018): Dynamical and statistical downscaling of a global seasonal hindcast in eastern Africa, Climate Services, 9, 72-85.
  9. Asharaf, S., and B. Ahrens (2015): Indian summer monsoon rainfall processes in climate change scenarios, J. Climate., 28, 5414-5429.
  10. Asharaf, S., and B. Ahrens (2013): Soil moisture memory in the regional climate model COSMO-CLM during the Indian summer monsoon season. J. Geophys. Res., 118(12), 6144-6151.
  11. Kumar, P., A. Wiltshire, C. Mathison, S. Asharaf, B. Ahrens, P. Lucas-Picher, J. H. Christensen, A. Gobiet, F. Saeed, S. Hagemann, and D. Jacob (2013): Downscaled climate change projections with uncertainty assessment over India using a high resolution multi-model approach, Science of the Total Environment, 468, 18-30.
  12. Asharaf, S., A. Dobler, and B. Ahrens (2012): Soil moisture-precipitation feedback processes in the Indian summer monsoon season. J. Hydrometeor., 13, 1461-1474.
  13. Lucas-Picher, P., J.H. Christensen, F. Saeed, P. Kumar, S. Asharaf, B. Ahrens, A.J. Wiltshire, D. Jacob, and S. Hagemann (2011): Can regional climate models represent the Indian monsoon? J. Hydrometeor., 12, 849–868.

Projects

CYGNSS
JIFRESSE