GANESH GOPALAKRISHNAN

Research Interests

• Ocean modeling and data assimilation
• Observational oceanography
• Variational (4DVAR) and sequential (EnKF) methods
• State estimation, forecasting, and predictability
• Estuarine and coastal ocean modeling
  

Current Research

• State estimation and predictability of the Loop current and eddy shedding in the Gulf of Mexico
• Origins of the Kuroshio and Mindanao currents and its predictability

• Short-term state estimation and prediction of the California current system
• Coastal upwelling and shelf intrusion of the Kuroshio waters near the north-east coast of Taiwan
• Sea surface height and current response to atmospheric winds for the coast of San Diego
• Adjoint sensitivity studies, impulse-response representation, and uncertainty estimation

Education

• Ph.D, Stevens Institute of Technology (Physical Oceanography), 2008 
• Thesis: Surface Current Observations Using HF Radar and its Assimilation into NYHOPS 
• M.S., Indian Institute of Technology Madras, INDIA (Ocean Engineering), 2002 
• B.Tech., National Institute of Technology, Calicut, INDIA (Civil Engineering), 1998