Prathap Ramamurthy

Dr. Prathap Ramamurthy, is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Earth System Science & Environmental Engineering at The City College of New York.

His research examines the relationship between climate and human activity in urban areas. His work combines scalable field experiments with numerical models to characterize turbulent transport of mass, momentum and energy in the urban boundary layer. His current projects include understanding the mechanisms that exacerbate urban heat island intensity in large cities and their synergistic interaction with heat waves, and developing mitigation strategies to moderate the urban climate. He is also working with the NOAA-CREST center to operationalize remote sensing tools to study urban climate. Another area of active research is to understand the dynamics of coastal urban boundary layer dynamics and their impact on convective cloud and thunderstorms