SRIVATSAN VIJAYARAGHAVAN. Block 728, # Mobile Clementi West St 2, Singapore

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1 SRIVATSAN VIJAYARAGHAVAN Block 728, # Mobile Clementi West St 2, Singapore EDUCATION UNIVERSITY YEAR PhD - Climate Science University College London, UK M.S. - Physics Tufts University, USA M.Sc. - Physics University of Madras, India B.Sc. - Physics University of Madras, India AOGS SERVICE - Currently, Section Secretary for Hydrological Sciences (HS), AOGS - Nominated for AOGS Treasurer, AOGS 2011, Taipei, Taiwan - Nominated and Selected by AOGS to present radio interview on Climate Change, July Convener and Chair/Co-chair for HS/AS sessions in AOGS since Volume Editor for AdGEO (Advances in Geosciences) since 2009 EMPLOYMENT HISTORY August 2008 till date Research Fellow Tropical Marine Science Institute National University of Singapore RESEARCH EXPERIENCE August 2008 till now, Tropical Marine Science Institute, NUS Expertise: Regional Climate Modelling (Dynamical Downscaling), Climate Impacts, Weather Forecasting, Hydrological and Crop Modelling, Climate Change Adaptation, Risk Oct.2004 July 2008, University College London, London, UK PhD Research Thesis Title: 'Quantifying Errors and Uncertainties in Regional Climate Models a nested regional climate modelling study over the Okavango River Basin in southwestern Africa': 1

2 HONOURS, ACHIEVEMENTS AND AWARDS Best Paper Award: Liew, S.C., Liong S.Y. and Raghavan, V.S.: A novel approach, using regional climate model, to derive present and future IDF curves for data scarce sites, 18 th Congress of the IAHR-APD, Jeju, Korea, August Recipient of the very prestigious Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Award (DHPA) instituted by Research Council, UK. Recipient among the first batch of the DHPA scholars Awarded a full merit tuition waiver and a Teaching Assistantship: Tufts University, USA, for the Masters Degree program WORKSHOPS/TRAINING Commonwealth Scientific Industrial and Research Organization (CSIRO), Melbourne: High Resolution Vietnam Climate Projections, December 2012 Institute of Mathematical Sciences, National Univ. of Singapore: Mathematical Science of Understanding and Predicting Regional Climate, March 2011 Hadley Centre at the University of Reading, UK: PRECIS Regional Climate Model workshop, August 2011 and September 2010 Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea: 4 th East Asia WRF Workshop, April 2010 CURRENT PROJECTS AS CO-INVESTIGATOR Risk Map Study commissioned by the Building and Construction Authority, Singapore Climate downscaling ( ) Evaluation of Climate Models Global and Regional : Project between Tropical Marine Science Institute and Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) (Period: ) Higher Resolution downscaling over Greater Singapore : Project between Tropical Marine Science Institute and Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) (Period: ) 2

3 TEACHING Undergraduate Course: GE 2228: Weather and Climate, Department of Geography, NUS August December 2011 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Co-author for the Climate Change Technical Primer commissioned by the National Climate Change Secretariat, Singapore Section Secretary for Hydrological Sciences (HS) for the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) Volume Editor for the Advances in Geosciences (AdGeo), AOGS Review Author for the Journal of Hydroinformatics, Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, Journal of Hydrology and Journal of Hydrologic Engineering Member of the Hydroinformatics Society and AOGS PUBLIC SERVICE Contributed to the CAN! Green Campaign organized by Dr. Amy Khor, Minister of State, Ministry of Health, November 1 st, Presented a Radio interview at 93.8 Live on climate change related topics having nominated and chosen by AOGS, July 30 th, 2009 Represented Singapore at the 30 th IPCC Plenary Session, Antalya, Turkey 21 st -23 rd April, REFEREES Prof. Liong Shie-Yui 2. Prof. Martin Todd Deputy Director Chair in Climate Change Tropical Marine Science Institute Dept. of Geography National University of Singapore University of Sussex S2S, 18, Kent Ridge Road Room 301 Chichester I Building Singapore Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QJ, UK tmslsy@nus.edu.sg m.todd@sussex.ac.uk Tel : Tel :

4 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS JOURNALS Liew, S.C., Raghavan, V.S. and Liong, S.Y.(2013): How to construct future IDF curves, under changing climate, for sites with scarce rainfall records?", Accepted, Hydrological Processes Raghavan, V. S., Vu, M. T. and Liong, S.Y. (2012): Assessment of hydrological response using regional climate model output - a case of Sesan river basin in Vietnam, Hydrological Processes, DOI: /hyp.8452 Vu, M. T., Raghavan, V. S. and Liong, S.Y.(2012): SWAT use of gridded observations for simulating runoff A Vietnam river basin study, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Vol 16, pp , DOI: /hess He, S., Raghavan, V.S., Nguyen, N.S. and Liong, S.Y. (2012): Ensemble rainfall forecasting with numerical weather prediction and radar-based nowcasting models, Hydrological Processes, DOI: /hyp.9254 Vu, M. T., Raghavan, V. S. and Liong, S.Y. (2011): Simulating stream flow over data sparse areas an application of internet based data, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions, 8, , 2011, doi: /hessd Nguyen, N.S., He, S., Raghavan V.S., Doan, D.C. and Liong, S.Y. (2011): Rainfall Forecast with Ensemble Performance of Translation Model and Numerical Weather Prediction, Advances in Geosciences, Vol. 29 Hydrological Science, World Scientific Publishing Company Vu, M. T., Liong, S. Y., Liew, S. C. and Raghavan V. S. (2011): A novel methodology for developing inundation maps under climate change scenarios using one-dimensional model, Advances in Geosciences, Vol. 23, Hydrological Science, World Scientific Publishing Company. Liew, S.C., Liong, S.Y. and Raghavan, V.S. (2013): Developing IDF curves as tools for management of data sparse urban hydrology?", In review, Journal of Hydro- Environment Research Todd, M.C., Washington, R., Lizcano, G., Raghavan, V.S., Knippertz, P., (2008): 'Regional model simulations of the Bodélé low-level jet of Northern Chad during BoDEx 2005', Journal of Climate,Vol.21,No.5, BOOK/ BOOK CHAPTERS Liong S.Y., Raghavan V.S. and Vu, M.T. (2013): Climate Change and its impacts on basin hydrology, Data Assimilation for Atmospheric, Oceanic and Hydrological Applications, Volume 2, Springer, March 2013, ISBN

5 Todd, M.C., Raghavan V.S. and co-authors, (2010): Climate change impacts on hydrology in Africa: Case studies of river basin water resources. In Williams, C. and Kniveton, D., (Eds.) African Climate and Climate Change: Physical, Social and Political Perspectives. Springer Ltd. Physical, Social and Political Perspectives Series: Advances in Global Change Research, Vol. 43 Williams, Charles J. R.; Kniveton, Dominic R. (Eds.) 1st Edition, 2011, VIII, 204 p. INVITED LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS Liong, S.Y., Raghavan, V.S., Vu, M.T., Nguyen, N.S. and Liew, S.C.: Climate Change projection study for Southeast Asia, icube Workshop, University of Brunei Darussalam, 17 Jan 2012 Raghavan, V.S., Nguyen, N.S and Liong, S.Y.: High Performance Computing in Scientific Research, Association of the Pacific Rim Universities, ERT Forum, Mexico City, October 2011 (Nominated by NUS as a representative) Raghavan, V.S. and Liong, S.Y.: Climate Change and Dynamic Downscaling, Hazard and Flood Risk Assessment and Management workshop organized by DHI, Singapore, August 2011 Raghavan, V.S.: Climate Change Research, Institute of Water Policy, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, July 29, 2011 Liong, S.Y., Raghavan, V.S., Nguyen, N.S., Vu, M.T., Doan, D.C and Sanders, R: Climate Change Study and Jakarta Flood Analysis, Taiwan Typhoon and Flood Research Institute, June 2011 Liong S.Y. and Raghavan, V.S.: Climate Change Study: Dynamical Downscaling for South-East Asia Domain, ITB-NTU Earth Science Seminar, Earth Science Singapore, NTU, Singapore, April 26, 2011 Raghavan, V.S.: Demand for High Performance Computing in Climate Research, BuzzEd 2011, 4 th January, 2011, NUS Computing Centre Raghavan, V.S. and Liong, S.Y.: Climate Change and Dynamic Downscaling, Hazard and Flood Risk Assessment and Management workshop organized by DHI, Singapore, August 2010 ******************** 5