Prathap Ramamurthy
Associate Professor
Additional Departments/Affiliated Programs
Areas of Expertise/Research
- Climate Change
- Energy Sustainability
- Environmental Fluid Dyanmics
- Urban Boundary Layer
Building
Steinman Hall
Office
ST-237
Phone
212-650-6326
Website

Prathap Ramamurthy
Profile
Education
Bachelor of Engineering,Mechanical Engineering, Madras University 2002
Masters, Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah 2006
PhD Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah 2011
PostDoctoral Research Scholar, Princeton University 2011-2014
Courses Taught
Fluid Mechanics (UG)
Heat Transfer (UG)
Turbulence (G)
Building Energy and Environment (G)
Solar & Thermal Engineering (G)
Research Interests
Biosphere-atmosphere interactions over complex terrains, Boundary Layer Meteorology, Urbanization, Sustainability and Climate Change.
Publications
(Recent)
Rahman, K., Pena, J.C., Gamarro, H., Gonzalez, J., Bornstein, R., and Ramamurthy, P., 鈥淭he boundary layer characteristics of coastal urban environments鈥, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, (2024) DOI : 10.1007/s00704-024-05036-z.
Garraway, D., Rob, S. M., Turbeville, G., Ramamurthy, P., & Gonzalez-Cruz, J. E.. 鈥淚mproved Performance of Transcritical R744 Gas Coolers for Efficient Heat Pumps in the Northeastern US Winter Markets鈥, 2024. ASME Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities.
Rob, S. M., Turbeville, G., Garraway, D., Ramamurthy, P., & Gonzalez-Cruz, J. E. 鈥淓xperimental Performance Analysis of R410A Heat Pump System in the Northeastern US Winter Climates鈥, 2024. ASME Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities.
Bartsevich M, Rahman K, Addasi O, Ramamurthy P. 鈥淥n the Applicability of Ground-Based Microwave Radiometers for Urban Boundary Layer Research鈥, Sensors (Basel). 2024 Mar 25;24(7):2101. doi: 10.3390/s24072101. PMID: 38610316; PMCID: PMC11014401.
Rios, G. & Ramamurthy, P., 鈥淭urbulence in the mixed layer over an urban area: a New York City case study鈥, Boundary-layer Turbulence, Volume聽188,聽pages 419鈥440, (2023).
Pokhrel, R., Gonzalez, J., Ramamurthy P., Comarazamy, D., 鈥淚mpact of building energy mitigation measures on future climate鈥, Atmospheres 14(3), 2023.
Garraway, D., Rpb, A., Gonzalez, J., Ramamurthy P, 鈥淒evelopment of Electrified Transcritical R744 Heat Pump Systems for Northeastern Winter Markets 鈥, ASME, ES2022-90241, 2023.
Rios, G., Ramamurthy P, 鈥淎 novel model to estimate sensible heat fluxes in urban areas using satellite-derived data鈥, Remote Sensing of Environment, 270:112880, 2022.
Srivatsava, A., Prashanth, S. Ramamurthy P, Rao, S, 鈥淪cale-dependent response of the urban heat island to the European heatwave of 2018鈥, Env. Res. Lett., 16(10) 2021
Pioppi B, Pisello A, Ramamurthy P, 鈥淲earable sensing techniques to understand pedestrian-level outdoor microclimate affecting heat related risk in urban parks鈥, Solar Energy, 2021.
Gonz谩lez J, Ramamurthy P, Bornstein R, Chen F, Bou-Zeid E, Ghandehari M, Luvall J, Mitra C, Niyogi D. (2021)鈥淯rban climate and resiliency: A synthesis report of state of the art and future research directions鈥. Urban Climate.38:10058. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2021.100858
Hrisko, J., Ramamurthy, P., Melecio-V谩zquez, D., Gonzalez, J.E. 2021. "Spatiotemporal Variability of Heat Storage in Major U.S. Cities鈥擜 Satellite-Based Analysis" Remote Sens.,13, no. 1: 59.
Hosannah, N., Ramamurthy, P., Marti, J., Munoz, J., & Gonz谩lez, J. E. (2021) "Impacts of Hurricane Maria on land and convection modification over Puerto Rico", Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126, e2020JD032493.
Hrisko, J., Ramamurthy, P.,(2020) 鈥淓stimating Heat Storage in Urban Areas Using Multispectral Satellite Data and Machine Learning鈥, Remote Sensing of Environment. 252:112125
Hrisko, J., Ramamurthy, P., Yu, Y., Yu, P., Melecio-Vazquez, D. (2020) 鈥淯rban air temperature model using GOES-16 LST and a diurnal regressive neural network algorithm鈥, Remote Sensing of Environment. 237:111495
Ortiz, L., Gonzalez, J., Ramamurthy, P. et al. (2019) 鈥淗igh鈥恟esolution projections of extreme heat in New York City鈥, Int. Jour. Clim., 39: 4721鈥 4735
Yu, Miao, Ramamurthy, P. et al. (2019)鈥淥n the Assessment of a Cooling Tower Scheme for High-Resolution Numerical Weather Modeling for Urban Areas.鈥 Jour. of Appl. Meteorol. & Climatol.
Melecio, D., Ramamurthy, P., Gonzalez, J., and Mark Arend (2018) 鈥淭hermal structure of a coastal urban boundary layer鈥, Boundary-layer Meteorology
Vant-Hull, B. and Ramamurthy, P., 鈥淭he Harlem Heat Project: a Unique Media/Community Collaboration to Study Indoor Heat Waves鈥 (2018), Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc
Olivo, Y.,A. Hamidi and P. Ramamurthy (2017), 鈥淪patiotemporal variability in building energy use in New York City鈥, Energy, 141: 1393-1401
Ramamurthy, P. and E. Bou-Zeid (2017), 鈥淗eatwaves and urban heat islands: A comparative analysis of multiple cities鈥, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 122: 168鈥178
Carl Mailings, Matteo Pozzi, Kelly Klima, Mario Berges, Elie Bou-Zeid and Prathap Ramamurthy (2018), 鈥淪urface heat assessment for developed environments: Optimizing urban temperature monitoring鈥, Building and Environment, 141: 143-154
Carl Mailings, Matteo Pozzi, Kelly Klima, Mario Berges, Elie Bou-Zeid and Prathap Ramamurthy (2017), 鈥淪urface heat assessment for developed environments: Probabilistic urban temperature modeling鈥, Computer Environment and Urban Systems, 36: 43-64
Hosannah, N., J. Gonzalez, R. Rodriguez-Solis, H. Parsiani, F. Moshary, Luis Aponte, R. Armstrong, E. Harmsen, P. Ramamurthy, M. Angeles, L. Le贸n, N. Ram铆rez, D. Niyogi and R. Bornstein (2017), 鈥淭he Convection, Aerosol, and Synoptic-Effects in the Tropics (CAST) Experiment: Building an Understanding of Multi-Scale Impacts on Caribbean Weather via Field Campaigns鈥, Bulletin of American Meteorological Society, DOI:
Ramamurthy, P., J. Gonzalez, L. Ortiz, F. Moshari, and M. Arend (2017), 鈥淚mpact of heatwave on a megacity: an observational analysis of New York City during July 2016鈥, Environmental Research Letters, 12(5): 054011