Prathap Ramamurthy

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise/Research

  • Climate Change
  • Energy Sustainability
  • Environmental Fluid Dyanmics
  • Urban Boundary Layer

Building

Steinman Hall

Office

ST-237

Phone

212-650-6326

Prathap Ramamurthy

Profile

Prathap Ramamurthy joined CCNY in 2015 where he is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Earth System Science & Environmental Engineering. His research examines the relationship between climate and human activity in urban areas. His work combines scaleable 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 sesning tools to study urban climate. Another area of active reseach is to understand the dynamics of coastal urban boundary layer dynamics and their impact on convective cloud and thunderstoms.
 
Prathap Ramamurthy is a Member of American Metorological Society's Urban Climate Board. He is also an Associate Editor of ASME's Solar Engineering Journal.

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