{"id":7,"date":"2015-02-09T16:32:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T16:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2015-08-12T15:21:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T15:21:24","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/?page_id=7","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>________________________<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/files\/2015\/02\/ress1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-527\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/files\/2015\/02\/ress1.png\" alt=\"ress1\" width=\"1200\" height=\"356\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #999999\">Research<\/span>Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333\">Climate Change\u00a0 .\u00a0 Climate Variability\u00a0 .\u00a0 Water Resources Systems. Watershed Modeling\u00a0 .\u00a0 Hydrologic Modeling . Precipitation Processes\u00a0 .\u00a0 Stormwater Modeling and Management .\u00a0 Monitoring Networks .\u00a0 Hydrometeorology .\u00a0 Statistical Hydrology .\u00a0 Decision Support Systems .\u00a0 Hydroinformatics .\u00a0 Hydroanalytics .<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wp.eng.fau.edu\/hrl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/02\/hrlmainfigure1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-378 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.eng.fau.edu\/hrl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/02\/hrlmainfigure1.jpg\" alt=\"hrlmainfigure1\" width=\"762\" height=\"373\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #808080\">[Spatially varying precipitation totals across the U.S. during ENSO. Red : El Nino, Blue: La Nina ]<\/span> .\u00a0<span style=\"color: #808080\"> Adopted from a research study conducted at HRL. <\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #999999\">Research<\/span>Initiatives<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em> SPACE (Spatial Precipitation Analysis for Continuous Estimation), R3 (Rain Radar Relations)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/files\/2015\/02\/r-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-164 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/files\/2015\/02\/r-1.png\" alt=\"r-1\" width=\"134\" height=\"115\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><span style=\"color: #000080\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Extreme precipitation and climate change and variability<\/span>.<\/span> Understanding the trends<\/em><br \/>\n<em> precipitation extremes over time and changes in characteristics. Statistical analysis of extremes. Current research is focused on evolving precipitation\/streamflow extremes individually and jointly and influences of coupled oceanic-atmospheric oscillations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/files\/2015\/02\/r-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-167 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/files\/2015\/02\/r-2.png\" alt=\"r-2\" width=\"134\" height=\"116\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Development of new deterministic and stochastic spatial and temporal interpolation<\/span> methods for reconstruction of missing precipitation records. Statistical corrections, optimal methods with selection of control points in space. Several methods are available in <strong>RAIN <\/strong>(Rainfall Analysis and INterpolation)\u00a0software developed by Dr. T. \u00a0Current research is focused on development of proximity metric-based methods. Part of the <strong>SPACE <\/strong>(Spatial Precipitation Analysis of Continuous Estimation) initiative started by Dr. T.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/files\/2015\/02\/r-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-169\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/files\/2015\/02\/r-4.png\" alt=\"r-4\" width=\"144\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Development of statistical downscaling of hydro-climatic variables <\/span>at different temporal and spatial scales. Optimal selection of predictor variables. Current focus is on the improved function approximation methods.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/files\/2015\/02\/r-6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-171\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/files\/2015\/02\/r-6.png\" alt=\"r-6\" width=\"137\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Climate Variability and Teleconnections:<\/span> Spatial and temporal influences<\/em><br \/>\n<em> of coupled oceanic-atmospheric oscillations on precipitation extremes. Indentification<\/em><br \/>\n<em> of spatial extent of these influences considering regional hydroclimatology.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/files\/2015\/02\/r-5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-170\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/files\/2015\/02\/r-5.png\" alt=\"r-5\" width=\"142\" height=\"125\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><em>Focus is on evaluation of <span style=\"color: #000080\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">statistical evaluation of extremes\/climate change trends<\/span>.<\/span> Development of parametric and nonparametric approaches for assessment of extremes in space and time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/files\/2015\/02\/r-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-168\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/files\/2015\/02\/r-3.png\" alt=\"r-3\" width=\"149\" height=\"132\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Extreme Precipitation and Floods: Evaluation of streamflow extremes<\/span> under<\/em><br \/>\n<em> changing climate, climate variability, joint evaluation of precipitation and streamflow extremes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/files\/2015\/02\/r-9.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-174\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/files\/2015\/02\/r-9.png\" alt=\"r-9\" width=\"141\" height=\"131\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Radar and Satellite-based Precipitation estimation and analysis<\/span> using optimal function approximation methods. Bias analysis and corrections.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/files\/2015\/02\/r-8.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-173\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/files\/2015\/02\/r-8.png\" alt=\"r-8\" width=\"141\" height=\"131\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Climate Change and Future Trends in Hydroclimatic Variables<\/span>: Variation of essential climatic variables over time, development of indices to quantify the changes, statistical tests to evaluate trends.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/files\/2015\/02\/r-10.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-175\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/files\/2015\/02\/r-10.png\" alt=\"r-10\" width=\"140\" height=\"130\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Watershed Modeling\/Water Quality Fate and Transport Modeling<\/span>:<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Simulation models for modeling fate and transport of nutrients and pathogens at different<\/em> <em>spatial scales under data poor conditions, optimal reduction in pollutant loads.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/files\/2015\/02\/r-11.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-176\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/files\/2015\/02\/r-11.png\" alt=\"r-11\" width=\"143\" height=\"133\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><em><span style=\"color: #000080\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Catastrophic Floods: Animation and Visualization<\/span>.<\/span> 4-D visualization<\/em><br \/>\n<em> schemes are developed to evaluating the impacts of extreme floods in urban environments. Research is focused on development of metrics for assessment of flood risk in space and time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/files\/2015\/02\/r-12.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-177\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/files\/2015\/02\/r-12.png\" alt=\"r-12\" width=\"147\" height=\"142\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Water Resources\/Environmental Systems Optimization<\/span>:<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Development of optimization using linear and nonlinear formulation for<\/em><br \/>\n<em> optimization of water resource systems under environmental, ecosystem and monetary constraints.\u00a0 Studies include: hydropower systems, Lake operations, irrigation systems,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> stormwater management systems.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/files\/2015\/02\/r-14.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-179\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/files\/2015\/02\/r-14.png\" alt=\"r-14\" width=\"156\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/files\/2015\/02\/r-14.png 270w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/files\/2015\/02\/r-14-45x45.png 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 156px) 100vw, 156px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Uncertainty Analyses Approaches in Hydrologic Modeling<\/span>: Methods for addressing<\/em><br \/>\n<em> different types of uncertainties in hydrologic\/hydraulic modeling inputs and results.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/files\/2015\/02\/r-15.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-180\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/files\/2015\/02\/r-15.png\" alt=\"r-15\" width=\"143\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/files\/2015\/02\/r-15.png 262w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/files\/2015\/02\/r-15-45x45.png 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 143px) 100vw, 143px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><em>Environmental and Water: Intelligent\/Knowledge-based Decision Support Systems<\/em><em>:<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<em> Knowledge-based decision support systems for real-time operation of water resource systems, stream quality evaluation, leachate management and environmental systems.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/files\/2015\/02\/r-131.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-182\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/files\/2015\/02\/r-131.png\" alt=\"r-13\" width=\"148\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/files\/2015\/02\/r-131.png\"><br \/>\n<\/a><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Spatial analysis and Geographical Information Systems.<\/span> Spatial interpolation and analysis of evaluation of hydrometeorological parameters, geostatistics, monitoring network design and methods of missing data estimation in space and time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/files\/2015\/02\/r-7.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-172\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/files\/2015\/02\/r-7.png\" alt=\"r-7\" width=\"149\" height=\"134\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><em>Hydrologic Design and Water Resources Management under Changing Climate.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<em> Focus is on sustainable and climate-change sensitive optimal hydrologic design considering uncertainties associated with future precipitation extremes derived from<\/em><br \/>\n<em> GCM-based models.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Hydro<span style=\"color: #808080\">analytics<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Hydroanalytics deals with use of statistical, visualization, computer and data sciences to analyze hydrological and meteorological data in space and time for understanding hidden patterns, variations, anomalies, outliers, trends and all the characteristics of data to develop descriptive and prescriptive models for hydrological processes<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808000\"><em>The icons with graphics are created by Dr. T. and are copyrighted. (\u00a9 Dr. T.)<\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/books\" target=\"_blank\">Books<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/journals\" target=\"_blank\">Journal Publications<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/conferences\" target=\"_blank\">Conference Publications<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/posters\" target=\"_blank\">Poster Presentations<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/talks\" target=\"_blank\">Oral Presentations<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/technical-reports\" target=\"_blank\">Technical Reports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #999999\">\u00a9 Ramesh<\/span>Teegavarapu<\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>________________________ ResearchInterests Climate Change\u00a0 .\u00a0 Climate Variability\u00a0 .\u00a0 Water Resources Systems. Watershed Modeling\u00a0 .\u00a0 Hydrologic Modeling . Precipitation Processes\u00a0 .\u00a0 Stormwater Modeling and Management .\u00a0 Monitoring Networks .\u00a0 Hydrometeorology .\u00a0 Statistical Hydrology .\u00a0 Decision Support Systems .\u00a0 Hydroinformatics .\u00a0 Hydroanalytics &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/?page_id=7\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/ramesh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}