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Phone:
(301) 614-5667
Fax:
(301) 614-6297
Email:
sarith.p.mahanama@nasa.gov
URL:
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~sarith/index.html
Most Recent Publication
Mahanama, S.P.P., R.D. Koster, R.H. Reichle, and M. J. Suarez (2008): Impact of Subsurface Temperature Variability on Surface air temperature Variability: An AGCM Study, J. Hydrometeorology, 9, 804-815, 2008.doi:10.1175/2008JHM949.1
Research Interests:
The role of the land surface in the climate system: This includes the development and application of land-surface models, studies of the impact of land surface variability on the predictability of climate, interactions between the terrestrial and atmospheric branches of the hydrologic cycle, and the impacts of land use change on regional and global climate.
Biography:
Dr. Sarith Mahanama received a B.Sc.Eng from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in 1993, and a Ph.D. in Water and Environmental Engineering in 2000 from the University of Hong Kong where his major research interest was water balance studies at the land-atmosphere boundary and predicting river discharges in large-scale river basins using large-scale meteorological forcings. In 2000 he joined Universities Space Research Association to work at the NSIPP. Later in 2000, he joined GEST/UMBC where he is still employed, to continue at the GMAO. His main research interest is studying the role of the land surface on seasonal forecasting of AGCMs.
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