Sivakumar Venkataraman
Sivakumar Venkataraman
College of Agriculture, Engineering and Science, School of Chemistry and Physics and School of Electrical and Electronical Engineering University of KwaZulu Natal,
South Africa
Biography
Sivakumar Venkataraman is a Full Professor in Physics (Specialized in Atmospheric and Space Science), Chair of National AstroPhysics and Space Science Programme (NASSP) – South Africa, Programme Director of NASSP – UKZN, Executive Panel member of different National Research Foundation Programmes (South Africa), Vice President, South Africa Atmosphere Science Society, 2012 to 2016, President, South Africa Atmosphere Science Society, 2016 to 2018, Steering Committee member of South Africa – Space research and Solar Terrestrial Physics, since 2009.
Research Interest
Atmospheric studies, satellite data-sets, studies on middle atmospheric thermal structure and wave dynamics; mesospheric temperature inversion; studies on gravity waves, planetary waves, equatorial waves and etc., stratospheric warming and planetary waves, Aerosols and clouds, general characteristics of the tropopause and its relation to the ozone concentration and the stratosphere-troposphere exchange, remote sensing techniques and various kinds of pollution measurements.