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Rengaswamy Ramesh
Prof. Rengaswamy Ramesh
Oceanography & Climate
Planetary Geosciences Division
Physical Research Laboraory
Navrangpura
Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380 009
India
Phone: +91 (0)79 26314265
Phone2: +91 (0)79 2676 39 80
Fax: +91 (0)79 2631 4900
E-mail: rramesh(at)prl.res.in
URL Institution: www.prl.ernet.in/~stail/
Additional functions:
I am a project leader for several paloelcimate and oceanography programmes in India.
I am the Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organozation- Geosphere Biosphere Porgramme's working Group on Paleoclimate.
I was a lead-author in the recent IPCC AR4 for the chapter on paleoclimate
Key Publications of Rengaswamy Ramesh (up to five) :
1. R.Ramesh, S.K. Bhattacharya & K. Gopalan, (1985) Dendroclimatological implications of isotope coherence in trees from Kashmir Valley, India, Nature 317, 802-804.
2. R. Ramesh, S.K. Bhattacharya & G.B. Pant (1989) Climatic significance of dD variations in a tropical tree species from India. Nature 337, 149-150.
3. A. Sarkar, R. Ramesh, S. K. Bhattacharya & G Rajagopalan (1990) d18O evidence for
increased north east monsoon current during the last glaciation Nature 343, 549-551.
4. R. Sukumar, R. Ramesh, R.K. Pant & G. Rajagopalan (1993) A d13C record of the
late Quaternary climate change from tropical peat in southern India Nature 364, 703-706.
5. Y. Enzel, L.L. Ely, S. Mishra, R. Ramesh, R. Amit, S.N. Rajaguru, V. R. Baker, B.Lazar, & A. Sandler, (1999) High resolution Holocene environmental changes in the Thar Desert, NW India, Science, 284, 125-128.
Expertise of Rengaswamy Ramesh:
| Expertise Category | Specific Expertise |
|---|---|
| PAGES Topics | Topics |
| Modeling | |
| Biogeochemical Cycles | |
| PAGES Timescales | Timescales |
| Pleistocene (glacial-interglacial cycles) | |
| Holocene (10,000 years) | |
| PAGES Location | Location |
| Australasia | |
| PAGES Parameters | Parameters |
| Isotopes | |
| PAGES Archives | Archives |
| Ocean Sediments | |
| Lake Sediments | |
| Tree Rings | |
| Corals | |
| Speleothems | |
| PAGES Proxies | Proxies |
| Foraminifera | |
| Isotopes |
Specialties of Rengaswamy Ramesh: I am a physicist applying priciples of physics and chemistry to problems in earth sciences. My main tool is stable isotope mass spectrometry. I study various natural archives of climate to decipher past climate variations quantitatively.
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