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| Title: | Senior Scientific Engineer |
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| Affiliation: | SAIC |
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E-mail Office Phone: 301-286-8663 Fax: 301-286-8624 |
Education
Ph.D., Computer Aided Engineering, 2002, North Carolina State University
M.S., Civil Engineering , 1998, North Carolina State University
B.Tech., Civil Engineering, 1996, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
Professional Experience
Senior Scientific Engineer Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), Sept 2008 - present
Research on measurement and modeling of land-atmosphere interactions, with emphasis on data assimilation and application of advanced computational technologies for offline and coupled land surface modeling.
Assistant Research Scientist. Goddard Earth Science Technology Center, NASA/GSFC Hydrological Sciences Branch, Mar 2002- august 2008.
Research on the development of high-performance land data assimilation systems including the NASA Land Information System (LIS; http://lis.gsfc.nasa.gov).
Research Assistant. Department of Civil Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. 1996 2001.
Research on the development of high performance computing and communication systems in cooperation with the microelectronics center of North Carolina. System administrator for the distributed computing laboratory in the department of civil engineering, North Carolina State University.
Software Technician. Silvemark Inc. June – Aug, 2000.
Testing technician for a software development team for the implementation of a functional test and test modeling tool for Java applications.
System Administrator. Information Technology and Engineering Computer Services. June – Aug, 1999.
Responsible for the operation and monitoring of workstations on the Project EOS computing network at North Carolina State University, including software updates and user consultation.
Honors and Awards
Recipient of the NASA Software of the Year award. 2005
Outstanding Researcher award, Hydrospheric and Biospheric laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 2005.
NASA/GSFC Space Act awards, 2003, 2004, 2005,2006, 2008.
Institute Silver Medal for the best graduating student in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 1996.
Gold medals from the board of education, India for excellence in secondary and higher secondary schools, 1990 and 1992.
Publications
Peer Reviewed Publications
Kumar, S. V., R. H. Reichle, R. D. Koster, W. T. Crow, and C. D. Peters-Lidard (2009), Role of subsurface physics in the assimilation of surface soil moisture observations, Journal of Hydrometeorology, in press.
Santanello, J.A., C.D. Peters-Lidard, S.V. Kumar, C.A. Alonge, W.-K. Tao, A modeling and observational framework for diagnosing local land-atmosphere coupling on diurnal time scales (2009), Journal of Hydrometeorology, in press
Kumar, S.V. , C. Peters-Lidard, Y. Tian, R. Reichle, J. Geiger, C. Alonge, J. Eylander, and P. Houser (2008), An integrated hydrologic modeling and data assimilation framework, IEEE Computer, 41, 52-59, doi:10.1109/MC.2008.511.
Reichle, R. H., M. G. Bosilovich, W. T. Crow, R. D. Koster, S. V. Kumar, S. P. P. Mahanama, and B. F. Zaitchik (2008), Recent Advances in Land Data Assimilation at the NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, In: Data Assimilation for Atmospheric Oceanic and Hydrologic Applications, in press.
Tian, Y., P. R. Houser, H. Su., S. V. Kumar and J. V. Geiger, Jr. (2008), Integrating sensor webs with modeling and data-assimilation applications: An SOA implementation, Proceedings of the IEEE Aerospace Conference, pp 1-7.
Case, J.L., W.L. Crosson, S.V. Kumar, W.M. Lapenta, C.D. Peters-Lidard (2008) Impacts of High-Resolution Land Surface Initialization on Regional Sensible Weather Forecasts from the WRF model, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 9(6), 1249--1266, DOI:10.1175/2008JHM990.1
Kumar, S.V., R.H. Reichle, C. D. Peters-Lidard, R. D. Koster, X. Zhan, W. T. Crow, J. B. Eylander, and P. R. Houser (2008) A Land Surface Data Assimilation Framework using the Land Information System: Description and Applications, Advances in Water Resources, 31, 1419-1432, doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2008.01.013.
Peters-Lidard, C.D., P.R. Houser, Y. Tian, S.V. Kumar J. Geiger, S. Olden, L. Lighty, B. Doty, P. Dirmeyer, J. Adams, K. Mitchell, E.F. Wood, and J. Sheffield, High Performance Earth system modeling with NASA/GSFC's Land Information System.
Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering, 3(3), 157--165.
Tian, Y., C.D. Peters-Lidard, S.V. Kumar, J. Geiger, P.R. Houser, J. L. Eastman, P. Dirmeyer, B. Doty, and J. Adams, High Performance Land Surface Modeling with a Linux Cluster (2008). Computers and Geosciences, 34(11), 1492-1504.
Kumar, S. V., C. D. Peters-Lidard, J. L. Eastman, W.-K. Tao, An Integrated high-resolution hydrometeorological modeling testbed using LIS and WRF. Environmental Modeling and Software, Vol. 23, pp 169-181, 2007.
X. Zeng, W.-K. Tao, M. Zhang, C.D. Peters-Lidard, S. Lang, J. Simpson, S. V. Kumar, S. Xie, J.L. Eastman, C.-L. Shie, J. V. Geiger, Evaluating Clouds in Long-Term Cloud Resolving Model Simulations with Observational Data (2007), Journal of Atmospheres, 64(12), pp 4153-4177.
Kumar, S. V., C. D. Peters-Lidard, Y. Tian, J. Geiger, P. R. Houser, S. Olden, L. Lighty, J. L. Eastman, P. Dirmeyer, B. Doty, J. Adams, E. Wood and J. Sheffield, LIS - An Interoperable Framework for High Resolution Land Surface Modeling. Environmental Modeling and Software, Vol. 21, pp 1402-1415, 2006.
Kumar, S. V., Doby, T. A., Baugh, J. W. Jr., Brill, E. D. Jr., and Ranjithan, S. R. Genetic Algorithm-based Design of Water Distribution Networks Using a Cluster of Workstations, ASCE Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, Vol. 132, No. 5, pp 378-384, 2006.
Pielke Sr., R.A., T. Matsui, G. Leoncini, T. Nobis, U. Nair, E. Lu, J. Eastman, S. V. Kumar, C. Peters-Lidard, Y. Tian, and R. Walko, 2005: A new paradigm for parameterizations in numerical weather prediction and other atmospheric models. National Wea. Digest, Vol. 30, 93-99, 2006.
M. Tischler, M. Garcia, C. Peters-Lidard, M.S. Moran, S. Miller, D. Thomas, S. V. Kumar, and J. Geiger, A GIS Framework for surface-layer soil moisture estimation combining satellite radar measurements and land surface modeling with soil physical property estimation, Environmental Modeling and Software, 2006, Vol.22, 891-898.
Baugh, J. W. Jr and Kumar, S.V., Asynchronous Genetic Algorithms for Heterogeneous Networks using Coarse-grained Dataflow, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, Part I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2723 Springer 2003.
Kumar, S.V. and Ranjithan, S. Evaluation of the Constraint Method-based Evolutionary Algorithm (CMEA) for a three-objective optimization problem, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Morgan Kaufmann, 2002.
Presentations
Conference Publications and Presentations
Kumar, S. V., R. H. Reichle, and C. D. Peters-Lidard (2009), Comparison of bias mitigation strategies for skin temperature assimilation, 88th AMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
Zhan, X., S. V. Kumar, K. Mitchell, F. Weng, and C.D. Peters-Lidard (2009), Drought monitoring and forecasts using microwave and optical satellite observations and Noah land surface model predictions, 88th AMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
Case, J. L., S. V. Kumar, P. Santos, J. M. Medlin, and G. J. Jedlovec (2009), Examining the Impacts of High-Resolution Land Ocean Surface Initialization on Local Model Predictions of Convection in the Southeastern US, 88th AMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
Peters-Lidard, C.D., S. V. Kumar, Santanello, J.A., Y. Tian, M. Rodell, D. Mocko, R. Reichle (2008), High Performance Hydrometeorological Modeling, Land Data Assimilation and Parameter Estimation with the Land Information System at NASA/GSFC, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA - Invited Presentation.
Reichle, R. H., S. V. Kumar, S. P. P., Mahanama, and R. D. Koster (2008), Bias estimation and assimilation of land surface temperature, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Santanello, J.A., C.D. Peter-Lidard, S. V. Kumar (2008): A modeling and observational framework for diagnosing land-atmosphere coupling and impacts on water and energy cycle prediction, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Reichle, R.H., Kumar, S.V. , R.D. Koster, W.T. Crow, and C.D. Peters-Lidard, Impact of subsurface physics on soil moisture estimates derived from the assimilation of surface observations, AGU joint assembly, Ft Lauderdale, FL - Invited presentation
Kumar, S.V., R.H. Reichle, R.D. Koster, C.D. Peters-Lidard, and W. Crow. Impact of land surface representation in the assimilation of surface soil moisture, 22nd Conference on Hydrology, 88th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 20-24 Jan, 2008, New Orleans, LA. - Invited Presentation
Peters-Lidard, C.D., C.J. Alonge, J. A. Santanello, S. V. Kumar, J.L. Eastman, W.-K. Tao, and J. J. Shi. Soil Moisture, evaporation and convection: Do better land surface initial conditions produce a better precipitation forecast? , 22nd Conference on Hydrology, 88th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 20-24 Jan, 2008, New Orleans, LA.
Li, B., C.D. Peters-Lidard, S.V. Kumar, S. Rheingrover, and V. Anantharaj, Free Drainage or not: an evaluation of simulated soil moisture profiles by the Noah land surface model in the Mississippi region, 22nd Conference on Hydrology, 88th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 20-24 Jan, 2008, New Orleans, LA.
Santanello, J.A., C.D. Peters-Lidard, and S.V. Kumar , A modeling and observational framework for diagnosing local land-atmosphere coupling on diurnal time scales, 22nd Conference on Hydrology, 88th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 20-24 Jan, 2008, New Orleans, LA.
Alonge, C.J. S.V. Kumar, C.D. Peters-Lidard, M. Tewari, F. Chen, D. Gill, and J.B. Eylander, Assessing the impact of coupling NASA Land Information System to the Weather Research and Forecasting Model, Battlespace Atmospheric and Cloud Impacts on Military Operations Conference, Nov 6-8, 2007, Boston, MA.
Kumar, S.V., R.H. Reichle, C.D. Peters-Lidard, R.D. Koster, X. Zhan, W. T. Crow, J.B. Eylander, and P.R. Houser, A land surface data assimilation framework using the Land Information System, NASA Energy and Water cycle study annual meeting, Sept 19-21, 2007, Huntsville, AL.
Santanello, J.A., C.D. Peters-Lidard, S.V. Kumar, J. Geiger, A modeling and observational framework for diagnosing local land-atmosphere couplling on diurnal time scales, NASA Energy and Water cycle study annual meeting, Sept 19-21, 2007, Huntsville, AL.
Kumar, S.V. Understanding and Quantifying Terrestrial Hydrological Components, Civil Engineering Department Seminar, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, July 30, 2007, Mumbai, India.
Tewari, M., F. Chen, D. Gill, T. Henderson, C.D. Peters-Lidard, S.V. Kumar, C.J. Alonge, and J.B. Eylander, Impact of land initialization on WRF forecast for the AFWA south east asian domain, Eighth WRF user's workshop, June 11-15, 2007, Boulder, CO.
Kumar, S.V., R. H. Reichle, C.D. Peters-Lidard, R.D. Koster, X. Zhan, W. Crow, J.B. Eylander, P.R. Houser, An integrated system for sequential hydrologic data assimilation using the land information system, AGU joint assembly, 22-25 May 2007, Acapulco, Mexico.
Kumar, S.V. , C.D. Peters-Lidard, Recent developments and enhancements in the Land Information System Testbed, 5th Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation Annual Workshop, May 1-2, 2007, College Park, MD.
Peters-Lidard, C.D., J.A. Santanello, S.V. Kumar, J.L. Eastman, W.-K. Tao, Studies of land-atmosphere coupling using the Land Information System, AGU joint assembly, 22-25 May 2007, Acapulco, Mexico.
Kumar, S.V., C.D. Peters-Lidard, J.L. Eastman, W-K. Tao. Evaluation of the influence of fine scale land surface representation on convective processes using the coupled LIS-WRF system, 21th Conference on Hydrology, 87th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 14-18 Jan, 2007, San Antonio, TX.
Garcia, M., S.V. Kumar, D. J. Gochis, D. N. Yates, J. McHenry, T. Burnet, C.J. Coats, J. Condrey, Test Applicaton of a distributed hydrologic LSM with subsurface and overland flow routing for a tropical storm event in an Applachian headwater basin, 21th Conference on Hydrology, 87th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 14-18 Jan, 2007, San Antonio, TX.
Zhan, X., W. Crow, S.V. Kumar, P. R. Houser, C.D. Peters-Lidard, T.J. Jackson, Impact of Observational Data preprocessing on their assimilation in NASA’s Land Information System using the kalman filters, 21th Conference on Hydrology, 87th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 14-18 Jan, 2007, San Antonio, TX.
Eylander, J.B., S.V. Kumar, C.D. Peters-Lidard, The Land Information System- A new common infrastructure for land data assimilation at NASA and AFWA, 21th Conference on Hydrology, 87th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 14-18 Jan, 2007, San Antonio, TX.
Kumar, S.V., C.D. Peters-Lidard, J. Eylander, R. Reichle, W. Crow, X. Zhan, P. Houser, R. Koster, M. Suarez, J. Dong, A Generic Interoperable Hydrologic Data Assimilation Framework using the Land Information System, American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, 11-15 December 2006, San Francisco, CA.
C.D. Peters-Lidard, J. A. Santanello Jr. , S.V. Kumar, J. L. Eastman, Land Atmosphere Coupling: Soil Moisture, Vegetation and Boundary Layer, American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, 11-15 December 2006, San Francisco, CA.
V. Anatharaj, C. D. Peters-Lidard, P. Houser, G. Mostovoy, T. Haupt, R. Moorhead, S.V. Kumar, Integration of the NASA Land Information System as an Application Framework into the MRC Rapid Prototyping Capabilities Infrastructure, American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, 11-15 December 2006, San Francisco, CA.
A. C. Pinheiro, R. Reichle, S.V. Kumar, K. Arsenault, J. L. Privette, and Y. Yu, Determining the required accuracy of LST products for estimating surface energy fluxes, American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, 11-15 December 2006, San Francisco, CA.
Kumar, S.V., C.D. Peters-Lidard, J.L. Eastman, Y. Tian, and P.R. Houser. Evaluation of the impact of land surface heterogeneity on mesoscale fluxes, 20th Conference on Hydrology, 86th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 29 Jan – 2 Feb, 2006, Atlanta, GA.
Kumar, S.V., C.D. Peters-Lidard, Wei-Kuo Tao, J.L. Eastman, Y. Tian, R. Shi, X. Zeng, S. Lang, and P.R. Houser. Advanced computing, data access and distribution technologies and interoperable tools enabling high resolution coupled land-atmosphere prediction, 20th Conference on Hydrology, 86th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 29 Jan – 2 Feb, 2006, Atlanta, GA.
Eastman, J.L., C.D. Peters-Lidard, S.V. Kumar, Y. Tian, and P.R. Houser. Evaluation of land surface spinup and their impacts on high resolution convective modeling, 10th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface, 86th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 29 Jan – 2 Feb, 2006, Atlanta, GA.
Peters-Lidard, C.D., Wei-Kuo Tao, S.V. Kumar, J.L. Eastman, X. Zeng, S. Lang, Y. Tian, and P.R. Houser. High Resolution Convective Modeling using WRF and GCE coupled to LIS, 20th Conference on Hydrology, 86th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 29 Jan – 2 Feb, 2006, Atlanta, GA.
Lang, S., X. Zeng, W.-K. Tao, C.D. Peters-Lidard, J.L. Eastman, S.V. Kumar, Y. Tian, High resolution CRM simulations form IHOP: Land atmosphere interactions, 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, 86th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 29 Jan – 2 Feb, 2006, Atlanta, GA.
Garcia, M., Kumar, S.V., Gochis, D., Yates, D., McHenry, J., Burnet, T., Coats, C., and Condrey, J., 2006. Distributed Application of the Unified Noah LSM with Hydrologic Flow Routing on an Appalachian Headwater Basin. Eos Trans. AGU, 87(36), Jt. Assem. Suppl. Abstract H23D-20.
Zhan, X., Kumar, S.V., Crow, W.T., Arsenault, K., Houser, P.R., Peters-Lidard, C.D., 2006. Implementation an Application of the Kalman Filter Data Assimilation Approaches in NASA’s Land Information System. Eos Trans. AGU, 87(36), Jt. Assem. Suppl. Abstract H31A-05.
Eastman, J.L., Peters-Lidard, C.D., Tao, W., Kumar, S.V., Lang, S. and Zeng, X., 2006. The Impact of Parameter and Forcing Resolution on Data Assimilation and High Resolution Atmospheric Modeling. Eos Trans. AGU, 87(36), Jt. Assem. Suppl. Abstract A53B-07.
Toll, D.L., Dong, J., Houser, P., Cosgrove, B., Peters-Lidard, C., Kumar, S. V., 2006. Land Surface Water and Energy Flux Evaluation from the North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR) and Land Data Assimilation Systems (LDAS) for Water Resources Applications. Eos Trans. AGU, 87(36), Jt. Assem.
Suppl. Abstract A33D-02.
Kumar, S.V, Eylander, J. and C.D. Peters-Lidard, High Resolution Land Surface Modeling with the next generation land data assimilation system. American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, December 5-9, 2005, San Francisco, CA.
Eylander, J. , C.D. Peters-Lidard, and S.V. Kumar, The AFWA next generation land data assimilation system, Battlespace Atmospheric and Cloud Impacts on Military Operations (BACIMO) Conference, October 12-14, 2005, Monterey, CA.
Kumar, S.V., Peters-Lidard, C.D., J.L.Eastman, P.R. Houser, High Resolution coupled land-atmosphere system using Land Information System and Weather Research and Forecasting Model enabled by ESMF, WRF users conference, Boulder, CO, 2005.
Eastman, J.L, Peters-Lidard, C.D., Kumar, S.V., and Tian, Y. Hi-resolution convective modeling study using WRF coupled to the Land Information System, WRF users conference, Boulder, CO, 2005.
Tian, Y., Peters-Lidard, C.D., Kumar, S.V., Geiger, J., Olden, S., Lighty, L., Eastman, J.L., Houser, P.R., Sheffield, J., Wood, E.F., Mitchell, K.E., Meng, J., Wei, H., Dirmeyer, P., Doty, B., and Adams, J.M., Building the GSFC Land Information System with distributed and parallel computing technologies. American Meteorological Society, 21st Int'l Conf. on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, JP1.3, 2005
Peters-Lidard, C. D., Kumar, S.V., Rodell, M., Tian, Y., Geiger, J., Olden, J., Lighty, L., Eastman, J.L., Houser, P.R., Wood, E.F., Sheffield, J. , Mitchell, K.E., Meng, J., Dirmeyer, P.A., Doty, B., and Adams J.: Multiscale Evaluation of GLDAS Products for CEOP with the Land Information System. American Meteorological Society, 19th Conf. on Hydrology, J6.8., 2005
Garcia, M., Peters-Lidard, C. D., Kumar, S.V., and Tian, Y., The representation of hydrological processes across spatial scales using the NASA-GSFC Land Information System. American Meteorological Society, 19th Conf. on Hydrology, J9.2, 2005
Peters-Lidard, C.D, Kumar, S.V., Tian, Y., Geiger, J., Garcia, M., Rodell, M., Houser, P.R., Wood, E.F., Sheffield, J., Mitchell, K., Meng, J., Dirmeyer, P., Doty, B., and Adams, J. The production and value of high resolution land surface data assimilation products from the NASA/GSFC Land Information System, 5th International Scientific Conference on the Global Energy and Water Cycle, June 20-24, 2005. Orange County, California.
Peters-Lidard, C.D., Kumar, S.V., Tao, W.-K., Eastman, J.L., Zeng, X., Lang, S., Houser, P.R., Coupling High Resolution Earth System Models using Advanced Computational Technologies, NASA Earth Science Technology Conference, College Park, MD, 2005.
Houser, P.R., Peters-Lidard, C.D., Kumar, S.V., Tian, Y., Geiger, J., Olden, S., Lighty, L., Sheffield, J., Wood, E.F., Mitchell, K., Dirmeyer, P., Doty, B., and Adams, J., The Land Information System, NASA Earth Science Technology Conference, College Park, MD, 2005.
Peters-Lidard, C. D., Kumar, S.V., Tian, S.V., Eastman, J.L., and Houser, P.R., Global Urban-Scale Land-Atmosphere Modeling with the Land Information System, Symposium on Planning, Nowcasting, and Forecasting in the Urban Zone, 84th AMS Annual Meeting 11—15 January 2004 Seattle, WA, USA.
Kumar, S.V., Peters-Lidard, C.D., Tian, Y., J. V. Geiger, S. Olden, L. Lighty, J. L. Eastman, P. R. Houser, J. Sheffield, E. F. Wood, K. E. Mitchell, J. Meng, H. Wei, P. Dirmeyer, B. Doty, and J. M. Adams, 2005: Comparison of Land Information System (LIS) output with data from the coordinated enhanced observing period (CEOP). American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting, Montreal, Canada, 2004.
Tian, Y., Peters-Lidard, C.D., Kumar, S.V., Houser, P., Geiger, J., Olden, S., Lighty, L., Sheffield, J., Wood, E.F., Mitchell, K., Dirmeyer, P., Doty, B., and Adams, J., Advanced Computational Technologies in the GSFC Land Information System, NASA Earth Science Technology Conference, Palo Alto, CA. June 22-24, 2004.
Pinehro, A.C.T., Arsenault, K., Houser, P., Toll, D., Kumar, S.V., Matthews, D. and Stodt, R.W. Improved evapotranspiration estimates to aid water management practices in the Rio Grande River basin, International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Sept 20-24, 2004, Anchorage, Alaska.
C.D. Peters-Lidard, Kumar, S.V., Tian, Y., Geiger, J., Houser, P.R., Sheffield, J., Wood, E.F., Mitchell, K.E., and Dirmeyer, P. - The GSFC Land Information System as a multiscale ensemble hydrological modeling testbed. CAHMDA-II International Workshop on the Terrestrial Water Cycle: Modeling and Data Assimilation across Catchment Scales, Princeton, New Jersey, October 25-27, 2004.
Rodell, M., Houser, P.R., Peters-Lidard, C.D., Kato, H., Kumar, S.V., Gottschalk, J., Mitchell, K., and Meng, J. ECMWF/ELDAS Workshop on Land Surface Data Assimilation, Reading, England. 8-11 Nov. 2004.
Kumar, S.V., Peters-Lidard, C. D. and Houser, P. Early Adoption of ESMF by the Land Information Systems, NASA Earth Science Technology Conference, June 2003.
Gupta, A. Kripakaran, P., Kumar, S. V. and Baugh, J. W. Jr, Optimizing Seismic Response of Secondary Systems on Workstation Clusters, In Proceedings of Structures Congress & Exposition, American Society of Civil Engineers, Denver, April, 2002.
Kumar, S. V., Doby, T. A., Baugh, J. W. Jr., Brill, E. D. Jr., and Ranjithan, S. R., Vitri: A Framework for Environmental Decision Support on Heterogeneous Computer Networks”, In Proceedings of the 2001 World Water and Environmental Resources Congress, ASCE., 2001
Doby, T. A., Kumar, S. V., Baugh, J. W. Jr., Brill, E. D. Jr., and Ranjithan, S. R., Genetic Algorithm Search for Least Cost Design of Looped Pipe Networks Using Age as a Quality Surrogate and Different Levels of Redundancy, In Proceedings of the 2001 World Water and Environmental Resources Congress, ASCE., 2001
Kumar, S. V., Doby, T. A., Baugh, J. W. Jr., Brill, E. D. Jr., and Ranjithan, S. R., A Method for the Least Cost Design of Looped Pipe Networks for Different Levels of Redundancy using Genetic Algorithms”, In Proceedings of the 2000 Joint Conference on Water Resources Engineering and Water Resources Planning and Management, ASCE., 2000
Loughlin, D. H., Baugh, J. W. Jr., Brill, E. D. Jr., Fu, J. S., Kumar, S.V., Kurlagunda, R. N. and Ranjithan, S. R. The Practicality of Using Genetic Algorithms in the Design of Ozone Control Strategies, In Proceedings of the 1999 AWMA Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO., 1999
Selected Publications
Hall, D.K., G.A. Riggs, J.L. Foster, and S.V. Kumar (2009). Development and Evaluation of a Cloud-Gap-Filled Modis Daily Snow-Cover Product. RSE, (accepted for publication)
Santanello, J.A., C. Peters-Lidard, S.V. Kumar, C. Alonge, and W.-K. Tao (2009). A Modeling and Observational Framework for Diagnosing Local Land-Atmosphere Coupling on Diurnal Time Scales. J. Hydrometeorology, 10(3), 577-599
10.1175/2009JHM1066.1
Case, J.L., W.L. Crosson, S.V. Kumar, W.M. Lapenta, and C. Peters-Lidard (2008). Impacts of High-Resolution Land Surface Initialization on Regional Sensible Weather Forecasts from the WRF Model. J. Hydrometeorol., 9, 1249-1266
10.1175/2008JHM9990.1
Kumar, S.V., C. Peters-Lidard, Y. Tian, R. Reichle, J. Geiger, C. Alonge, J. Eylander, and P. Houser (2008). An Integrated Hydrologic Modeling and Data Assimilation Framework. IEEE Computer Society, 41(12), 52-59
10.1109/MC.2008.511
Kumar, S.V., C. Peters-Lidard, J.L. Eastman, and W.-K. Tao (2008). An integrated high-resolution hydrometeorological modeling testbed using LIS and WRF. Environ. Modelling and Software, 23, 169-181
10.1016/j.envsoft.2007.05.012
Tian, Y., C. Peters-Lidard, S.V. Kumar, J. Geiger, P.R. Houser, J.L. Eastman, P. Dirmeyer, B. Doty, and J. Adams (2008). High-performance land surface modeling with Linux cluster. Computers Geosci., 34, 1492-1504
10.1016/j.cageo.2007.12.014
Tian, Y., P.R. Houser, H. Su, S.V. Kumar, and J.V. Geiger Jr. (2008). Integrating sensor webs with modeling and data-assimilation applications: An SOA implementation. Proc. IEEE Aerospace Conf.
Tischler, M., M. Garcia, C. Peters-Lidard, M.S. Moran, S. Miller, D Thoma, S.V. Kumar, and J. Geiger (2007). A GIS framework for surface-layer soil moisture estimation combining satellite radar measurements and land surface modeling with soil physical property estimation. Enviorn. Modelling and Software, 22(6), 891-898
Zeng, X., W.-K. Tao, M. Zhang, C. Peters-Lidard, S. Land, J. Simpson, S.V. Kumar, S. Xie, J.L. Eastman, C.-L. Shie, and J.V. Geiger (2007). Evaluating Clouds in Long-Term Cloud-Resolving Model Simulations with Observational Data. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 4153-4177
Kumar, S.V., C. Peters-Lidard, Y. Tian, P.R. Houser, J. Geiger, S. Olden, L. Lighty, J.L. Eastman, B. Doty, P. Dirmeyer, J. Adams, K. Mitchell, E.F. Wood, and J. Sheffield (2006). Land information system: An interoperable framework for high resolution land surface modeling. Environ. Modelling Software, 21, 1402-1415
Kumar, S.V., Y. Tian, C. Peters-Lidard, P.R. Houser, J. Geiger, S. Olden, L. Lighty, J.L. Eastman, B. Doty, P. Dirmeyer, J. Adams, K. Mitchell, E.F. Wood, and J. Sheffield (2006). Land information system: An interoperable framework for high resolution land surface modeling. Environ. Modelling Software, 21, 1402-1415
Pinheiro T., A.C., K. Arsenault, P. Houser, D. Toll, S.V. Kumar, D. Matthews, and R.W. Stodt (2004). Improved evapotranspiration estimates to aid water management practices in the Rio Grande river basin. Proc. IGARSS 2004, 3, 2123-2126
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