2008 - Ph.D., Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (RSMAS), University of Miami, Miami, FL. Thesis: The initiation of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO).
2002 - M.S. (Engineering), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
1998 - B.Eng. (Civil), Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.
Research Interests
Tropical meteorology
Madden-Julian Oscillation
Tropics-extratropics interactions
Regional climate modeling
Model evaluation using satellite data
Scientific Work Experience
Postdoctoral Fellow, IPRC, University of Hawaii, 2010 - 2012
Postdoctoral Associate, Rosenstiel School Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (RSMAS), University of Miami, 2008 - 2010
Visiting Scholar, Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology division, NCAR, Boulder, June 2007 - August 2007
Graduate Student Fellow, Advanced Study Program (ASP) of the NCAR, Boulder, July 2006 - March 2007
McNeeley, S.M., S.A. Tessendorf, H. Lazrus, T. Heikkila, I.M. Ferguson, J.S. Arrigo, S.Z. Attari, C.M. Cianfrani, L. Dilling. J.J. Gurdak, S.K. Kampf, D. Kauneckis, C.J. Kirchhoff, J. Lee, B.R. Lintner, K.M. Mahoney, S. Opitz-Stapleton, P. Ray, A.B. South, A.P. Stubblefield, and J. Brugger, 2012: Catalyzing Frontiers in Water-Climate-Society Research: A View from Early Career Scientists and Junior Faculty. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 93 (4), 477‐484, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00221.1. IPRC-826.
Ray, P., 2012: Mean State and the MJO in a High Resolution Nested Regional Climate Model. In I. Yucel (Ed.), Atmospheric Model Applications, ISBN 978-953-51-0488-9, 69-84. IPRC-850.
Ray, P., C. Zhang, J. Dudhia, T. Li, and M. W. Moncrieff, 2012: Tropical Channel Model. In L.M. Druyan (Ed.), Climate Models, InTech Open Access Publisher, ISBN 979-953-307-338-4, 3‐18. IPRC-823.
Ray, P., and B.J. Soden, 2011: An analysis of the vertical structure of cloud ice under different precipitation regimes: CloudSat versus GCM simulations. Clim. Dyn.. submitted.
Ray, P., C. Zhang, M.W. Moncrieff, J. Dudhia, J. Caron, L.R. Leung, and C. Bruyere, 2011: Role of the atmospheric mean state on the initiation of the Madden-Julian oscillation in a tropical channel model. Clim. Dyn., DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0859-2.
Ray, P., and C. Zhang, 2010: A case study of the mechanics of extratropical influence on the initiation of the Madden-Julian oscillation. J.. Atmos. Sci., 67, 515-528.
Ray, P., 2009: The initiation of the Madden-Julian oscillation. ISBN 978-3-639-13054-6, VDM Verlag publishing, Germany, 137 pp.
Ray, P., C. Zhang, J. Dudhia, and S.S. Chen, 2009: A numerical case study on the initiation of the Madden-Julian oscillation. J. Atmos. Sci., 66, 310-331.
Sengupta, D., P. Ray, and G.S. Bhat, 2002: Spring warming of the eastern Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal from buoy data. Geophys. Res. Lett., 29, 10.1029/2002GL015340.
Ray, P., D. Sengupta, and G.S. Bhat, 2001: Annual cycle of heat flux and sea surface temperature in the North Indian Ocean. CAOS Report 2001 AS3, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.