Contact:

Building: Research Hall
Office: Room 120
Mail Stop: 2B3
Phone: 703-909-6570
E-mail: asrivas3@gmu.edu

Abhishekh Srivastava

I am, currently, enrolled as a PhD student in the Climate Dynamics program of the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Earth Sciences, George Mason University,USA. My research advisor is Prof. Timothy DelSole. I have been recipient of the GMU presidential scholarship from years 2010 to 2013.

My thesis work involves understanding mechanisms of low frequency variability of climate and investigating processes that improve decadal predictions. I am studying this problem using simple stochastic models and analysis of simulations using multivariate statistical techniques.

I also have interests in other topics such as air-sea interactions on multiple timescales and global warming. In particular I am interested in studying what is the effect of global warming on internal climate variability and associated atmospheric and oceaninc processes.

I have extensively used multivariate statistical techniques such as ANOVA, canonical correlation analysis, discriminant analysis, optimally persistent patterns, average predictability time. I have experience in analyzing large multimodel data sets such as CMIP3 and CMIP5 datasets.

I have also set up and run NCAR CESM aquaplanet slab-ocean model with CAM4 physics. The results from this model provides a baseline comparison for the results from our stochastic model.