CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Omer Lutfi Sen

 

TEL: (212) 285-6081

Email: senomer@itu.edu.tr

 

EDUCATION

 

Ph.D.      Hydrology, Minor in Remote Sensing, Dept. of Hydrology & Water Resources, University of Arizona, 2000

                                Thesis title: Improving the parameterization of land-surface interactions in GCMs using field data

M.S.        Hydrology, Dept. of Hydrology & Water Resources, University of Arizona, 1996

                                Thesis title: Atmospheric exchanges of riparian vegetation in a semi-arid environment

B.S.         Meteorology, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1990

 

AREAS OF RESEARCH INTEREST

 

Land-surface atmosphere interactions, hydrometeorological modeling, model performance evaluation, remote sensing in hydrometeorology, regional climate modeling, anthropogenic climate change

 

AWARDS and MEMBERSHIPS

 

State Scholarship to study Hydrometeorology in the U.S., Ministry of Education, Turkey, 1994

NASA Earth System Science Fellowship, 1998

Member: American Geophysical Union, 1997-present

Member: Pacific Congress on Marine Science and Technology, 2002-present

Reviewed papers for Journal of Hydrometeorology, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres and Climate Dynamics

                                                                                                                                                               

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

2004-present         : Assistant Professor, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Istanbul Technical University

2000-2003               : Post-Doctoral Fellow, International Pacific Research Center (IPRC), University of Hawaii

6-8,2000                  : Graduate Research Associate, Dept. of Hydrology & Water Resources, University of Arizona

1997-2000               : Graduate Research Assistant, Dept. of Hydrology & Water Resources, University of Arizona

1993-1994                      : Meteorological Engineer, State Meteorological Service, Ankara, Turkey

 

ADDITIONAL TRAINING

 

1993 (3 months)    : Weather Analysis and Forecasting, Ankara, Turkey

2002 (2 weeks)      : The Ocean Carbon Cycle and Climate, NATO ASI, ODTU, Ankara, Turkey

 

PAPERS and PRESENTATIONS

 

Papers  

 

Ezber, Y., O.L. Sen, and M. Karaca, 2005: Re-evaluation of the Urban Heat Island in Istanbul, To be submitted to Atmospheric Environment.

 

Sen, O.L., B. Wang, and Y. Wang, 2004: Impacts of re-greening the desertification lands in northern China: Implications from a regional climate model experiment. Journal of Meteorological Society of Japan, 82(6),1679-1693.

 

Sen, O.L., Y. Wang, and B. Wang, 2004: Impact of Indochina deforestation on the East-Asian summer monsoon. J. of Climate, 17: 1366-1380.

 

Wang, Y., O.L. Sen, and B. Wang, 2003: A highly resolved regional climate model (IPRC_RegCM) and its simulation of the 1998 severe precipitation events over China.  J. Climate, 16: 1721-1738.

 

Sen, O.L., L.A. Bastidas, W.J. Shuttleworth, Z.-L. Yang, H.V. Gupta, and S. Sorooshian, 2001. Impact of field-calibrated vegetation parameters on GCM climate simulations, Q.J.R. Meteorol. Soc., 127: 1199-1223.

 

Sen, O.L., W.J. Shuttleworth and Z.-L. Yang, Comparative evaluation of BATS2, BATS and SiB2 with Amazon data. J. Hydromet., 1(2), 135-153, 2000.

 

Arain, M.A., W.J. Shuttleworth, B. Farnsworth, J. Adams and O.L. Sen, Comparing micrometeorology of rain forests in Biosphere-2 and Amazon basin. Agricul. Forest. Meteorol., 100, 273-289, 2000.

 

Unland, H.E., A.M. Arain, C. Harlow, P.H. Houser, J.G. Payan, P. Scott, O.L. Sen, W.J. Shuttleworth,  Evaporation from a riparian system in a semi-arid environment.  Hydrol. Process, 12, 527 - 542, 1998.

 

Current Research and Projects

 

The role of land-cover change in montane mainland Southeast Asia in altering regional hydrological processes under a changing climate. 2003-2006. Co-Principal Investigator. Funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). 

 

Simulation of winter snow cover in Turkey using a regional atmospheric model. 2004-2006. Principal Investigator. Funded by Istanbul Technical University.

 

Investigation of the effects of topography on the severe precipitation events in Antalya using a regional climate model. 2005. Principal Investigator. Funded by Scientific and Technologic Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK).

 

Proceedings

 

Sen, O.L., Y. Wang, and B. Wang, 2003: Response of the East Asia summer monsoon to the deforestation in the Indochina Peninsula: A regional climate model study. Proceedings of The 2nd Workshop on Regional Climate Modeling for Monsoon System. Frontier, March 4-6, 2003, Yokohama, Japan.

Wang. Y., O.L. Sen, and B. Wang, 2002: Simulation of the individual severe weather events over China during 1998 Meiyu season with the IPRC regional climate model. Proceedings of Summer Workshop on Severe Storms and Torrential Rain. Chinese Academy of Sciences, June 15-17, 2002, Chengdu, China, 29-32.

Wang, Y., O.L. Sen, and B. Wang, 2002: Simulation of the 1998 severe precipitation event over East Asia with the IPRC regional climate model.  Proceedings of Third US-Korea Joint Workshop on Storm Scale and Mesoscale Weather Analysis and Prediction.  February 20-22, 2002, Boulder, Colorado, 41-46.

Wang, Y., O.L. Sen, and B. Wang, 2002: Simulation of the 1998 severe precipitation event in China with the regional climate model developed at the International Pacific Research Center.  Proceedings of Workshop on the Network System for Monitoring and Predicting ENSO Event and Sea Temperature Structure of the Warm Pool in the Western Pacific Ocean.  February 5-7, 2002, Macao, China, 41-44.

 

Presentations

 

Sen, O.L., Hydrometeorologic applications: From patch scale to large scale, Department of Meteorological Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, 2005.

Sen, O.L., Land surface parameterization in climate models, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, 2003.

Sen, O.L., Y. Wang, and B. Wang, Response of the East Asia summer monsoon to the deforestation in the Indochina Peninsula: A regional climate model study. The 2nd Workshop on Regional Climate Modeling for Monsoon System, Yokohama, Japan, 2003.

Sen, O.L., Y. Wang, and B. Wang, Effect of Indochina Peninsula surface cover change on the East-Asian summer monsoon rainfall, PACON, Chiba, Japan, 2002.

 

Sen, O.L., and Y. Wang, Evaluation of the Land Surface Model (BATS) Implemented into IPRC-RegCM1. The First IPRC Regional Climate Modeling Workshop, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2001.

                                                                                                                     

Sen, O.L., W.J. Shuttleworth, and Z.-L. Yang, Comparative evaluation of BATS2, BATS and SiB2 with Amazon data. IUGG, Birmingham, UK, 1999.

 

Sen, O.L., and W.J. Shuttleworth,  Evidence of a feedforward stomatal response operating at the whole-canopy level in conditions of high vapor pressure deficit?, AGU, San Francisco, 1997.

 

Bastidas, L.A., H.V. Gupta, K. Blasch, O.L. Sen, S. Sorooshian, W.J. Shuttleworth, Constraining LSS by Using Observational Data and Multi-Criteria Techniques, presented at the NASA Land Surface Hydrology Program Investigators Meeting, Columbia, MD, November 1-2, 1999.

 

Bastidas, L.A., O.L. Sen, H.V. Gupta, S. Sorooshian, and W.J. Shuttleworth, Overview of the use of Multi-Criteria Methods for parameter estimation of land surface schemes, presented at the GCIP Principal Investigators Meeting, Potomac, MD, March 6-8, 2000.