Tiruvalam Natarajan Krishnamurti ( – February 7, 2018) was an Indian

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. He was a

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, where prior to his retirement he was the Lawton Distinguished Professor of Meteorology.Meet Dr. Tiruvalum N. (T.N.) Krishnamurti: Lawton Distinguished Professor of Meteorology, Florida State University

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, June 1, 2005, retrieved 2015-04-14.

Career

Krishnamurti earned his doctorate in 1959 from the

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. Prior to joining the Florida State faculty, he taught at the

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. In 2006, he co-authored ''An Introduction to Global Spectral Modeling'', Second Edition, Springer, 317 pp. Textbook (with H. S. Bedi, V. M. Hardiker and L. Ramaswamy). In 1985, the

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awarded him the

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. He won the

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of the

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in 1996. In 2012 the

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gave him their Sir Gilbert Walker Gold Medal. A symposium in his honor was held in 2012 as part of the American Meteorological Society annual meeting in New Orleans. Krishnamurti died on February 7, 2018

References

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