Dr. S. Murali Das

Dr. S. Murali Das, Scientist (Retd.), Atmospheric Sciences Division, National Centre for Earth Science Studies, Thiruvananthapuram.

 

He did his Ph. D in Atmospheric Electricity. He has executed three projects on Lightning, one funded by Ministry of Home Affairs. Govt. of India and the other two founded by Govt. of Kerala. His interest has been on the physics of the lightning, the mechanism of injury and property destruction in lightning accidents. He has been involved in development of instrumentation for monitoring cloud electric fields related to lightning. In one of the projects, he was involved in research to understand the cause of high lightning in Kerala too. He has several Publications in Atmospheric Electricity and Lightning in journals of repute