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Tharun Sankar

Tharun Sankar

Tharun is a researcher on the Climate & Energy team focused on contrail avoidance.

Authored Publications

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A scalable system to measure contrail formation on a per-flight basis

Scott Geraedts

Erica Brand

Sebastian Eastham

Carl Elkin

Thomas Dean

Zebediah Engberg

Ulrike Hager

Ian Langmore

Kevin McCloskey

Joe Ng

John Platt

Dinesh Sanekommu

Tharun Sankar

Aaron Sarna

Marc Shapiro

Nita Goyal

Environmental Research Communications (2024)

The effect of uncertainty in humidity and model parameters on the prediction of contrail energy forcing

John Platt

Marc Shapiro

Zebediah Engberg

Kevin McCloskey

Scott Geraedts

Tharun Sankar

Marc E.J. Stettler

Roger Teoh

Ulrich Schumann

Susanne Rohs

Erica Brand

Christopher Van Arsdale

Environmental Research Communications, 6 (2024), pp. 095015

Next Day Wildfire Spread: A Machine Learning Dataset to Predict Wildfire Spreading From Remote-Sensing Data

Fantine Huot

Lily Hu

Nita Goyal

Tharun Pratap Sankar

Matthias Ihme

Yi-fan Chen

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 60 (2022), pp. 1-13

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