Profile for Rupsa Bhowmick
Contact me
Rupsa Bhowmick
Assistant Professor
Geography & Environmental Science
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Rupsa Bhowmick
Assistant Professor
Geography & Environmental Science
Specialty area(s)
Climatology, meteorology, natural hazards and extreme events, and machine learning
Brief biography
I am deeply passionate about understanding the dynamics of severe and extreme weather—ranging from thunderstorms to tornadoes—and advancing methods for their classification, prediction, and climatological analysis. As a climatologist at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse, I integrate my teaching in weather and climate with research on natural hazards and extreme events in the Midwest. My work incorporates machine learning, artificial intelligence, and GIScience to improve our ability to analyze, model, and predict severe weather events.
I actively involve undergraduate students in this hands-on research, with many opportunities to map severe weather patterns and conduct climatology analysis.
If this sounds exciting to you, please send me an email or stop by my office—I’d be happy to chat about ways to get involved!
Current courses at UWL
GEO 101 Earth Environments
GEO 221 Weather and Climate
Education
2015 - 2020 Ph.D., Geography, Louisiana State University
2010 - 2012 M.Sc., Geography, University of Calcutta
2007 - 2010 B.Sc., Geography, University of Calcutta
Career
Teaching history
GEO 101 Earth Environments
GEO 211 Global Climate Change
Ahmedabad University (Assistant Professor)
CSE 521: Big Data Analytics
FDP 104: Foundation of Water
ENR 105: Product Dissection and Realization
ENR 200: Design, Innovation, and Making
Louisiana State University (Instructor/TA)
GEOG 1003 : Human Geography: African and Asian Studies
GEOG 2050: Physical Geography: The Atmosphere, Louisiana State University
Professional history
2025 - Present Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Science, UW-La Crosse
2024 - 2025 Assistant Professor, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Ahmedabad University
2020 - 2023 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Los Alamos National Laboratory
2018 Summer Project Lead, NASA Develop National Program
2013 - 2015 Project Assistant, Global Change Program, Jadavpur University
Research and publishing
I am currently working on the following project:
Variability in extreme typhoon wind risk in different ENSO phases in the Western North Pacific Ocean. Collaborator: Jill. C. Trepanier, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University
Peer-Reviewed Publications:
1. Bhowmick, R., 2025: Southwest Pacific Extreme Tropical Cyclone Wind Risk and its
Sensitivity to Sea Surface Temperature. Natural Hazards, Springer Nature.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-025-07284-2
2. Bhowmick, R., 2025: "Southwest Pacific Tropical Cyclone Rapid Intensification Classification Utilizing Machine Learning" Atmosphere 16, no. 4: 456. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos16040456
3. Bhowmick, R., J. C. Trepanier, and A. M. Haberlie, 2023: Classification Analysis of Southwest Pacific Tropical Cyclone Intensity Changes Prior to Landfall. Atmosphere, Volume 14, Issue 2, Number 253. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos14020253
4. Bhowmick, R., J. C. Trepanier, and A. M. Haberlie, 2022: Southwest Pacific Tropical Cyclone Development Classification Utilizing Machine Learning and Synoptic Composites. International Journal of Climatology, Volume 42, Issue 8, pp 4187 – 4213. DOI: 10.1002/joc.7457
5. Bhowmick, R., J. C. Trepanier, 2019: Impact of Aerosols and Ocean Temperature on Tropical Cyclone Days near Australia, Hurricane Risk, Springer, Volume 1, pp: 135-160. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-02402-4_7
6. Bhowmick, R., 2016: Summer- time Urban Heat Island (UHI) in Kolkata Metropolitan Area, India, ISBN 978-81-923448-0-5, Climate and Society – A Contemporary Perspective, pp:128 - 133.
Kudos
presented
published
published