Publications 2017-2019


1. Ajay, P., B. Pathak, F. Solmon, P. Bhuyan, and F. Giorgi (2019), Obtaining best parameterization scheme of RegCM 4.4 for aerosols and chemistry simulations over the CORDEX South Asia, Climate Dynamics, 53(1-2), 329-352.

2. Atinderpal Singh and Neeraj Rastogi, Quantification of organic carbon from biomass versus non-biomass burning emissions to fine aerosol, 2019, Proceeding of the Indian National Science Academy. doi: 10.16943/ptinsa/2019/49585.

3. Bansal, O., A Singh, D Singh, Short-term perturbation in aerosol characteristics over Northwestern India: A case study during Diwali festival, 2019, Journal of Earth System Science 128:193

4. Bansal, O., A. Singh, and D. Singh (2019), Aerosol characteristics over the northwestern Indo-Gangetic Plain: Clear-sky radiative forcing of composite and black carbon aerosol, Aerosol Air Quality Research, 19(1), 5-14.

5. Bansal, O., Atinderpal Singh and Darshan Singh, Characteristics of Black Carbon aerosols over Patiala Northwestern part of the IGP: Source apportionment using cluster and CWT analysis, 2019, Atmospheric Pollution Research 10 , 244–256

6. Barman, N., R. Roy, B. Saha, S. Kundu, A. Borgohain, B. K. De, and A. Guha (2019), Investigation of seasonal variation of compensation parameter and absorption Ångström Exponent of aerosol after loading correction over a remote station in north-east India, Atmospheric Environment, 212, 106-115.

7. Dahutia, P, B. Pathak, and P. K. Bhuyan (2019), Vertical distribution of aerosols and clouds over north-eastern South Asia: Aerosol-cloud interactions, Atmospheric Environment, 116882.

8. Dhar, P., A. Guha, B.K. De, Influence of atmospheric aerosol on near surface fair-weather vertical electric field: A study from Northeast India, Bulgarian Journal of Physics 45, 285-298, 2018

9. Dhar, P., B. K. De, T. Banik, M. M. Gogoi, S. S. Babu, and A. Guha (2017), Atmospheric aerosol radiative forcing over a semi-continental location Tripura in North-East India: Model results and ground observations, Science of the Total Environment, 580, 499-508.

10. Dhar, P., T. Banik, B. K. De, M. M. Gogoi, S. S. Babu, and A. Guha (2018), Study of aerosol types and seasonal sources using wavelength dependent Ångström exponent over North-East India: Ground-based measurement and satellite remote sensing, Advances in Space Research, 62(5), 1049-1064.

11. Gogoi, M. M., C. R. Tandule, V. Jayachandran, S. K. Kompalli, V. S. Nair, K. R. Gopal, and S. S. Babu (2019), Spatial gradient of aerosol mass concentrations and size distributions over southeastern Arabian Sea and equatorial Indian Ocean during ICARB-2018, Atmospheric Environment.

12. Gogoi, M. M., S. S. Babu, K. K. Moorthy, P. K. Bhuyan, B. Pathak, T. Subba, L. Chutia, S. S. Kundu, C. Bharali, and A. Borgohain (2017), Radiative effects of absorbing aerosols over northeastern India: Observations and model simulations, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 122(2), 1132-1157.

13. Gogoi, M. M., S. S. Babu, S. K. Pandey, V. S. Nair, A. Vaishya, I. Girach, and N. Koushik (2018), Scavenging ratio of black carbon in the Arctic and the Antarctic, Polar Science, 16, 10-22.

14. Gogoi, P. P., V. Vinoj, D. Swain, G. Roberts, J. Dash, and S. Tripathy (2019), Land use and land cover change effect on surface temperature over Eastern India, Scientific Reports, 9(1), 8859.

15. Gopal, K. R., G. Balakrishnaiah, S. M. Arafath, K. R. O. Reddy, N. S. K. Reddy, S. P. Kumari, K. R. Kumar, T. C. Rao, T. L. Reddy, and R. Reddy (2017), Measurements of scattering and absorption properties of surface aerosols at a semi-arid site, Anantapur, Atmospheric Research, 183, 84-93.

16. Gupta, P., S. P. Singh, A. Jangid, and R. Kumar (2017), Characterization of black carbon in the ambient air of Agra, India: Seasonal variation and meteorological influence, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 34(9), 1082-1094.

17. Jana, S., and A. Maitra (2019), Electric Field Variation in Clear and Convective Conditions at a Tropical Urban Location, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124(4), 2068-2078.

18. Jana, S., G. Rakshit, and A. Maitra (2018), Aliasing effect due to convective rain in Doppler spectrum observed by micro rain radar at a tropical location, Advances in Space Research, 62(9), 2443-2453.

19. Kompalli, S. K., S. S. Babu, C. Udayasoorian, and R. Jayabalakrishnan (2018), Role of anthropogenic emissions and meteorology on ultrafine particle bursts over a high-altitude site in Western Ghats during pre-monsoon, Journal of Atmospheric Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 179, 378-388.

20. Kumar, M., M. Raju, R. Singh, and T. Banerjee (2017), Impact of drought and normal monsoon scenarios on aerosol induced radiative forcing and atmospheric heating in Varanasi over middle Indo-Gangetic Plain, Journal of Aerosol Science, 113, 95-107.

21. Kuniyal, J. C., and R. P. Guleria (2018), The current state of aerosol-radiation interactions: A mini review, Journal of Aerosol Science, 130 (2019) 45–54

22. Maitra, A., G. Rakshit, S. Jana, and R. Chakraborty (2019), Effect of Boundary Layer Dynamics on the Profiles of Rain Drop Size Distribution During Convective Rain, IEEE Geoscience Remote Sensing Letters, 10.1109/LGRS.2019.2891906.

23. Mallik, C., P. S. Mahapatra, P. Kumar, S. Panda, R. Boopathy, T. Das, and S. Lal (2019), Influence of regional emissions on SO2 concentrations over Bhubaneswar, a capital city in eastern India downwind of the Indian SO2 hotspots, Atmospheric Environment, 209, 220-232.

24. Manjunatha, C., T. Chakradhar Rao, G. Balakrishnaiah, K. Rama Gopal, T. Lokeswara Reddy, B. Elijabetthamma, R. Ramakrishna Reddy, Analysis of exceedance in the daily PM10 mass concentrations over five mega south Indian cities, International Journal of Research in Advent Technology, Vol.7, No.4, April 2019 E-ISSN: 2321-9637

25. Manoj, M., S. Satheesh, K. K. Moorthy, M. M. Gogoi, and S. S. Babu (2019), Decreasing Trend in Black Carbon Aerosols Over the Indian Region, Geophysical Research Letters, 46(5), 2903-2910.

26. Mishra, A.K., Banerjee, T.,Yogesh, K., Shaik, D.S and Singh, A.K. 2018. Retrieval of Aerosol Optical Depth Over Land at 0.490 μm from Oceansat-2 data. Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, 46(5),761-769.

27. Mukherjee, T., and V. Vinoj (2019), Atmospheric aerosol optical depth and its variability over an urban location in Eastern India, Natural Hazards, 1-15.

v28. Nazeer Hussain S, Chakradhar Rao T, Balakrishnaiah G, Rama Gopal K.et al., Investigation of black carbon aerosols and their characteristics over tropical urban and semi-arid rural environments in peninsular India, Journal of Atmospheric and solar-terrestrial physics, Volume 167, January 2018, Pages 48-57.

29. Nilamoni Barman, Biswajit Saha, Rakesh Roy, S.S.Kundu, Arup Borgohain, P.L.N.Raju, Investigation of Curvature Effect of Ångström Exponent to Classify the Aerosol Types over the Region of Interest (88°-98° E and 20°-30° N), Atmospheric Pollution, doi:10.1016/j.apr.2018.09.002, 2018

30. Panda, U., and T. Das (2017), Micro-structural analysis of individual aerosol coarse particles during different seasons at an eastern coastal site in India, Atmospheric Pollution Research, 8(1), 196-207.

31. Pandey, S. K., V. Vinoj, K. Landu, and S. S. Babu (2017), Declining pre-monsoon dust loading over South Asia: Signature of a changing regional climate, Scientific reports, 7(1), 16062.

32. Prasad, P., M. R. Raman, M. V. Ratnam, W.-N. Chen, S. V. B. Rao, M. M. Gogoi, S. K. Kompalli, K. S. Kumar, and S. S. Babu (2018), Characterization of atmospheric Black Carbon over a semi-urban site of Southeast India: Local sources and long-range transport, Atmospheric Research, 213, 411-421.

33. Prasad, P., M.RojaRaman, M.VenkatRatnam, V.Ravikiran, B.L.Madhavan, VijayaBhaskara Rao, Nocturnal, Seasonal and Intra-annual variability of tropospheric aerosols observed using ground-based and space-borne Lidars over a tropical location of India, 2019, Atmospheric Environment, DOI:10.1016,/j.atmosenv.2019.06.008.

34. PS Mahapatra, PR Sinha, B Ramaswamy, T Das et al., Seasonal progression of atmospheric particulate matter over an urban coastal region in peninsular India: Role of local meteorology and long-range transport, Atmospheric Research (2017) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2017.09.001

35. Sen, A., A. Abdelmaksoud, Y. N. Ahammed, T. Banerjee, M. A. Bhat, A. Chatterjee, A. K. Choudhuri, T. Das, A. Dhir, and P. P. Dhyani (2017), Variations in particulate matter over Indo-Gangetic Plains and Indo-Himalayan Range during four field campaigns in winter monsoon and summer monsoon: role of pollution pathways, Atmospheric environment, 154, 200-224.

36. Shaik DS, Kant Y, Mitra D, Singh A, Chandola HC, Sateesh M, Babu SS, Chauhan P (2019), Impact of biomass burning on regional aerosol optical properties: A case study over northern India, Journal of Environmental Management 244, 328-343.

37. Shaik, D. S., Y. Kant, D. Mitra, S. S. Babu, and R. Sensing (2017), Assessment of aerosol characteristics and radiative forcing over Northwest himalayan region, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations, 10(12), 5314-5321.

38. Shaik, D.S., Yogesh, K, Mitra.D., Chandola,H.C and Babu,S.S. (2018). Long term variability of MODIS 3 km Aerosol Optical Depth over Indian region. ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume IV-5,359-366.

39. Vachaspati, C. V., G. R. Begam, Y. N. Ahammed, K. R. Kumar, and R. Reddy (2018), Characterization of aerosol optical properties and model computed radiative forcing over a semi-arid region, Kadapa in India, Atmospheric research, 209, 36-49.

40. Vachaspati, C. V., G. R. Begam, Y. N. Ahammed, K. R. Kumar, T. K. Mandel, K. R. Gopal, and R. R. Reddy (2018), Investigation on spatiotemporal distribution of aerosol optical properties over two oceanic regions surrounding Indian subcontinent during summer monsoon season, Environmental Science Pollution Research, 25(27), 27039-27058.

41. Vaishya, A., P. Singh, S. Rastogi, and S. S. Babu (2017), Aerosol black carbon quantification in the central Indo-Gangetic Plain: Seasonal heterogeneity and source apportionment, Atmospheric Research, 185, 13-21.

42. Vaishya, A., S. N. S. Babu, V. Jayachandran, M. M. Gogoi, N. B. Lakshmi, K. K. Moorthy, and S. K. Satheesh (2018), Large contrast in the vertical distribution of aerosol optical properties and radiative effects across the Indo-Gangetic Plain during the SWAAMI–RAWEX campaign, Atmospheric Chemistry Physics, 18(23), 17669-17685.

43. Venkat Ratnam Madineni, P Prasad, Roja Raman Mekalathur et al., (2018), Role of dynamics on the formation and maintenance of the elevated aerosol layer during monsoon season over south-east peninsular India, Atmospheric Environment, DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2018.06.023

44. Williams, M. A., T. L. Kumar, and D. N. Rao (2019), Characterizing black carbon aerosols in relation to atmospheric boundary layer height during wet removal processes over a semi urban location, Journal of Atmospheric Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 182, 165-176.

45. Biswas, J., B. Pathak, F. Patadia, P. K. Bhuyan, M. M. Gogoi, and S. S. Babu (2017), Satellite‐retrieved direct radiative forcing of aerosols over North‐East India and adjoining areas: climatology and impact assessment, International Journal of Climatology, 37, 298-317.

46. Brooks, J., D. Liu, J. D. Allan, P. I. Williams, J. Haywood, E. J. Highwood, S. K. Kompalli, S. S. Babu, S. K. Satheesh, and A. G. Turner Black Carbon physical and optical properties across northern India during pre-monsoon and monsoon seasons. Atmospheric Chemistry Physics Discussion, 2019.

47. Brooks, J., J. D. Allan, P. I. Williams, D. Liu, C. Fox, J. Haywood, J. M. Langridge, E. J. Highwood, S. K. Kompalli, and D. O'Sullivan (2019), Vertical and horizontal distribution of submicron aerosol chemical composition and physical characteristics across northern India during pre-monsoon and monsoon seasons, Atmospheric Chemistry Physics, 19(8), 5615-5634.

48. Pathak, H. S., S. K. Satheesh, R. Nanjundiah, K. K. Moorthy, S. Lakshmivarahan, S. Nair, and S. Babu (2019), Assessment of Regional Aerosol Radiative Effects under SWAAMI Campaign–PART 1: Quality-enhanced Estimation of Columnar Aerosol Extinction and Absorption Over the Indian Subcontinent, Atmospheric Chemistry Physics.


Publications 2016


1. S. Suresh Babu, Sobhan Kumar Kompalli and K. Krishna Moorthy, Aerosol number size distributions over a coastal semi urban location: Seasonal changes and ultrafine particle bursts, Science of the Total Environment 563–564 (2016) 351–365.

2. Sobhan Kumar Kompalli, S. Suresh Babu, Lakshmi N. Bharatan and K. Krishna Moorthy, Spring-time enhancement in aerosol burden over a high altitude location (4520 m amsl) in western trans-Himalayas: results from long-term observations, Current Science, 2016. (Accepted).

3. MM Gogoi, S. Suresh Babu, KK Moorthy, RC Thakur, JP Chaubey, VS Nair, Aerosol black carbon over Svalbard regions of Arctic,Poalr Science 2016

4. KK Moorthy, SK Satheesh, MM Sarin, AK Panday, South Asian aerosols in perspective: Preface to the special issue, Atmospheric Environment 125, 307-311

5. S. Suresh Babu, VS Nair, MM Gogoi, KK Moorthy, Seasonal variation of vertical distribution of aerosol single scattering albedo over Indian sub-continent: RAWEX aircraft observations,Atmospheric Environment 125, 312-323,2016.

6. B.Pathak, T.Subba, P.Dahutia, P.K.Bhuyan, K.KrishnaMoorthy, M.M.Gogoi, S.SureshBabu, L.Chutia, P.Ajay, J.Biswas, C.Bharali, A.Borgohain, P.Dhar, A.Guha, B.K.De, T.Banik, M.Chakraborty, S.S.Kundu, S.Sudhakar, S.B.Singh, Aerosol characteristics in north-east India using ARFINET spectral optical depth measurements, Atmospheric Environment 125 (2016) 461–473.

7. B Pathak, L Chutia, C Bharali, PK BhuyanB Pathak, L Chutia, C Bharali, PK Bhuyan,Continental export efficiencies and delineation of sources for trace gases and black carbon in North-East India: Seasonal variability,Atmospheric Environment 125, 474-485,2016.

8. SS Prijith, S. Suresh Babu, NB Lakshmi, SK Satheesh, KK Moorthy, Meridional gradients in aerosol vertical distribution over Indian Mainland: Observations and model simulations,Atmospheric Environment 125, 337-345,2016

9. K. Vijayakumar, P.D. Safai, P.C.S. Devara, S. Vijaya Bhaskara Rao, C.K. Jayasankar, Effects of agriculture crop residue burning on aerosol properties andlong-range transport over northern India: A study using satellite data andmodel simulations Atmospheric Research 178–179 (2016) 155–163.

10. Subin Jose, Biswadip Gharai, K. Niranjan and P. V. N. Rao (2016). Investigation on seasonal variations of aerosol properties and its influence on radiative effect over an urban location in central India. Atmospheric Environment. Volume 133,pp 41-48.

11. Subin Jose, Kaundala Niranjan, Biswadip Gharai, P.V.N.Rao, Vijayakumar S. Nair (2016,in press). Characterisation of Absorbing Aerosols Using Ground and Satellite Data at an Urban Location, Hyderabad. Aerosol and Air Quality Research. ISSN: 1680-8584 print / 2071-1409 online. doi: 10.4209/aaqr.2014.09.0220.

12. Rama Gopal K., Pavan Kumari S., Balakrishnaiah G, Raja Obul Reddy K., Md. Arafath S., Siva Kumar Reddy N., Chakradhar Rao T., Lokeswara Reddy T., and Reddy R.R.,Evaluation of Clearness and Diffuse Index at a Semi-Arid Station (Anantapur) using Estimated Global and Diffuse Solar Radiation,International Journal of Advanced Earth Science and Engineering 2016, Volume 5, Issue 1, pp. 347-363, Article ID Sci-388,2016. ISSN: 2320 – 3609.

13. Hema Joshi,,Manish Naja,K.P.Singh,Rajesh Kumar,P.Bhardwaj,S.Suresh Babu,S.K.Satheesh,K.Krishna Moorthy,H.C.Chandola, Investigations of aerosol black carbon from a semi-urban site in the Indo-Gangetic Plain region,Atmospheric Environment 125(2016)346–359.

14. K.Aruna, T.V. Lakshmi Kumar, B.V.Krishna Murthy,S.Suresh Babu,M.Venkat Ratnam,D.Narayana Rao,Short wave Aerosol Radiative Forcing estimates over a semi urban coastal environment in south-eastIndia and validation with surface flux measurements,Atmospheric Environment 125(2016)418–428.

15. Subin Jose, Biswadip Gharai, P. V. N. Rao and C. B. S. Dutt (2016). Satellite-based shortwave aerosol radiative forcing of dust storm over the Arabian Sea. Atmospheric Science Letters. DOI: 10.1002/asl.597.

16. G. Reshma Begam, C. Viswanath Vachaspati, Y. Nazeer Ahammed, K. Raghavendra Kumar, S. Suresh Babu and R.R. Reddy, “Measurement and analysis of Black Carbon aerosols over a tropical semi-arid station Kadapa, India” Atmospheric Research 171 (2016) 77-91.

17. Avirup Sen, Y. Nazeer Ahammed, Tirthankar Banerjee, Abhijit Chatterjee, Anil Kumar Choudhuri, Trupti Das, Narayan Chandara Deb, Amit Dhir, Sangita Goel, Altaf Hussain Khan, Tuhin Kumar Mandal, Vishnu Murari, Shrimanta Pal, Padma Shrinivas Rao, Mohit Saxena, Sudhir Kumar Sharma, Ashima Sharma, Chaturvedula Viswanatha Vachaspati, “Spatial variability in ambient atmospheric fine and coarse mode aerosols over Indo-Gangetic plains, India and adjoining oceans during the onset of summer monsoons, 2014”, Atmospheric Pollution Research, 7 (2016) 521-532.

18. Srinivas Bikkina, Neeraj Rastogi, M.M. Sarin, Atinderpal Singh, Darshan Singh. 2016. Mass absorption efficiency of light absorbing organic aerosols from source region of paddy-residue burning emissions in the Indo-Gangetic Plain. Atmospheric Environment. 125, 360–370. doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.07.017.

19. Neeraj Rastogi, Atinderpal Singh, M.M. Sarin, Darshan Singh. 2016. Temporal variability of primary and secondary aerosols over Northern India: Impact of biomass burning emissions. Atmospheric Environment. 125, 396–403. doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.06.010.

20. Atinderpal Singh, Rohit Srivastava, Neeraj Rastogi, Darshan Singh. 2016. Absorbing and scattering aerosols over the source region of biomass burning emissions: Implications in the assessment of optical and radiative properties. Atmospheric Environment, 127, 61–68. doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.12.029.

21. Atinderpal Singh, Shani Tiwari, Deepti Sharma, Darshan Singh, Suresh Tiwari, A.K. Srivastava, Neeraj Rastogi, A.K. Singh. 2016. Characterization and radiative impact of dust aerosols over Northwestern part of India: A case study during a severe dust storm. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics. doi: 10.1007/s00703-016-0445-1. (In press).

22. K. Vijayakumar, P.D. Safai, P.C.S. Devara, S. Vijaya Bhaskara Rao, C.K. Jayasankar,Effects of agriculture crop residue burning on aerosol properties andlong-range transport over northern India: A study using satellite data andmodel simulationsAtmospheric Research 178–179 (2016) 155–163.

23. K. Raja Obul Reddy,G. Balakrishnaiah, K. Rama Gopal,N. Siva Kumar Reddy,T. Chakradhar Rao,T. Lokeswara Reddy,R.R. Reddy, S. Suresh Babu,Direct radiative forcing properties of atmospheric aerosols over semi-arid region, Anantapur in India,Science of the Total Environment,http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.05.056,2016(in press).

24. S. Tiwari, U.C. Dumka, D.G. Kaskaoutis, Kirpa Ram, A.S. Panicker, Manoj K. Srivastava, Shani Tiwari, S.D. Attri, V.K. Soni, A.K. Pandey, Aerosol chemical characterization and role of carbonaceous aerosol on radiative effect over Varanasi in central Indo-Gangetic Plain, Atmosph. Environ.,125,437–449, 2016

25. B. P. Singh, S. Tiwari, Philip K Hopke, R. S. Singh, D. S. Bisht, A. K. Srivastava, R. K. Singh, U. C. Dumka, A. K. Singh, B. N. Rai, Manoj K. Srivastava, Seasonal inhomogeneity of soot particle over central Indo-Gangetic Plains, India: Influence of meteorology, J. Meteor. Res., 29(6), 935-949, doi: 10.1007/s13351-015-5041-7.


Publications 2015


1. Shamitaksha Talukdar, Soumyajyoti Jana, Animesh Maitra and Mukunda M Gogoi, Characteristics of black carbon concentration at a metropolitan city located near land-ocean boundary in Eastern India, Atmospheric Research, 153, 526 - 534, 2015.

2. Gogoi, Mukunda M., S. Suresh Babu, V. Jayachandran, K. K. Moorthy, S. K. Satheesh, M. Naja, and V. R. Kotamarthi, “Optical properties and CCN activity of aerosols in a high-altitude Himalayan environment: Results from RAWEX-GVAX”, Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmosphere), 120, doi:10.1002/ 2014JD022966, 2015.

3. Guha, Anirban., Barin Kumar De, Pranab Dhar, Trisanu Banik, Monti Chakraborty, Rakesh Roy, Abhijit Choudhury, Mukunda M. Gogoi, S Suresh Babu and K Krishna Moorthy, “Seasonal characteristics of Aerosol Black Carbon in relation to long-range transport over Tripura in Northeast India”, Aerosols and Air Quality Research, 15, 786-798, doi: 10.4209/aaqr.2014.02.0029, 2015.

4. Kumar, R., M. C. Barth, V. S. Nair, G. G. Pfister, S. Suresh Babu, S. K. Satheesh, K. Krishna Moorthy, G. R. Carmichael, Z. Lu, D. G. Streets, “Sources of black carbon aerosols in South Asia and surrounding regions during the Integrated Campaign for Aerosols, Gases and Radiation Budget (ICARB)”, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 15 (10), 5415-5428, doi:10.5194/acp-15-5415-2015, 2015.

5. Rama Gopal, K., S. M. Arafath, G. Balakrishnaiah, K. Raja Obul Reddy, N. Siva Kumar Reddy, A.P. Lingaswamy, S. Pavan Kumari, K. Uma Devi, R.R. Reddy, S. Suresh Babu, “Columnar-integrated aerosol optical properties and classification of different aerosol types over the semi-arid region, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh”, Science of the Total Environment, 527-528, 507-519, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.086, 2015.

6. Solmon, F., V. S. Nair, Mallet, “Increasing Arabian dust activity and the Indian summer Monsoon”, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics., 15, 8051-8064, doi:10.5194/acp-15-8051-2015, 2015.

7. Kishore Reddy, D.V. Phanikumar, Hema Joshi, Y. Nazeer Ahammed and M. Naja, “Effect of diurnal variation of aerosols on surface reaching solar radiation” Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 129 (2015) 62-68.

8. Binita Pathak, Pradip Kumar Bhuyan, Climatology of columnar aerosol properties at a continental location in the upper Brahmaputra basin of north east India: Diurnal asymmetry and association with meteorology, Advances in Space Research, Available online 18 July 2015, ISSN 0273-1177, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2015.07.004.

9. B Pathak, J Biswas, C Bharali, PK Bhuyan, Short term introduction of pollutants into the atmosphere at a location in the Brahmaputra Basin: A case study, Atmospheric Pollution Research, 2015.

10. C Bharali, B Pathak, PK Bhuyan, Spring and summer night-time high ozone episodes in the upper Brahmaputra valley of North East India and their association with lightning, Atmospheric Environment 109, 234-250,2015.

11. Hema Joshi, Manish Naja, K.P. Singh, Rajesh Kumar, P. Bhardwaj, S. Suresh Babu, S.K. Satheesh, K. Krishna Moorthy, H.C. Chandola, Investigations of aerosol black carbon from a semi-urban site in the Indo-Gangetic Plain region, Atmospheric Environment, Available online 11 April 2015, ISSN 1352-2310, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.04.007.

12. Harilal B. Menon, Shrivardhan Hulswar, N. Anilkumar, Achuthankutty Chittur Thelakkat, K.Krishna Moorthy, Suresh Babu, Spatial heterogeneity in spectral variability of aerosol optical depth and its implications to aerosol radiative forcing in the Tropical Indian Ocean and in the Indian Ocean Sector of Southern Ocean, Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, Volume 118, Part B, August 2015, 142-151, ISSN 0967-0645, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2015.03.012.

13. Panuganti C.S.Devara,Katta Vijayakumar,Pramod D.Safai,Made P.Raju,Pasumarti S.P.Rao,Celebration-induced air quality over a tropical urban station, Pune, India,Atmospheric Pollution Research 6(2015)511-520.

14. V. Vizaya Bhaskar, P.D. Safai, M.P. Raju, Long term characterization of aerosol optical properties: Implications for radiative forcing over the desert region of Jodhpur, India, Atmospheric Environment, Volume 114, August 2015, Pages 66-74, ISSN 1352-2310, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.05.043.

15. Babu, S. S., V. S. Nair, M. M. Gogoi, K. K. Moorthy, 2015, Seasonal variation of vertical distribution of aerosol single scattering albedo over Indian sub-continent: RAWEX aircraft observations, Atmospheric Environment, DOI:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.09.041.

16. Panuganti C. S. Devara , Katta Vijayakumar , Pramod D. Safai , Made P. Raju , Pasumarti S. P. Rao, Celebration-induced air quality over a tropical urban station, Pune, India Atmospheric Pollution Research 6 (2015) 511‐520.

17. M.P. Raju , P.D. Safai , S.M. Sonbawne , C.V. Naidu, Black carbon radiative forcing over the Indian Arctic station, Himadri during the Arctic Summer of 2012 ,Atmospheric Research 157 (2015) 29–36.

18. M.P. Raju , P.D. Safai , K. Vijayakumar , P.C.S. Devara , C.V. Naidu , P.S.P. Rao , G. Pandithurai, Atmospheric abundances of black carbon aerosols and their radiative impact over an urban and a rural site in SW India Atmospheric Environment 125 (2015) 429-436.

19. Subin Jose , Biswadip Gharai , Y. Bhavani Kumar , P.V.N. Rao (2015). Radiative implication of a haze event over Eastern India. Atmospheric Pollution Research. 6 (2015) 138-146.

20. Sipra Panda, S. K. Sharma, ParthSarathiMahapatra, Upasana Panda, Satyajit Rath, MinakshiMahapatra, T.K. Mandal and Trupti Das. Organic and Elemental Carbon Variation in PM2.5 over Mega City Delhi and Bhubaneswar. Journal of Natural Hazards, 2015,DOI: 10.1007/s11069-015-2049-3.

21. Yogesh Kant, Atinderpal Singh, Debashis Mitra, Darshan Singh, P. Srikanth, A.S. Madhusudanacharyulu, Y.V.N. Krishna Murthy. 2015. Optical and radiative properties of aerosol over two locations in the North-west part of India during pre-monsoon season. Advances in Meteorology. 2015, 1–11, ID 517434.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/517434.

22. Atinderpal Singh, Neeraj Rastogi, Deepti Sharma, Darshan Singh. 2015. Inter and intra-annual variability in aerosol characteristics over northwestern Indo-Gangetic Plain. Aerosol and Air quality research. 15(2), 376–386. doi:10.4209/aaqr.2014.04.0080.

23. Neeraj Rastogi, Anil Patel, Atinderpal Singh, Darshan Singh. 2015. Diurnal variation in secondary aerosol formation over the Indo-Gangetic Plain during winter using online measurement of water-soluble organic carbon. Aerosol and Air quality research. 15(6), 2225–2231. doi:10.4209/aaqr.2015.02.0097.

24. P.R. Sinha, Pawan Gupta, D.G. Kaskaoutis, L.K. Sahu, N. Nagendra, R. K. Manchanda, Y. B. Kumar & S. Sreenivasan (2015) Estimation of particulate matter fromsatellite- and ground-based observations over Hyderabad, India, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 36:24, 6192-6213, DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2015.1112929.

25. U. C. Dumka, D. G. Kaskaoutis, Manoj K. Srivastava, and P. C. S. Devara Scattering and absorption properties of near-surface aerosol over Gangetic–Himalayan region: the role of boundary layer dynamics and long-range transport, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15,1555–1572, 2015.

26. K Chand, JC Kuniyal, N Ram, G Sharma, Aerosol Optical Depth and Black Carbon Aerosol on the Foothills of Glaciers, Northwestern Himalaya, India, Journal of Climate Change 2 (1), 35-42..

27. JC Kuniyal, M Sharma, K Chand, CS Mathela, Water Soluble Ionic Components in Particulate Matter (PM10) during High Pollution Episode Days at Mohal and Kothi in the North-Western Himalaya, India,Aerosol and Air Quality Research 15, 529-543.

28. RP Guleria and JC Kuniyal, Characteristics of atmospheric aerosol particles and their role in aerosol radiative forcing over the northwestern Indian Himalaya in particular and over India in generalAir Quality, Atmosphere & Health, 1-14,2015.


Publications 2014


1. Mukunda M. Gogoi, K. Krishna Moorthy, Sobhan Kumar Kompalli, Jai Prakash Chaubey, S. Suresh Babu, M.R. Manoj, Vijayakumar S. Nair, Tushar P. Prabhu, Physical and optical properties of aerosols in a free tropospheric environment: Results from long-term observations over western trans-Himalayas, Atmospheric Environment, Volume 84, February 2014, Pages 262-274.

2. Gopal, K.R., S.M. Arafath, A.P. Lingaswamy, G. Balakrishnaiah, S.P. Kumari, K.U. Devi, N.S.K. Reddy, K.R.O. Reddy, M.P. Reddy, R.R. Reddy and S.S. Babu, “In-situ measurements of atmospheric aerosols by using integrating nephelometer over a semi-arid station, Southern India”, Atmospheric Environment, 86, 228-240, 2014. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2013.12.009).

3. Sobhan Kumar Kompalli, K. Krishna Moorthy and S. Suresh Babu, “Rapid response of atmospheric BC to anthropogenic sources: observational evidence”, Atmospheric Science Letters, 2014. (http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1002/asl2.483).

4. Sobhan Kumar Kompalli, S. Suresh Babu, K. Krishna Moorthy, M.R. Manoj, N.V.P. Kirankumar, K. Hareef Baba Shaeb, A.K. Joshi, "Aerosol Black Carbon characteristics over Central India: Temporal variation and its dependence on mixed layer height", Atmospheric Research, 147–148, 2014. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ j.atmosres.2014.04.015).

5. Menon, H B., S. Shirodkar, S. Kedia, S. Ramachandran, S.S. Babu, K.K. Moorthy, “Temporal variation of aerosol optical depth and associated shortwave radiative forcing over a coastal site along the west coast of India”, Science of Total Environment, 468–469, 2014. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.08.013).

6. Pathak, B., A. Borgohain, P.K. Bhuyan, S.S. Kundu, S Sudhakar, M.M. Gogoi, T. Takemura, “Spatial heterogeneity in near surface aerosol characteristics across the BrahmaputraValley”, Journal of Earth System Sciences, 123, 651-663, 2014.

7. Sobhan Kumar Kompalli, K. Krishna Moorthy, S. Suresh Babu, MR Manoj Aerosol mass size distribution and black carbon over a high altitude location in Western Trans-Himalayas: Impact of a dust episode. Aeolian Research 15, 161-168.

8. Vijayakumar S. Nair, S. Suresh Babu, K. Krishna Moorthy, S.K. Satheesh, Implications of multiple scattering on the assessment of black carbon aerosol radiative forcing, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, Volume 148, November 2014, Pages 134-140, ISSN 0022-4073, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2014.06.018.

9. Binita Pathak, Pradip Kumar Bhuyan, Jhuma Biswas, Toshihiko Takemura, Long term climatology of particulate matter and associated microphysical and optical properties over Dibrugarh, North-East India and inter-comparison with SPRINTARS simulations, Atmospheric Environment, Volume 69, April 2013, Pages 334-344, ISSN 1352-2310, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.12.032.

10. Sobhan Kumar Kompalli, S. Suresh Babu, K. Krishna Moorthy, Mukunda M Gogoi, Vijayakumar S. Nair and Jai Prakash Chaubey, The formation and growth of ultrafine particles in two contrasting environments: A case study, Ann. Geophys., 32, 817–830, 2014 doi:10.5194/angeo-32-817-2014.

11. Binita Pathak and Pradip Kumar Bhuyan,Absorbing and scattering properties of boundary layer aerosols over Dibrugarh, North East India,International Journal of Remote Sensing and Remote Sensing Letters, Vol. 35, Iss. 14, 2014.

12. Atinderpal Singh, Prashant Rajput, Deepti Sharma, M. M. Sarin, and Darshan Singh, “Black Carbon and Elemental Carbon from Postharvest Agricultural-Waste Burning Emissions in the Indo-Gangetic Plain,” Advances in Meteorology, vol. 2014, Article ID 179301, 10 pages, 2014. doi:10.1155/2014/179301.

13. C. Udayasoorian, R. M. Jayabalakrishnan, A. R. Suguna, Mukunda M. Gogoi, and S. Suresh Babu: Aerosol Black Carbon Characteristics over a High Altitude Western Ghats location in Southern India, Annales Geophysicae, 32, 1 -11, 2014

14. Aruna, K., T.V. Lakshmi Kumar, D.N. Rao, B.V. Krishna Murthy, S. Suresh Babu, K. Krishna Moorthy, “Scattering and absorption characteristics of atmospheric aerosols over a semi-urban coastal environment”, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 119, 211-222, doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2014.08.009, 2014.

15. A.K. Singh, Manoj K. Srivastava, Meenakshi Singh, A. Srivastava, Sarvan Kumar, Shani Tiwari, B. P. Singh, D. S. Bisht, and Suresh Tiwari, Characterisation of Atmospheric Aerosol by SEM-EDX and Ion-Chromatography Techniques for Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plain Location, Varanasi, India, Intern J Adv Earth Sci, 3, 41-51, 2014.


Publications 2013


1. Sobhan Kumar Kompalli, S. Suresh Babu, K. Krishna Moorthy, Vijayakumar S. Nair, Mukunda M. Gogoi, Jai Prakash Chaubey, Seasonal variation in the spatial distribution of aerosol black carbon over Bay of Bengal: A synthesis of multi-campaign measurements, Atmospheric Environment, 64, 366-373, 2013.

2. S. K. Satheesh, K. Krishna Moorthy, S. Suresh Babu and J. Srinivasan, Unusual aerosol characteristics at Challakere in Karnataka, Current Science, 104, 615-621, 2013.

3. K. Krishna Moorthy, S. N. Beegum, N. Srivastava, S.K. Satheesh, Mian Chin, Nadege Blond, S. Suresh Babu, S. Singh, Performance evaluation of chemistry transport models over India, Atmospheric Environment, 71, 210-225, 2013.

4. Mukunda M. Gogoi, S. Suresh Babu, K. Krishna Moorthy, M.R. Manoj, Jai Prakash Chaubey, Absorption characteristics of aerosols over the northwestern region of India: Distinct seasonal signatures of biomass burning aerosols and mineral dust, Atmospheric Environment, 73, 92-102,2013.

5. S. K. Satheesh and K. Krishna Moorthy, AEROSAT – a space-borne sensor for continental aerosols: evaluation of the conceptual model, Current Science, Vol. 104, No. 8, 1008-1011, 2013.

6. K. Krishna Moorthy., S. Suresh Babu, M. R. Manoj, and S. K. Satheesh , Buildup of aerosols over the Indian Region, Geophysical Research Letters., 40,doi:10.1002/grl.50165, 2013.

7. Nair, V. S. , K. Krishna Moorthy, S. Suresh Babu., Influence of continental outflow and ocean biogeochemistry on the distribution of fine and ultra-fine particles in the marine atmospheric boundary layer over Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal, Journal of Geophysical Research, doi: 10.1002/jgrd.50541,2013.

8. Nair,V. S., S. Suresh Babu, K. Krishna Moorthy, Prijith, S. S. Spatial Gradients in Aerosol-Induced Atmospheric Heating and Surface Dimming over the Oceanic Regions around India: Anthropogenic or Natural?, Journal of Climate, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00616.1,2013.

9. Vijayakumar S. Nair, S. Suresh Babu, K. Krishna Moorthy, Arun Kumar Sharma, Angela Marinoni, Ajai,Black carbon aerosols over the Himalayas: direct and surface albedo forcing,Tellus B 2013, 65, 19738, http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/tellusb.v65i0.19738.

10. S. Suresh Babu,M. R. Manoj,K. Krishna Moorthy,Mukunda M. Gogoi,Vijayakumar S. Nair,Sobhan Kumar Kompalli,S. K. Satheesh,K. Niranjan,K. Ramagopal,P. K. Bhuyan,Darshan Singh (2013), Trends in aerosol optical depth over Indian region: Potential causes and impact indicators, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, 11,794–11,806, doi:10.1002/2013JD020507.

11. Parth Sarathi Mahapatra,Sanak Ray,Namrata Das,Ayusman Mohanty,T. S. Ramulu,Trupti Das,G. Roy Chaudhury,S. N. Das,Urban air-quality assessment and source apportionment studies for Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, April 2013, Volume 112, Issue 1-2, pp 243-251.

12. K. Rama Gopal, S.Md. Arafath, A.P. Lingaswamy, G. Balakrishnaiah, S. Pavan Kumari, K. Uma Devi, N. Siva Kumar Reddy, K. Raja Obul Reddy, M. Penchal Reddy, R.R. Reddy, S. Suresh Babu. (2013). In-situ measurements of atmospheric aerosols by using integrating nephelometer over a semi-arid station, Southern India. Atmospheric Environment, (Accepted).

13. Raghavendra Kumar Kanike, V. Sivakumar, R.R. Reddy, K. Rama Gopal. (2013). Ship-Borne Measurements of Columnar and Surface Aerosol Loading over the Bay of Bengal during W-ICARB Campaign: Role of Airmass Transport, Latitudinal and Longitudinal Gradients. Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 13, 818–837.

14. B. S. K. Reddy, K. R. Kumar, G. Balakrishnaiah, K. R. Gopal, R. R. Reddy, V. Sivakumar, S. MD. Arafath, A. P. Lingaswamy, S. Pavankumari, K. Umadevi, and Y. N. Ahammed. (2013). Ground-Based In Situ Measurements of Near-Surface Aerosol Mass Concentration over Anantapur: Heterogeneity in Source Impacts. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 30 (1), 235–246.

15. Kishore Reddy, Y Nazeer Ahammed and DV Phani Kumar, “Retrieval of Aerosol Extinction profile: Study by using ground based LIDAR and Sun-photometer” International Journal of Engineering, 2(3), 1-5, 2013.

16. Kishore Reddy, D.V. Phani Kumar, Y. Nazeer Ahammed and M. Naja, “Aerosol vertical profiles strongly affect their radiative forcing uncertainties: study by using ground-based lidar and other measurements” Remote Sensing Letters, 4(10), 1018-1027, 2013.

17. Biswadip Gharai , Subin Jose & D.V. Mahalakshmi (2013) Monitoring intense dust storms over the Indian region using satellite data – a case study, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 34:20, 7038-7048, DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2013.813655.

18. Bikkina Srinivas, M.M. Sarin, Atmospheric dry-deposition of mineral dust and anthropogenic trace metals to the Bay of Bengal, Journal of Marine Systems, Volume 126, October 2013, Pages 56-68, ISSN 0924-7963, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2012.11.004.

19. U.C. Dumka, R.K. Manchanda, P.R. Sinha, S. Sreenivasan, K.Krishna Moorthy, S. Suresh Babu, Temporal variability and radiative impact of black carbon aerosol over tropical urban station Hyderabad, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Volumes 105–106, December 2013, Pages 81-90, ISSN 1364-6826, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2013.08.003.

20. Sinha, P. R., R. K. Manchanda, D. G. Kaskaoutis, Y. B. Kumar, and S. Sreenivasan (2013), Seasonal variation of surface and vertical profile of aerosol properties over a tropical urban station Hyderabad, India, J. Geophys. Res., 118, doi:10.1029/2012JD018039.

21. Binita Pathak, Pradip Kumar Bhuyan, Jhuma Biswas, Toshihiko Takemura, Long term climatology of particulate matter and associated microphysical and optical properties over Dibrugarh, North-East India and inter-comparison with SPRINTARS simulations, Atmospheric Environment, Volume 69, April 2013, Pages 334-344, ISSN 1352-2310, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.12.032.

22. Prijith S.S., M. Aloysius, M. Mohan (2013), ‘Global Aerosol Source/Sink map’, Atmos. Environ., 80, 533-539.

23. Prijith S.S., K. Rajeev, B. V. Thampi, S. K Nair, M. Mohan (2013), ‘Multi-year observations of spatial and vertical distribution of aerosols and genesis of the abnormal variations in aerosol loading over the Arabian Sea during Asian Summer Monsoon Season’, J. Atmos. Sol. Terr. Phys.,105-106, 142-151.

24. Ramachandran, S., and R. Srivastava, Influences of external vs. core-shell mixing on aerosol optical properties at various relative humidities, Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, 15, 1070-1077, 2013.

25. Neeraj Rastogi, Atinderpal Singh, Darshan Singh and M. M. Sarin; Chemical characteristics of PM2.5 at a source region of biomass burning emissions: Evidence of secondary aerosol formation, Environmental Pollution, 184, 563-569, 2014.

26. Aruna, K., Lakshmi Kumar, T.V., Narayana Rao, D., Krishna Murthy, B.V., Suesh Babu, S., and Krishna Moorthy , K., Black Carbon aerosols in a tropical semi-urban coastal environment: Effects of boundary layer dynamics and long range transport, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar Terrestrial Physics, 104, 116.125, 2013.

27. Sachchidanand Singh and S. Naseema Beegum, Direct radiative effects of an unseasonal dust storm at a western Indo Gangetic Plain station Delhi in ultraviolet, short and longwave region, Geophys. Res. Lett. (2013), VOL. 40, 2444–2449, doi:10.1002/grl.50496.

28. Lodhi N. K., S. N. Beegum, Sachchidanand Singh, and K. Kumar, Aerosol climatology at Delhi in the western Indo-Gangetic Plain: Microphysics, long-term trends, and source strengths, J. Geophys. Res. (Feb-2013), 118, 1361-1375, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50165.

29. B P Singh, A K Srivastava, S Tiwari, S Singh, R K Singh, Deewan Singh Bisht, D M Lal, A K Singh, Manoj K. Srivastava and R. K. Mall , Radiative impact of fireworks at a tropical Indian location: A case study, , ‘Advances in Meteorology’, 2013.

30. Harilal B. Menon, Shilpa Shirodkar, Sumita Kedia, Ramachandran S., Suresh Babu, K. Krishna Moorthy, Temporal variation of aerosol optical depth and associated shortwave radiative forcing over a coastal site along the west coast of India, Science of The Total Environment, Volumes 468–469, 15 January 2014, Pages 83-92, ISSN 0048-9697.

31. Vijayakumar, K., Devara, P.C.S., 2013: Study of aerosol optical depth, ozone and precipitable water vapor content over Sinhagad, a high-altitude station in the Western Ghats. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 34, 613-630.

32. Devara, P.C.S., Sumit Kumar, Safai, P.D., Pandithurai, G., Dipu, S., 2013: Comparison between urban aerosol products retrieved from collocated Cimel and Prede Sun/sky radiometers at Pune, India. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 119-120, DOI 10.1007/s00703-013-0246-8, 189–200

33. Safai, P.D., Raju, M.P., Budhavant, K.B., Rao, P.S.P., Devara, P.C.S., 2013: Long term studies on characteristics of black carbon aerosols over a tropical urban station Pune, India. Atmospheric Research, 132-133, DOI:10.1016/j.atmosres.2013.05.002, 173-184.

34. Raju, M.P., Safai, P.D., Rao, P.S.P., Tiwari, S., Devara, P.C.S., 2013: Impact of anthropogenic activity and cyclonic storm on black carbon during winter at a tropical urban city, Pune. Natural Hazards, DOI 10.1007/s11069-013-0937-y

35. Manoj, M.G., Devara, P.C.S., Taraphdar, S., 2013: Lidar investigation of tropical nocturnal boundary layer aerosols and cloud microphysics. Atmospheric Research, 132-133, 65-75

36. Devara, P.C.S., Sonbawne, S.M., Saha, S.K., 2013: Novel technique for profiling of aerosol, ozone and water vapor during winter using mobile radiometers over a hilltop station. Aerosol and Air Quality Research (Accepted).

37. Kumari Lipi and Manoj Kumar “Study of Aerosol black carbon and Aerosol optical Depth over Ranchi during winter in Northern India” International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology (IJERT) Vol. 2 Issue 10, 2013 .

38. Binita Pathak, Chandrakala Bharali, Jhuma Biswas and Pradip Kumar Bhuyan,Firework Induced Large Increase in Trace Gases andBlack Carbon at Dibrugarh, India,Journal of Earth Science and Engineering 3 (2013) 540-544.

39. Guleria, R.P. and Kuniyal, J.C., Aerosol climatology in the northwestern Indian Himalaya: a study based on the radiative properties of aerosol. Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health: An International Journal, DOI 10.1007/s11869-013-0206-y,2013.

40. Guleria, R.P., Kuniyal, J.C., Dhyani, P.P., Joshi, R. and Sharma, N.L (2013) Impact of aerosol on surface reaching solar irradiance over Mohal in the northwestern Himalaya, India. Journal of Solar and Terrestrial Physics, DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2013.12.002,2013 (in press).

41. Narasimhan, D. and Satheesh, S. K.: Estimates of aerosol absorption over India using multi-satellite retrieval, Ann. Geophys., 31, 1773-1778, doi:10.5194/angeo-31-1773-2013, 2013.

42. Jai Prakash Chaubey, K. Krishna Moorthy, S. Suresh Babu, Mukunda M. Gogoi ,Spatio-temporal variations in aerosol properties over the oceanic regions between coastal India and Antarctica,Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 104 (2013) 18–28.

43. S.K. Satheesh et al. New Directions: Elevated layers of anthropogenic aerosols aggravate stratospheric ozone loss, Atmospheric Environment 79 (2013) 879–882.


Publications 2012


1. Sumit Kumar, P.C.S. Devara, Aerosol characterization: Comparison between measured and modeled surface radiative forcing over Bay of Bengal, Remote Sensing Letters, 3 (5) pp. 373-381, 2012.

2. G. Balakrishnaiah, K. Raghavendra kumar, B. Suresh Kumar Reddy, K. Rama Gopal , R.R. Reddy, L.S.S. Reddy, C. Swamulu, Y. Nazeer Ahammed, K. Narasimhulu , K. KrishnaMoorthy, S. Suresh Babu (2012), Spatio-temporal variations in aerosol optical and cloud parameters over Southern India retrieved from MODIS satellite data,Atmospheric Environment 47 435-445 doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.10.032,2012.

3. Pathak, B., Bhuyan,P.K., Gogoi, M.M., Bhuyan,K., Seasonal heterogeneity in aerosol types over Dibrugarh-North-Eastern India, Atmospheric Environment 47 307-315doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.10.061,2012.

4. Jai Prakash Chaubey, S Suresh Babu, Mukunda M Gogoi, Sobhan Kumar Kompalli,V Sreekanth, K Krishna Moorthy, Tushar P Prabhu, Black Carbon Aerosol over a High Altitude (~ 4.52 km) Station in Western Indian Himalayas, Journal of the Institute of Engineering, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 42–51,2012.

5. Mukunda M Gogoi, Jai Prakash Chaubey, V Sreekanth, Sobhan Kumar Kompalli,S Suresh Babu, Tushar P Prabhu, K Krishna Moorthy, Columnar Aerosol Extinction Characteristics: Measurements from a Free-Tropospheric Observatory in Western-Himalayas, Journal of the Institute of Engineering, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 52–57, 2012.

6. Sobhan Kumar Kompalli, V Sreekanth, Jai Prakash Chaubey, Mukunda M Gogoi, S Suresh Babu, Tushar P Prabhu, K Krishna Moorthy, Aerosol Number Size Distribution Measurements at Hanle, a Free Tropospheric High-Altitude Site in Western Himalayas, Journal of the Institute of Engineering, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 140-146, 2012.

7. Deepti Sharma, Manjit Singh, Darshan Singh, Impact of Post-Harvest Biomass Burning on Aerosol Characteristics and Radiative Forcing over Patiala, North West region of India, Journal of the Institute of Engineering, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 11-24, 2012.

8. B. Spandana, K. Niranjan, T. Anjana Devi, Advection induced short period anomalies and seasonal features in aerosol optical depth over Bay of Bengal in the W-ICARB region , Atmospheric Environment 51 175-186, doi: 10.1016/ j.atmosenv. 2012.01.031, 2012.

9. S. Naseema Beegum, K. Krishna Moorthy, D. Bala Subrahamanyam, N.V.P. Kiran Kumar, S. Suresh Babu, M. Mohan, Short period variations of the aerosol mass concentrations over Bay of Bengal: Association with quasi-periodic variations in the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer parameters and fluxes, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 77,pp 78–84. doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2011.11.012, 2012.

10. Niranjan, K., T. Anjana Devi, B. Spandana, V. Sreekanth, and B. L. Madhavan, Evidence for control of black carbon and sulfate relative mass concentrations on composite aerosol radiative forcing: Case of a coastal urban area, J. Geophys. Res., 117, D05205, doi:10.1029/2011JD016752, 2012.

11. Nair, V. S., F. Solmon, F. Giorgi, L. Mariotti, S. S. Babu, and K. K. Moorthy, Simulation of South Asian aerosols for regional climate studies, J. Geophys. Res., 117, D04209, doi:10.1029/2011JD016711, 2012.

12. Sumita Kedia, S. Ramachandran, T.A. Rajesh, Rohit Srivastava ,Aerosol absorption over Bay of Bengal during winter: Variability and sources,Atmospheric Environment. doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.12.047, 2012 (in press).

13. Deepti Sharma, Darshan Singh and D. G. Kaskaoutis, Impact of two intense dust storms on aerosol characteristics and radiative forcing over Patiala, in the North-West India Advances in Meteorology,, 2012 (In press).

14. S.S. Prijith, Marina Aloysius, Mannil Mohan, Naseema Beegum, K. Krishna Moorthy,Role of circulation parameters in long range aerosol transport: Evidence from Winter-ICARBJournal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Volume 77, Pages 144-151, 2012.

15. D. Bala Subrahamanyam , T.J. Anurose, N.V.P. Kiran Kumar, Mannil Mohan, P.K. Kunhikrishnan, Sherine Rachel John, S.S. Prijith, C.B.S. Dutt, Spatial and temporal variabilities in vertical structure of the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer over Bay of Bengal during Winter Phase of Integrated Campaign for Aerosols, gases and Radiation Budget, Atmospheric Research 107, 178–185, doi:10.1016/j.atmosres.2011.12.014,2012.

16. T. J. Anurose, D. Bala Subrahamanyam,C. B. S. Dutt,N. V. P. Kiran Kumar, Sherine Rachel John, Sandhya K. Nair, M. Santosh,Mannil Mohan, P. K. Kunhikrishnan,S. Sijikumar, S. S. Prijith, Vertical structure of sea-breeze circulation over Thumba (8.5°N, 76.9°E, India) in the winter months and a case study during W-ICARB field experiment, Meteorol Atmos Phys 115:113–121,DOI 10.1007/s00703-011-0178-0,2012

17. Srivastava, S., Lal, S., Venkataramani, S., Guha, I., Subrahamanyam, B.,Airborne measurements of O3, CO, CH4 and NMHCs over the Bay of Bengal during winter, Atmospheric Environment, doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.04.054,2012.

18. N. L. Sharma et al., Optical properties and meteorological correlations of aerosol parameters during 2007-08 over Mohal in the Kullu Valley of northwestern Himalayan region, India, Atmósfera 25(2), 199-215,2012.

19. Raj Paul Guleria, Jagdish Chandra Kuniyal, Pan Singh Rawat, Harinder Kumar Thakur, Manum Sharma, Nand Lal Sharma, Pitamber Prasad Dhyani & Mahavir Singh ,Validation of MODIS retrieval aerosol optical depth and an investigation of aerosol transport over Mohal in north western Indian Himalaya, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 33:17, 5379-5401,2012.

20. Nand Lal Sharma, Jagdish Chandra Kuniyal, Mahavir Singh, Pitamber Prasad Dhyani,Chandra Shekhar Mathela, Raj Paul Guleria, Manum Sharma,Three years aerosol meteorology derived from ground based sun radiometry over Mohal in the Kullu valley of Northwest Himalayan region, India,Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 77, 26–39, doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2011.11.004,2012.

21. B. S. K. Reddy, K.R. Kumar., G. Balakrishnaiah, K.R. Gopal, Reddy, R.R., Reddy, L.S.S., Y. N. Ahammed, K. Narasimhulu, K.K. Moorthy, S. Suresh Babu, Potential source regions contributing to seasonal variations of black carbon aerosols over Anantapur in southeast India, Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 12 (3) pp. 340-354, 2012.

22. Raghavendra Kumar Kanike, V. Sivakumar R. R. Reddy, K. Rama Gopal. (2012). Latitudinal variations of aerosols in the MABL over Bay of Bengal, IEEE, 978-1-4673-2272-0/12.

23. S. N. Beegum, K. Krishna Moorthy, Mukunda. M. Gogoi, S. Suresh Babu, and S. K. Pandey, Multi-year investigations of aerosols from an island station, Port Blair, in the Bay of Bengal: climatology and source impacts, Annales Geophysicae., 30, 1113–1127, 2012.

24. Sinha, P.R., Dumka, U.C., Manchanda, R.K., Kaskaoutis, D.G., Sreenivasan, S., Krishna Moorthy, K., S. Suresh Babu, Contrasting aerosol characteristics and radiative forcing over Hyderabad, India due to seasonal mesoscale and synoptic-scale processes, Quarterly Journal of Royal Meteorological Society, DOI:10.1002/qj.1963, 2012.

25. Sajani,S K. Krishna Moorthy, K Rajendran and Ravi S Nanjundiah, Monsoon sensitivity to aerosol direct radiative forcing in the community atmosphere model, J. Earth Syst. Sci., 121, 867–889, 2012.

26. Sinha, P. R., Kaskaoutis, D. G., Manchanda, R. K., and Sreenivasan, S.: Characteristics of aerosols over Hyderabad in southern Peninsular India: synergy in the classification techniques, Ann. Geophys., 30, 1393-1410, doi:10.5194/angeo-30-1393-2012, 2012.

27. Shailesh Kumar Kharol, K.V.S. Badarinath, Anu Rani Sharma, D.V. Mahalakshmi, Darshan Singh, V.Krishna Prasad, Black carbon aerosol variations over Patiala city, Punjab, India—A study during agriculture crop residue burning period using ground measurements and satellite data, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Volumes 84–85, August 2012, Pages 45-51, ISSN 1364-6826, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2012.05.013.

28. P.D. Safai, M.P. Raju, R.S. Maheshkumar, J.R. Kulkarni, P.S.P. Rao, P.C.S. Devara, Vertical profiles of black carbon aerosols over the urban locations in South India, Science of The Total Environment, Volume 431, 1 August 2012, Pages 323-331, ISSN 0048-9697.

29. D. Kambezidis, D.G. Kaskaoutis, Shailesh Kumar Kharol, K. Krishna Moorthy, S.K. Satheesh, M.C.R. Kalapureddy, K.V.S. Badarinath, Anu Rani Sharma, M. Wild, Multi-decadal variation of the net downward shortwave radiation over south Asia: The solar dimming effect, Atmospheric Environment, Volume 50, April 2012, Pages 360-372, ISSN 1352-2310.

30. Deepti Sharma, Darshan Singh and Sumit Kumar,Case studies of Black Carbon aerosol characteristics during agriculture crop residue burning period over patiala, punjab, india using the synergy of ground based and satellite observations, (2012), International Journal of Geology, Earth and Environmental Sciences ISSN: 2277-2081 (Online) , 2 (2), pp.315-326.

31. Sharma S. K., A. K. Singh, T. Saud, T. K. Mandal, M. Saxena, S. Singh, S. K. Ghosh, S. Raha Study on water-soluble ionic composition of PM10 and related trace gases over Bay of Bengal during W_ICARB campaign, Meteorol Atmos Phys, 118, 37-51, DOI 10.1007/s00703-012-0204-x,2012.

32. Sharma S. K., A. K. Singh, T. Saud, T. K. Mandal, M. Saxena, S. Singh, S. K. Ghosh, and S. Raha, Measurement of ambient NH3 over Bay of Bengal duringW_ICARB Campaign, Annales Geophysicae(2012), 30, 371–377, doi:10.5194/angeo-30-371-2012.

33. Sarvan Kumar, Sanjay Kumar, A. K. Singh and R. P. Singh, Seasonal Variability of Atmospheric Aerosol over the North Indian Region during 2005-2009, , Advances in Space Research, 50, 1220-1230, 2012.

34. Vijayakumar K., Devara P.C.S., Simha C.P., 2012: Aerosol features during drought and normal monsoon years: A study undertaken with multi-platform measurements over a tropical urban site. Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 12, DOI:10.4209/aaqr.2012.01.0005, 1444-1458

35. Kumar Sumit, Devara P.C.S., 2012: Long-term study of aerosol modulation of atmospheric and surface solar heating over Pune, India. Tellus-B, 64, DOI:10.3402/tellusb.v64i0.18420, 1-13

36. Safai P.D., Raju M.P., Maheskumar, R.S., Kulkarni J.R., Rao P.S.P., Devara P.C.S., 2012: Vertical profiles of black carbon aerosols over the urban locations in South India. Science of the Total Environment, 431, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.05.058, 323-331

37. Vijaykumar K., Devara P.C.S., 2012: Variations in aerosol optical and microphysical properties during an Indian festival observed with space-borne and ground-based observations. Atmosfera, 25, 381-395

38. A K Srivastava, K. Ram, P Pant, P Hegde and Hema Joshi, Black carbon aerosols over Manora Peak in the Indian Himalayan foothills: implications for climate forcing, Environ. Res. Lett. 7 014002 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/014002, 2012.

39. Guleria, R.P., Kuniyal, J.C. and Dhyani, P.P. , Validation of space-born Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer remote sensors aerosol products using application of ground-based Multi-wavelength Radiometer. Advances in Space Research 50(10): 1391-1404. DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2012.07.002,2012.

40. Guleria, R.P., Kuniyal, J.C., Sharma, N.L and Dhyani, P.P. (2012) Seasonal variability in aerosol optical and physical characteristics estimated using the application of the Ångström formula over Mohal in the northwestern Himalaya, India. Journal of Earth System Science 121(3): 697–710,2012.

41. Vyas, B.M., Saxena, A., & Chhagan Lal, “Study of Air Pollutants and UV& IR Radiation during Partial Solar Eclipse on 15 January, 2010 over Indian Station, i.e., Udaipur”, Advance in Space Research, 50( Dec., 2012), 1553-1563. Doi : http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2012.07.021,2012.

42. Vyas, B.M. & Vimal Saraswat, “ Studies of Atmospheric Aerosol’s parameters during Pre-Diwali to Post–Diwali festival period over Indian Semi Arid Station i.e., Udaipur”, Applied Physics Research, 4 (April, 2012), 55. Doi : 10.5539/apr.v4n2p40, 2012.


Publications 2011


1. Kumar, K. R., K. Narasimhulu, G. Balakrishnaiah, B. S. K. Reddy, K. R.Gopal,R.R. Reddy, L.S.S. Reddy, K. K. Moorthy, S. Suresh Babu and C.B.S. Dutt, Spatial heterogeneities in aerosol properties over Bay of Bengal inferred from ship-borne and MODIS observations during ICARB-W cruise campaign: Implications to radiative forcing, Atmospheric Environment, 45, 404-412, 2011.

2. S. Suresh Babu, V. Sreekanth, K. K. Moorthy., et al., Vertical profiles of aerosol black carbon in the atmospheric boundary layer over a tropical coastal station: Perturbations during an annular solar eclipse, Atmospheric Research, 99 (3-4), pp. 471-478, 2011.

3. P. R. Sinha, R. K. Manchanda, J. V. Subbarao, U. C. Dumka, S. Sreenivasan, S. Suresh Babu and K. Krishna Moorthy, Spatial distribution and Vertical Structure of the MABL Aerosols over Bay of Bengal during winter: Results from W-ICARB Experiment, Journal of Atmospheric Solar Terrestrial Physics, 73 (4), pp. 430-438,2011.

4. G. Balakrishnaiah, K. R. Kumar, B. S. K. Reddy, K. R. Gopal, R.R. Reddy, L.S.S. Reddy, Y. N. Ahammed, K. Narasimhulu, K. K. Moorthy and S. Suresh Babu, Analysis of optical properties of atmospheric aerosols inferred from spectral AODs and Ångström wavelength exponent, Atmospheric Environment, 45 (6), pp. 1275-1285, 2011

5. K. R. Kumar, K. Narasimhulu., G.Balakrishnaiah, B.S.K.Reddy, K.R. Gopal, R.R. Reddy, S. K. Satheesh, K. K. Moorthy, and S. Suresh Babu, Characterization of aerosol black carbon over a tropical semi-arid region of Anantapur, India, Atmospheric Research , doi: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2010.12.009, 2011.

6. J. P. Chaubey, K. K. Moorthy, S. Suresh Babu, and V. S. Nair, The optical and physical properties of atmospheric aerosols over the Indian Antarctic stations during southern hemispheric summer of the International Polar Year 2007–2008, Annales Geophysicae., 29, 1–13, 2011.

7. Gogoi, M.M., Pathak, B., Moorthy, K.K., Bhuyan, P.K., S. Suresh Babu, Bhuyan, K., Kalita, G. Multi-year investigations of near-surface and columnar aerosols over Dibrugarh, Northeastern location of India: Heterogeneity in source impacts, Atmospheric Environment, doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.12.056, 2011.

8. S. Suresh Babu, K. K. Moorthy, R. K. Manchanda, P. R. Sinha , S. K. Satheesh, D. P. Vajja, S. Srinivasan, V. H. A. Kumar, Free tropospheric black carbon aerosol measurements using high altitude balloon: Do BC layers build 'their own homes' up in the atmosphere?, Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L08803, doi:10.1029/2011GL046654, 2011.

9. S.K. Satheesh, V. Vinoj, K. Krishna Moorthy: "Radiative effects of aerosols at an urban location in southern India: Observations versus model", Atmospheric Environment (In Press), 2011.

10. V. Sreekanth, K. K.Moorthy, S. K. Satheesh, S. S. Babu, V. S. Nair, K. Niranjan, Airborne measurements of aerosol scattering properties above the MABL over Bay of Bengal during W ICARB – characteristics and spatial gradients, Annales Geophysicae, 2011 (in press)

11. G. Balakrishnaiah, K. Raghavendra Kumar, B. Suresh Kumar Reddy, K. Rama Gopal, R. R. Reddy, L. S. S. Reddy, K. Narasimhulu, K. Krishna Moorthy and S. Suresh Babu. Characterization of PM, PM10 and PM2.5 concentration at a tropical semi-arid station in Anantapur, India. Indian Journal of Radio & Space Physics 40, 95-104, 2011.

12. B. Suresh Kumar Reddy, K. Raghavendra Kumar, G. Balakrishnaiah, K. Rama Gopal, R. R. Reddy, K. Narasimhulu, L. Siva Sankara Reddy, S. Vijaya Bhaskara Rao, T. Kiran Kumar, C. Balanarayana, K.Krishna Moorthy and S. Suresh Babu. Aerosol climatology over an urban site, Tirupati (India) derived from columnar and surface measurements: First time results obtained from a 30-day campaign. Journal of Atmospheric & Solar Terrestrial Physics (In Press, doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2011.03.015), 2011.

13. P. R. Sinha, R. K. Manchanda, D.G. Kaskaoutis, K. Krishna Moorthy, S.Suresh Babu, and S. Sreenivasan, Spatial heterogeneities in MABL and Columnar Aerosol Characteristics over BoB during Winter-ICARB experiment, Atmospheric Environment, in press (2011)

14. D.G. Kaskaoutis, Shailesh Kumar Kharol, P.R Sinha, R.P. Singh, H.D. Kambezidis and K.V.S. Badarinath, Extremely large anthropogenic aerosol component over Bay of Bengal in winter, Atmospheric Chemistry Physics, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 7097–7117, 2011

15. Kishore Reddy, P. Pant, D.V. Phani Kumar, U. C. Dumka, Y. Bhavani Kkumar, N. Singh and H. Joshi, Radiative effects of elevated aerosol layer in Central Himalayas, International Journal of Remote Sensing, (in press), 2011

16. Srivastava, A. K., Pant, P., Hegde, P., Singh, S., Dumka U. C., Naja, M., Singh, N., and Bhavani Kumar, Y., Influence of south Asian dust storm on aerosol radiative forcing at high-altitude station in central Himalayas, International Journal of Remote Sensing (in Press), 2011.

17. U.C. Dumka, K. KrishnaMoorthy, S.N.Tripathi, P.Hegde, RamSagar, Altitude variation of aerosol properties over the Himalayan range inferred from spatial measurements, Journal of Atmosphericand Solar-Terrestrial Physics, (in press),2011

18. K. Niranjan, B. Spandana, T. Anjana Devi, V. Sreekanth, and B. L. Madhavan, Measurements of aerosol intensive properties over Visakhapatnam,India for 2007, Ann. Geophys., 29, 973–985, 2011

19. Guleria, R.P., Kuniyal, J.C., Rawat, P.S., Thakur, H.K., Sharma, M., Sharma, N.L., Singh. M., Chand, K. Sharma, P., Thakur, A.K., Dhyani, P.P. and Bhuyan, P.K., Aerosols optical properties in dynamic atmosphere in the northwestern part of the Indian Himalaya: A comparative study from ground and satellite based observations, Atmospheric Research, 101(3):726-738. DOI 10.1016/j.atmosres.2011.04.018, 2011.

20. Sharma, N.L., Kuniyal, J.C., Singh, M., Sharma, M., Guleria, R.P., Characteristics of aerosol optical depth and angstrom parameters over Mohal in the Kullu valley of northwest Himalayan region, India, Acta Geophysica 59 (2): 334-360, 2011.

21. Sharma, N.L., Kuniyal, J.C., Singh, M., Sharma, M., Sharma, Priyanka, Chand, K., Negi, A.K., Thakur, H.K. Atmospheric ultrafine aerosol number concentration and its correlation with vehicular flow at two sites in the western Himalayan region: Kullu-Manali, India, Journal of Earth System Science 120(2): 281-290, 2011.

22. Guleria, R.P., Kuniyal, J.C., Rawat, P.S., Sharma,N.L., Thakur, H.K., Dhyani, P.P., Singh, M.,The assessment of aerosol optical properties over Mohal in the northwestern Indian Himalayas using satellite and ground-based measurements and an influence of aerosol transport on aerosol radiative forcing, Meteorol Atmos Phys113(3): 153-169. DOI 10.1007/s00703-011-0149-5, 2011

23. Kumar, S., P.C.S. Devara, M.G. Manoj and P.D. Safai, 2011: Winter aerosol and trace gas characteristics over a high-altitude station in the Western Ghats, India. Atmósfera, 24, 311-328.

24. Raju, M.P., P.D. Safai, P.S.P. Rao, P.C.S. Devara, K.B. Budhavant, 2011: Seasonal characteristics of black carbon aerosols over a high altitude station in Southwest India. Atmospheric Research, 100, 103–110.

25. Sumit Kumar, P.C.S. Devara, K.K. Dani, S.M. Sonbawne, and S. K. Saha, 2011: Sun-sky radiometer–derived column-integrated aerosol optical and physical properties over a tropical urban station during 2004–2009. Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, D10201, doi: 10.1029/2010JD014944.

26. S. K. Kharol , K. V. S. Badarinath, D. G. Kaskaoutis, A. R. Sharma, and B. Gharai: Influence of continental advection on aerosol characteristics over Bay of Bengal (BoB) in winter: results from W-ICARB cruise experiment , Ann. Geophys., 29, 1423–1438, doi:10.5194/angeo-29-1423-2011,2011.

27. Smirnov et al.., Maritime aerosol network as a component of AERONET – first results and comparison with global aerosol models and satellite retrievals , Atmos. Meas. Tech., 4, 583–597, doi:10.5194/amt-4-583-2011,2011

28. Manoj Kumar, Kumari Lipi, S. Sureshbabu, N. C. Mahanti Aerosol Properties over Ranchi Measured from Aethalometer, Atmospheric and Climate Sciences, 1, 91-94.doi:10.4236/acs.2011.13010,2011.

29. Rajesh Agnihotri , T.K. Mandal , S.G. Karapurkar , Manish Naja , Ranu Gadi,Y. Nazeer Ahammmed, Animesh Kumar, T. Saud , M. Saxena, Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition of bulk aerosols over India and northern Indian Ocean ,Atmospheric Environment 45 , 2828-2835.doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.03.003,2011.

30. Gayatry Kalita and Pradip Kumar Bhuyan, Spatial Heterogeneity in Tropospheric Column Ozone over the Indian Subcontinent: Long-Term Climatology and Possible Association with Natural and Anthropogenic Activities , Advances in MeteorologyVolume 2011, Article ID 924516, 12 pages, doi:10.1155/2011/924516,2011.

31. S. Suresh Babu, K. Krishna Moorthy, Ravi K. Manchanda, Puna Ram Sinha, S. K. Satheesh, Dinkar Prasad Vajja, S. Srinivasan, and V. H. Arun Kumar, Free tropospheric black carbon aerosol measurements using high altitude balloon: Do BC layers build “their own homes” up in the atmosphere? GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 38, L08803, doi:10.1029/2011GL046654, 2011.

32. Menon, H. B., Sangekar, N., Lotliker, A., Krishna Moorthy, K., and Vethamony, P., Aerosol optical thickness and spatial variability along coastal and offshore waters of the eastern Arabian Sea. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 68: 745–750, 2011.

33. Tarannum Bano, Sachchidanand Singh, N. C. Gupta, Kirti Soni, R. S. Tanwar, S. Nath, B. C. Arya & B. S. Gera : Variation in aerosol black carbon concentration and its emission estimates at the mega-city Delhi, International Journal of Remote Sensing, DOI:10.1080/01431161.2010.512943,2011.

34. G. Balakrishnaiah , K. Raghavendra Kumar, B. Suresh Kumar Reddy, C. Swamulu, K. Rama Gopal , R.R. Reddy , L.S.S. Reddy , Y. Nazeer Ahammed, K. Narasimhulu , K. KrishnaMoorthy, S. Suresh Babu, Anthropogenic impact on the temporal variations of black carbon and surface aerosol mass concentrations at a tropical semi-arid station in southeastern region of India , Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 42,1297–1308, doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2011.07.016,2011.

35. Moorthy, K.K., V Sreekanth , Chaubey, J. P., Gogoi, M. M., Babu, S. S., Sobhan Kumar Kompalli , Bagare, S. P. , Bhatt, B.C , Gaur, V , Prabhu,T.P., , Singh, S N., Fine and ultra fine particles at near free-tropospheric environment over the high altitude station Hanle, in Trans- Himalayas: New particle formation and size distribution, J. Geophys. Res., doi: 10.1029/2011JD016343, 2011.

36. Babu, S. S., Chaubey, J. P., Moorthy, K.K., Gogoi, M. M., Sobhan Kumar Kompalli , Sreekanth V , Bagare, S. P. , Bhatt, B.C, Gaur, V, Prabhu,T.P., Ningombam,S.S., High Altitude (~ 4520 m amsl) measurements of Black Carbon aerosols over Western Himalayas: Seasonal heterogeneity and source apportionment, J. Geophys. Res., doi: 10.1029/2011JD016722, 2011.

37. Sumita Kedia, S. Ramachandran, Seasonal variations in aerosol characteristics over an urban location and a remote site in western India , Atmospheric Environment 45 , 2120-2128, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.01.040, 2011.

38. Rohit Srivastava, S. Ramachandran, T.A. Rajesh, Sumita Kedia, Aerosol radiative forcing deduced from observations and models over an urban location and sensitivity to single scattering Albedo, Atmospheric Environment 45, 6163-6171, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.08.015,2011.

39. S. Ramachandran, Sumita Kedia, Aerosol radiative effects over an urban location and a remote site in western India: Seasonal variability,Atmospheric Environment 45, 7415-7422. doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.06.030,2011.

40. Prashant Rajput , M.M. Sarin, R. Rengarajan, Darshan Singh, Atmospheric polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from post-harvest biomass burning emissions in the Indo-Gangetic Plain: Isomer ratios and temporal trends, Atmospheric Environment 45, 6732-6740. doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.08.018,2011.

41. B. Srinivas, M.M. Sarin and V.V.S. Sarma. Atmospheric dry deposition of inorganic and organic nitrogen to the Bay of Bengal: Impact of continental outflow. Marine Chemistry 127, 170-179, 2011.

42. B. Srinivas, M. M. Sarin and A. Kumar. Impact of anthropogenic sources on aerosol iron solubility over the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea. Biogeochemistry,DOI:10.1007/s10533-011-9680-1,2011.

43. Bala Subrahamanyam, D., N.V.P. Kiran Kumar, C.B.S. Dutt, T.J. Anurose, P.K. Kunhikrishnan, Mannil Mohan, Characterization of air-sea interaction processes over the Bay of Bengal during the winter phase of ICARB field experiment, Atmos. Res., 99, 97 – 111, doi:10.1016/j.atmosres.2010.09.005, 2011.

44. Nair P. R., David, L. M., Girach, I. A., George, K. S. , Ozone in the marine boundary layer of Bay of Bengal during post-winter period: Spatial pattern and role of meteorology, Atmospheric Environment 45, 4671-4681, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.05.040,2011.

45. David, L. M., Girach, I. A. and Nair, P. R., Distribution of ozone and its precursors over Bay of Bengal during winter 2009: Role of meteorology, Ann. Geophys., 29, 1613–1627, doi:10.5194/angeo-29-1613-2011,2011.


Publications 2010


1. Anu Rani Sharma, Shailesh Kumar Kharol, K.V.S. Badarinath and Darshan Singh, Impact of agriculture crop residue burning on atmospheric aerosol loading - A study over Punjab State, India, Annales Geophysicae,vol.28, pp. 367-379,2010

2. Anu Rani Sharma, Shailesh Kumar Kharoland K.V.S. Badarinath., Influence of vehicular traffic on urban air quality – a case study of Hyderabad, India, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment,vol. 15, pp. 154-159, doi:10.1016/j.trd.2009.11.001,2010

3. K.V.S. Badarinath, Shailesh Kumar Kharol, D. G. Kaskaoutis, Anu Rani Sharma, V. Ramaswamy and H. D. Kambezidis, Long-range transport of dust aerosols over the Arabian Sea and Indian region – a case study using satellite data and ground-based measurements, Global and Planetary Change, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2010.02.003, 2010

4. K. Raghavendra Kumar, K. Narasimhulu, G. Balakrishnaiah, B. Suresh Kumar Reddy, K. Rama Gopal, R.R. Reddy, S.K. Satheesh, K. Krishna Moorthy, S. Suresh Babu, A study on the variations of optical and physical properties of aerosols over a tropical semi-arid station during grassland fire, Atmospheric Research, 95, 77-87, 2010

5. V. Vinoj, S. K. Satheesh, and K. Krishna Moorthy, Optical, radiative, and source characteristics of aerosols at Minicoy, a remote island in the southern Arabian Sea, Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, D01201, doi:10.1029/2009JD011810, 2010.

6. K. V. S. Badarinath, Anu Rani Sharma and Shailesh Kumar Kharol, Forest Fires Monitoring and Burnt Area Mapping Using Satellite Data - A Study over the forest region of Kerala State, India, International Journal to Remote Sensing, doi:10.1080/01431160903439890, 2010

7. N V K Prasad, K. Niranjan and N Madhavi, Estimation of different biologically effective irradiances at Visakhapatnam from standard action spectra, International Journal of Physical Sciences, Vol.5, pp39-46, 2010

8. Kalapureddy, M.C.R., and P.C.S. Devara, Pre-monsoon aerosol optical properties and spatial distribution over the Arabian Sea during 2006, Atmos. Res., 95, 186-196, doi:10.1016/j.atmosres.2009.09.014, 2010

9. J P Chaubey, K K Moorthy, S Suresh Babu, V S Nair and A Tiwari, Black-Carbon aerosols over coastal Antarctica and its scavenging by snow during southern hemispheric summer, J Geophys Res., 115, doi:10.1029/2009/JD013381, 2010

10. S. Suresh Babu, K. K. Moorthy and S. K. Satheesh, Vertical and horizontal gradients in aerosol black carbon and its mass fraction to composite aerosols over the east coast of Peninsular India from Aircraft measurements, Advances in Meteorology,doi:10.1155/2010/812075, 2010.

11. S. Suresh Babu, V. Sreekanth, V.S. Nair, S. K. Satheesh, and K. K. Moorthy, Vertical profile of aerosol single scattering albedo over west coast of India during W_ICARB, Journal of Atmospheric Solar Terrestrial Physics,doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2010.04.013, 2010.

12. Dumka, U.C., K. K. Moorthy, R. Kumar, P. Hegde, R. Sagar, P. Pant, N. Singh and S. Suresh Babu, Characteristics of aerosol mass concentration over a high altitude location in the central Himalayas from multi-year measurements, Atmospheric Research, doi:10.1016/j.atmosres.2009.12.010, 2010.

13. Badarinath, K. V. S., A. R. Sharma, D. G. Kaskaoutis, S. K. Kharol, and H. D. Kambezidis (2010),Solar dimming over the tropical urban region of Hyderabad, India: Effect of increased cloudiness and increased anthropogenic aerosols, J. Geophys. Res.,doi:10.1029/2009JD013694, 2010

14. Imran Asatar, G., Nair, P.R. Spatial distribution of near-surface CO over bay of Bengal during winter: role of transport, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 2010.

15. K. V. S. Badarinath, Shailesh K. Kharol, D. G. Kaskaoutis, Anu R. Sharma, V. Ramaswamy, H. D. Kambezidis, Long-range transport of dust aerosols over the Arabian Sea and Indian region — A case study using satellite data and ground-based measurements, Global and Planetary Change, 2010

16. S. Ramachandran and Sumita Kedia, Black carbon aerosols over an urban region: Radiative forcing and climate impact; Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, D10202, doi: 10.1029/2009JD013560, 2010

17. Moorthy, K. K., S. N. Beegum, S. S. Babu, A. Smirnov, S. Rachel John, K. R. Kumar, K. Narasimhulu, C. Dutt, and V. S. Nair, Optical and physical characteristics of Bay of Bengal Aerosols during W_ICARB: Spatial and vertical heterogeneities in the MABL and in the vertical column, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2010JD014094, 2010.

18. Nair, V. S., S. K. Satheesh, K. K. Moorthy, S. S. Babu, P. R. Nair, and S. K. George,Surprising observation of large Anthropogenic Aerosol Fraction over the 'near-pristine' Southern Bay of Bengal: Climate Implication, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2010JD013954, 2010

19. D. G. Kaskaoutis, M. C. R. Kalapureddy, K. Krishna Moorthy, P. C. S. Devara, P. T. Nastos, P. G. Kosmopoulos, and H. D. Kambezidis, Heterogeneity in pre-monsoon aerosol types over the Arabian Sea deduced from ship-borne measurements of spectral AODs,Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 4893-4908, 2010

20. Pathak, B., G. Kalita, K. Bhuyan, P. K. Bhuyan, and K. K. Moorthy,Aerosol temporal characteristics and its impact on shortwave radiative forcing at a location in the North East of India, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2009JD013462, 2010.

21. S. Suresh Babu, K. Krishna Moorthy and S. K. Satheesh, Latitudinal gradient in aerosol properties over the Indian and Southern oceans during the austral summer, Current Science, vol.99, no. 10, 2010.

22. Kompalli, Sobhan Kumar , S. Suresh Babu and K. Krishna Moorthy, Inter-comparison of aerosol optical depth from the Multi-wavelength solar Radiometer with other radiometric measurements, Indian Journal of Radio and Space Physics, 39, 364-371, 2010.

23. S. K. Satheesh, V. Vinoj and K. Krishnamoorthy: "Assessment of Aerosol Radiative Impact over Oceanic Regions Adjacent to Indian Subcontinent UsingMultisatellite Analysis", Advances in Meteorology, Article ID 139186, 13 pages, doi:10.1155/2010/139186, 2010.

24. Sumita Kedia, S. Ramachandran, A. Kumar and M.M. Sarin,Spatiotemporal gradients in aerosol radiative forcing and heating rate over Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea derived on the basis of optical, physical and chemical properties, Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, D07205, doi:10.1029/2009JD013136, 2010

25. Panicker, A.S., G. Pandithurai, P.D. Safai, S. Dipu, Dong-In Lee, 2010: On the contribution of black carbon to the composite aerosol radiative forcing over an urban environment. Atmospheric Environment, 44, 3066-3070.

26. Safai, P.D., K.B. Budhavant, P.S.P. Rao, K. Ali, A. Sinha, 2010: Source characterization for aerosol constituents and changing roles of calcium and ammonium aerosols in the neutralization of aerosol acidity at a semi-urban site in SW India. Atmospheric Research, 98, 78–88.

27. Saha, S.K., and P.C.S. Devara, 2010: Some features of winter aerosol and water vapor characteristics over Agra, a semi-arid location in India. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 109,139–147, DOI 10.1007/s00703-010-0098-4.

28. Ashwini Kumar, M.M. Sarin and B. Srinivas. Aerosol iron solubility over Bay of Bengal: Role of anthropogenic sources and chemical processing. Marine Chemistry 121,167-175, doi:10.1016/j.marchem.2010.04.005,2010.

29. R. Cherian, C. Venkataraman, A. Kumar, M. M. Sarin, A.K. Sudheer and S. Ramachandran. Source identification of aerosols influencing atmospheric extinction: Integrating PMF and PSCF with emission inventories and satellite observations. Jour. Geophy. Res-Atmospheres, Vol. 115, D22212, doi:10.1029/2009JD012975,2010.

30. M.M. Sarin, A. Kumar, B. Srinivas, A.K. Sudheer and N. Rastogi. Anthropogenic sulphate aerosols and large Cl-deficit in marine atmospheric boundary layer of tropical Bay of Bengal. Jour. Atmos. Chem. 66 ,1-10; DOI:10.1007/s10874-011-9188, 2010.

31. Alappattu, D. P., and P. K. Kunhikrishnan, First observations of turbulence parameters in the troposphere over theBay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea using radiosonde, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D06105, doi:10.1029/2009JD012916,2010.

32. D.P. Alappattu, P.K. Kunhikrishnan, Observations of the thermodynamic structure of marine atmospheric boundary layer over Bay of Bengal, Northern Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea during premonsoon period , Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 72 , 1318–1326, doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2010.07.011 ,2010.

33. S. Indira Rani , Radhika Ramachandran , D. Bala Subrahamanyam ,Denny P. Alappattu , P.K.Kunhikrishnan , Characterization of sea/land breeze circulation along the west coast of Indian sub-continent during pre-monsoon season, Atmospheric Research 95, 367–378, doi:10.1016/j.atmosres.2009.10.009,2010.

34. S. Singh, K. Soni, T. Bano, R. S. Tanwar, S. Nath, and B. C. Arya, Clear-sky direct aerosol radiative forcing variations over mega-city Delhi, Ann. Geophys., 28, 1157–1166, www.ann-geophys.net/28/1157/2010/doi:10.5194/angeo-28-1157-2010,2010.


Publications 2009


1. S. K. Satheesh, K. Krishna Moorthy, S. Suresh Babu, V. Vinoj, Vijayakumar S. Nair, S. Naseema Beegum, C. B. S. Dutt, D. P. Alappattu, and P. K. Kunhikrishnan, Vertical structure and horizontal gradients of aerosol extinction coefficients over coastal India inferred from airborne lidar measurements during the Integrated Campaign for Aerosol, Gases and Radiation Budget (ICARB) field campaign, Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, D05204, doi:10.1029/2008JD011033, 2009

2. Jagdish C Kuniyal, Alpana Thakur, Harinder K Thakur, Sanjeev Sharma,P Pant, Pan S Rawat and K Krishna Moorthy, Aerosol optical depths at Mohal-Kullu in the northwestern Indian Himalayan high altitude station during ICARB, J. Earth Syst. Sci. 118, No. 1, 41–48, 2009

3. Kedia, S., and S. Ramachandran, Variability in aerosol optical and physical characteristics over the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea deduced from Angstrom exponents, Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, D14207, doi:10.1029/2009JD011950, 2009

4. P. Hegde, P. Pant and Y. Bhavani Kumar, An integrated analysis of lidar observations in association with optical properties of aerosols from a high altitude location in central Himalayas, Atmos. Sci. Let.10: 48–57,DOI: 10.1002/asl.209, 2009

5. U. C. Dumka, Ram Sagar and P. Pant, Retrieval of columnar aerosol size distributions from spectral attenuation measurements over Central Himalayas,Aerosol and Air Quality Research9:344-351, 2009

6. S. Naseema Beegum, K. Krishna Moorthy, S. Suresh Babu, S.K. Satheesh, V. Vinoj, K.V.S. Badarinath, P.D. Safai, P.C.S. Devara, Sacchidanand Singh, Vinod, U.C. Dumka, P. Pant, Spatial distribution of aerosol black carbon over India during pre-monsoon season Atmospheric Environment 43, 1071–1078, 2009.

7. S. Naseema Beegum, K. Krishna Moorthy, S. S. Babu, R. R. Reddy, and K. R. Gopal, Large scale modulations of spectral aerosol optical depths by atmospheric planetary waves, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L03810, doi:10.1029/2008GL036509, 2009.

8. A. Smirnov, B. N. Holben, I. Slutsker, D. M. Giles, C. R. McClain, T. F. Eck, S. M. Sakerin, A. Macke, P. Croot, G. Zibordi, P. K. Quinn, J. Sciare, S. Kinne, M. Harvey, T. J. Smyth, S. Piketh, T. Zielinski, A. Proshutinsky, J. I. Goes, N. B. Nelson, P. Larouche, V. F. Radionov, P. Goloub, K. Krishna Moorthy, R. Matarrese, E. J. Robertson, and F. Jourdin, Maritime Aerosol Network as a component of Aerosol Robotic Network, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D06204, doi:10.1029/2008JD011257, 2009.

9. K. Raghavendra Kumar, K. Narasimhulu, R.R. Reddy, K. Rama Gopal, L. Siva Sankara Reddy, G. Balakrishnaiah, K. Krishna Moorthy, S. Suresh Babu, Temporal and spectral characteristics of aerosol optical depths in a semi-arid region of southern India, Science of the Total Environment, 407, 2673-2688, 2009.

10. Mukunda M Gogoi, K. Krishna Moorthy, S. S. Babu, and P. K. Bhuyan, Climatology of columnar aerosol properties and the influence of synoptic conditions: First-time results from the northeastern region of India, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D08202, doi:10.1029/2008JD010765, 2009.

11. V. Vinoj and S.K. Satheesh and K. Krishna Moorthy, Aerosol characteristics at a continental urban station in southern India, International Journal of Environment and Waste Management, 4, 256-266, 2009.

12. M. Aloysius, M. Mohan, S. Suresh Babu, K. Parameswaran, and K. Krishna Moorthy, Validation of MODIS derived aerosol optical depth and an investigation on aerosol transport over the South East Arabian Sea during ARMEX-II, Ann. Geophys., 27, 2285–2296, 2009

13. Mukunda M Gogoi, PK Bhuyan, K. Krishna Moorthy, An investigation of aerosolsize distribution properties at Dibrugarh: North eastern India, Terr.Atmos.Ocean. Sci., Vol. 20, No. 3, 521-533, doi: 10.3319/TAO.2008.06.11.01(A), 2009

14. Hiren Jethva, SK Satheesh, J Srinivasan, K. Krishna Moorthy, How good is the assumption of visible surface reflectance in MODIS aerosol retrieval over land? A comparison with aircraft measurements over an urban site in India, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote-sensing, 47, 1990-1998, 2009.

15. Vijayakumar S. Nair, K. Krishna Moorthy, S. Suresh Babu, and SK Satheesh, Optical and Physical Properties of Atmospheric Aerosols over the Bay of Bengal during ICARB, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 66, DOI: 10.1175/2009JAS3032.1, 2640-2658, 2009

16. K. Raghavendra Kumar, K. Narasimhulu, G. Balakrishnaiah, B. Suresh Kumar Reddy, K. Rama Gopal, R.R. Reddy, K. Krishna Moorthy, S. Suresh Babu, Size segregated mass concentration and size distribution of near surface aerosols over a tropical Indian semi-arid station, Anantapur: Impact of long range transport, Science of the Total Environment, 407, 5589–5604, 2009.

17. K. Raghavendra Kumar, K. Narasimhulua, R.R. Reddy,, K. Rama Gopal, L. Siva Sankara Reddy, G. Balakrishnaiah, K. Krishna Moorthy, S. Suresh Babu, Temporal and spectral characteristics of aerosol optical depths in a semi-arid region of southern India, Science of the Total Environment, 407, 2673-2688, 2009.

18. S. Naseema Beegum, K. Krishna Moorthy, S. Suresh Babu Aerosol microphysics over a tropical coastal station inferred from the spectral dependence of Angstrom wavelength exponent and inversion of spectral aerosol optical depths Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 71,1846–1857, 2009

19. S. Naseema Beegum, K. Krishna Moorthy, S. Suresh Babu, R. Ramakrishna Reddy, K. Rama Gopal and Y. Nazeer Ahmed, Quasi-biennial oscillations in spectral aerosol optical depth, Atmospheric Science Letters, 10, 279–284, DOI: 10.1002/asl.243, 2009

20. S. K. Satheesh, V. Vinoj, S. Suresh Babu, K. Krishna Moorthy, and Vijayakumar S. Nair, Vertical distribution of aerosols over the east coast of India inferred from airborne LIDAR measurements Ann. Geophys., 27, 4157–4169, 2009

21. K. Krishna Moorthy, Vijayakumar S. Nair, S. Suresh Babu and S. K. Satheesh, Spatial and vertical heterogeneities in aerosol properties over oceanic regions around India: Implications for radiative forcing, Quarterly Journal of Royal Meteorological Society, 135, 2131–2145, DOI: 10.1002/qj.525, 2009.

22. S. P. Baxla, A. A. Roy, Tarun Gupta, S. N. Tripathi and R. Bandyopadhyaya, Analysis of diurnal and seasonal variation of submicron outdoor aerosol mass and size distribution in a northern Indian city and its correlation to black carbon, Aerosol andAir Quality Research, 4, 458-469, 2009.

23. B. Mehta, C. Venkataraman, M. Bhushan and S.N. Tripathi, Identification of sources affecting fog formation using receptor modeling approaches and inventory estimates of sectoral emissions, doi:10.1016, Atmos. Env., 2009.

24. J. Jaidevi, T. Gupta, S. N. Tripathi and K. Ujinwal, Assessment of personal exposure to inhalable indoor and outdoor particulate matter for student residents of an academic campus (IIT-Kanpur), Inhalation Toxicology, DOI:10.3109/0895837090 2822875, 2009.

25. A. Roy, S. Baxla, T. Gupta, R. Bandyopadhyaya and S. N. Tripathi, Measurement of size distribution and chemical analysis of particulates emitted from indoor combustion sources, Inhalation Toxicology, DOI:10.1080/08958370802538050, 2009.

26. K. V. S. Badarinath, Anu Rani Sharma and Shailesh Kumar Kharol, Impact of emissions from anthropogenic sources on satellite-derived reflectance, Advances in Space Research, vol. 43, no. 10, pp. 1545-1554, 2009.

27. K. V. S. Badarinath, Shailesh Kumar Kharol and Anu Rani Sharma, Long-range transport of aerosols from agriculture crop residue burning in Indo-Gangetic Plains – A study using LIDAR, ground measurements and satellite data, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, vol. 71, issue 1, pp. 112-120, 2009.

28. K. V. S. Badarinath, Shailesh Kumar Kharol, R. R. Reddy. K. Rama Gopal, K. Narasimhulu, L. Siva Sankara Reddy and K. Raghavendra Kumar, Black carbon aerosol mass concentration variation in urban and rural environments of India – a case study, Atmospheric Science Letters, vol. 10, issue 1, pp. 29-33, 2009.

29. K. V. S. Badarinath, Shailesh Kumar Kharol, P. K. Dileep and V. Krishna Prasad, Satellite observations on cyclone-induced Upper Ocean cooling and modulation of surface winds – a study on tropical ocean region, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (GRSL), vol. 6, issue 3, pp. 481-485, doi: 10.1109/LGRS.2009.2018487, 2009

30. K.V.S. Badarinath, Shailesh Kumar Kharol, Anu Rani Sharma and V. Krishna Prasad, Analysis of aerosol and carbon monoxide characteristics over Arabian Sea during crop residue burning period in the Indo-Gangetic Plains using multi-satellite remote sensing datasets, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, vol. 71, pp. 1267-1276, doi: 10.1016/j.jastp.2009.04.004, 2009

31. K. V. S. Badarinath, Shailesh Kumar Kharol, Anu Rani Sharma and P. S. Roy, Fog over Indo-Gangetic Plains – a study using multi-satellite data and ground observations” -IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (JSTARS),vol. 2 (3), 185-195, doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2009.2019830, 2009

32. K. V. S. Badarinath, Shailesh Kumar Kharol, Anu Rani Sharma, V. Ramaswamy, D. G. Kaskaoutis and H. D. Kambezidis, Investigations of an intense aerosol loading during 2007 cyclone SIDR – a study using satellite data and ground measurements over Indian Region, Atmospheric Environment, vol. 43, pp. 3708-3716, 2009.

33. Anu Rani Sharma, Shailesh Kumar Kharol andK.V.S. Badarinath, LIDAR observations of aerosol properties over tropical urban region – a case study during a low pressure system over Bay of Bengal, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (GRSL),vol.6 (4), pp. 807-811,doi: 10.1109/LGRS.2009.2025781, 2009

34. Kalapureddy, M. C. R., D. G. Kaskaoutis, P. E. Raj, P.C.S. Devara, H. D. Kambezidis, P. G. Kosmopoulos, and P. T. Nastos, Identification of aerosol type over the Arabian Sea in the pre-monsoon season during the ICARB campaign, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D17203, doi:10.1029/2009JD011826, 2009

35. D. G. Kaskaoutis, M. C. R. Kalapureddy, P. C. S. Devara, P. G. Kosmopoulos, P. T. Nastos, K. Krishna Moorthy and H. D. Kambezidis, Spatio-temporal aerosol optical characteristics over the Arabian Sea during the pre monsoon season, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 9, 22223-22269, 2009

36. Anu Rani Sharma and Shailesh Kumar Kharol, K. V. S. Badarinath, Satellite observations of unusual dust event over North-East India and its relation with meteorological conditions, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, vol. 71, pp. 2032-2039, doi: 10.1016/j.jastp.2009.09.010, 2009

37. D. G. Kaskaoutis, K.V.S. Badarinath, Shailesh Kumar Kharol, Anu Rani Sharma and H. D. Kambezidis, Variations in the aerosol optical properties and types over the tropical urban site of Hyderabad, India, Journal of Geophysical Research,114, D22204, doi: 10.1029/2009JD012423, 2009.

38. K. V. S. Badarinath, Anu Rani Sharma, Shailesh Kumar Kharol and V. Krishna Prasad, Variations in CO, O3 and black carbon aerosol mass concentrations associated with Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL) over tropical urban environment in India, Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry,vol. 62 (1) pp. 73-86, doi: 10.1007/s10874-009-9137-2, 2009

39. Satheesh, S. K., O. Torres, L. A. Remer, S. Suresh Babu, V. Vinoj, T. F. Eck, R. G. Kleidman, and B. N. Holben, Improved assessment of aerosol absorption using OMI-MODIS joint retrieval, Journal of Geophysical Research,114, D05209, doi:10.1029/2008JD011024, 2009.

40. Alappattu, D. P., and P. K. Kunhikrishnan, Premonsoon estimates of convective available potential energy over theoceanic region surrounding the Indian subcontinent, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D08108, doi:10.1029/2008JD011521,2009.


Publications 2008


1. S. Naseema Beegum, K. Krishna Moorthy, S. Suresh Babu, G. Mohan Kumar, S. Sampath, V.R. Aneesh, Impact of a mountain grassland fire on the concentration of aerosol black carbon and carbon monoxide near the surface at a remote coastal location, Atmos Res. 88, 46–55, 2008

2. Kedia, S., and S.Ramachandran, Features of aerosol optical depths over the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea during premonsoon season: Variabilities and anthropogenic influence, Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, D11201, doi:10.1029/2007JD009070, 2008

3. Ramachandran, S., and T.A. Rajesh, Asymmetry parameters in the lower troposphere derived from aircraft measurements of aerosol scattering coefficients over tropical India, Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, D16212, doi:10.1029/2008JD009795, 2008

4. Naseema Beegum, K Krishna Moorthy, Vijayakumar S Nair, S Suresh Babu,S K Satheesh, V Vinoj, R Ramakrishna Reddy, K Rama Gopal,K V S Badarinath, K Niranjan, Santosh Kumar Pandey, M Behera,A Jeyaram, P K Bhuyan, M M Gogoi, Sacchidanand Singh, P Pant,U C Dumka, Yogesh Kant, J C Kuniyal and Darshan Singh, Characteristics of spectral aerosol optical depths over India during ICARB , J.Earth Syst. Sci. 117, S1, 303–313, 2008

5. S. Suresh Babu, Vijayakumar S. Nair, K. Krishna Moorthy, Seasonal changes in aerosol characteristics over Arabian Sea and their consequence on aerosol short-wave radiative forcing: Results from ARMEX fied campaign, J Atmosph. Solar-Terr. Phys., 70, 820–834, 2008.

6. U.C. Dumka, K. Krishna Moorthy, S. K. Satheesh, Ram Sagar and P. Pant, Short period modulations in aerosol optical depths over central Himalayas: Role of mesoscale processes, J. Apply. Meteo, and Clim, DOI: 10.1175/2007,JAMC1638.1:1467-1475, 2008

7. U C Dumka, K Krishna Moorthy, P Pant, P Hegde, Ram Sagar and K Pandey, Physical and optical characteristics of atmospheric aerosols during ICARB at Manora Peak, Nainital: A sparsely inhabited, high-altitude location in the Himalayas,J. Earth Syst. Sci. 117, S1, 399–405, 2008

8. Manjit Singh, Darshan Singh and P Pant, Aerosol characteristics at Patiala during ICARB–2006, J. Earth Syst. Sci. 117, S1, 407–411, 2008

9. Mukunda M. Gogoi, P.K. Bhuyan, and K. Krishna Moorthy, Estimation of the effect of long range transport on seasonal variation of aerosol over North-Eastern India, Ann. Geophys., 26, 1365–1377, 2008

10. Umesh C. Dumka, S. K. Satheesh, P. Pant, P. Hegde, and K. Krishna Moorthy, Reply to comment by S. Ramachandran on ‘‘Surface changes in solar irradiance due to aerosols over central Himalayas’’,Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L04813, doi:10.1029/2007GL030556, 2008

11. Vijayakumar S Nair, S. Suresh Babu, and K. Krishna Moorthy, Spatial distribution and spectral characteristics of aerosol single scattering albedo over the Bay of Bengal inferred from shipborne measurements, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L10806, doi:10.1029/2008GL033687, 2008.

12. Vijayakumar S. Nair, S. Suresh Babu, and K. Krishna Moorthy, Aerosol characteristics in the marine atmospheric boundary layer over the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea during ICARB: Spatial distribution and latitudinal and longitudinal gradients, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D15208, doi:10.1029/2008JD009823, 2008.

13. Kalapureddy, M.C.R., Ernest Raj, P. and Devara, P.C.S., Total columnar ozone variations over oceanic region around Indian sub-continent during pre-monsoon of 2006 , Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 8, 3143–3162, 2008

14. Kalapureddy, M.C.R., and Devara, P.C.S., Characterization of aerosols over oceanic regions around India during pre-monsoon 2006, Atmospheric Environment, 42, 6816-6827 doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.05.022, 2008

15. Ernest Raj P., Saha S.K., Sonbawne S.M., Deshpande S.M., Devara P.C.S., Jaya Rao Y., Dani K.K. and Pandithurai G., Lidar observation of aerosol stratification in the lower troposphere over Pune during pre-monsoon season of 2006, Journal of Earth System Science, 117, S1, 293-302, 2008

16. Vijayakumar S Nair, S Suresh Babu, S. K. Satheesh and K. Krishna Moorthy, Effect of sea surface winds on marine aerosol characteristics and impacts on longwave radiative forcing over the Arabian Sea, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 8, 1-45, 2008.

17. S. K. Satheesh, K. Krishna Moorthy, S. Suresh Babu, V. Vinoj, and C. B. S. Dutt Climate implications of large warming by elevated aerosol over India, Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L19809, doi:10.1029/2008GL034944, 2008

18. B.L. Madhavan, K. Niranjan,V. Sreekanth, M.M. Sarin and A.K. Sudheer, Aerosol characterization during summer monsoon period over a tropical coastal Indian station, Visakhapatnam, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D 21208, doi 10:1029/2008JD010272, 2008

19. S. K. Mishra, S. Dey and S. N. Tripathi, Implications of particle composition and shape to dust radiative effect: A case study from the Great Indian Desert, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L23814, doi:10.1029/2008GL036058, 2008.

20. S. K. Mishra and S. N. Tripathi, Modeling optical properties of mineral dust over the IndianDesert, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D23201, DOI:10.1029/2008JD010048,2008.

21. K. Krishna Moorthy, S.K. Satheesh, S. Suresh Babu, C.B.S. Dutt, Integrated Campaign for Aerosols, gases and Radiation Budget (ICARB): An Overview, Journal of Earth System Science, 117, S1, 243-262, 2008.

22. S. Suresh Babu, S. K. Satheesh, K. Krishna Moorthy, C. B. S. Dutt, Vijayakumar S Nair, Denny P Alappattu and P K Kunhikrishnan, Aircraft Measurements of Aerosol Black carbon from a coastal location in the north-east part of peninsular India during ICARB, Journal of Earth System Science, 117, S1, 263-271, 2008.

23. Vijayakumar S Nair, K Krishna Moorthy, S Suresh Babu, K Narasimhulu, Siva Sankara Reddy, R Ramakrishna Reddy, K Rama Gopal, V Sreekant, B L Madhavan, and K Niranjan, Size segregated aerosol mass concentration measurements over the Arabian Sea during ICARB, Journal of Earth System Science, 117, S1, 2315-323, 2008.

24. L A K Reddy, U C Kulshrestha, J Satyanarayana, Monika J Kulshrestha and K Krishna Moorthy, Chemical Characteristics of PM10 Aerosols and Air-Mass Trajectories over Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea during ICARB, Journal of Earth System Science, 117, S1, 345-352, 291, 2008.

25. Marina Aloysius, Mannil Mohan, S. Suresh Babu, Vijayakumar S Nair, K. Parameswaran and K. Krishna Moorthy, Influence of circulation parameters on the AOD variations over the Bay of Bengal during ICARB, Journal of Earth System Science, 117, S1, 2353-360, 2008.

26. Ashwini Kumar, A. K. Sudheer and M. M. Sarin, Chemical characteristics of aerosols in MABL of Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea during spring inter monsoon: Acomparitive study, Journal of Earth System Science, 117, S1, 325-332, 2008.

27. Susan K George and Prabha R Nair, Aerosol mass loading over the marine environment of Arabian sea during ICARB: Sea salt and non-sea salt components, Journal of Earth System Science, 117, S1, 333-344, 2008

28. V. Vinoj, S.K. Satheesh and K. Krishna Moorthy, Aerosol Characteristics at a Remote Island: Minicoy in Southern Arabian Sea, Journal of Earth System Science, 117, S1, 389-397, 2008.

29. A S Panicker et al., Observations of enhanced aerosol longwave radiative forcing over an urban environment,

30. S Naseema Beegum et al., Spatial distribution of aerosol black carbon over India during pre-monsoon season, Atmospheric Environment 43, 1071–1078, 2009.

31. S Verma et al., Origin of surface and columnar Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX) aerosols using source - and region-tagged emissions transport in a general circulation model

32. Sumita Kedia and S.Ramachandran, Latitudinal and longitudinal variatiion in aerosol characteristics from Sun photometer and MODIS over the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea during ICARB, Journal of Earth System Science, 117, S1, 375-388, 2008

33. KVS Badarinath et al., Studies on aerosol properties during ICARB-2006 campaign period at Hyderabad, India using ground-based measurements and satellite data, Journal of Earth System Science, 117, S1, 413-420, 2008

34. A. K. Mishra, V. K. Dadhwal and C. B. S. Dutt, Analysis of marine aerosol optical depth retrieved from IRS-P4 OCM sensor and comparison with the aerosol derived from SeaWiFs and MODIS sensor, Journal of Earth System Science, 117, S1, 361-374, 2008.

35. KVS Badarinath et al., Influence of natural and anthropogenic activities on UV Index variations - a study over tropical urban region using ground based observations and satellite data

36. P. Murugavel, V. Gopalakrishnan, Vimlesh Pant and A. K. Kamra, Airborne measurements of submicron aerosols across the coastline at Bhubeneswar during ICARB, Journal of Earth System Science, 117, S1, 273-280, 2008.

37. D. P. Alappattu et al., On the marine atmospheric boundary layer charecteristics over Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea during the Integrated Campaign for Aerosols, gases and Radiation Budget (ICARB), Journal of Earth System Science, 117, S1, 281-292, 2008

38. KVS Badarinath et al., Variation in aerosol properties over Hyderabad, India during intense cyclonic conditions,

39. K Niranjan et al., Temporal characteristics of aerosol physical properties at Visakhapatnam on the east coast of India during ICARB - Signatures of transport onto Bay of Bengal, Journal of Earth System Science, 117, S1, 421-427, 2008.

40. Denny P. Alappattu,D. Bala Subrahamanyam,P. K. Kunhikrishnan,Radhika Ramachandran,K. M. Somayaji,R. Venkatesh, G. S. Bhat, A. Bhagavath Singh, Spatio-temporal Variability of Surface-layer Turbulent Fluxes Over the Bay of Bengal and Arabian sea During the ICARB Field Experiment, Boundary-Layer Meteorol ,126:297–309, DOI 10.1007/s10546-007-9233-2,2008.


Publications 2007


1. Abish. B, K. Krishna Moorthy, and S. Suresh Babu, Aerosol Black Carbon over a tropical coastal location: response to mesoscale and synoptic scale processes J. Mar. Atmos. Res. 3, 118-126, 2007

2. S. K. Satheesh andK. Krishna Moorthy. Multi-angle polarization imager: A satellite sensor for studies of continental aerosols, Curr. Sci, 92, (2), 174-176, 2007

3. K. Krishna Moorthy, S. S. Babu, K. V. S. Badarinath, S. V. Sunilkumar, T. R. Kiranchand, and Y. N. Ahmed, Latitudinal distribution of aerosol black carbon and its mass fraction to composite aerosols over peninsular India during winter season, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L08802, doi:10.1029/2006GL029150, 2007.

4. S. Sajani, S. Naseema Beegum and K. Krishna Moorthy, The role of intraseasonal oscillations in the evolution of Indian summer monsoon, J.Mar. Atmos. Res., 3, 26-38, 2007.

5. S Sajani, S Naseema Beegum and K Krishna Moorthy, The role of low-frequency intraseasonal oscillations in the anomalous Indian summer monsoon rainfall of 2002, J. Earth Sys. Sci., 116, 1-9, 2007.

6. M. M. Gogoi, P. K. Bhuyan, K. Krishna Moorthy, Possible impact of a major oil-well fire on aerosol optical depth at Dibrugarh, Curr. Sci., 92, NO. 8,1047-1049, 2007

7. K. Krishna Moorthy, S. S. Babu, S. K. Satheesh, J. Srinivasan, and C. B. S. Dutt, Dust absorption over the “Great Indian Desert” inferred using ground-based and satellite remote sensing, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D09206, doi:10.1029/2006JD007690, 2007

8. V. Vinoj, Anjit Anjan, M. Sudhakar, S. K. Satheesh, J. Srinivasan, and K. Krishna Moorthy, Latitudinal variation of aerosol optical depths from northern Arabian Sea to Antarctica, Geophys. Res.Lett, 34, L10807, doi:10.1029/2007GL029419, 2007

9. Nair, V. S., K. Krishna Moorthy, D P. Alappattu, P. K. Kunhikrishnan, S George, P R. Nair, S. S Babu, B. Abish, S. K. Satheesh, S N Tripathi, K. Niranjan, B. L. Madhavan, V. Srikant, CBS Dutt, K. V. S. Badarinath, and R. R Reddy, Wintertime aerosol character istics over the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP): Impacts of local boundary layer processes and long-range transport, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D13205, doi:10.1029/2006JD008099, 2007

10. Tripathi, S.N., A K. Srivastava, S Dey, S.K. Satheesh, K. Krishna Moorthy, The vertical profile of atmospheric heating rate of black carbon aerosols at Kanpur in northern India, Atmos. Environ. 41, 6909–6915, 2007

11. K. Niranjan, V. Sreekanth, B. L. Madhavan, and K. Krishna Moorthy, Aerosol physical properties and Radiative forcing at the outflow region from the Indo-Gangetic plains during typical clear and hazy periods of wintertime Geophys. Res. Lett, 34, L19805, doi:10.1029/2007GL031224, 2007

12. K. Krishna Moorthy, S. Suresh Babu, and S. K. Satheesh Temporal heterogeneity in aerosol characteristics and the resulting radiative impact at a tropical coastal station – Part 1: Microphysical and optical properties, Ann. Geophys., 25, 2293–2308, 2007.

13. S. Suresh Babu, K. Krishna Moorthy, and S. K. Satheesh Temporal heterogeneity in aerosol characteristics and the resulting radiative impacts at a tropical coastal station – Part 2: Direct short wave radiative forcing, Ann. Geophys., 25, 2309–2320, 2007

14. KVS Badarinath et al., Case study of a dust storm over Hyderabad area, India: Its impact on solar radiation using satellite data and ground measurements, Science of The Total Environment, Volume 384, Issues 1-3, 316-332,2007.

15. KVS Badarinath et al., Influence of atmospheric aerosols on solar spectral irradiance in an urban area, J. Atmos.Sol. Terr. Phys. 69, 589–599, 2007.

16. Dey, S., and S. N. Tripathi , Estimation of aerosol optical properties and radiative effects in the Ganga basin, northern India, during the wintertime, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D03203, doi:10.1029/2006JD007267,2007.

17. KVS Badarinath et al., Multiyear ground-based and satellite observations of aerosol properties over a tropical urban area in India, Atmospheric Science Letters, Volume 8, Issue 1, pages 7–13, 2007

18. KVS Badarinath et al., Variations in black carbon aerosol, carbon monoxide and ozone over an urban area of Hyderabad, India, during the forest fire season,Atmos. Res., 85, 18-26, 2007.

19. V. Sreekanth, K. Niranjan, and B. L. Madhavan, Radiative forcing of black carbon over eastern India, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L17818, doi:10.1029/2007GL030377, 2007

20. K. Niranjan, B. L. Madhavan, and V. Sreekanth, Micro pulse lidar observation of high altitude aerosol layers at Visakhapatnam located on the east coast of India, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L03815, doi:10.1029/2006GL028199, 2007

21. Hegde, P., P. Pant, M. Naja, U. C. Dumka, and R. Sagar, South Asian dust episode in June 2006: Aerosol observations in the central Himalayas, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L23802, doi:10.1029/2007GL030692, 2007.

22. Pandithurai, G., R. T. Pinker, P. C. S. Devara, T. Takamura, and K. K. Dani (2007), Seasonal asymmetry in diurnal variation of aerosol optical characteristics over Pune, western India, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D08208, doi:10.1029/2006JD007803.

23. PD Safai et al., Seasonal variation of black carbon aerosols over a tropical urban city of Pune, India,Atmospheric Environment , Volume 41, Issue 13, 2699-2709, 2007.

24. Sajani S., S. Naseema Beegum, and K. Krishna Moorthy, Indian summer monsoon rainfall simulation by an AGCM ensemble system. J. Mar. Atmos. Sci., 3 (1), 1—9, 2007.

25. S. Ramachandran, Aerosol optical depth and fine mode fraction variations deduced from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) over four urban areas in India; Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, D12607, doi:10.1029/2007JD008500, 2007

26. S. Verma, C. Venkataraman, O. Boucher and S. Ramachandran, Source evaluation of aerosols measured during the Indian Ocean Experiment using combined chemical transport and back trajectory modelling Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, D11210, doi:10.1029/2006JD007698, 2007

27. S.Ramachandran and T.A. Rajesh, Black carbon aerosol mass concentrations over Ahmedabad, an urban location in western India: Comparison with urban sites in Asia, Europe, Canada, and the United States, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, D06211, doi:10.1029/2006JD007488, 2007 .


Publications 2006


1. S. K. Satheesh, K. Krishna Moorthy, Y. J. Kaufman, and T. Takemura Aerosol optical depth, physical properties and radiative forcing over the Arabian Sea, Meteorol. Atmos. Phys., 91, (1-4), 45-62, Jan 2006.

2. S.K. Satheesh, J. Srinivasan, K. Krishna Moorthy, Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity in Aerosol Properties and Radiative Forcing over Bay of Bengal: Sources and Role of Aerosol Transport" J. Geophys. Res. 111, D08202, doi:10.1029/2005JD006374, 2006.

3. H B. Menon, A A. Lotliker, K. Krishna Moorthy and S R. Nayak, Variability of remote sensing reflectance and implications for optical remote sensing—A study along the eastern and northeastern waters of Arabian Sea, Geophys. Res. Lett.,33, L15602, doi:10.1029/2006GL026026, 2006

4. P Pant, P. Hegde, UC Dumka, R Sagar, SK Satheesh, and K. Krishna Moorthy, Aerosol Characteristics at a High Altitude Location in Central Himalayas: Optical Properties and Radiative Forcing, J. Geophys. Res, 111, No. D17, D17206, 10.1029/2005JD006768, 2006

5. K. Krishna Moorthy, and S Suresh Babu,Aerosol Black Carbon over Bay of Bengal, Observed from an island location, Port Blair: Temporal features and long-range transport, J. Geophys. Res111, No. D17, D17205, 10.1029/2005JD006855, 2006.

6. U. C. Dumka, S. K. Satheesh, P. Pant, P. Hegde, and K. Krishna Moorthy, Surface changes in solar irradiance due to aerosols over central Himalayas, Geophys. Res. Lett.,33, L20809, doi:10.1029/2006GL027814, 2006

7. S. K. Satheesh, V. Vinoj, and K. Krishna Moorthy, Vertical distribution of aerosols over an urban continental site in India inferred using a micro pulse lidar, Geophys. Res. Lett.,33, L20816, doi:10.1029/2006GL027729, 2006.

8. K. Niranjan, V. Sreekanth, B. L. Madhavan, and K. Krishna Moorthy, Wintertime aerosol characteristics at a north Indian site Kharagpur in the Indo-Gangetic plains located at the outflow region into Bay of Bengal, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D24209, doi:10.1029/ 2006JD007635, 2006

9. K. Krishna Moorthy, S.K. Satheesh, S. Suresh Babu ICARB – An Integrated Campaign for Aerosols, gases and Radiation Budget over India, invited paper, Proc. SPIE, 6408, 64080P-1,7, 0277-786X/06/$15 • doi: 10.1117/12.696110, 2006

10. S. Suresh Babu, K. Krishna Moorthy, and S. K. Satheesh Temporal heterogeneity in aerosol characteristics at a tropical coastal station and the resulting radiative impacts, Proc. SPIE, 6408, 640813 –1,10, 0277-786X/06/$15 • doi: 10.1117/12.696113, 2006.

11. Vijayakumar S. Nair, Denny P. Alappattu, S. Suresh Babu, P. K. Kunhikrishnan and K. Krishna Moorthy, Wintertime Characteristics of Aerosol Black Carbon at a North-Indian Station: Role of Boundary Layer Processes, Proc. SPIE, 6408, 64080T-1, 9, 0277-786X/06/$15 • doi: 10.1117/12.696114, 2006

12. S. K. Satheesh et al., Dust aerosols over India and adjacent continents retrieved using METEOSAT infrared radiance Part I : Sources and regional distribution, Ann. Geophysicae, 24 (1): 37-61, 2006.

13. S. K. Satheesh et al., A Method to Estimate Aerosol Radiative Forcing from Spectral Optical Depths, J. Atmos. Sci., 63 (3): 1082-1092, 2006.

14. S. K. Satheesh et al., Large dust absorption of Infrared Radiation over Afro-Asian Regions: Evidence for Anthropogenic Impact, IEEE Geosci. Rem. Sens. Lett., 111, D08202, doi: 10.1029/2005JD006374, 2006.

15. P. R. Nair et al., Chemical composition of aerosol over Peninsular India during winter, Atmospheric Environment, Volume 40, Issue 34, 6477-6493, 2006.

16. S. K. Satheesh et al., Impact of dust aerosols on Earth-atmosphere clear-sky albedo and its short wave radiative forcing over African and Arabian regions, International J. Rem. Sens., 27, No. 8, 1691-1706, 2006.

17. S.K. Satheesh, J. Srinivasan, K. Krishna Moorthy, Contribution of Sea-Salt to Aerosol Optical Depth over the Arabian Sea derived from MODIS Observations, Geophys. Res. Lett.,33, L03809, doi:10.1029/2005GL024856, 2006.

18. S. K. Satheesh et al., New Directions: How representative are aerosol radiative impact assessments? Atmospheric Environment, 40, 3008-3010, 2006.

19. S. N. Tripathi et al., Measurements of atmospheric parameters during Indian Space Research Organisation Geosphere Biosphere Program Land Campaign II at a typical location in the GangaBasin: 1 Physical and optical properties, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D23209, doi:10.1029/2006JD007278,2006.

20. V. Tare et al., Measurements of atmospheric parameters during Indian Space Research Organisation Geosphere Biosphere Program Land Campaign II at a typical location in the GangaBasin: 2 Chemical properties, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D23210, doi: 10.1029/2006JD007279, 2006.

21. S. Ramachandran et al., Aerosol radiative forcing during clear, hazy, and foggy conditions over a continental polluted location in north India, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D20214, doi:10.1029/2006JD007142, 2006.

22. S. K. Satheesh et al., Dust aerosols over India and adjacent continents retrieved using METEOSAT infrared radiance Part II: Quantification of wind dependence and estimation of radiative forcing, Ann. Geophysicae, 24 (1): 63-79, 2006.

23. M. K. Srivastava et al., Direct solar ultraviolet irradiance over Nainital, India, in the Central Himalayas for clear-sky day conditions during December 2004,J. Geophys. Res., 111, D08201, doi:10.1029/2005JD006141,2006.

24. P. Pant et al., Aerosol characteristics at a high-altitude location during ISRO-GBP Land Campaign-II, Current Science 91: 1053-1061, 2006.