ATMOS
Atmospheric and Climate Science Lab.
SURAJIT MURASINGH
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15CL91R01
smurasingh.@.gmail.com
Impact of clmate change and Land use/land cover change on water resources.
EDUCATION
. M.Tech Water Resource (2012-2014), NIT Rourkela
. B.Tech Agril.Engg. (2008-2012), CAU Imphal
TECHNICAL SKILLS (Tools / OS/ Programming languages)
MS Excel
Windows and Linux
Python
INTERNSHIPS AND WORKSHOPS
SWAT workshops at IIT Madras
INSTRUMENT AND SOFTWARE SKILLS
1. Instruments:- GPS, Soil resistivity meter, A-O-Size Scanner, A-O-Size Plotter, Current meter, Automatic Raingauge
2. Software:- ArcGIS 10.1, Erdas Imagine 2016, Ilwis 3.3, Modflow, Surfer 6,
Mike Flood & Mike Basin, Google Earth Engine.
3. Datasets:- IMD data, CMIP5 data, CWC data, CGWB data
ACHIEVEMENTS
• DAAD scholarship
• MHRD Scholarship
• NEC Scholarship
• State Merit Scholarship
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1. Assistant in the project under Coordinate Asia-European long-term Observing of Qinghai Tibet Plateau hydro-meteorological processes and the Asian-monsoon system with Ground satellite Image data and numerical Simulations (CEOP-AEGIS) project, 4th January 2013- 31st May 2014.
2. Worked as a Project Assistant in RSE Project at IIT Kharagpur, 2014 - 2015
Climate change and watershed
Understanding the negative impacts of climate change on water resource and also evaluation of various adaptation measures considering the technical and social aspects for Indian condition.
Objectives
To assess the regional climate (long-term) for the whole northeast region.
To setup hydrological model SWAT to quantify hydrological fluxes for the study area.
To develop a hydro-climatological model for climate change impact analysis using SWAT and future climate scenarios.
To develop future LULC scenarios and assessment of their impacts on water resources.
Societal Importance
• For achieving sustainable crop production in order to meet the food grain demand of growing population, along with freshwater resource management.
• For better planning framework on river basin management, with the real world problems and utmost accuracy.
JOURNAL PAPERS
• Murasingh, S., Kuttippurath, J., Sandeep Dash, S., Raj, S., Remesan, R., Jha, M. K., & Kumar, P. (2022). Long-term trends and projections of hydrological fluxes under RCP climate change scenarios for a mountainous river catchment of northeast India. Journal of Water and Climate Change.
• Murasingh, S., Kuttippurath, J., Raj, S., Jha, M. K., Varikoden, H., & Debnath, S. (2022). Trends and Variability of Rainfall in Tripura State of India in 1986–2019 and Key Drivers. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 1-16.
• Murasingh, S., & Adamala, S. (2021). Covid-19 pandemic and its connection with water: A scoping review. Indian Journal of Ecology, 48(spl), 34-38.
• Kuttippurath, J., Murasingh, S., Stott, P. A., Sarojini, B. B., Jha, M. K., Kumar, P., ... & Pandey, P. C. (2020). Observed rainfall changes in the past century (1901–2019) over the wettest place on the Earth. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abcf78
• Murasingh, Surajit., Jha, Ramakar and Adamala, Sirisha. (2018). Geospatial Technique for Delineation of Groundwater Potential Zones in Mine and Dense Forest Area Using Weighted Index Overlay Technique, Groundwater for Sustainable Development, doi.org/10.1016/j.gsd.2017.12.001.
• Wable, P. S., Jha, M. K., and Murasingh, S. (2017). Evaluation of groundwater resources for sustainable groundwater development in a semiarid river basin of India. Environmental Earth Sciences, 76(17), 601.
BOOK CHAPTERS
• In book: Renewable Energy Sources and their Application, Chapter: 31, Publisher: AGROBIOS (International), AGROBIOS-Jodhpur, Editors: R.K. Behl, R.N. Chhibar, S. Jain, V.P. Bahl, N. El Bassam, pp.290-296.
BOOK CHAPTERS
• In book: Renewable Energy Sources and their Application, Chapter: 31, Publisher: AGROBIOS (International), AGROBIOS-Jodhpur, Editors: R.K. Behl, R.N. Chhibar, S. Jain, V.P. Bahl, N. El Bassam, pp.290-296.
BOOK CHAPTERS
• In book: Renewable Energy Sources and their Application, Chapter: 31, Publisher: AGROBIOS (International), AGROBIOS-Jodhpur, Editors: R.K. Behl, R.N. Chhibar, S. Jain, V.P. Bahl, N. El Bassam, pp.290-296.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
• Murasingh, Surajit and Jha, Ramakar. (2013). Identification of groundwater potential zones using remote sensing and GIS in a mine area of Odisha. Oral presented in National Seminar on RECENT APPROACHES TO WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 9th-10th December 2013, ISM Dhanbad, India.
• Murasingh, S., Wable, P.S. and Jha, M.K. (2015). Groundwater scenario in South Tripura district of northeast India. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Hydraulics,Water Resources and River Engineering (HYDRO-2015 International), 17-19 December 2015, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India, pp.1-8.
• Murasingh, S., Jha, M.K., Dash, S.S. and Kuttippurath, J., (2018), Evaluation of daily and monthly streamflow simulation for a hilly watershed of North-East India, Abstract H43E-2617 presented at 2018 Fall Meeting, AGU, Washington, D.C., 10-14 Dec.
SARATH
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TECHNICAL SKILLS (Tools / OS/ Programming languages)
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SANHITA GHOSH
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17AT91P02
sanhitaghosh027.@.gmail.com
Aerosol emissions over India and their impact on climate.
EDUCATION
. M.Tech in Remote sensing and GIS (2013-15), CGPA: 9.3,
. Civil Engineering, SRM University, Tamil Nadu.
TECHNICAL SKILLS (Tools / OS/ Programming languages)
Arc-GIS, Meteoinfo, Python, R (programming language)
INTERNSHIPS AND WORKSHOPS
Two months (May-June, 2014) internship at National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, Uttarakhand.
INSTRUMENT AND SOFTWARE SKILLS
High volume sampler, GRIMM, Aethalometer, CHIMERE (chemical transport model)
ACHIEVEMENTS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Worked as project fellow for UGC sponsored research project entitled “Indoor air
pollution and associated disease from unprocessed biofuels and possible remedial
measures in rural villages of West Bengal, India”, Ref. No. 42-434/2013 (SR) dated
12.03.2013, Department of Environmental Science, The University of Burdwan, West
Bengal.
Working as resaerch fellow at IIT Kharagpur in the National Carbonaceous Aerosol
Programme– Carbonaceous Aerosol Emissions, Source Apportionment and Climate
impacts (NCAP–COALESCE) from the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate
Change (14/10/2014-CC (Vo.II)), Govt. of India, since 11 th Nov, 2016.
I am working on modelling of atmospheric aerosol properties and the impact of aerosols on climate change.
Objectives
PhD Thesis Title:
Radiative perturbation and health impact due to black carbon aerosols over the Indian subcontinent
Objectives:
1. Estimation of spatially and temporally resolved constrained emissions of BC, OM and SO2 over the Indian region with a strategic integrated modelling approach.
2. Evaluation of wintertime radiative perturbation due to BC aerosols over the IGP as modelled with new BC emission inventories in a chemical transport model.
3. Evaluating the inter-seasonal spatial changes in the atmospheric BC burden and radiative perturbation over India.
4. Estimating the BC health impact in the IGP: Exposures, risks, and mitigation.
Societal Importance
My research works are focused on improvement of emission database over Indian domain, estimation of direct radiative effect and health impact due to BC during winter. I also developed a sustainable mitigation plan to reduce the BC emission.
1. PEER-REVIEWED INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS:
1) Ghosh, S., Verma, S., Jayanarayanan, K. and Menut, L., 2021, Wintertime direct radiative effects due to black carbon (BC) over Indo- Gangetic Plain as modelled with new BC emission inventories in CHIMERE, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (IF: 7.3), 21, pp. 7671–7694, DOI: 10.5194/acp-21-7671-2021.
2) Ghosh, S., Verma, S., (2022), Estimatesofspatiallyandtemporallyresolvedconstrained organicmatterandsulfurdioxideemissionsovertheIndian regionthroughthestrategicsourceconstraintsmodelling, Atmospheric Research (IF: 5.369), manuscript no. ATMOSRES-D-22-01232 (accepted).
3) Verma, S., Ghosh, S., Boucher, O., Wang, R. and Menut, L., 2022, Black carbon health impacts in the Indo-Gangetic plain: Exposures, risks, and mitigation, Science Advances (IF: 14.14), 8 (31), eabo4093, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abo4093.
4) Verma, S., Reddy, D. M., Ghosh, S., Bharath Kumar, D., Kundu Chowdhury, A., 2017, Estimates of spatially and temporally resolved constrained black carbon emission over the Indian region using a strategic integrated modeling approach, Atmospheric Research (IF: 5.369), 195, pp. 9-19, DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2017.05.007.
5) Dumka, U. C., Kaskaoutis, D. G., Verma, S., Ningombam, S. S., Kumar, S. and Ghosh, S., 2021, Silver linings in the dark clouds of COVID-19: Improvement of air quality over India and Delhi metropolitan area from measurements and WRF-CHIMERE model simulations, Atmospheric PollutionResearch (IF: 4.22), 12, pp. 225-242, DOI: 10.1016/j.apr.2020.11.005.
2. PUBLISHED DATA:
1) Verma, S., Boucher, O., Ghosh, S., Bharath Kumar, D., 2018, Dataset of premonsoon aerosol species optical depth and concentration estimated from constrained simulation approach over the Indian subcontinent, Data in Brief, DOI: 10.17632/3f27kndz44.1
1. LIST OF PUBLICATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:
1) Ghosh, S., Verma, S. and Ray, R., 2022, Modelling of inter-seasonal atmospheric radiative perturbation due to black carbon (BC) over India, in a chemical transport model (CHIMERE), with observation-constrained BC emission, International Conference on Environmental Science and Engineering-ICESE (virtual), 2022, Abstract ID: A22 (awarded for best oral presentation).
2) Ghosh, S., Verma, S., Kuttippurath, J. and Menut, L., 2020, Wintertime Radiative Effects Due to Black Carbon (BC) Over Indo-Gangetic Plain as Modeled With Recently Estimated BC Emission Inventories in CHIMERE, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (virtual), 2020, Abstract ID: A112-0003, bibcode: 2020AGUFMA112.0003G.
3) Verma, S., Ghosh, S., Boucher, O. Wang, R. and Menut, L., 2020, Black carbon pollution attributed sanitary impacts and targeting sustainable emission reduction for health-benefits over the South Asia Indo-Gangetic Plain, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (virtual), 2020, Abstract ID: A111-0008, bibcode: 2020AGUFMA111.0008V.
4) Ghosh, S., Verma, S. and Kuttippurath, J., 2020, Evaluation of emission strength efficacy in simulating black carbon burden with CHIMERE: estimating wintertime radiative effect over Indo-Gangetic Plain, EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 48 May 2020, EGU2020-17436, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-17436.
5) Ghosh, S., Verma, s. and Kuttippurath, J., 2020, Potential of simulated black carbon burden to the emission strength efficacy over Indo-Gangetic Plain region in chemical transport model: wintertime radiative perturbation, 17th annual meeting of Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS)-2020, Hongcheon, 28 June-4 July, Abstract ID: A27-A008 (accepted for poster presentation).
6) Ghosh, S., and Verma, S., 2020, Estimation of source segregated constrained emission of aerosol species (organic matter and SO2) over India with integrated modeling approach, 17th annual meeting of Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS)-2020, Hongcheon, 28 June-4 July, Abstract ID: AS66-A022 (accepted for poster presentation).
7) Ghosh, S., Verma, s. and Kuttippurath, J., 2020, Evaluation of black carbon atmospheric burden over the Indo-Gangetic Plain with CHIMERE: estimation of wintertime radiative perturbation, International Conference on Challenges of Air Quality in Global Megacities (CAGMe), Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, 23-27 March (accepted for poster presentation).
8) Ghosh, S. and Verma, S., 2019, Evaluating the potential of simulated atmospheric black carbon (BC) burden and radiative perturbations over the Indo-Gangetic Plain, to the emission strength efficacy using a highresolution chemical transport model (CHIMERE), American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2019, A51S-2900.
9) S. Verma, Ghosh, S., Boucher, O. and Wang, R., 2019, Impact of Improved Constrained Black Carbon (BC) Emissions and Fine Grid Resolved BC Aerosol Transport Simulated in a Chemical Transport Model (CHIMERE) over the Indo-Gangetic Plain: Implications to Population Exposure, Risks and Mitigation, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2019, A23Q–2936.
2 LIST OF PULICATIONS IN NATIONAL PROCEEDINGS AND BULLETINS:
1) Ghosh, S., Verma, S., Ray, R., Dubey, K., Seasonal variation in Black Carbon burden simulated with WRF-CHIMERE model over Indian subcontinent, Proceedings of the Indian Aerosol Science and Technology Association (IASTA), 2018, 412-415.
2) Ghosh, S., Verma, S., Ray, R., Potential of simulated atmospheric Black Carbon (BC) burden and its radiative response to the emission strength efficacy over the indian region in a chemical transport model (CHIMERE), Proceedings of the Indian Aerosol Science and Technology Association (IASTA), 2018, 416-419.
3) Reddy, D.M., Verma, S., Samal, B., Ghosh, S., Spatially and temporally resolved gridded restrained black carbon emission over Indian region in a strategic integrated modeling approach, Bulletin of the Indian Aerosol Science and Technology Association (IASTA), 2016, 22 (12), 637-639.
RAINA ROY
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rainaroy2105.@.gmail.com
Atmospheric Chemistry and Climatic Interactions
EDUCATION
. MSc Oceanography (CUSAT) ongoing
. Bsc Physics (2016-2019),CGPA :9.0 Stella Maris College.
TECHNICAL SKILLS (Tools / OS/ Programming languages)
Python, Ferret, MATLAB, Fortran, Linux, Windows
INTERNSHIPS AND WORKSHOPS
Interned as payload strategist at Agnikul Cosmos Pvt ltd
Visualization of Marine Met data(using Ferret) conducted by International training Center for Operational Oceanography(ITCOocean) ESSO-INCOIS, Hyderabad, India.
International Conference on Frontiers in Marine Science Challenges and Prospects, Maricon 2019.
SMART Online Training Program on Basics of Satellite Metereology 2020, Conducted by SAC, ISRO Ahmedabad.
INSTRUMENT AND SOFTWARE SKILLS
Analyzed MERRA EPV data, NCEP Reanalysis Geopolitical height data.
ACHIEVEMENTS
Best Outgoing Student Physics department Stella Maris College
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
NA
Sudden Stratospheric Warming in the Arctic and the Antarctic
Sudden Stratospheric Warming (SSW) is the phenomenon of rapid rise in temperature in the stratosphere for a few days time. The SSW is the result of the planetary wave interactions on the polar vortex that weakens the vortex and eventually giving rise to a vortex split or a displacement of the vortex to mid latitudes. There are two major types of SSW, a major warming and minor warming. Major warming events are distingushed by the reversal of the westerly winds. The weaker nature of the Arctic vortex in comparison to Antarctic makes Arctic more vulnerbale to SSW events.
The SSWs are studied from the changes in the meteorology of the winters and the changes in the potential vorticity (PV). The vortex splits and displacements are identified using the PV maps. Apart from these the SSW events became significant in the polar latitudes due to its direct impact on the changes in ozone depletion cycles. The ozone loss amount in the years corresponding to both major and minor warming were significantly lower than the cold winters.
Objectives
• Study the trends of SSW in both the hemispheres and offer a comparison.
• Analyse the resulting ozone loss in those particular winters.
• Assessment of the consequential impacts of the warming in upper atmosphere and the lower troposphere.
Societal Importance
• SSW influences the surface weather, resulting in cold outbursts in the North American region and warming in other regions and several other changes.
• The co-influence of SSW on the ozone loss cycle is important in the global perspective.
• Kuttippurath,J., W. Feng, R. Müller, P. Kumar, S. Raj, G S Gopikrishnan, R. Roy (2021) : Artic on the verge of an ozone hole?, Atmos. Chem. Phy., https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2020-1313
CONFERENCE PAPERS
• Roy, R and Kuttippurath, J.: The Sudden Stratospheric Warmings in the Arctic winters 2010/2011–2020/2021, International Symposium on Tropical Meteorology (INTROMET), November 23-26, 2021.
• Roy, R., Kuttippurath, J., D. Ardra., P. Kumar., S. Raj.: Polar processing and Chemical ozone loss in the Exceptional Arctic winters of 2011 and 2020, 7th National Conference of the Ocean Society of India (OSICON-21), August 12-14, 2021.
• Roy, R., Kuttippurath, J., F. Lefèvre., S. Raj., P. Kumar.: The Sudden Stratospheric Warming and polar processing of the Antarctic winter 2019: Comparison with the winters of 1988 and 2002, Quadrennial Ozone Symposium (QOS), October 03-09, 2021.
PANKAJ KUMAR
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17CL91R07
pankaj.kmr1990.@.gmail.com
Ozone and Climate
EDUCATION
. Master of Technology, Earth System Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IN), GPA: 9.19/10, 2015-2017.
. Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra (IN), GPA: 7.59/10, 2008-2012.
TECHNICAL SKILLS (Tools / OS/ Programming languages)
Matplotlib, Seaborn, Arviz, Basemap, Cartopy, Folium, D3.js, leaflet.js,
Linux (Ubuntu), Windows and Mac
Programming languages: Python, MATLAB, JavaScript, Fortran
INTERNSHIPS AND WORKSHOPS
1. Training at HAL Engine Division, Banglore (2011)
2. CFD simulation of natural convection in Bingham fluids with Gambit and Fluent (2012)
INSTRUMENT AND SOFTWARE SKILLS
1. Data Analytics: Bayesian inference, Machine Learning, Causal analysis
2. Physical Modeling: HYSPLIT, RRTMG, WRF, GEOS-Chem, climlab
3. Markup Languages: LATEX, Markdown, HTML/CSS/JS
ACHIEVEMENTS
Received full funding for attending European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly held in Vienna, Austria during April 2017
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Officer, Tata Yodogawa (Tayo) Rolls Ltd., 2013-14.
Tropospheric Ozone In Antarctica
With severe impacts on human health and agricultural output (crop damage in India upto 3.5 million tonnes a year, tropospheric ozone is a prominent air pollutant and greenhouse gas in spite of being only 10% of total column amount.
However, Ozone is not only a greenhouse gas and biological irritant but also an atmospheric cleansing agent which rids the atmosphere off hazardous gases through production of hydroxyl radicals and is beneficial if it is present in the stratosphere in abundant amount as it prevents harmful sun rays from penetrating through the troposphere to the Earth’s surface. Ozone exerts considerable radiative forcing too with recent estimate being 360 mW/m2 which is 25% of the same exerted by CO2.
Climate variabilities ranging from interannual to decadal scales like El Niño and the Southern Oscillation (ENSO), Pacific–North American teleconnection (PNA), North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), Antarctic Oscillation (AAO), Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) etc. has been reported to influence the tropospheric ozone at remote locations.
Despite of having tremendous climatic, agricultural, compositional and health repercussions, variability of ozone (tropospheric in particular) vis-a-vis circulation changes (due to climate change and stratospheric ozone hole recovery) is still poorly understood.
Given this background, it is imperative to ask the following relevant questions:
o How is the ozone in the Antarctic distributed both vertically and spatially?
o Is the ozone hole in the stratosphere healing? If yes, how confident are we about our analysis showing the recovery trends?
o Is there any evidence of recovery in atmospheric layers which experience near complete destruction of ozone i.e. ozone loss saturation layers?
o How is the recovery affecting the tropospheric ozone trends?
o How do O3 profiles cluster for various regions, each of which are known to exhibit differing O 3 distributions?
o What are the links among the O3 profile clusters, meteorology, and chemistry, and how do they depend on latitude or region?
o How do the ozone recovery in the stratosphere and trends in tropospheric ozone affect the surface climate in the Antarctic and how is it correlated with the increasing greenhouse gases?
I’ll be using state of the art Physical models and Causal Discovery and Inference methods based on Artificial Intelligence to answer these questions.
Objectives
• Evaluation of ozone recovery in Antarctic loss saturation layer.
• Investigation of the tropospheric ozone trends and their climatic implications.
• Examination of the spatial heterogeneity in Antarctic ozone distribution using Artificial Intelligence (AI) based new methodology developed during the study
Societal Importance
• Tropospheric ozone is a greenhouse gas and an air pollutant having serious adverse effects on human health and agricultural production. Changes in tropospheric ozone in Antarctica would have a profound impact on the future climate.
• Tools developed during the study will be open sourced and can be used by others too.
PEER-REVIEWED
• Kuttippurath,J., W. Feng, R. Müller, P. Kumar, S. Raj, G S Gopikrishnan, R. Roy (2021) : Artic on the verge of an ozone hole?, Atmos. Chem. Phy., https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2020-1313
• J. Kuttippurath, S. Murasingh, P. A. Stott, B. Balan Sarojini, M. K. Jha, P. Kumar, P. J. Nair, H. Varikoden, S. Raj, P. A. Francis, and P. C. Pandey: Observed rainfall changes in the past century (1901–2019) over northeast India and the wettest place on the Earth, Environmental Research Letters, accepted.
• J. Kuttippurath, P. Kumar, P. J. Nair, P C Pandey: Emergence of ozone recovery evidenced by reduction in the occurrence of Antarctic ozone loss saturation, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2018 [link].
• J. Kuttippurath, P. Kumar, P. J. Nair, A. Chakraborty: Accuracy of satellite total column ozone measurements in polar vortex conditions: Comparison with ground-based observations in 1979-2013, Remote Sensing of Environment, 2018 [link].
CONFERENCE PAPERS
• Pankaj Kumar and Jayanarayanan Kuttippurath: Tropical teleconnection and climate impacts of tropospheric ozone variability in Antarctica, National Conference on Polar Sciences, Goa, August 2019.
• Jayanarayanan Kuttippurath and Pankaj Kumar: Polar Ozone and Climate Change, National Conference on Polar Sciences, Goa, August 2019
• Pankaj Kumar, Jayanarayanan Kuttippurath, Prijitha J. Nair, and Arun Chakroborty: Accuracy of Ground-based measurements in Polar Vortex conditions: Comparison to TOMS/OMI observations during 1979-2013, EGU General Assembly, Vienna, April 2017.
• Rohit Kumar Shukla, Chithra Shaji, Satya P Ojha, and Pankaj Kumar: A study on the seasonal variability of upwelling and its effects on physical parameters in Arabian Sea, EGU General Assembly, Vienna, April 2017.
KUMAR ABBHISHEK
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17CL91R04
kumar.abhi602.@.gmail.com
Carbon Sequestration
EDUCATION
M.Tech. in Agricultural systems and Management (2015-17), CGPA: 9.14, AgFE,IIT Kharagpur)
TECHNICAL SKILLS (Tools / OS/ Programming languages)
Origin, Sigmaplot
MS windows
R
INTERNSHIPS AND WORKSHOPS
1. TROPMET2020
2. BDCC 2018
INSTRUMENT AND SOFTWARE SKILLS
1. N management in field crops using precision agricultural tools like green seeker, SPAD chlorophyll meter
2. GC-MS
3. Spectrophotometer(UV/vis/IR/EDX)
4. Microscopy (Light/Electron)
5. DSSAT
6. DNDC
7. GENSTAT
8. OPSTAT
9. SIGMASTAT
10. APSIM
11. Infocrop
ACHIEVEMENTS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1.Bio Faculty and subject matter specialist at EROS classes, New Delhi.
2. On-board faculty, Trivium Education (P) Ltd.
3. Post graduate Research Associate, Maulana Azad Medical College and Hospital, New Delhi.
Carbon Sequestration
I work on sustainability science (environmental sustainability) with an emphasis on food and nutritional security in climate change context. My current affiliation is with Centre for Oceans, River, Atmosphere and land Sciences (CORAL), Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, as a doctoral candidate and working as a visiting scholar at ICRISAT Hyderabad. My research focuses on the comparative assessments of conventional and new flanged concepts to sequester carbon in soil and analysing its effect on soil carbon fractions, crop production, soil fertility and potential emissions arising from chemical fertilizer use in soil.
Soils are home to myriad micro-organisms that fix nitrogen and decompose organic matter, and armies of microscopic animals as well as earthworms and termites. My research integrates scientific principles from soil science, agronomy, biology, and chemistry to elucidate how soils provide essential ecosystem services. My research also provides an understanding of how soil properties relate to and can be managed for optimal agricultural production, and agro-waste disposal and management. I address nutrient management, sustainable agriculture, soil biogeochemical cycles and climate change.
We build on soil as well as with it and in it. Soil plays a vital role in the Earth's ecosystem. I also work on designing and production of biochar based on the need of soil. Being an agricultural systems researcher by training my focus is on agroecology and environmental footprints of agriculture. I have experience of working with crop simulation models on DSSAT platform and DNDC. Advances in watershed, natural resource, and environmental sciences have shown that soil is the foundation of basic ecosystem function. Soil filters our water, provides essential nutrients to our forests and crops, and helps regulate the Earth's temperature as well as many of the important greenhouse gases.
As our awareness of the value of natural and managed ecosystems services grows, new biodiversity, carbon, and water markets are emerging, such as the Chicago Climate Exchange, and the nutrient trading programs under the new executive order on the Protection and Restoration of the Chesapeake Bay. These markets place an economic value on management practices which increase those ecosystem services, producing goods that enhance human and environmental health.
Objectives
• Preparation, characterization and comparative evaluation of biochar with compost for soil nutrient dynamics
• Effect of biochar biofertilizer as compared to conventional organic and inorganic nutrient management in rice and maize
• Evaluation of residual effect of biochar and compost fertilizers on legume yield
Societal Importance
• To improve soil organic carbon and soil fertility for food security
• To promote use of agro-residues and avoid their wasteful burning
• Abbhishek, K., Chander, G., Dixit, S. Kuttippurath, J. et al. Legume Biochar Fertilizer Can Be an Efficient Alternative to Compost in Integrated Nutrient Management of Paddy (Oryza sativa L.). J Soil Sci Plant Nutr (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42729-021-00555-4
• J. Kuttippurath, A. Singh, S.P. Dash, N. Mallick, C. Clerbaux, M. Van Damme, L. Clarisse, P.-F. Coheur, S. Raj, K. Abbhishek, H. Varikoden, Record high levels of atmospheric ammonia over India: Spatial and temporal analyses, Science of The Total Environment, 2020, 139986, ISSN 0048-9697, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139986.
• A. Singh, J. Kuttippurath, K. Abbhishek, and N. Mallick, Seasonal and spatial variability of atmospheric methane and its connection to agriculture in India, Oral presentation ID─39, presented in TROPMET ─ 2019, at Andhra University, 11 ─ 14 Dec.
KRISHNAJA P B
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EDUCATION
. Master of Technology in Ocean Technology
Department of Physical Oceanography
School of Marine science Cochin University of Science And Technology , kerala (India)
Currently Doing(2020-2022)
. Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering
Government College of Engineering Thrissur, Kerala
April 2012-April 2016 Aggregate: 80%(Distinction with Honours)
TECHNICAL SKILLS (Tools / OS/ Programming languages)
Microsoft Office , AutoCAD, Fortran STAAD Pro, Matlab
INTERNSHIPS AND WORKSHOPS
Attended International Workshops on Coastal Information System -Management &Engineering (CISME – 2021) Sponsored by Central Water Commission (CWC), MoJS, DoWR, Govt. of. India
Attended Technical Lecture on Blue Economy-Role of weather ,Climate and Coastal Hazards By Dr.R.VENKATESAN
INSTRUMENT AND SOFTWARE SKILLS
ACHIEVEMENTS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED (Oct 2016- Oct 2020)
Position: System Engineer
● Worked with Emerging Technology like Aws cloud,Azure,Sql database etc
● Also have Experience in working with Unix based working system,worked as best team player
Objectives
Societal Importance
ARDRA
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Atmospheric Chemistry and Climatic Interactions
EDUCATION
. M Sc. Oceanography (2018-20), CGPA:8.82, DPO, CUSAT
. B Sc. Physics (2015-18), CGPA:8.77, Union Christian College, Aluva (M G University, Kerala)
TECHNICAL SKILLS (Tools / OS/ Programming languages)
Pyferret, MATLAB
Windows, Ubuntu
Fortran, Matlab, Octave
INTERNSHIPS AND WORKSHOPS
1. Summer Research fellowship program( sponsored by Indian Academy of Sciences) under the Guidance of Dr. P A Francis, Scientist-F, ESSO-INCOIS, Hyderabad.
2. Attended International conference on Frontiers in Marine Science Challenges and Prospects, MARICON 2019
3. Attended national workshop on Statistical Analysis and Computational Tools in Ocean Data Processing at School of Marine Sciences, Cochin University of Science and Technology.
INSTRUMENT AND SOFTWARE SKILLS
Analyzed ROMS model data, TES reanalysis data, TRMM rainfall data, NOAA ERSST data, NCEP wind reanalysis data
ACHIEVEMENTS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Objectives
Societal Importance
AKASH JOSHI
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EDUCATION
. MTech in Earth System Science and Technology at Centre of Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences (CORAL) from IIT Kharagpur (2020-2022)
. B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from RGTU Bhopal (2012-2016),CGPA:6.82
TECHNICAL SKILLS (Tools / OS/ Programming languages)
Exploratory Data analysis in Python, Data visualization in Python ( Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly)
Machine Learning Techniques such as Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, K Nearest Neighbour, Random Forest, Support Vector Machine, K-means clustering.
Deep Learning Techniques: Artificial Neural Network
INTERNSHIPS AND WORKSHOPS
Summer Internship from IITM-Pune (May-June 2021) on “Springtime Asian anthropogenic aerosol pollution over North Indian Ocean”
INSTRUMENT AND SOFTWARE SKILLS
PySpark
MATLAB, GrADS, MS Excel,
Windows, Linux (Ubuntu)
ACHIEVEMENTS
3rd price in National Robotics Competition in 2013 conducted by Department of Energy Science and Engineering IIT BOMBAY.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Objectives
Societal Importance
AJAY SINGH
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17AG91R01
ajaydhanda1993.@.gmail.com
Agricultural Emissions
EDUCATION
M.Tech Agricultural System Management (2015-17), CGPA: 8.86, AgFE, IIT Kharagpur
TECHNICAL SKILLS (Tools / OS/ Programming languages)
ARC-GIS, Python and R
INTERNSHIPS AND WORKSHOPS
. TROPMET conference attended in 2019.
INSTRUMENT AND SOFTWARE SKILLS
Proficiency in handling scientific data like Netcdf etc.
ACHIEVEMENTS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Worked as Assistant Manager in Duncan Tea Industries from 14/07/2014 to 20/05/2015.
Agricultural Emissions
My research area includes emissions studies from the agriculture sector. We work on quantifications of hotspots of different atmospheric gases such as NH3 and Greenhouse gases (GHG). A greenhouse gas (GHG) is a gas that absorbs and emits radiant energy within the thermal infrared range. Greenhouse gases cause the greenhouse effect on planets.
The primary greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere are water vapor (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and ozone (O3). I am working on CO2 and CH4 as a part of my doctoral thesis. Over the last fifty years, the increase in agricultural production to meet the food demand of a growing population has resulted in a near doubling of GHG emissions from agriculture, forestry and fisheries. Globally, agriculture faces the triple challenge of increasing production to meet the growing food demand, adapting to changing climatic conditions and reducing agricultural emissions from the fields. Agricultural emissions basically constitute greenhouse gases (GHG) and non-greenhouse gases emissions coming from large land areas.
The changes in climate that can be expected as a result of the ongoing emissions of greenhouse gases could have large, harmful impacts on both plants and animals by making them more vulnerable to the attacks of insects/pests and diseases. Moreover, CO2 and CH4 are the topmost two gases that contribute to the greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions at a global level. This growth in agriculture and associated emissions will occur mostly in Asian and African countries, where a large percentage of the population depends on agriculture and allied sectors for their livelihoods. As per EDGAR v 4.3.2 database report of 2016, total global GHG continued to increase at the rate of 0.5% annually reaching up to 49.3 Gigatons of CO2 equivalent.
My study region is the whole of India. Since, India is the third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the world after the USA and China, therefore, to reduce the emissions at the global level, India has a vital role to play. The agricultural sector is responsible for 18% of gross national GHG emissions in India too mainly through rice cultivation, livestock production, fertilizer use and burning of crop residues. Continued emissions of greenhouse gases will lead to further climate changes. Future changes are expected to include a warmer atmosphere, a warmer and more acidic ocean, higher sea levels, and larger changes in precipitation patterns. The extent of future climate change depends on what we do now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The more we emit, the larger future changes will be.
Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere will continue to increase unless the billions of tons of our annual emissions decrease substantially. Increased concentrations are expected to increase the earth’s average temperature, influence the patterns and amounts of precipitation, reduce ice and snow cover. It will raise the sea level, increase the acidity of the oceans, increase the frequency, intensity or duration of extreme events, shift ecosystem characteristics, and also increase threats to human health. These changes will impact our food supply, water resources, infrastructure, ecosystems, and even our own health.
Many greenhouse gases stay in the atmosphere for long periods of time. As a result, even if emissions stopped increasing, atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations would continue to increase and remain elevated for hundreds of years. Moreover, if we stabilized concentrations and the composition of today's atmosphere remained steady (which would require a dramatic reduction in current greenhouse gas emissions), surface air temperatures would continue to warm.
Objectives
• To analyze the spatial and temporal variability of ammonia using satellite data and exposing its agriculture sources.
• To identify and quantify the connection of particulate matter with ammonia and its effect on agriculture.
• To identify relation of wet deposition of NH3 and temporal variability of methane over Indian regions.
• To analyze the spatial and temporal variability of carbon dioxide and methane and it’s offset over croplands in India.
Societal Importance
• My work focus on identification of major agricultural emission hotspots in India, this will help in making a road map to reduce these emissions.
• Our work also suggests the methods and strategies to mitigate the agricultural emissions.
• Abbhishek, K., Chander, G., Dixit, S. Kuttippurath, J. et al. Legume Biochar Fertilizer Can Be an Efficient Alternative to Compost in Integrated Nutrient Management of Paddy (Oryza sativa L.). J Soil Sci Plant Nutr (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42729-021-00555-4
• J. Kuttippurath, A. Singh, S.P. Dash, N. Mallick, C. Clerbaux, M. Van Damme, L. Clarisse, P.-F. Coheur, S. Raj, K. Abbhishek, H. Varikoden, Record high levels of atmospheric ammonia over India: Spatial and temporal analyses, Science of The Total Environment, 2020, 139986, ISSN 0048-9697, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139986.
• J. Kuttippurath, A. Singh, and N. Mallick, Seasonal variability of atmospheric ammonia and its connection to PM formation over Indian region, Oral presentation ID─46, presented in TROPMET ─ 2019, at Andhra University, 11 ─ 14 Dec.
• A. Singh, J. Kuttippurath, K. Abbhishek, and N. Mallick, Seasonal and spatial variability of atmospheric methane and its connection to agriculture in India, Oral presentation ID─39, presented in TROPMET ─ 2019, at Andhra University, 11 ─ 14 Dec.
ABHISHEK RATHORE
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EDUCATION
. M.Tech in Earth System Science and Technology
Centre for Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Science (CORAL)
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (India)
Currently Doing(2020-2022)
. Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical
B.I.E.T, JHANSI( UP Govt. College)
(2013- 2017)
TECHNICAL SKILLS (Tools / OS/ Programming languages)
Python (Programming Language), Pandas, Matplotlib, Mysql, HTML, BootStrap, Adv.MS Excel Fortran, Matlab, Google Earth Engine.
INTERNSHIPS AND WORKSHOPS
1. Summer Industrial Training in Workshop, NCR, Jhansi
2. Summer Industrial Training in Loco Shed, NCR, Jhansi
INSTRUMENT AND SOFTWARE SKILLS
ACHIEVEMENTS
Runner-up in Pace'16 chess competition, 2016
Paticipation in Manoeuvre competition, Techkriti, IIT Kanpur, 2015
Winner in Hydraulic Machine competition, Mechanical Engg. Forum, 2014
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Objectives
Societal Importance