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Heat island, pollution load and urban sprawl in the Kolkata metropolitan city of India during 2000–2020: implications for its sustainability
Yenugula Rashmitha, J. Kuttippurath, Vikas Patel, Buddhadev Ghosh

Intense Wave Activity and Climate Oscillations Drive Record-High Arctic Ozone in March 2024
Anjali Sathyanath, J. Kuttippurath

Warming of the high-mountainous climate sensitive Jammu and Kashmir during the period 1980–2024
G. S. Gopikrishnan, J. Kuttippurath, V. M. Pranav Chandran

Ecological droughts increased in India with changing Indian summer monsoon and human interventions
Rahul Kashyap, J. Kuttippurath, Vikas Patel

Weakening of forest carbon stocks due to declining Ecosystem Photosynthetic Efficiency under the current and future climate change scenarios in India
Rahul Kashyap, J. Kuttippurath

Agriculture intensification and moisture-induced Thar desert greening: implications for energy balance, socio-economy, and biodiversity
Rahul Kashyap, J. Kuttippurath, Vikas Patel

Surface ozone pollution-driven risks for the yield of major food crops under future climate change scenarios in India
Kinikar Anagha, J. Kuttippurath

Exposure to surface ozone and its associated health effects and economic burden in India
G. P. Gopikrishnan, T.S. Ardra, J. Kuttippurath

Global tropical and extra-tropical tropospheric ozone trends and radiative forcing deduced from satellite and ozonesonde measurements for the period 2005–2020
G. P. Gopikrishnan, J. Kuttippurath

No severe ozone depletion in the tropical stratosphere in recent decades
J. Kuttippurath, G. P. Gopikrishnan, Rolf Müller, Sophie Godin‐Beekmann, J. Brioude

Enhanced surface temperature over India during 1980–2020 and future projections: causal links of the drivers and trends
Rahul Kumar, J. Kuttippurath, G. P. Gopikrishnan, Pankaj Kumar, Hamza Varikoden

Changes in tropospheric ozone over India: Variability, long-term trends and climate forcing
Aditya Singh Rathore, G. P. Gopikrishnan, J. Kuttippurath

Improved air quality leads to enhanced vegetation growth during the COVID–19 lockdown in India
Rahul Kashyap, J. Kuttippurath, Vikas Patel

Increase in Tropospheric Water Vapor Amplifies Global Warming and Climate Change
Vikas Patel, J. Kuttippurath

Improvements in SO2 pollution in India: role of technology and environmental regulations
J. Kuttippurath, Vikas Patel, Mansi Pathak, Ajay Singh

Significant increase in water vapour over India and Indian Ocean: Implications for tropospheric warming and regional climate forcing
Vikas Patel, J. Kuttippurath

Air Quality during the COVID–19 Lockdown and Unlock Periods in India Analyzed Using Satellite and Ground-based Measurements
G. P. Gopikrishnan, J. Kuttippurath, Sarath Raj, Ajay Singh, Kumar Abbhishek

Air quality trends in rural India: analysis of NO<sub>2</sub> pollution using satellite measurements
Mansi Pathak, J. Kuttippurath

Long-Term Trends and Impact of SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 Lockdown on the Primary Productivity of the North Indian Ocean
N. Sunanda, J. Kuttippurath, R. Peter, Kunal Chakraborty, Arun Chakraborty

The Increasing Surface Ozone and Tropospheric Ozone in Antarctica and Their Possible Drivers
Pankaj Kumar, J. Kuttippurath, Peter von der Gathen, Irina Petropavlovskikh, B. J. Johnson, Audra McClure-Begley, Paolo Cristofanelli, Paolo Bonasoni, María Elena Barlasina, Ricardo Sánchez

Two decades of aerosol observations by AATSR, MISR, MODIS and MERRA-2 over India and Indian Ocean
J. Kuttippurath, Sarath Raj

Tropical storms trigger phytoplankton blooms in the deserts of north Indian Ocean
J. Kuttippurath, N. Sunanda, M. V. Martin, Kunal Chakraborty

Observed rainfall changes in the past century (1901–2019) over the wettest place on Earth
J. Kuttippurath, Surajit Murasingh, Peter A. Stott, Beena Balan Sarojini, Madan K. Jha, Pradyuman Kumar, P. J. Nair, Hamza Varikoden, Sarath Raj, P. A. Francis, P. C. Pandey

A decade of satellite observations reveal significant increase in atmospheric formaldehyde from shipping in Indian Ocean
G. P. Gopikrishnan, J. Kuttippurath

Record high levels of atmospheric ammonia over India: Spatial and temporal analyses
J. Kuttippurath, Ajay Singh, Swetaleena Dash, Nirupama Mallick, Cathy Clerbaux, Martin Van Damme, Lieven Clarisse, Pierre Coheur, Sarath Raj, Kumar Abbhishek, Hamza Varikoden

Anthropogenic forcing exacerbating the urban heat islands in India
Sarath Raj, Saikat Kumar Paul, Arun Chakraborty, J. Kuttippurath

Emergence of ozone recovery evidenced by reduction in the occurrence of Antarctic ozone loss saturation
J. Kuttippurath, Pankaj Kumar, P. J. Nair, P. C. Pandey

Contrasting trends in southwest monsoon rainfall over the Western Ghats region of India
Hamza Varikoden, J. V. Revadekar, J. Kuttippurath, C. A. Babu

The local and global climate forcings induced inhomogeneity of Indian rainfall
P. J. Nair, Arun Chakraborty, Hamza Varikoden, P. A. Francis, J. Kuttippurath

The signs of Antarctic ozone hole recovery
J. Kuttippurath, P. J. Nair

