PhD Scholar-Abhishek Kumar Mishra

Abhishek did his B.tech (Mechanical Engineering) from BIT and M.tech (Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology) from IIT Delhi in 2014. He joined the group as PhD Scholar in December 2014. He is interested in Chemical Transport Modelling of Trace gas species in the Troposphere. His current project is focused on WRF-CHEM Modelling over Indo-Gangetic Plains.

Publications

Kumar, V., Beirle, S., Dörner, S., Mishra, A. K., Donner, S., Wang, Y., Sinha, V., and Wagner, T.: Long term MAX-DOAS measurements of NO2, HCHO and aerosols and evaluation of corresponding satellite data products over Mohali in the Indo-Gangetic plain, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 2020.

Kreher, K., Roozendael, M. V., Hendrick, F., Apituley, A., Dimitropoulou, E.,  Frieß, U.,   Richter, A., Wagner, T., Abuhassan, N., Ang, L., Anguas, M., Bais, A., Benavent, N., Bösch, T., Bognar, K., Borovski, A., Bruchkouski, I., Cede, A., Chan, K. L., Donner, S., Drosoglou, T., Fayt, C., Finkenzeller, H., Garcia-Nieto, D., Gielen, C., Gómez-Martín, L., Hao, N., Herman, J. R., Hermans, C., Hoque, S., Irie, H., Jin, J., Johnston, P., Butt, J. K., Khokhar, F., Koenig, T. K., Kuhn, J., Kumar, V., Lampel, J., Liu, C., Ma, J., Merlaud, A., Mishra, A. K.,  Müller, M.,  Navarro-Comas, M., Ostendorf, M.,Pazmino, A., Peters, E., Pinardi, G., Pinharanda, M., Piters, A., Platt, U., Postylyakov, O., Prados-Roman, C., Puentedura, O., Querel, R., Saiz-Lopez, A., Schönhardt, A., Schreier, S. F., Seyler, A., Sinha, V., Spinei, E., Strong, K., Tack,  Tian, X., Tiefengraber, M., Tirpitz, J., Gent J. V., Volkameri, R., Vrekoussis, M., Wang, S., Wang, Z., Wenig, M., Wittrock, F., Xie, P. H., Xu, J., Yela, M., Zhang, C. and Zhao, X., Intercomparison of NO2, O4, O3 and HCHO slant column measurements by MAX-DOAS and zenith-sky UV-Visible spectrometers during the CINDI-2 campaign, Atmos. Meas. Tech. 13, 2169–2208, 2020.

Chandra, B. P., Sinha, V., Hakkim, H., Kumar, A., Pawar, H., Mishra, A. K., Sharma, G., Pallavi, Garg, S., Ghude, S. D., Chate, D. M, Pithani, P., Kulkarni, R., Jenamani, R. K., and Rajeevan, M., Odd-even traffic rule implementation during winter 2016 in Delhi did not reduce traffic emissions of VOCs, carbon dioxide, methane and carbon monoxide, Current Science, 114, 6, 1318-1325, 2018.

Ghude, S. D., Bhat, G. S., Prabhakaran, T., Jenamani, R. K., Chate, D. M., Safai, P. D., Karipot, A. K., Konwar M., Pithani, P., Sinha, V., Rao, P. S. P., Dixit, S. A., Tiwari, S., Todekar, K., Varpe, S., Srivastava, A. K., Bisht, D. S., Murugavel, P., Ali, K., Mina, U., Dharua, M., Jaya Rao, Y., Padmakumari, B., Hazra, A., Nigam, N., Shende, U., Lal, D. M., Chandra, B. P., Mishra, A. K., Kumar, A., Hakkim, H., Pawar, H., Acharja, P., Kulkarni, R., Subharthi, C., Balaji, B., Varghese, M., Bera, S. and Rajeevan, M., Winter fog experiment over the Indo-Gangetic plains of India, Current Science, VOL. 112, NO. 4, 2017.

Conference Presentations

Sinha, V., Sinha, B., Mishra, A. K., Vettikkat, L., Datta, S., Yadav, P.,  Hakkim, H., Kumar, A., Sharma, A., Sharma, G., Singh, A. K., Quantification of BVOC emissions over South Asia for better understanding of Secondary Organic Aerosol and Ozone in urban atmospheric environments, oral presentation at Asian Aerosol Conference, city university of Hong Kong, China, 2019.

Kumar, V., Beirle, S., Sinha, V., Dörner, S., Donner, S., Mishra, A. K. and Wagner, T., Long-term MAX-DOAS measurements of nitrogen dioxide and formaldehyde from the North-West Indo-Gangetic Plain, Geophysical Research Abstracts, 20, EGU2018-12673, 2018.

Kumar, V., Sinha, V., Mishra, A., Isoprene and acetaldehyde dominate VOC OH reactivities and Ozone production potentials in all seasons in the N. W. IGP, oral presentation in the 5th iLEAPS Science Conference, Oxford, UK, 11th - 14th September, 2017.

Mishra, A., Chandra, B. P. and Sinha, V., Evidence for high biogenic isoprene emissions in the north IGP, paper presentation in The Third Workshop on Atmospheric Composition and the Asian Monsoon (ACAM) and Second ACAM Training School at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, 2017.

Awards and Honours

2018: Selected for NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research) graduate visitor program 2018-19 from Asia

2018: Received the best project presentation award at International workshop on Chemistry Climate interaction (IWCCI) at the Indian Institute of tropical meteorology-Pune. 

2018: Received the travel grant to attend the International Workshop on Chemistry Climate interaction (IWCCI) at the Indian Institute of tropical meteorology-Pune from August 13-15. 

2017: Received travel grant from Atmospheric Composition and the Asian Monsoon (ACAM) to present a talk in The Third Workshop on Atmospheric Composition and the Asian Monsoon (ACAM) and Second ACAM Training School at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.

2016: Received travel grant from Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz to take part in CINDI_2 field campaign in the Cabauw Netherlands.

 Workshops

Fundamentals of Atmospheric Chemistry and Modeling at the National Center for Atmospheric Research Boulder from August 13-15, 2018

International workshop on Chemistry Climate interaction (IWCCI) at the Indian Institute of tropical meteorology-Pune from 12th March to 15th March 2019.