Atmospheric Chemistry & Emissions Research Group

Sarkar, C., Kumar V. and  Sinha V., ‘Massive emissions of carcinogenic benzenoids from paddy residue burning in North India’: Current Science 104(12): 1703 – 1709, 2013.

Conference Contributions

Sinha, V., Chandra, P., Kumar, V. and Sarkar, C., The impact of post harvest agricultural crop residue fires on volatile organic compounds and formation of secondary air pollutants in the N.W. Indo Gangetic Plain, AGU Fall Meeting, abstract A21A-0037, 2015.

Sarkar, C., Sinha, V., Kumar, V., Rupakheti, R., Panday, A., Mahata, K., Rupakheti, D., Kathayat, B. and Lawrence, M., Overview of VOC emissions and chemistry from PTR-TO-FMS measurements during the SusKat - ABC campaign: high acetaldehyde, ketene, isoprene and isocyanic acid in wintertime air of the Kathmandu Valley, AGU Fall Meeting, abstract B43F-0611, 2015. 

Hakkim, H., Sarkar, C., Chandra, B., P. and Sinha V., Wet Scavenging Efficiency Of Monsoon Rains For Reactive Volatile Organic Compounds In The North-West Indo Gangetic Plain, National Climate Science Conference, IISC Bangalore , India, 2015.

Hakkim, H., Sarkar, C., Chandra, B., P. and Sinha V., Wet Scavenging Efficiency Of Monsoon Rains For Reactive Volatile Organic Compounds In The North-West Indo Gangetic Plain, Second Workshop On Atmospheric Composition And The Asian Monsoon (ACAM)”, Bangkok, 2015.

Pawar, H., Garg, S., Kumar, V., Sachan, H., Arya, R., Sarkar, C., Praphulla Chandra, B., and Sinha, B., 'Quantifying the contribution of Long-Range Transport to Particulate Matter (PM) enhancement at a suburban site in the North-Western Indo Gangetic Basin', National Climate Science Conference, IISC Bangalore , India, 2015 

Pawar, H., Garg, S., Kumar, V., Sachan, H., Arya, R., Sarkar, C., Praphulla Chandra, B., and Sinha, B., 'Quantifying the contribution of Long-Range Transport to Particulate Matter (PM) enhancement at a suburban site in the North-Western Indo Gangetic Basin', Second Workshop On Atmospheric Composition And The Asian Monsoon (ACAM)”, Bangkok, 2015.

Pawar, H., Garg, S., Kumar, V., Sachan, H., Arya, R., Sarkar, C., Praphulla Chandra, B., and Sinha, B., 'Quantifying the contribution of Long-Range Transport to Particulate Matter (PM) enhancement at a suburban site in the North-Western Indo Gangetic Basin', TROPMET 2015, Chandigarh, India, 2015.

Hakkim, H., Sarkar, C., Chandra, B., P. and Sinha V., 'Wet Scavenging Efficiency Of Monsoon Rains For Reactive Volatile Organic Compounds In The North-West Indo Gangetic Plain', TROPMET 2015, Chandigarh, India. 

Sarkar, C., Sinha, V., Kumar, V., Rupakheti, M., Panday, A., Rupakheti, D., Kathayat, B., Mahata, K. and Lawrence, M. G., ‘Overview of VOC emissions and chemistry in Kathmandu valley obtained using the first PTR-TOF-MS measurements in South Asia during SusKat-ABC campaign’ poster presentation 13^th Quadrennial iCACGP Symposium and 13^th IGAC Science Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry 2014 in Natal, Brazil.

Sarkar, C., Kumar, V., Chandra, B. P. and  Sinha, V., ‘What controls the transition from low to high surface ozone during winter in the north–west Indo Gangetic Plain (IGP): meteorology, radical chemistry or emissions?’ poster presentation 13^th Quadrennial iCACGP Symposium and 13^th IGAC Science Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry 2014 in Natal, Brazil.

Sarkar, C., Kumar, V. and  Sinha, V., ‘Enhanced formation of secondary air pollutants and aggravation of urban smog due to crop residue burning emissions in North India’: Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 15, EGU2013-646-1, 2013, Oral presentation at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly Meeting, Vienna, Austria, 2013.

Sarkar, C. and Sinha, V., ‘In-situ measurements of wintertime Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) in the Kathmandu Valley using PTR-TOFMS’, Oral presentation at SusKat-ABC field campaign data workshop in Kathmandu, Nepal, 2013 

Kumar, V.,  Sarkar, C.,  Sachan, H., Kumar, D. and Sinha, B., ‘PM over summertime India: Sources and trends investigated using long term measurements and multi- receptor site back trajectory  analysis’:Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 15, EGU2013-640, 2013, Poster presentation at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly Meeting, Vienna,  Austria, 2013

Sachan, H.,  Sarkar, C. and  Sinha, B., ‘Rapid aqueous phase SO₂ oxidation during winter fog in Indo-Gangetic Plain’: Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 15, EGU2013-603-2, 2013, Poster presentation at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly Meeting, Vienna, Austria, 2013.

Sachan, H., Sarkar, C. and Sinha, B.; Rapid aqueous phase SO₂ oxidation in winter fog in the Indo-Gangetic Plain, 8^th International Conference on Advances in Metrology, AdMet-2013, National Physical Laboratory (NPL), Delhi.

Sinha, V., Sarkar, C. and  Kumar V., ‘Isoprene and monoterpenes at a mixed suburban site in the Indo-Gangetic Plain’ Oral presentation by Vinayak Sinha at International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) conference, Beijing, China, 2012.

Sinha, V., Sarkar, C. and Saxena, A., ‘First PTR-MS measurements of volatile organic compounds (VOcs) from a suburban site in India during the Monsoon season’: Poster presentation at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) General Assembly Fall Meeting, San Francisco, U.S.A, December 2011.

Sinha, B., Sarkar, C. and Sinha, V., ‘PM₁₀, PM_2.5, SO₂, CO, NO_x and O3 concentrations at a suburban site in the North Indo-Gangetic Plain: Source assessment and implications for human health’: Poster presentation at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) General Assembly Fall Meeting, San Francisco, U.S.A, December 2011.          

Awards and Honours

2017: Received the prestigious Fulbright-Kalam Climate Fellowship.

2015: Received Young Scientist Travel Grant by International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and Integrated Land Ecosystem-Atmosphere Processes Study (iLEAPS) to attend American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2015 in San Francisco, USA.

2015: Received Young Scientist Travel Grant by International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP)  to attend Future Earth Early Career Scientist (ECS) workshop 2015 in Palo Alto, USA.

2014: Received Young Scientist Travel Grant by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and IGAC Working Group to attend the 13^th Quadrennial iCACGP Symposium and 13^th IGAC Science Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry 2014 in Natal, Brazil

2013: Received Young Scientist Travel Award (YSTA) by the European Geosciences Union and International Travel Grant by DST (Department of Science and Technology, India) to present a talk at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2013 in Vienna, Austria

2013: Received International Travel Grant from International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) to present a talk in SusKat-ABC field campaign data workshop 2013 in Kathmandu, Nepal

2011: Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in Chemical Sciences

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