B Praphulla Chandra joined the group in Nov 2012 and completed his PhD, entitled "Measurements of reactive Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) and their emissions in agricultural and urban atmospheric environments of the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP)" in January 2018.

He is currently carrying out postdoctoral research at University of Washington Bothell: https://blogs.uw.edu/djaffe/ 

Publications 

Hakkim, H., Sinha, V., Chandra, B. P., Kumar, A., Mishra, A. K., Sinha, B., Sharma, G., Pawara, H., Sohpaul, B., Ghude, S. D.,  Pithani, P., Kulkarni, R., Jenamani, R. K., Rajeevan, M., Volatile organic compound measurements point to fog-induced biomass burning feedback to air quality in the megacity of Delhi, Science of The Total Environment, 2019.

Sharma, G., Sinha, B., Pallavi, Hakkim, H., Chandra, B. P., Kumar, A. and Sinha, V., Gridded emissions of CO, NOx, SO2, CO2, NH3, HCl, CH4, PM2.5, PM10, BC and NMVOC from open municipal waste burning in India, Environ. Sci. Technol., 2019.

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.

Kumar, V., Chandra, B. P., Sinha, V., Large unexplained suite of chemically reactive compounds present in ambient air due to biomass fires, Scientific Reports, 8, 626, 2018.

Chandra, B.P. , Sinha, V., Hakkim, H. and Sinha, B., Storage stability studies and field application of low cost glass flasks for analyses of thirteen ambient VOCs using proton transfer reaction mass spectrometry, International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 419, 11-19, 2017.

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.

Chandra, B. P. and Sinha, V., Contribution of post-harvest agricultural paddy residue fires in the N.W. Indo-Gangetic Plain to ambient carcinogenic benzenoids, toxic isocyanic acid and carbon monoxide, Environment International 88, 187-197 2016.

Garg, S., Chandra, B. P.,  Sinha, V.,  Sarda-Esteve, R., Gros, V., and Sinha, B.,  Limitation of the Use of the Absorption Angstrom Exponent for Source Apportionment of Equivalent Black Carbon: a Case Study from the North West Indo-Gangetic Plain, Environmental Science and Technology, 50(2), 814–824, 2016.

Pawar, H., Garg, S., Kumar, V., Sachan, H., Arya, R., Sarkar, C., Chandra, B. P. and Sinha, B., Quantifying the contribution of long-range transport to Particulate Matter (PM) mass loadings at a suburban site in the North-Western Indo Gangetic Plain (IGP), Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 9501-9520, 2015.

Sinha, B., Sangwan, K. S., Maurya, Y., Kumar, V., Sarkar, C., Chandra, B. P. and Sinha, V., Assessment of crop yield losses in Punjab and Haryana using two years of continuous in-situ ozone measurements, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 9555-9576, 2015.

    

Conference Contribution

Hakkim, H., Sinha, V., Chandra, P., Kumar, A., Mishra, A., Sinha, B., Sharma, G., Pawar, H., Sohpaul, B., Ghude, S., Pithani, P., Kulkarni, R., Jenamani, R. K., and Rajeevan, M. R., VOC measurements reveal a strong fog-induced biomass burning feedback to air quality in the megacity of Delhi, Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 21, EGU2019-13961-2, 2019. 

Sinha, V., Kumar, V., Chandra, B. P., Large unexplained suite of chemically reactive compounds present in ambient air due to biomass fires, 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.
 
Chandra, B. P. and Sinha, V., Contribution of post-harvest agricultural paddy residue fires in the N.W. Indo-Gangetic Plain to ambient carcinogenic benzenoids, toxic isocyanic acid and carbon monoxide, poster presentation in IGAC Science Conference, Colorado USA 2016.

Chandra, B., P. and Sinha, V., Contribution of post-harvest agricultural paddy residue fires in the N.W. Indo-Gangetic Plain to ambient carcinogenic benzenoids, toxic isocyanic acid and carbon monoxide, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 18, EGU2016-11327, 2016.

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. 

Garg, S., Sinha, B., Sinha, V., Chandra, P., Esteve, R., S. and Gros, V., Limitation of using Angstrom exponent for source apportionment of black carbon in complex environments - A case study from the North West Indo Gangetic Plain, AGU Fall Meeting, abstract A21A-0075, 2015.

Chandra, B., P. and Sinha, V., Agricultural paddy residue fires are a significant contributor to rising ambient concentrations of benzene in the North West Indo-Gangetic Plain, National Climate Science Conference, IISC Bangalore, India, 2015.

Chandra, B., P. and Sinha, V., Agricultural paddy residue fires are a significant contributor to rising ambient concentrations of benzene in the North West Indo-Gangetic Plain, Second Workshop On Atmospheric Composition And The Asian Monsoon (ACAM), Bangkok, 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. 

Chandra B.,P.,  Kumar V.,  Sarkar C.,  Garg, S. and  Sinha, V., "India wide emission estimates of VOCs,SO2, NOx derived from in-situ measurements during Diwali-2013", 1st Climate Workshop on Science and Policy – Organized by Climate IDP at IIT-Bombay held on 6th and 7th March, 2014.

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 13th Quadrennial iCACGP Symposium and 13th IGAC Science Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry 2014 in Natal, Brazil.

Kumar, V., Garg,S., Chandra, B. P. and Sinha, V., A large OH sink in summertime surface air of the northern Indo-Gangetic plain revealed through in-situ total OH Reactivity measurements, American  Geophysical Union Fall meeting general assembly 2013.

       

Awards and Honours

FULL IGAC Early Career Travel Grant to attend the 2016 IGAC Science Conference

International Travel Grant from Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam to present a talk at European Geosciences Union (EGU) general assembly in Vienna, Austria, 2016. 

International Travel Grant from the German Federal Environment Agency and World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) to participate in the 29th GAWTEC Training Course, 2015.

International Travel Grant from the Max Planck-DST project to present the poster at The Second Workshop on Atmospheric Composition and The Summer Monsoon (ACAM) and training school at Bangkok Thailand, 2015.

Travel Grant from Indian Institute of Science (IISC), Bangalore to present the poster at National Climate Science Conference” at IISC Bangalore, 2015.

Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) (All India Rank-126) in Chemistry, 2012.

GOLD MEDAL for distinction in M.Sc. Chemistry, 2012.

National Eligibility Test (UGC/CSIR-JRF) (All India Rank-70) in Chemical Sciences, 2011.