I recently defended my thesis entitled "Studies on the Effects of the Congo Deforestation on the Local Drought and Ozone Pollution".
Dissertation: My thesis focused on the Congo regional precipitation and ozone pollution studies. I developed empirical relations between surface vegetation parameters and precipitation amounts. In addition to this, I have developed parameterizations of leaf boundary layer and its resistance using Kinetic Molecular Theory of Gases and Blasius Similarity Solutions. My thesis also quantified the sensitivity of biogenic emission on the ground-level ozone in the Congo region using coupled meteorology-chemistry models (WRF-Chem).
Research Intersts and Expertise: My research interests revolve around the interference of plants and their chemical emissions with urban air pollution. Tackling of this kind of problems requires in-depth knowledge in chemistry and an adequate amount of expertise in meteorology. I have mastered these ingredients over the years. However, my research interests and goals have been evolved with the expertise I got in different fields. I did my M.Sc in physical chemistry with the basic subjects (Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry) I took in B.Sc. While I was doing my masters, I fascinated with gas-phase kinetics.
During my PhD, I have employed simple decoupled land surface models to earth system models of intermediate complexity (EMAC) to Regional Climate Models (RCMs) to coupled Global Climate Models (GCMs) to fully coupled chemistry-meteorological models (e.g., WRF-Chem). My theoretical background in chemistry and atmospheric sciences along with the modeling systems, the cloud microphysics is not understood well so far. It is a fully coupled chemistry-meteorology phenomenon, but at the present stage, they are loosely coupled. However, for the ground-level pollution, the could microphysics is not needed but the downward radiation is needed. Therefore, I will build the model with atmospheric boundary layer coupled with explicit chemistry mechanisms. This newly built model will be employed for the important LULCC studies on the pollution focusing the reaction mechanisms in the lower troposphere in various locations in the world.
I have experience of building models on the HPC with a minimal support from the HPC administrator, so I can work independently with highly complex numerical models, such as coupled chemical transport models (CTM). I worked with the WRF model combined with regional atmospheric chemistry model and Mainz isoprene mechanisms (WRF-RACM-MIM) for about a couple of years. In a nutshell, I am technically expert in the numerical atmospheric chemistry modeling.
Supervisors
Prof. Raj Kishore Patel
National Institute of Technology Rourkela,
Rourkela, India-769008
Dr. James R. Stalker
President & CEO, Regional Earth System Predictability Research Inc,
New Mexico, USA 87505