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Geosciences Division Publications

Perspectives on Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal from the Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network

Date of Publication
05/09/2025
Journal Impact Factor
3.2
Journal
Oceanography

Authors

Helen S. Findlay, Richard A. Feely, Kalina Grabb, Elizabeth B. Jewett, Elise F. Keister, Gabby Kitch, Yuri Artioli, Punyasloke Bhadury, Jeremy Blackford, Odile Crabeck, Anwesha Ghosh, Yaru Li, Kaitlyn B. Lowder, Shreya Mehta, Bryce Van Dam, Houda Beghoura, Noam Karo, Andrij Z. Horodysky, Sebastian Hennige, Sally M. Salaah, Federica Ragazzola, and Liza Wright-Fairbanks

Transported smoke from crop residue burning as the major source of organic aerosol and health risks in northern Indian cities during post-monsoon

Date of Publication
16/06/2025
Journal Impact Factor
10.3
Journal
Environment International

Authors

Hao, Y., Strahl, J., Khare, P., Cui, T., Schneider-Beltran, K., Qi, L., Wang, D., Top, J., Surdu, M., Bhattu, D., Bhowmik, H. S., Vats, P., Rai, P., Kumar, V., Ganguly, D., Szidat, S., Uzu, G., Jaffrezo, J., Elazzouzi, R., Rastogi, N., Slowik, J., E.I.Haddad, I., Tripathi, S. N., Prevot, A.S.H., and Dallenbach, K. R

Measurement report: Sources and meteorology influencing highly time-resolved PM2.5 trace elements at three urban sites in the extremely polluted Indo-Gangetic Plain in India

Date of Publication
01/04/2025
Journal Impact Factor
6.7
Journal
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Authors

Shukla, A. K., Tripathi, S. N., Talukdar, S., Murari, V., Gaddamidi, S., Manousakas, M.-I., Lalchandani, V., Dixit, K., Ruge, V. M., Khare, P., Kumar, M., Singh, V., Rastogi, N., Tiwari, S., Srivastava, A. K., Ganguly, D., Daellenbach, K. R., and Prévôt, A. S. H.

Diazotrophs: An Overlooked Sink of N2O

Date of Publication
18/03/2025
Journal Impact Factor
4.6
Journal
Geophysical Research Letters

Authors

Saxena, H., S. Mehta, S. Nazirahmed, J. Kumar, S. Kumar and A. Singh

Local incomplete combustion emissions define the PM2.5 oxidative potential in Northern India

Date of Publication
26/04/2024
Journal Impact Factor
16.6
Journal
Nature Communications, 15, 3517

Authors

Bhattu, D., Tripathi, S. N, Bhowmik, H. S., Moschos, V., Lee, C. P., Rauber, M., Salazar, G., Abbaszade, G., Cui, T., Slowik, J. G., Vats, P., Mishra, S., Lalchandani, V., Satish, R., Rai, P., Casotto, R., Tobler, A., Kumar, V., Hao, Y., Qi, L., Khare, P., Manousakas, M. I., Wang, Q., Han, Y., Tian, J., Darfeuil, S., Minguillon, M. C., Hueglin, C., Conil, S., Rastogi, N., Srivastava, A. K., Ganguly, D., Bjelic, S., Canonaco, F., Schnelle-Kreis, J., Dominutti, P. A., Jaffrezo, J-L., Szidat, S., Chen, Y., Cao, J., Baltensperger, U., Uzu, G., Daellenbach, K. R., El Haddad, I., and Prevot, A. S. H.

The Bay of Bengal: An Enigmatic Diazotrophic Niche

Date of Publication
14/09/2023
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
JGR-Biogeosciences

Authors

Himanshu Saxena, Deepika Sahoo, Sipai Nazirahmed, Diptaraj Chaudhari, Praveen Rahi, Sanjeev Kumar, Mar Benavides, Aswathy Vijaya Krishna, A. K. Sudheer, Arvind Singh

Night-time NO emissions strongly suppress chlorine and nitrate radical formation during the winter in Delhi

Date of Publication
17/08/2023
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 23, 9023–9036

Authors

Haslett, S. L., Bell, D. M., Kumar, V., Slowik, J. G., Wang, D. S., Mishra, S., Rastogi, N., Singh, A., Ganguly, D., Thornton, J., Zheng, F., Li, Y., Nie, W., Liu, Y., Ma, W., Yan, C., Kulmala, M., Daellenbach, K. R., Hadden, D., Baltensperger, U., Prevot, A. S. H., Tripathi, S. N., and Mohr, C.

Multidecadal summer monsoon rainfall trend reversals in South Peninsular India: A new approach to examining long-term rainfall dataset

Date of Publication
25/07/2023
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Journal of Hydrology

Authors

Swagatika Chakra, Akash Ganguly, Harsh Oza, Virendra Padhya, Amit Pandey, R. D. Deshpande

Unstable slopes and threatened livelihoods of the historical Joshimath town, Uttarakhand Himalaya, India.

Date of Publication
17/07/2023
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Current Science

Authors

SP Sati, Maria Asim, YP Sundriyal, Naresh Rana, Vijay Bahuguna, Shubhra Sharma

Is μCT irradiation nondestructive? A noble gas study on matrix samples from the CV3 chondrite Allende

Date of Publication
03/06/2023
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Meteoritics & Planetary Science

Authors

Parastoo Ghaznavi, Yogita Kadlag, David Haberthür, Ruslan Hlushchuk, Ingo Leya

Reconstructing the pattern of late Quaternary climate through sediment-landform assemblages in the Dhauli Ganga valley (upper Ganga catchment), India

Date of Publication
23/04/2023
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Geomorphology

Authors

Sameeksha Kaushik, Yaspal Sundriyal, Neha Chauhan, Naresh Rana, Shubhra Sharma

Paraglacial Response to Recent Climate Change in the Upper Ganga Catchment

Date of Publication
17/04/2023
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Climate Change Adaptation, Risk Management and Sustainable Practices in the Himalaya

Authors

Maria Asim, Subhendu Pradhan, and Shubhra Sharma

Rapid night-time nanoparticle growth in Delhi driven by biomass-burning emissions

Date of Publication
10/03/2023
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Nature Geoscience, 16, 224–230.

Authors

Mishra, S., Tripathi, S.N., Kanawade, V.P., Haslett, S.L., Dada, L., Ciarelli, G., Kumar, V., Singh, A., Bhattu, D., Rastogi, N., Daellenbach, K.R., Ganguly, D., Gargava, P., Slowik, J.G., Kulmala, M., Mohr, C., El-Haddad, I., Prevot. A.S.H.

The Diyodar meteorite fall in India

Date of Publication
25/01/2023
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Current Sceince

Authors

Srivastava, Y.; Kumar, A.; Sarbadhikari, A. Basu; Ray, D.; Nair, V. M.; Das, A.; Shukla, A. D.; Sathiyaseelan, S.; Ramachandran, R.; Sivaraman, B.; Vijayan, S.; Panwar, N.; Verma, A. J.; Srivastava, N.; Rani, A.; Arora, G.; Mahajan, R. R.; Bhardwaj, A.

Molecular tracers for characterization and distribution of organic matter in a freshwater lake system from the Lesser Himalaya

Date of Publication
24/12/2022
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Biogeochemistry

Authors

D. Behera, S. Bhattacharya, A. Rahman, S. Kumar, A. Anoop

Mountain highway stability threading on the fragile terrain of upper Ganga catchment (Uttarakhand Himalaya), India

Date of Publication
15/12/2022
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Journal of Mountain Science

Authors

Sati, SP, Sharma, S., Kothayari, GC et al.

Mountain highway stability threading on the fragile terrain of upper Ganga catchment (Uttarakhand Himalaya), India

Date of Publication
15/12/2022
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Journal of Mountain Science

Authors

Sati, SP, Sharma, S., Kothayari, GC et al.

Spatio-temporal variation of C-PM2.5 (composition based PM2.5) sources using PMF*PMF (double-PMF) and single-combined PMF technique on real-time non-refractory, BC and elemental measurements during post-monsoon and winter at two sites in Delhi, India

Date of Publication
11/11/2022
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Atmospheric Environment

Authors

Shukla, A.K., Tripathi, S.N., Canonaco, F., Lalchandani, V., Sahu, R., Srivastava, D., Dave, J., Thamban, N.M., Gaddamidi, S., Sahu, L., Kumar, M., Singh, V., and Rastogi, N.

Nitrous oxide in the central Bay of Bengal during the summer monsoon

Date of Publication
26/04/2022
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Regional Studies in Marine Science

Authors

M. Atif Khan, A. Rahman, D. Sahoo, H.Saxena, A. Singh, S. Kumar

Real-time chemical speciation and source apportionment of organic aerosol components in Delhi, India, using extractive electrospray ionization mass spectrometry

Date of Publication
25/04/2022
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Authors

Kumar, V., Giannoukos, S., Haslett, S. L., Tong, Y., Singh, A., Bertrand, A., Lee, C. P., Wang, D. S., Bhattu, D., Stefenelli, G., Dave, J. S., Puthussery, J. V., Qi, L., Vats, P., Rai, P., Casotto, R., Satish, R., Mishra, S., Pospisilova, V., Mohr, C., Bell, D. M., Ganguly, D., Verma, V., Rastogi, N., Baltensperger, U., Tripathi, S. N., Prévôt, A. S. H., and Slowik, J. G.

Reassessing riverine carbon dioxide emissions from the Indian subcontinent

Date of Publication
20/04/2022
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Science of the Total Environment

Authors

O. K. Nayna, M. S. Begum, V.V.S.S. Sarma, J. Hartmann, S. Kumar, S. M. Tareq, J. Hyung Park

Gridded distribution of total suspended particulates (TSP) and their chemical characterization over Delhi during winter. Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Date of Publication
15/03/2022
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Authors

Jangirh, R., Ahlawat, S., Arya, R., Mondal, A., Yadav, L., Kotnala, G., Yadav, P., Choudhary, N., Rani, M., Banoo, R., Rai, A., Singh, U., Rastogi, N., Patel, A., Shivani, S., Gadi. R., Saxena, P., Vijayan, N., Sharma, C., Sharma, S.K., Mandal, T.

Indian Monsoon Records

Date of Publication
11/03/2022
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Current Science

Authors

Ravi Bhushan; Harsh Raj

Progress in understanding of Indian Ocean circulation, variability, air–sea exchange, and impacts on biogeochemistry

Date of Publication
26/11/2021
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Ocean Science, 17, 1677–1751

Authors

Phillips, H.E., A. Tandon, R. Furue, R. Hood, C. Ummenhofer, J. Benthuysen, V. Menezes, S. Hu, B. Webber, A. Franks, D. Cherian, E. Shroyer, M. Feng, H. Wijeskera, A. Chatterjee, L. Yu, J. Hermes, R. Murtugudde, T. Tozuka, D. Su, Arvind Singh, L. Centurioni, S. Prakash and J. Wiggert

Biomass and vegetation carbon stock in mangrove forests of the Andaman Islands, India

Date of Publication
29/07/2021
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Hydrobiologia

Authors

P. Ragavan*, Sanjeev Kumar, K. Kathiresan, P.M. Mohan, R.S.C. Jayaraj, K. Ravichandaran, T. S. Rana,

Error Propagation

Date of Publication
01/06/2021
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Resonance, doi://10.1007/s12045-021-1185-1

Authors

Arvind Singh and P. Chaturvedi

Highly time-resolved measurements of element concentrations in PM10 and PM2.5: Comparison of Delhi, Beijing, London, and Krakow

Date of Publication
19/01/2021
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21, 717-730.

Authors

Rai, P., Slowik, J. G., Furger, M., El Haddad, I., Visser, S., Tong, Y., Singh, A., Wehrle, G., Kumar, V., Tobler, A. K., Bhattu, D., Wang, L., Ganguly, D., Rastogi, N., Huang, R.-J., Necki, J., Cao, J., Tripathi, S. N., Baltensperger, U., and Prévôt, A. S. H.

Indian monsoon variability during the last 46 kyr: isotopic records of planktic foraminifera from southwestern Bay of Bengal

Date of Publication
24/12/2020
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Journal of Quaternary Science

Authors

P. K. Gautam, A. C. Narayana, P. Kiran Kumar, P. G. Bhavani, M. G. Yadava, A. J. T. Jull

InterCarb: A community effort to improve inter-laboratory standardization of the carbonate clumped isotope thermometer using carbonate standards

Date of Publication
13/12/2020
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Authors

Bernasconi, S., Daëron, M., Bergmann, K. D., Bonifacie, M., Meckler, A. N., Affek, H., Anderson, N., Bajnai, D., Barkan, E., Beverly, E., Blamart, D., Burgener, L., Calmels, D., Chaduteau, C., Clog, M., Davidheiser-Kroll, D., Davies, A., Dux, F., Eiler, J. M., Elliot, B., Fetrow, A., Feibig, J., Goldberg, S., Hermoso, M., Hyland, E., Ingalls, M., Jaggi, M., John, C., Jost, A., Kelson, J., Kluge, T., Kocken, I., Laskar, A. H. et al.

Signatures of hyperthermal events in the Late Paleocene–Early Eocene limestone succession of the Jaisalmer basin, India

Date of Publication
16/11/2020
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Carbonates and Evaporites

Authors

A. Patra, Anil D. Shukla,• S. Kumar, and B. P. Singh

Effects of the type of forest alteration on gross nitrogen mineralization in soils of southern India

Date of Publication
07/10/2020
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Journal of Forestry Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-020-01225-4.

Authors

Niharika Sharma and Sanjeev Kumar

Oxygen and deuterium isotope characteristics of Teesta river catchment from Sikkim Himalaya, India: Implications of different moisture sources

Date of Publication
06/10/2020
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Geochemical Journal

Authors

Sheikh Nawaz Ali, Anupam Sharma, Shailesh Agrawal, M. G. Yadava, R. A. Jani, Jyotsna Dubey, P. Morthekai

Paleoenvironment of the Central Himalaya during late MIS 3 using stable isotopic composition of lacustrine organic matter occluded in diatoms and sediments

Date of Publication
24/08/2020
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Quaternary International, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.08.024.

Authors

Abdur Rahman, Siddhartha Sarkar, and Sanjeev Kumar

Gross rates of nitrogen transformation in soils of a global biodiversity hotspot (Western Ghats, India)

Date of Publication
10/08/2020
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, https://doi.org/10.1002/jpln.201900126

Authors

Niharika Sharma and Sanjeev Kumar

Nitrogen transformation rates in the Himalayan soils at different temperature and elevation conditions

Date of Publication
04/08/2020
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Journal of Soils and Sediments, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-020-02722-z, 2020.

Authors

Niharika Sharma and Sanjeev Kumar

Zooplankton and Nekton: Gatekeepers of the Biological Pump

Date of Publication
30/07/2020
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Frontiers in Marine Science, 7:545,doi: 10.3389/fmars.2020.00545, 2020.

Authors

R. Kiko, D. Bianchi, C. Grenz, H. Hauss, M.H. Iversen, Sanjeev Kumar, A. E. Maas, C. Robinson

Addressing past monsoon variability from from spleothems,special section , Paleoclimate studies in India

Date of Publication
25/07/2020
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Current Science

Authors

Band, S., Yadava, M.G

Chemical Procedures for Rhenium Extraction from Geological Samples: Optimising the Anion Resin Bead Clean‐up Step

Date of Publication
01/06/2020
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research

Authors

Gang Yang, Aaron Zimmerman, Nicole C Hurtig, Svetoslav V Georgiev, Vineet Goswami, Judith L Hannah, Holly J Stein

Gross nitrogen transformation rates in semiarid tropical soils under different salinity and vegetation conditions,

Date of Publication
13/02/2020
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Ecosphere, 11(2):e03034. 10.1002/ecs2.3034

Authors

Niharika Sharma and Sanjeev Kumar

Optical chronology and climatic implication of glacial advances from the southern Ladakh Range, NW, Himalaya, India

Date of Publication
01/02/2020
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Authors

5. Anil D Shukla, S. Sharma, N. Rana, P. Bisht and N. Juyal

Re-Os geochronology for the NIST RM 8505 crude oil: The importance of analytical protocol and uncertainty

Date of Publication
04/01/2020
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Chemical Geology

Authors

Nicole C Hurtig, Svetoslav V Georgiev, Aaron Zimmerman, Gang Yang, Vineet Goswami, Judith L Hannah, Holly J Stein

Holocene palaeoenvironmental records from the high-altitude Wular Lake, Western Himalayas,

Date of Publication
01/01/2020
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
The Holocene, DOI: 10.1177/0959683619895592

Authors

Rayees A. Shah, Hema Achyuthan, Aasif Mohmad Lone, Sanjeev Kumar, Pankaj Kumar, Rajveer Sharma, Mohd Amir, Atul Kumar Singh and Chinmay Dash

Diurnal carbon dynamics in a mangrove-dominated tropical estuary (Sundarbans, India) ,

Date of Publication
22/10/2019
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 229, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2019.106426,

Authors

Manab. K. Dutta, Sanjeev Kumar, Rupa Mukherjee, Niharika Sharma, Avanti Acharya, Prasun Sanyal, Ravi Bhushan, Sandip K. Mukhopadhyay

A Sustained Ocean Observing System in the Indian Ocean for Climate Related Scientific Knowledge and Societal Needs,

Date of Publication
28/06/2019
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Frontiers in Marine Science, 6, 1-21

Authors

JC Hermes, Y Masumoto, LM Beal, MK Roxy, J Vialard , M Andres, H Annamalai, S Behera, N D’Adamo, T Doi, M Feng, W Han, N Hardman-Mountford, H Hendon, R Hood, S Kido, C Lee, T Lee, M Lengaigne, J Li, R Lumpkin, KN Navaneeth, B Milliga, MJ McPhaden, M Ravichandran, T Shinoda, A Singh, B Sloyan, PG Strutton, AC Subramanian, S Thurston, T Tozuka, CC Ummenhofer, AS Unnikrishnan, R Venkatesan, D Wang, J Wiggert, L Yu and W Yu

Sources and transformations of organic matter in sediments of Asia’s largest brackish water lagoon (Chilika, India) and nearby mangrove ecosystem

Date of Publication
24/05/2019
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Environmental Earth Sciences, 78:332, DOI: 10.1007/s12665-019-8329-6.

Authors

Rupa Mukherjee, Pradipta R. Muduli, Saroja Kumar Barik, Sanjeev Kumar

BATAL: The Balloon measurement campaigns of the Asian Tropopause Aerosol Layer

Date of Publication
26/12/2017
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Authors

Vernier, J-P., Fairlie, T.D., Deshler, T., Venkat Ratnam, M., Gadhavi, H., Kumar, S. Natarajan, M. Pandit, A.K., Akhil Raj S.T., Kumar, A.H., Jayaraman, A., Singh, A.K., Rastogi, N., Sinha, P.R., Kumar, S., Tiwari, S., Wegner, T., Baker, N., Vignelles, D., Stenchikov, G., Shevchenko, I., Smith, J., Bedka, K., Kesarkar, A., Singh, V., Bhate, J., Ravikiran, V., Rao, M.D., Ravindrababu, S., Patel, A., Vernier, H., Wienhold, F.G., Liu, H., Knepp, T., Thomason, L., Crawford, J.,Ziemba, L., Moore, J., Crumeyrolle, S., Williamson, M., Berthet, G., Jégou, F., and Renard, J.B

Observation- and model-based estimates of particulate dry nitrogen deposition to the oceans

Date of Publication
05/07/2017
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 17, 8189–8210.

Authors

Baker, A.R., Kanakidou, M., Altieri, K.E., Daskalakis, N., Okin, G.S.,Myriokefalitakis, S., Dentener, F., Uematsu, M., Sarin, M.M., Duce, R.A.,Galloway, J.N., Keene, W.C., Singh, A., Zamora, L.M., Lamarque, J.-F.,Hsu, S.-C., Rohekar, S.S., Prospero, J.M.

A reevaluation of the magnitude and impacts of anthropogenic atmospheric nitrogen inputs on the ocean

Date of Publication
09/03/2017
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Global Biogeochemical Cycles 31, 289–305. doi: 10.1002/2016GB005586

Authors

T. Jickells, K. Altieri, E. Buitenhuis, A. Baker, D. Capone, R. Duce, F. Dentener, K. Fennel, M. Kanakidou, J. LaRoche, K. Lee, P. Liss, J. Middelburg, K. Moore, G. Okin, A. Oschlies, M. M. Sarin, S. Seitzinger, J. Sharples, A. Singh, P. Suntharalingam, M. Uematsu, and L. Zamora

Astrobiological implications of dim light phototrophy in deep-sea red clays

Date of Publication
28/02/2017
Journal Impact Factor
Journal
Life Sciences in Space Research, V. 12, 39-50

Authors

Anindita Das, Tanya Singh, PA LokaBharathi, Prashant K Dhakephalkar, Sweta Mallik, Pranav R Kshirsagar, NH Khadge, B Nagender Nath, Satadru Bhattacharya, Aditya Kumar Dagar, Prabhjot Kaur, Dwijesh Ray, Anil D Shukla, Christabelle EG Fernandes, Sheryl O Fernandes, Tresa Remya A Thomas, SS Mamatha, Babu Shashikant Mourya, Ram Murti Meena