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Sunita Verma

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Sunita Verma
Science Team
Tropospheric Chemistry, Global Modeling

Education
  • Master of Technology in Environmental Study, G.J. University, India (1999)
  • Ph.D. Atmospheric Science, Centre for Atmospheric Sciences Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India (2005)
Research Interests
  • Long-range transport of black carbon to the northern polar region and its impact on Arctic snow/ice albedo
  • Climate modeling
  • Global atmospheric chemistry
  • Atmospheric aerosols
  • Global scale modeling of atmospheric aerosols and their radiative and climate impacts
  • Understanding impacts of climate change
Professional Experience
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory (2006-present)
    • Postdoctoral fellow
  • Centre for Global Environment Research, TERI Delhi, India (2006)
    • Associate fellow
  • Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, IIT Delhi, India (2000-2006)
    • Senior Research fellow
  • Centre for Energy Studies, IIT Delhi, India (1999-2000)
    • Research associate
Selected Awards
  • Best Paper Presentation Award at the International Conference on Aerosols, Clouds and Indian Monsoons, IATSA
  • Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research (IFCPAR), Doctoral fellowship (2000-2004)
  • Graduate Scholarship, Haryana Government, India (1992-1995)
  • 10+2 Scholarship Haryana Government, India (1990-1992)
Selected Publications
  1. Verma, Sunita, John Worden, Brad Pierce, Dylan B. A. Jones, Jassim Al-Saadi, Folkert Boersma, Kevin Bowman, Annmarie Eldering, Brendan Fisher, Line Jourdain, Susan Kulawik1 and Helen Worden, Ozone Production in Boreal Fire Smoke Plumes using observations from the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer and the Ozone Monitoring Instrument, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2008JD010108, October 3, 2008, in press.
  2. S., Verma, John Worden, Swagata Payra, Line Jourdain and Changsub Shim, Characterizing the Long-Range Transport of Black Carbon Aerosols during Transport and Chemical Evolution over the Pacific (TRACE-P) Experiment, Environment Monitoring and Assessment, EMAS2385, accepted, in press, 2008
  3. S. Verma, Boucher, O., Reddy, M. S., Upadhyaya, H. C., Levan, P., Binkowski, F., and Sharma, O. P., Modeling and analysis of aerosol processes in an interactive chemistry GCM, J. Geophys. Research, Vol. 112, No. D3, D03207, 2007.
  4. S. Verma, O. Boucher, H.C. Upadhyaya and O. P. Sharma, Sulfate aerosols forcing: An estimate using a three-dimensional interactive chemistry scheme, Atmospheric Environment, Vol. 40, Issue 40, 7953-7962, 2006.
  5. S. Verma, O. Boucher, M. S. Reddy, S.K. Deb, H.C. Upadhyaya, P. Levan, F. Binkowski and O.P. Sharma, Tropospheric distribution of sulphate aerosol number and mass concentrations for INDOEX-IFP and its transport over Indian Ocean, Atmos. Chem. and Phy. Discuss., 5, 395-436, 2005.
  6. S. Verma, S.K. Deb, O. Boucher, H.C. Upadhyaya, O.P. Sharma, P. Levan and F. Binkowski, A GCM study on sulphate aerosols during the winter monsoon season for 1998 and 1999, Bulletin of the Indian Aerosol Science and Technology Association (IASTA-2004), 16(1), 43-45, 2004.
  7. S.K. Deb, S. Verma, H.C. Upadhyaya, J.Y. Grandpeix and O.P. Sharma, Parameterization in tropics, some aspects of environmental fluid mechanics, Environmental Fluid Mechanics (ICEFM-2005), Eds. S. N. Bora, Ellied Publishers. Pvt. Ltd., 159-165, 2005.