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Sunita Verma

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

Projects

TES
TES (Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer) is one of four science instruments aboard NASA's Aura satellite, which was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California on July 15, 2004.

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

S., Verma, John Worden, Brad Pierce, Dylan Jones, Jassim Al-Saadi, Kevin Bowman and TES team, Ozone Production in Boreal Fire Smoke Plume as observed by the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer and the Ozone Monitoring Instrument, under review, JGR, 2008JD010108, 2008.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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