Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals (2010)

    1. Abhilash, S., K. Mohankumar, S. S. Das, and K. K. Kumar , “Vertical structure of tropical mesoscale convective systems : observations using VHF radar and cloud resolving model simulations”, Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics., 109, 73 - 90, 2010, doi :10.1007/s00703-010-0087-7.
    2. Alappattu, D. P. and P. K. Kunhikrishnan, "First observation of turbulence parameters in the troposphere over the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea using radiosonde", Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, D06105, 2010. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/10.1029/2009JD012916)
    3. Alappattu, D. P. and P. K. Kunhikrishnan, "Observation of the thermodynamic structure of marine atmospheric boundary layer over Bay of Bengal, Northern Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea during pre-monsoon period", Journal of Atmospheric Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 72, 1318-1326, 2010. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2010.07.011)
    4. Babu, S.S., K.K. Moorthy and S.K. Satheesh, “Latitudinal gradient in aerosol properties over the Indian and Southern oceans during the austral summer”, Current Science, 99 (10), 2010. (https://www.currentscience.ac.in/Downloads/article_id_099_10_1384_1389_0.pdf)
    5. Babu, S.S., K.K. Moothy and S.K. Satheesh, “Vertical and Horizontal Gradients in Aerosol Black Carbon and Its Mass Fraction to Composite Aerosols over the East Coast of Peninsular India from Aircraft Measurements”, Advances in Meteorology, 812075, 1-7, 2010. (http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1155/2010/812075)
    6. Babu, S.S., V. Sreekanth, V.S. Nair, S.K. Satheesh and K.K. Moorthy, “Vertical profile of aerosol single scattering albedo over west coast of India during W_ICARB”, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar Terrestrial Physics, 72, 786-882, 2010. (http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2010.04.013)
    7. Bhardwaj, A., M. Wieser, M. B. Dhanya, S. Barabash, Y. Futaana, M. Holmström, R. Sridharan, P. Wurz, A. Schaufelberger, and K. Asamura, "The Sub-keV Atom Reflecting Analyzer (SARA) Experiment aboard Chandrayaan-1 mission: Instrument and Observations", Advances in Geosciences, 19, 151-162, 2010.
    8. Branduardi-Raymont, G., A. Bhardwaj, R. F. Elsner, and P. Rodriguez, "X-rays from Saturn: A study with XMM Newton and Chandra over the years 2002-05", Astronomy and Astrophysics, 510 (A73), 1-9, 2010. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913110)
    9. Chandra, N R., G. Yellaiah, S. V. B. Rao, and G. RamKumar , “MST radar observations of meteor showers and trail induced irregularities in the Ionospheric E-region”, Indian Journal of Radio and Space Physics., 39,138-143. 2010,
    10. Chaubey, J.P., K.K. Moorthy, S.S. Babu, V.S. Nair and A. Tiwari, “Black carbon aerosols over coastal Antarctica and its scavenging by snow during the Southern Hemispheric summer”, Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, D10210, 2010. (http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1029/2009JD013381)
    11. Das, S. S., A.K.Ghosh, K. Satheesan, A.R. Jain, and K. N. Uma , “Characteristics of atmospheric turbulence in terms of background atmospheric parameters inferred using MST radar at Gadanki (13.5 N, 79.2E)”, Radio Science, 45, RS4008, 2010, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009RS004256.
    12. Das, S. S., K. K. Kumar, and K. N. Uma , “MST radar investigation on inertia-gravity waves associated with tropical depression in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere over Gadanki (13.5N, 79.2E)”, Journal of Atmosphere Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 72, 1184-1194, 2010, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2010.07.016.
    13. Das, S. S., K. K. Kumar, S. B. Veena, and G. Ramkumar , “Simultaneous observation of quasi 16-day wave in the mesospheric winds and temperature over low-latitudes with the SKiYMET radar”, Radio Science,45, RS6014, 2010, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009RS004300.
    14. Dumka, U.C., K.K. Moorthy, R. Kumar, P. Hegde, R. Sagar, P. Pant, N. Singh and S.S. Babu, “Characteristics of aerosol mass concentration over a high altitude location in the central Himalayas from multi-year measurements”, Atmospheric Research, 96(4), 510-521, 2010. (http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.atmosres.2009.12.010)
    15. Futaana, Y., S. Barabash, M. Wieser, M. Holmström, A. Bhardwaj, M. B. Dhanya, R. Sridharan, P. Wurz, A. Schaufelberger, and K. Asamura, "Protons in the Lunar Wake Observed by the SARA Instrument on board Chandrayaan-1", Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, A10248, 2010. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2010JA015264)
    16. Girach, I. A. and P. R. Nair, "Spatial distribution of near-surface CO over bay of Bengal during winter: role of transport", Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 72, 1241-1250, 2010. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2010.07.025)
    17. Holmström, M., M. Wieser, S. Barabash, Y. Futaana, and A. Bhardwaj, "Dynamics of solar wind protons reflected by the Moon", Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, A06206, 2010. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009JA014843)
    18. Hossain, M. M, T. K. Pant, C. Vineeth, S. G. Sumod and R. Sridharan, "Daytime Sodium Airglow Emission Measurements over Trivandrum using a Scanning Monochromator: First Results", Annales Geophysicae, 28, 2071-2077, 2010.
    19. Hui, Y., D. R. Schultz, V. A. Kharchenko, A. Bhardwaj, G. Branduardi-Raymont, P. C. Stancil, T. E. Cravens, C. M. Lisse, and A. Dalgarno, "Comparative analysis and variability of the Jovian X-ray spectrum detected by the Chandra and XMM-Newton observations", Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, A07102, 1-19, 2010. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009JA014854)
    20. Jain, A. R., V. Panwar, T. K. Mandal, V. R. Rao, A. Goel, R. Gautam, S. S. Das, and S. K. Dhaka , “Influence of monsoon associated mesoscale convection systems on the tropical tropopause region”, Annales Geophysicae., 28, 927-940, 2010,
    21. Jena, B., D. Swain and A. Tyagi , “Application of artificial neural networks for sea surface wind speed retrieval from IRS-P4 (MSMR) brightness temperature”, IEEE-Geo and Remote Sensing Letters, 7 (3), 567-571, 2010,
    22. Kompalli, S.K., S.S. Babu and K.K. Moorthy, “Inter-comparison of aerosol optical depth from the Multi-wavelength solar Radiometer with other radiometric measurements”, Indian Journal of Radio and Space Physics, 39, 364-371, 2010. (http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/10930)
    23. Liu, G., Immel T.J., S.L.England, K.K.Kumar, and G. Ramkumar , “Temporal modulations of the longitudinal structure in F2 peak height in the equatorial ionosphere as observed by COSMIC”, Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, A04303, 2010, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009JA014829.
    24. Liu, G., T. J. Immel, S. L. England, K. K. Kumar, and G. Ramkumar , “Temporal modulation of the four-peaked longitudinal structure of the equatorial ionosphere by the 2 day planetary wave”, Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, A12338, 2010, http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1029/2010JA016071.
    25. Mathew, T. J, S. R. P. Nayar, S. Ravindran and T. K. Pant, "Characteristics of the equatorial F-region vertical plasma drift observed during post-sunset and pre-sunrise hours", Advances in space Research, 46, 618-625, 2010.
    26. Meenu, S., K. Rajeev, K. Parameswaran and A. K. M. Nair, "Regional distribution of deep clouds and cloud top altitudes over the Indian subcontinent and the surrounding oceans", Journal Geophysical Research, 115(D05205), 2010. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009JD011802)
    27. Mishra, M. K., K. Rajeev, B. V. Thampi, K. Parameswaran and A. K. M. Nair, "Micro pulse lidar observations of the dust layer in the lower troposphere over the southwest coast of Peninsular India during the Asian Summer Monsoon season", Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 72, 1251-1259, 2010. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2010.08.012)
    28. Moorthy, K.K., S.N. Beegum, S.S. Babu, A. Smirnov, S.R. John, K.R. Kumar, K. Narasimhulu, C.B.S. Dutt and V.S. Nair,“Optical and physical characteristics of Bay of Bengal aerosols during W-ICARB: Spatial and vertical heterogeneities in the marine atmospheric boundary layer and in the vertical column”, Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, D24213, 2010. (http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1029/2010JD014094)
    29. Nair, V.S.N., S.K. Satheesh, K.K. Moorthy, S.S. Babu, P.R. Nair and S.K. George, “Surprising observation of large anthropogenic aerosol fraction over the “near-pristine” southern Bay of Bengal: Climate implications”, Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, D21201, 2010. (http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1029/2010JD013954)
    30. Narendra Babu, A., J. B. Nee, and K. K. Kumar , “Seasonal and diurnal variation of convective available potentialenergy (CAPE) using COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 observations over the tropics”, Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, D04102, 2010, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009JD012535.
    31. Parameswaran, K., Bijoy V Thampi, S. V. Sunilkumar , “Latitudinal dependence of the seasonal variation of particulate extinction in the UTLS over the Indian longitude sector during volcanically quiescent period based on lidar and SAGE-II observations”, Journal of Atmosphere Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 72, 1024-1035, 2010, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2010.06.004.
    32. Pathak, B., G. Kalita, K. Bhuyan, P.K. Bhuyan and K.K. Moorthy, “Aerosol temporal characteristics and its impact on shortwave radiative forcing at a location in the northeast of India”, 115, D19204, 1-14, Journal of Geophysical Research, 2010. (http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1029/2009JD013462)
    33. Rajeev, K., K. Parameswaran, B. V. Thampi, M. K. Mishra, A. K. M. Nair and S. Meenu, "Altitude distribution of aerosols over Southeast Arabian Sea coast during pre-monsoon season: Elevated layers, long-range transport and atmospheric radiative heating", Atmospheric Environment, 44, 2597-2604, 2010. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.04.014)
    34. Ram, K., M. M. Sarin and P. Hegde, "Long-term record of aerosol optical properties and chemical composition from a high-altitude site (Manora Peak) in Central Himalaya", Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 10, 11791-11803, 2010. (http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-10-11791-2010)
    35. Rani, S. I., Radhika Ramachandran, D. Bala Subrahamanyam, Denny P. Alappattu and P. K. Kunhikrishnan, "Characterization of sea/land breeze circulation along the west coast of Indian subcontinent during pre-monsoon season", Atmospheric Research, 95, 367-378, 2010. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2009.10.009)
    36. Rao, T. N., K. N. Uma, T. M. Satyanarayana, and D. N. Rao , “Differences in draft core statistics from wet spell to dry spell over Gadanki (13.5 N, 79.2 E). India”, Monthly Weather Review., 2010, http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1175/2009MWR3057.1.
    37. Saha K., C. S. Raju and K.Parameswaran, "A New Hydrostatic Mapping Function for Tropospheric Delay Estimation", Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 72, 125-134, 2010. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2009.10.017)
    38. Satheesh, S.K., V. Vinoj and K. Krishna Moorthy, “Assessment of Aerosol Radiative Impact over Oceanic Regions Adjacent to Indian Subcontinent Using Multi-satellite Analysis”, Advances in Meteorology, 139186, 1-13, 2010. (http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1155/2010/139186)
    39. Satheesh, S.K., V. Vinoj and K.K. Moorthy, “Radiative effects of aerosols at an urban location in southern India: Observations versus model”, Atmospheric Environment, 44(2010), 5295-5304, 2011. (http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.07.020)
    40. Sharma, K., R. S. Dabas, S. K. Sarkar, R. M. Das, S. Ravindran, and A. K. Gwal, "Anomalous enhancement of ionospheric F2 layer critical frequency and total electron content over low latitudes before three recent major earthquakes in China", Journal Geophysical Research, 115, A11313, 2010. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009JA014842)
    41. Sreeja, V., S. Ravindran and T. K. Pant, "Features of the F3 layer Occurrence over the Equatorial Location of Trivandrum", Annales Geophysicae, 28, 1741-1747, 2010.
    42. Sridharan, R., S. M. Ahmed, T. P. Das, P. Sreelatha, P. Pradeepkumar, N. Naik, and G. Supriya, " 'Direct' evidence of water (H2O) in the sunlit lunar ambience from CHACE on MIP of Chandrayaan I", Planetary and Space Science, 58, 947-950, 2010. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2010.02.013)
    43. Sridharan, R., S. M. Ahmed, T. P. Das, P. Sreelatha, P. Pradeepkumar, N. Naik, and G. Supriya, "The Sunlit Lunar Atmosphere: a Comprehensive Study by CHACE on the Moon Impact Probe of Chandrayaan-1", Planetary and Space Science, 58, 1567-1577, 2010. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2010.07.027)
    44. Srivastava, S., S. Lal, D. Bala Subrahamanyam, S. Gupta, S. Venkataramani and T. A. Rajesh, "Seasonal variability in mixed layer height and its impact on trace gas distribution over a tropical urban site: Ahmedabad", Atmospheric Research, 96, 79-87, 2010. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2009.11.015)
    45. Sunilkumar, S. V., K. Parameswaran, K. Rajeev, B. V. Krishna Murthy, Sanjay Mehta, and Asha Babu , “Semitransparent Cirrus clouds in the Tropical Tropopause Layer during two contrasting seasons”, Journal of Atmosphere Solar-Terrestrial Physics, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2010.03.020, 72, 745-76, 2010,
    46. Sunilkumar, S. V., K. Parameswaran, K. Rajeev, B. V. KrishnaMurthy, S. Meenu, S. K. Mehta, and A. Babu, "Semitransparent cirrus clouds in the tropical tropopause layer during two contrasting seasons", Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 72, 745-762, 2010. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2010.03.020)
    47. Thampi, R. S., and L. Pagani, "Spectroscopic study of 'CO' and its isotopic mm/submillimeter lines from dark Cloud Lynds 183", Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy, 31, 31-41, 2010.
    48. UdayBhaskar, T. V. S., D. Swain, M. Ravichandran , “Sonic Layer Depth variability in the Arabian Sea”, Int. J. Oce. Oceano.,4, 17-28, 2010,
    49. Vineeth, C, T. K. Pant, K. K. Kumar and S. G. Sumod, " The Tropical Connection to the Polar Stratospheric Sudden Warming through Quasi 16-day wave", Annales Geophysicae, 28, 2007-2013, 2010.
    50. Vineeth, C, T. K. Pant, S. Gurubaran, M. M. Hossain and R. Sridharan, " A comparison of Optically measured Daytime Mesopause Temperatures over the Tropics during the Solar Maximum and Minimum ", Planetary and space science, 62, 647-653, 2010.
    51. Vinoj,V., S.K. Satheesh and K.K. Moorthy “Optical, radiative, and source characteristics of aerosols at Minicoy, a remote island in the southern Arabian Sea”, Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, D01201, 2010. (http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1029/2009JD011810)
    52. Wieser, M., S. Barabash, Y. Futaana, M. Holmström, A. Bhardwaj, R. Sridharan, M. B. Dhanya, P. Wurz, A. Schaufelberger, and K. Asamura, "First Observation of a mini-magnetosphere above a lunar magnetic anomaly using energetic neutral atoms", Geophysical Research Letters, 37, L05103, 2010. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009GL041721)
    53. Xavier, P.K., Viju O. John, S. A. Buehler, R. S. Ajaymohan and S. Sijikumar, "Variability of Indian summer monsoon in a new upper tropospheric humidity data set", Geophysical Research Letters, 37, L05705, 2010. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009GL041861)

    Other Important Publications

    1. Bhardwaj, A., "X-Ray Emission from the Solar System Bodies: Connection with Solar X-Rays and Solar Wind", in SOLAR WIND TWELVE: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Solar Wind Conference, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1216, 526-531, 2010.
    2. Bhardwaj, A., S. Barabash, M. B. Dhanya, M. Wieser, Y. Futaana, M. Holmström, R. Sridharan, P. Wurz, A. Schaufelberger, and K. Asamura, "Studying the Lunar-Solar Wind Interaction with the SARA Experiment aboard the Indian Lunar Mission Chandrayaan-1", in SOLAR WIND TWELVE: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Solar Wind Conference, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1216, 518-521, 2010.
    3. Dhanya, M. B., and A. Bhardwaj, "Relationship between Soft X-rays and EUV Emissions during Solar Flares: A Case Study for October-November 2003", in Magnetic Coupling between the Interior and Atmosphere of the Sun, edited by S. Hasan and R. J. Rutten, Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 475-477, 2010.
    4. Sreevalsan, E., S. S.Das, R. Sasikumar, T. Arivukkodi, and J. Badger , “Indian Wind Atlas”, Govt. of India, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Centre for Wind Energy Technology, 2010, ISBN : 978-81-909823-0-6.
    5. Subrahamanyam, D.B., Radhika Ramachandran, T. J. Anurose and Mannil Mohan, "Short-to-Medium Range Weather Forecasting for Satellite Launches: Utilization of NWP Models in conjunction with the Earth Observing System", Bulletin of National Natural Resources Management System NNRMS(B), 35, 37-49, 2010.