Lead member in the development of the Decision Support System
for Air Quality Management in Delhi of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, India [Link ]
Lead member in the development of fog forecasting system of the Indian Institute of Tropical
Meteorology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, India. The system for the first time involves the influence of aerosol in fog-formation
over northern India [Link ]
Scientific Careers
Scientist-C, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune (India) September, 2020 - Present
Post-doctoral Research Associate, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton University, Geophysical
Fluid Dynamics Laboratory October, 2018 - August, 2020
Project Scientist, Divecha Center for Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science September, 2017 - October, 2018
Journal reviewer, Journal of Earth System Science, Geophysical Research Letters, Atmospheric Environment, Environmental Science and Pollution Research
Book reviewer, ELSEVIER Publications
Teaching Careers
Teaching Assistant for Atmospheric Radiation and Climate August 2014
Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Atmospheric Dynamic August 2015
Teaching Assistant for Earth System Modeling January 2016
Academic Records
Ph.D., Atmospheric Science, Center for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Indian Institute of Science
Dissertation title: Simulation of Aerosol species over the Indian region: Evaluation and improvements Advisors: Prof. S. K. Satheesh and Prof. Ravi S. Nanjundiah
2018
M.Tech., Climate Science, Center for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Indian Institute of Science
Dissertation title: Evaluation of WRF-Chem over the Indian Region Advisors: Prof. Ravi S. Nanjundiah and Prof. S. K. Satheesh
2012
B.E., Mechanical Engineering, University of Pune
2009
Publication
Journal Publications
Akash S. Vispute, Prodip Acharja, Suresh W. Gosavi, Gaurav Govardhan , Vinayak Ruge, M.N. Patil, T. Dharmaraj, Sachin D. Ghude Source characteristics of Non-Refractory Particulate Matter (NR-PM1) using High-Resolution Time-of-Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometric (HR-ToF-AMS) measurements in the urban industrial city in India Atmospheric Environment (2024)
Rajmal Jat, Sachin D. Ghude, Gaurav Govardhan , Rajesh Kumar, Prafull P Yadav, Pratul Sharma, Gayatry Kalita, Sreyashi Debnath, Santosh H Kulkarni, Dilip M Chate, Ravi S Nanjundiah Effectiveness of respiratory face masks in reducing acute PM2. 5 pollution exposure during peak pollution period in Delhi. Science of The Total Environment 943, 173787 (2024)
Rupal Ambulkar, Gaurav Govardhan , Srujan Gavhale, Gayatry Kalita, Chaitanya Pande, Rajmal Jat, Santosh Kulkarni, Manoj Khare, S.D. Attri and Sachin D. Ghude
Crop residue burning in north-western India: Emission estimation and Uncertainty quantification
(2024)
Gayatry Kalita, Prafull P. Yadav, Rajmal Jat, Gaurav Govardhan , Rupal Ambulkar, Rajesh Kumar, Preeti Gunwani, Sreyashi Debnath, Pratul Sharma, Santosh Kulkarni, Akshara Kaginalkar, and Sachin D. Ghude Forecasting of an unusual dust event over Western India by the Air Quality Early Warning System Atmospheric Environment (2023) [Link ]
Sachin D. Ghude
, R. K. Jenamani
, Rachana Kulkarni
, Sandeep Wagh
, Narendra G. Dhangar
, Avinash N. Parde
, Prodip Acharja
, Prasanna Lonkar
, Gaurav Govardhan
, Prafull Yadav
, Akash Vispute
, Sreyashi Debnath
, D. M. Lal
, D. S. Bisht
, Chinmay Jena
, Pooja V. Pawar
, Surendra S. Dhankhar
, V. Sinha
, D. M. Chate
, P. D. Safai
, N. Nigam
, Mahen Konwar
, Anupam Hazra
, T. Dharmaraj
, V. Gopalkrishnan
, B. Padmakumari
, Ismail Gultepe
, Mrinal Biswas
, A. K. Karipot
, Thara Prabhakaran
, Ravi S. Nanjundiah
, and M. Rajeevan WiFEX: Walk into the warm fog over Indo Gangetic Plain region BAMS (2023) [Link ]
Chinmay Jena*, Rajmal Jat, Prafull P.Yadav, Gaurav Govardhan , Gayatri Kalita, Sreyashi Debnath, Preeti Gunwani, Prodip Acharja, PoojaV.Pawar, Rachana Kulkarni, Pratul Sharma, Santosh H. Kulkarni, Manoj Khare, Akshara J. Kaginalkar, Dilip M. Chate, Rajesh Kumar, Vijay Kumar Soni, Sachin D. Ghude* Evaluating the sensitivity of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) simulations to chemical mechanism in WRF-Chem over Delhi Elsevier (2023)
Preeti Gunwani, Gaurav Govardhan , Chinmay Jena, Prafull Yadav, Santosh Kulkarni, Sreyashi Debnath, Pooja V. Pawar, Manoj Khare, Akshara Kaginalkar, Rajesh Kumar, Sandeep Wagh, Dilip Chate, Sachin D. Ghude Sensitivity of WRF/Chem simulated PM2.5 to initial/boundary conditions and planetary boundary layer parameterization schemes over the Indo‑Gangetic Plain Environ Monit Assess 195, 560 (2023) (2023) [Link ]
Sreyashi Debnath, Gaurav Govardhan , Subodh Kumar Saha, Anupam Hazra, Samir Pokhrel, Chinmay Jena, Rajesh Kumar, Sachin D. Ghude Impact of dust aerosols on the Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall on Intra-seasonal Time-scale Atmospheric Environment (2023) [Link ]
Sushrut Gaikwad; Bipin Kumar; Prafull P. Yadav; Rupal Ambulkar; Gaurav Govardhan ; Santosh Kulkarni; Rajesh Kumar; Dilip M. Chate; Narendra Nigam; Suryachandra A. Rao; Sachin Ghude "Prediction of fire-burning locations and emission of PM2.5 using Deep Learning based AI Model"
(2023)
Rajmal Jat1*, Sachin D. Ghude, Gaurav Govardhan , Rajesh Kumar, Prafull P.Yadav, Pratul Sharma, Gayatri Kalita, Sreyashi Debnath, Santosh H. Kulkarni, Dilip M. Chate, Ravi S. Nanjundiah Effectiveness of Respiratory Face Masks in Reducing Acute PM2.5 Pollution Exposure During Peak Pollution Period in Delhi. Elsevier (2023)
Sushrut Gaikwad; Bipin Kumar; Prafull P. Yadav; Rupal Ambulkar; Gaurav Govardhan ; Santosh Kulkarni; Rajesh Kumar; Dilip M. Chate; Narendra Nigam; Suryachandra A. Rao; Sachin Ghude
Prediction of fire-burning locations and emission of PM2.5 using Deep Learning based AI Model (2023)
Sachin D. Ghude, Ph.D.; Gaurav Govardhan , Ph.D.; Rajesh Kumar, Ph.D.; Prafull P. Yadav, Ph.D.; Pratul Sharma; Gayatri Kalita, Ph.D.; Sreyashi Debnath; Santosh H. Kulkarni; Dilip M. Chate; Ravi S. Nanjundiah Effectiveness of Respiratory Face Masks in Reducing Acute PM2.5 Pollution Exposure During Peak Pollution Period in Delhi
(2023)
Gayatry Kalita , Prafull P. Yadav , Rajmal Jat , Gaurav Govardhan , Rupal Ambulkar ,Rajesh Kumar , Preeti Gunwani ,Sreyashi Debnath , Pratul Sharma , Santosh Kulkarni, Akshara Kaginalkar , Sachin D. Ghude Forecasting of an unusual dust event over western India by the Air Quality Early Warning System
Atmospheric Environment (2023) [Link ]
Rajmal Jat, Sachin D. Ghude, Gaurav Govardhan , Rajesh Kumar, Prafull P.Yadav, Pratul Sharma, Gayatri Kalita, Sreyashi Debnath, Santosh H. Kulkarni, Dilip M. Chate, Ravi S. Nanjundiah. Effectiveness of Respiratory Face Masks in Reducing Acute PM2.5 Pollution Exposure During Peak Pollution Period in Delhi (Revised submission). Elsevier (2023)
Sreyashi Debnath, Gaurav Govardhan , Rajmal Jat, Gayatry Kalita, Prafull Yadav, Chinmay Jena, Rajesh Kumar, Sachin D. Ghude Black Carbon Emissions and its impact on the monsoon rainfall patterns over the Indian Subcontinent: Insights into localized warming effects Atmospheric Environment: X (2023)
Gaurav Govardhan , David Paynter, Venkatachalam Ramaswamy Effective Radiative Forcing of the Internally Mixed Sulfate and Black Carbon Aerosol in the GFDL AM4 Model: The Role Played by Other Aerosol Species Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres (2023) [Link ]
Gaurav Govardhan , Rupal Ambulkar, Santosh Kulkarni, Ashok Vishnoi, Prafull
Yadav, Begum Abida Choudhury, Manoj Khare and Sachin D. Ghude Stubble-burning activities in north-western India in 2021: Contribution to air pollution in Delhi (2023)
Gaurav Govardhan , Sachin D. Ghude, Rajesh Kumar, Sumit Sharma, Preeti Gunwani, Chinmay Jena, Prafull Yadav, Shubhangi Ingle, Sreyashi Debnath, Pooja Pawar, Prodip Acharja, Rajmal Jat, Gayatry Kalita, Rupal Ambulkar, Santosh Kulkarni, Akshara Kaginalkar, Vijay K Soni, Ravi S. Nanjundiah, and M. Rajeevan Decision Support System (v 1.0) for Air Quality Management in Delhi, India (2023)
Preeti Gunwani, Gaurav Govardhan , Chinmay Jena, Prafull Yadav, Santosh Kulkarni, Sreyashi Debnath, Pooja V. Pawar, Manoj Khare, Akshara Kaginalkar, Rajesh Kumar, Sandeep Wagh, Dilip Chate and Sachin D. Ghude Sensitivity of WRF/Chem simulated PM2.5 to Initial/Boundary conditions and Planetary Boundary Layer Parameterization schemes over the Indo-Gangetic Plain Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (2023)
Pooja V. Pawar, Sachin D. Ghude, Gaurav Govardhan , Prodip Acharja, Rachana Kulkarni, Rajesh Kumar, Baerbel Sinha, Vinayak Sinha, Chinmay Jena, Preeti Gunwani, Tapan Kumar Adhya, Eiko Nemitz, and Mark A. Sutton Chloride (HCl/Cl) dominates inorganic aerosol formation from ammonia in the Indo-Gangetic Plain during winter: modeling and comparison with observations Atmos. Chem. Phys (2023) [Link ]
Chinmay Jena, Prafull P.Yadav, Rajmal Jat, Gaurav Govardhan , Gayatri Kalita, Sreyashi Debnath, Preeti Gunwani, Prodip Acharja, PoojaV.Pawar, Rachana Kulkarni,Santosh H. Kulkarni, Manoj Khare, Akshara J. Kaginalkar, Dilip M. Chate, Rajesh Kumar, Vijay Kumar Soni, Sachin D. Ghude Evaluating the sensitivity of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) simulations to chemical mechanism in Delhi (2023)
Gaurav Govardhan , Rupal Ambulkar, Santosh Kulkarni, Ashok Vishnoi, Prafull Yadav, B Abida Choudhury, Manoj Khare, Sachin D. Ghude Satellite retrieved stubble-burning activities in north-western India in 2021: Contribution to air pollution in Delhi (2022)
Sachin D. Ghude, Kumar, R., Govardhan G. , Jena, C., Nanjundiah, R. S., & Rajeevan, M. New Delhi: air-quality warning system cuts peak pollution. Nature, 602(7896), 211. (2022) [Link ]
Sreyashi Debnath, Chinmay Jena, Sachin D. Ghude, Rajesh Kumar, Gaurav Govardhan , Preeti Gunwani, Subodh Kumar Saha, Anupam Hazra, Samir Pokhrela, Simulation of Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall (ISMR) with fully coupled regional chemistry transport model: A case study for 2017 (2022) [Link ]
Aditya Sengupta, Gaurav Govardhan , Sreyashi Debnath, Prafull Yadav, Santosh H. Kulkarni, Avinash N. Parde, Prasanna Lonkar, Narendra Dhangar, Preeti Gunwani, Sandeep Wagh, Sandip Nivdange, Chinmay Jena, Rajesh Kumar, Sachin D. Ghude Probing into the wintertime meteorology and particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10) forecast over Delhi Atmospheric Pollution Research, 101426 (2022) [Link ]
Gunwani P., Govardhan G. , Chinmay Jena, Santosh Kulkarni, Prafull Yadav, Pooja Pawar Jadhav, Manoj Khare, Akshara Kaginalkar, Rajesh Kumar, Dilip Chate and Sachin D. Ghude Sensitivity of WRF/Chem to different Meteorological Initial Conditions and PBL parameterization schemes, Atmospheric Environment under review (2022)
Yadav P., Narendra G. Dhangar, Parde A.N., Govardhan G. , The life cycle of dense fog over Delhi: A high-resolution WRF simulation study, under review (2022)
Acharja P. Ghude S., Sinha B., Barth M., Kulkarni R., Sinha V., Kumar R., Ali K., Govardhan G. , et al, Abating HCl and HNO3 is more effective than NH3 for mitigating high aerosol loading over the Indo-Gangetic Plain, under review (2022)
Nivdange Sandip, Chinmay Jena, Pooja Pawar, Gaurav Govardhan , Sreyashi Debnath, Santosh Kulkarni, Prasanna Lonkar, Akash Vispute, Narendra Dhangar, Avinash N. Parde, Prodip Acharja, Vinod Kumar, Prafull Yadav, Rachana Kulkarni, Manoj Khare, N. R. Karmalkar Nationwide CoViD-19 lockdown impact on air quality in India MAUSAM 73.1 (2022): 115-128, (2022) [Link ]
Acharja Prodip, Sachin D. Ghude, Baerbel Sinha, Mary Barth, Rachana Kulkarni, Vinayak Sinha, Rajesh Kumar, Kaushar Ali, Gaurav Govardhan , Ismail Gultepe, and Madhavan Nair Rajeevan Abating HCl and HNO3 is more effective than NH3 for mitigating high aerosol loading over the Indo-Gangetic Plain Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) (2022) [Link ]
Sreyashi Debnath, Rama Krishna Karumuri, Gaurav Govardhan , Rajmal Jat, Himadri Saini, Akash Vispute, Santosh H. Kulkarni, Chinmay Jena, Rajesh Kumar, D.M. Chate, Sachin D. Ghude Implications of implementing promulgated and prospective emission regulations on air quality and health in India during 2030 Aerosol and Air Quality Research (2022) [Link ]
Sandeep Wagh; Rachana Kulkarni; Prasanna Lonkar; Avinash N. Parde; Narendra G. Dhangar; Gaurav Govardhan ; Veeresh Sajjan; Sreyashi Debnath; Ismail Gultepe; M. Rajeevan; Sachin D. Ghude Development of visibility equation based on fog microphysical observations and its verification using the WRF model Modeling Earth Systems and Environment (2022) [Link ]
Pooja V. Pawar, Sachin D. Ghude, Gaurav Govardhan , Prodip Acharja, Rachana Kulkarni, Rajesh Kumar, Baerbel Sinha, Vinayak Sinha, Chinmay Jena, Preeti Gunwani, Tapan K. Adhya, Eiko Nemitz, and Mark A. Sutton "Hydrochloric acid emission dominates inorganic aerosol formation from ammonia in the Indo-Gangetic Plain during winter" Chem. Phys. Discuss. (2022) [Link ]
Prafull Yadav, Avinash N. Parde, Narendra Gokul Dhangar, Gaurav Govardhan , Deen Mani Lal, Sandip Wagh, Dasari S. V. V. D. Prasad, Rizwan Ahmed & Sachin D. Ghude Understanding the genesis of a dense fog event over Delhi using observations and high-resolution model experiments Modeling Earth Systems and Environment (2022) (2022) [Link ]
Pooja V. Pawar, Sachin D. Ghude, Gaurav Govardhan , Prodip Acharja, Rachana Kulkarni, Rajesh Kumar, Baerbel Sinha, Vinayak Sinha, Chinmay Jena, Preeti Gunwani, Tapan Kumar Adhya, Eiko Nemitz, and Mark A. Sutton Chloride (HCl/Cl-) dominates inorganic aerosol formation from ammonia in the Indo-Gangetic Plain during winter: Modeling and comparison with observations (2022) [Link ]
Avinash N. Parde; Sachin D. Ghude; Narendra G. Dhangar; Prasanna Lonkar; Sandeep Wagh; Gaurav Govardhan ; Mrinal K. Biswas; R K Jenaman Operational probabilistic fog prediction based on Ensemble Forecast System: A decision support system for fog Atmosphere (2022)
Prodip Acharja, Sachin D. Ghude, Baerbel Sinha, Mary Barth, Rachana Kulkarni, Vinayak Sinha, Rajesh Kumar, Kaushar Ali, Gaurav Govardhan , Ismail Gultepe, Madhavan Nair Rajeevan Thermodynamical framework for effective mitigation of high aerosol loading in the Indo-Gangetic Plain during winter Scientific Reports (2022)
Chinmay Jena, Prafull P.Yadav, Rajmal Jat, Gaurav Govardhan , Gayatri Kalita, Sreyashi Debnath, Preeti Gunwani, Prodip Acharja, PoojaV.Pawar, Rachana Kulkarni, Santosh H. Kulkarni, Manoj Khare, Akshara J. Kaginalkar, Dilip M. Chate, Rajesh Kumar, Vijay Kumar Soni, Sachin D. Ghude Evaluating the sensitivity of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) simulations to chemical mechanism in Delhi. Elsevier (2022)
Pooja V. Pawar, Sachin D. Ghude, Gaurav Govardhan , Prodip Acharja, Rachana Kulkarni, Rajesh Kumar, Baerbel Sinha, Vinayak Sinha, Chinmay Jena, Preeti Gunwani, Tapan Kumar Adhya, Eiko Nemitz, and Mark A. Sutton Chloride (HCl/Cl-) dominates inorganic aerosol formation from ammonia in the Indo-Gangetic Plain during winter: modelling and comparison with observations (2022) [Link ]
Pooja V. Pawar, Sachin D. Ghude, Chinmay Jena, Andrea Mring, Mark A. Sutton, Santosh Kulkarni, Deen Mani Lal, Divya Surendran, Martin Van Damme, Lieven Clarisse, Pierre-Franois Coheur, Xuejun Liu, Gaurav Govardhan , Wen Xu, Jize Jiang, and Tapan Kumar Adhya Analysis of atmospheric ammonia over South and East Asia based on the MOZART-4 model and its comparison with satellite and surface observations, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, (2021) [Link ]
Chinmay Jena, Sachin D. Ghude, Rajesh Kumar,Sreyashi Debnath, Gaurav Govardhan , Vijay K. Soni, Santosh H. Kulkarni, G. Beig, Ravi S. Nanjundiah & M. Rajeevan, Performance of high resolution (400 m) PM2.5 forecast over Delhi, Sci Rep, 11, 4104, (2021) [Link ]
Govardhan G. , Satheesh, S. K., Moorthy, K. K., and Nanjundiah, R. Simulations of black carbon over the Indian region: improvements and implications of diurnality in emissions, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 8229-8241, (2019) [Link ]
Hariram, C. R., Govardhan G. , Manoj, M. R., Anand, N. S., Kannan, K., Satheesh, S. K., and Moorthy, K. K. Morphology, Chemical Composition and Mixing State of Atmospheric Aerosols from Two Contrasting Environments in Southern India, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss. (2018) [Link ]
Govardhan G. et al., Possible climatic implications of high altitude black carbon emissions, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 9623-9644, (2017) [Link ]
Govardhan G. et al., Inter-comparison and performance evaluation of chemistry transport models over the Indian region, Atmospheric Environment, (2016) [Link ]
Govardhan G. et al., Performance of WRF-Chem over Indian region: Comparison with measurements, Journal of Earth System Science, (2015) [Link ]
Conference/Workshop Presentations
Results of Chemistry-transport model WRF-CHEM run, over Indian region, presented during International Conference on Opportunities and Challenges in Monsoon Prediction in a Changing Climate held at IITM-Pune, during 21st-25th Feb 2012
Simulations of aerosols during pre-monsoon and post-monsoon periods, over Indian region, presented at American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2012, San Francisco, USA
Simulation of Aerosol Concentration Over Indian Region with an Online Chemistry Model, presented at International workshop on Changing Chemistry in Changing Climate : Monsoon 2013, held at IITM, Pune during May-1- May 03, 2013 won Best Paper -Consolation Prize award
Performance of WRF-Chem over Indian region: Comparison with ARFINET measurements, presented at ARFI Project review meeting, Space Physics Laboratory, VSSC, ISRO, Trivandrum, during 8-9 January, 2014
Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Aerosols over the Indian Region with WRF-Chem selected for Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) 18th National Space Science Symposium (NSSS - 2014) which was held at Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh during January 29-February 1, 2014
Simulations of aerosols over Indian region with WRF-chem, presented at International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP) Annual Meeting, 7th April 2014, Bangalore
Performance of chemistry transport models over Indian region, presented at the National Climate Science Conference, held at the Indian Institute of Science, Banglore, during 2-3 July 2015
Aerosol Simulations over Indian Region in Off-line and On-line Chemistry Transport Models, presented during the 1st LORRI (Local and Remote influences on Rainfall over India) workshop held at Imperial College London on 10th July, 2015
Aerosol simulations over the Indian region Aerosol: comparison with ground and satellite-derived observations, presented at the SPIE conference held at New Delhi on 7th April, 2016
Performance of HADGEM-3 over Indian region, presented during the 2nd LORRI (Local and Remote influences on Rainfall over India) workshop held at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore on 19th July, 2016
High altitude emissions of BC: possible climatic implications, presented at ARFI Project review meeting, Space Physics Laboratory, VSSC, ISRO, Trivandrum, during 21-22 March, 2017
Sensitivity of effective radiative forcing to direct and indirect effects of individual aerosol species, presented at Tri-MIP-athlon-2 meeting, Princeton University, Princeton, USA, during 11-15 June, 2019
Decision Support System for Air Quality Management in Delhi, presented at IGAC Meeting 2021, MAP-AQ session, during 12-15 September 2021
A New Very High-Resolution Air Quality Forecasting System for Delhi and South Asia, AUH, Gurugram, on 24th September 2021
Air Quality forecasting and decision support system during a training programme on Climate Modeling and Remote Sensing applications for Environmental Systems, AUUP, Noida, 6th January 2022
Research
Aerosol-climate interactions
Model simulations of aerosol
Model evaluation and improvements
Mixing state of aerosol
Effective radiative forcing
Cloud radiative forcing
Air-quality forecasting
Fog forecasting
Awards & Honors
Jeremy Grantham Fellowship, Divecha Centre for Climate Change (2010-2017)
Scholarship from Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Govt. of India, Indian Institute of Science (2010-2017)