Prodip Acharja
Project Scientist
prodip@tropmet.res.in
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Prodip-Acharja
https://www.linkedin.com/in/prodip-acharja-71b02898/
About
Pursuing Ph.D. on the topic “Understanding chemistry of aerosols and trace gases and their source mechanisms in urban regions over India” at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune.
Before joining his Ph.D. he did his M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Hyderabad (HCU) in 2013, and B.Sc. (Honours) in Physics from the University of Burdwan in 2011.
Member of the Winter Fog Experiment (WiFEx) Research Field campaign (2015-Present).
Member of the Realtime Ambient Source Apportionment of Gases and Aerosol for Mitigation (RASAGAM) Research Field campaign (2021-Present).
His research interest is mainly in understanding the chemistry of aerosols and trace gases using high-resolution observations and mathematical modeling.
Scientific Careers
Project Scientist, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune (India)
March 2020 - Present
Research Scholar, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune (India)
Sept 2013 - Feb 2020
Summer Internship, Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad
National Photonics Fellowship Project Student, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Bhopal
Academic Records
Pursuing Ph.D., Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, India
Dissertation title: Understanding chemistry of aerosols and trace gases and their source mechanisms in urban regions over India
Supervisor: Dr. Kaushar Ali
MSc, Physics from University of Hyderabad (HCU), Hyderabad, India
2011 - 2013
BSc, Physics (Honors) from University of Burdwan, West Bengal, India
2008-2011
List of Publication
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Prodip Acharja, Kaushar Ali, Sachin D. Ghude, Vinayak Sinha, Baerbel Sinha, Rachana Kulkarni, Ismail Gultepe, Madhavan Nair Rajeevan, Enhanced secondary aerosol formation driven by excess ammonia during fog episodes in Delhi, India (2022) [Link ]
- 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 ]
- Prodip Acharja, Akash Vispute, Sreyashi Debnath, Narendra G. Dhangar, Prasanna Lonkar, Kaushar Ali, Sachin D. Ghude Size-resolved Compositional Analysis and Source Apportionment of Submicron Aerosol during Lockdown Period using HR-ToF-AMS (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 ]
- 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 ]
- 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 ]
- 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 ]
- Jena, C., Sachin D. Ghude, Kulkarni R., Debnath S., Kumar R., Soni V. K., P. Acharja, Kulkarni S. H., Khare M., Kaginalkar A. J., Chate D. M., Ali K., Nanjundiah R. S., and Rajeevan M. N. Evaluating the sensitivity of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) simulations to chemical mechanism in Delhi, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., (2020) [Link ]
- Prodip Acharja, Kaushar Ali, K., Trivedi D.K., Safai P.D., Sachin Ghude, Prabhakaran, T., Rajeevan, M, Characterization of atmospheric trace gases and water soluble inorganic chemical ions of PM1 and PM2.5 at Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi during 2017-18 winter, The Science of the total environment (2020) [Link ]
- Kaushar Ali, Prodip Acharja, D. K. Trivedi, Rachna Kulkarni, Prakash Pithani, P. D. Safai, D. M. Chate, Sachin Ghude, R. K. Jenamani, M. Rajeevan Characterization and source identification of PM2.5 and its chemical and carbonaceous constituents during Winter Fog Experiment 2015-16 at Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi, 2019, Science of Total Environment, 662 687–696. (2019) [Link ]
- Kaushar Ali, D K Trivedi, Dilip M Chate, Gufran Beig, Prodip Acharja & H K Trimbake PM2.5 , PM10 and surface ozone over Lumbini Protected Zone, Nepal, during monsoon season of 2012 Journal of Earth System Science, 128(4), pp.1-13 (2019) [Link ]
- Sachin D. Ghude, Acharja Prodip et. al., Winter fog experiment over the Indo-Gangetic plains of India, Current Science, 112 (4), 767,-784, (2017) [Link ]
- Kaushar Ali, A. S. Panicker, G. Beig, R. Srinivas & P. Acharja Carbonaceous aerosols over Pune and Hyderabad (India) and influence of meteorological factors Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry, 73(1), pp.1-27 (2015) [Link ]
- Pritam Khan, Prodip Acharja, Abin Joshy, Arinjoy Bhattacharya, Deepak Kumar, K. V. Adarsh Nanosecond light-induced transient absorption in As2S3: Self-trapped exciton recombination in amorphous chalcogenides Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 426, pp.72-77 (2015) [Link ]
Conferences and Talk
- European Geophysical Union (vEGU) General Assembly, 19–30 April 2021
- Indian Aerosol Science and Technology Association (IASTA) Conference, 2018, at IIT-Delhi
- National Symposium on Understanding Weather and Climate Variability: Research for Society 24 to 27 October, 2018. Banaras Hindu University (BHU), India
- 8th International Conference on Fog, Fog Collection and Dew (IFDA), 14-19 July 2019; Taipei, Taiwan
- Acharja Prodip., Ghude, S., Ali, K. and Gultepe, I., 2021, April. Fine particle pH and gas-particle partitioning during winter fog in Delhi, India. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (pp. EGU21-14140)
- Acharja, Prodip, and Ali, K., 2019, Chemistry of fine particulates during winter fog of 2017-18 at IGIA, Delhi; In 8th International Conference·on Fog, Fog Collection and Dew (IFDA), Taiwan, Abstracts
Research
- Aerosol and trace gas chemistry
- Thermodynamical properties of aerosols and trace gases
- High-resolution measurements using Aerodyne HR-ToF-AMS, Monitor for AeRosols and Gases in Ambient air (MARGA-2S), Scanning Mobility Particle Sizer (SMPS), Organic Carbon and Elemental Carbon (OC/EC) Analyzer, and Ion Chromatography (IC)
- Models like ISORROPIA-II, SBDART, WRF-Chem, and AIM
- Source apportionment (PMF) using EPA-PMF, and IGOR-Pro
Achievements
Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in Physics