Prof. Ravi Kumar Kunchala

Dr. Ravi Kumar Kunchala received his Master’s degree (2008) in Meteorology from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. Upon the completion of Master’s, he joined at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune to pursue PhD in November, 2008 and submitted the doctoral thesis entitles on “A study of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) transport over India using observations and modeling techniques” in Atmospheric and Space Sciences at University of Pune in Sep,2014. He then moved to Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology (JAMSATEC), Japan to continue research as a Post-Doctoral Researcher, where he worked in “GRENE-Arctic Climate Change”. Then he further worked as Post-Doctoral Researcher in a Indo-German Project at IITM, Pune and at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia before joining at Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in March, 2018 as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Kunchala's broad research interests is to focus on the key issues of Greenhouse Gases transport mechanisms relevant to the Indian subcontinent mainly on the role of Asian monsoons on transport pathways and spatial variabilities of GHG over the Indian subcontinent using ground based measurements, multi-satellite retrieved data sets and as well as global and regional modeling approaches. He continued research on focusing the impact of climate forcings on spatio-temporal variability of CO2 over Indian subcontinent. His research areas also focusing on the regional transport modeling for the trace gases as well.

Areas of Interest:

• Regional carbon cycle studies through observational and modelling approaches

• Understanding the variability and transport pathways of Greenhouse and trace gases using various observational platforms

• Carbon - Climate interactions using ground-based and remote sensing observations

• Estimating the surface fluxes of major greenhouse gases (GHGs) using observations and modeling approaches

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