Aerosol, Air Quality and Climate Lab

Research Activities

• Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions

• Satellite Remote Sensing

• Air Pollution and Environment

• Indian Monsoon 

• Regional and Global Climate Modeling

• Urban Climate and Impact Based Studies

Publication Outcome 

My Google Citations (PI)

*Student publications under my supervision

Journal Articles 

*Sethi, S.S., Vinoj, V. (2025), Transported dust modulates aerosol pollution domes over rapidly urbanizing Indian cities. Commun Earth Environ 6, 554. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02538-0

*Gogoi, P.P. and Vinoj, V. (2025), Land Use Land Cover as a Potential Driver of Surface Air Temperature Change Over India. Meteorol Appl, 32: e70061. https://doi.org/10.1002/met.70061

*N. R. Karrevula; A. Boyaj; V. Vinoj; U. C. Mohanty (2025), Variability of urban heat extremes in the tropical city of Bhubaneswar. Acta Geophys. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11600-025-01599-1

Alugula Boyaj; N. R. Karrevula; Madhusmita Swain; P Sinha; Raghu Nadimpalli; Sahidul Islam; V Vinoj; Manoj Khare; Dev Niyogi; U C Mohanty (2025), Assessment of the WRF Model Configuration Optimization in Predicting the Heavy Rainfall over Urban City Bhubaneswar, India, Comput.Urban Sci. 5, 22 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43762-025-00180-2

Alugula Boyaj, P. Sinha, N. R. Karrevula, Raghu Nadimpalli, V. Vinoj, Sahidul Islam, Manoj Khare & U. C. Mohanty,  Assessment of the WRF Model for Real-Time Prediction of Heavy Rainfall Events over the Twin Cities of East Coast of India. Pure Appl. Geophys. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-025-03734-x

B. Dayanandan, N. Krishna, A. Parottil, V. Vinoj, Ahmed Al Harrasi, *B. Sanatan, P. Gupta, T. Eck, A. Smirnov, Humaid AlBadi (2025), Initial Study of Column-Integrated Aerosol Optical Properties over Birkat al Mouz, Sultanate of Oman. Aerosol Air Qual. Res. 25, 13 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s44408-025-00014-0

Anupam, B.R., Sahoo, U.C., Vinoj, V. P. Rath, (2025). Economic and environmental benefits of cool pavements: a case study of Bhubaneswar city. Environ Sci Pollut Res. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-025-36041-y

*Sarin TS , V. Vinoj, Gopika Pragna Gujjula, Bijayini Behera, Jayanti Jena, Srujana Mohanty (2025), The Spatial Mapping of Melioidosis Exposure in the Eastern Indian State of Odisha, Current Research in Microbial Sciences,  Available online 29 January 2025, 100346, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crmicr.2025.100346. 

Alugula Boyaj, Palash Sinha, U.C. Mohanty, V. Vinoj, Karumuri Ashok, Sahidul Islam, A. Kaginalkar, M. Khare (2024), Projected frequency of low to high-intensity rainfall events over India using bias-corrected CORDEX models, Atmospheric Research, Volume 312, 2024, 107760, ISSN 0169-8095, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2024.107760. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169809524005428)

*Sanatan, B., Vinoj, V., David, L.M, I.S. Sen (2024), Long-Range Transport of Aerosols and Regional Sources Using MODIS and NASA MERRA Reanalysis Over South Asia. Earth Syst Environ. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41748-024-00478-x

*Smaran, M., Vinoj, V. (2024). Evaluation of Background Black Carbon Concentration in India. Aerosol Air Qual. Res. 24, 230300. https://doi.org/10.4209/aaqr.230300

*Sethi Soumya Satyakanta and V. Vinoj (2024), Urbanization and Regional Climate Change-Linked Warming of Indian Cities, Nature Cities (https://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-024-00074-0). Altmetric Score > 150 and featured as top article (>95th percentile) in Nature Cities and other journals of the same age. This article was also highlighted by Nature India, https://www.nature.com/articles/d44151-024-00075-x

*Sanatan Binisia, V. Vinoj and Landu Kiranmayi (2024), The atmospheric aerosol spatial distribution and tropical intra-seasonal oscillations over the South Asian region, Atmospheric Pollution Research, 28 May 2024, 102199, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apr.2024.102199

*Narayana Reddy Karrevula, Alugula Boyaj, P Sinha, Raghu Nadimpalli, U C Mohanty, Sahidul Islam, Akshara Kaginalkar, V Vinoj (2024), Role of Planetary Boundary Layer Physics in Urban-scale WRF Model for Predicting the Heat Waves over Tropical City Bhubaneswar, Journal of Earth System Sciences, Volume 133, article number 169, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-024-02384-2

+Nita Roy, Indra S Sen; Soumita Boral; Tanuj Shukla; V. Vinoj (2024), Rain-induced melting of the Himalayan glaciers will enhance meltwater discharge to the river, Water Resources Research, Volume 60, Issue 6, e2023WR034528, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023WR034528

*A. Asutosh, V. Vinoj, K. Landu, H. Wang (2024),  Fast response of global monsoon area and precipitation to regional carbonaceous aerosols, Atmospheric Research, Volume 304, July 2024, 107354, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2024.107354

*A. Asutosh, V. Vinoj (2024), Role of local absorbing aerosols in modulating Indian summer monsoon rainfall, Science of The Total Environment, Volume 910, 2024, 168663, ISSN 0048-9697, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168663

*Soumya Satyakanta Sethi, V. Vinoj, P.P. Gogoi, K. Landu, D. Swain and U.C. Mohanty (2024), Spatio-temporal Evolution of Surface Urban Heat Island over Bhubaneswar-Cuttack Twin City: A Rapidly Growing Tropical Urban Complex in Eastern India, Environ Dev Sustain (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-023-03254-5

*Hara Prasad Nayak, Gopinath Nandini, V. Vinoj,  Kiranmayi Landu, Debadatta Swain,  Uma Charan Mohanty and Dev Niyogi (2023), Influence of urbanization on winter surface temperatures in a topographically asymmetric Tropical City, Bhubaneswar, India. Comput.Urban Sci. 3, 36 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43762-023-00112-y

Sanjeev Dwivedi, Amit Kumar Pandit, Buddhi Prakash Jangid, V. Yesubabu, M. Venkat Ratnam, V. Sathiyamoorthy, V. Vinoj, D. Narayana Rao and M. S. Narayanan (2023), Formation and maintenance of monsoon inversion over the Arabian Sea. Theor Appl Climatol (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-023-04785-7

Sanjay Kumar Mehta, A. Ananthavel, V. Vinoj, T. Prabhakaran, G. Pandithurai, D. Narayana Rao (2023), Characteristics of elevated aerosol layer over the Indian east coast, Kattankulathur (12.82oN, 80.04°E): A northeast monsoon region, Science of The Total Environment, 163917, ISSN 0048-9697, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.163917. 

*Sethi, S.S., Vinoj, V., Gogoi, P.P., Landu, K., Swain, D. and Mohanty, U.C. (2023). Spatio-temporal evolution of surface urban heat island over Bhubaneswar-Cuttack twin city: a rapidly growing tropical urban complex in Eastern India. Environment, Development and Sustainability, pp.1-22. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10668-023-03254-5

*P P Gogoi, V. Vinoj, K. Landu and P. Phukon (2023), Changing Characteristics of Rainfall over the Brahmaputra Basin during 1998-2018, Q J R Meteorol Soc. ,  https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/qj.4427

*Nandini. G; V Vinoj; Soumya Satyakanta Sethi; Hara Prasad Nayak; K. Landu; D. Swain; U.C. Mohanty (2022), A modelling study on quantifying the impact of urbanization and regional effects on the wintertime surface temperature over a rapidly growing tropical city, Comput.Urban Sci. 2, 40,  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43762-022-00067-6

*A.Asutosh, V.Vinoj, H.Wang, K.Landu, Jin-HoYoon, Response of Indian summer monsoon rainfall to remote carbonaceous aerosols at short time scales: Teleconnections and feedbacks, Environmental Research, Volume 214, Part 3, November 2022, 113898, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935122012257

A. Asutosh, V. Vinoj, Nuncio Murukesh, Ramakrishna Ramisetty & Nishant Mittal (2022), Investigation of June 2020 giant Saharan dust storm using remote sensing observations and model reanalysis, Scientific Reports, Volume 12, Article number: 6114 (2022), https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-10017-1

*Nandini, G., Vinoj, V. & Pandey, S.K. Arabian Sea Aerosol-Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall relationship and its modulation by El-Nino Southern Oscillation. npj Clim Atmos Sci 5, 25 (2022).  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-022-00244-8

*Asutosh, A, Pandey, S.K,  Vinoj, V, Ramisetty, R, Mittal, N (2021), Assessment of Recent Changes in Dust over South Asia Using RegCM4 Regional Climate Model. Remote Sens. 2021, 13, 4309. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13214309.

Mitra, Arijeet; Sen, Indra; Pandey, Satyendra; Vinoj, V.; Reisberg, L.; Bizimis, Michael; Cloquet, Christophe; Nizam, Sarwar (2021), Lead isotope evidence for enhanced anthropogenic particle transport to the Himalayas during summer months, Environmental Science & Technology,  DOI:10.1021/acs.est.1c03830. 

*Mukherjee. T and V. Vinoj (2021),  The sub-daily variability of aerosol loading and associated radiative forcing over the Indian Region, Front. Earth Sci. | doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.727169. (Accepted) https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2021.727169/abstract

*T. S. Sarin1, V. Vinoj, D. Swain, K. Landu and E. Suhas (2021),  Aerosol induced changes in sea surface temperature over the Bay of Bengal due to COVID-19 lockdown, Front. Mar. Sci. | doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.648566, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.648566

S.  K,  Sahu, P. Mangaraj, G. Beig, B.  Tyagi, S.  Tikle, V. Vinoj (2021),  Establishing a link between fine particulate matter (PM2.5) zones and COVID -19 over India based on anthropogenic emission sources and air quality data, Urban Climate, Volume 38, 2021, 100883, ISSN 2212-0955, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2021.100883.

*Pandey, S.K. and  V. Vinoj (2021). Surprising Changes in Aerosol Loading over India Amid COVID-19 Lockdown. Aerosol Air Qual. Res. https://doi.org/10.4209/aaqr.2020.07.0466 

Zore. T, K. Landu, P.P. Gogoi and V. Vinoj (2021), Effect of Tropical Subseasonal Variability on Heat Waves over India, International Journal of Climatology, https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.6844

S. Nizam, I. S. Sen, V. Vinoj, V. Galy, D. Selby, M. F. Azam, S. K. Pandey, R. A. Creaser, A. K. Agarwal, A. P. Singh, M. Bizimis (2020), Biomass-derived provenance dominates glacial surface organic carbon in the western Himalaya [Environmental Science & Technology, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.0c02710 ;  Selected for Journal Cover, Highlighted by DSTIndia. [Collaborative work with Dr. I. Sen's group]

*Navinya. D. C., V. Vinoj and S. K. Pandey (2020), Evaluation of PM2.5 Surface Concentrations Simulated by NASA’s MERRA Version 2 Aerosol Reanalysis over India and its relation to the Air Quality Index (2019), [Aerosol and Air Quality Research, https://doi.org/10.4209/aaqr.2019.12.0615].

*Mukherjee. T, V. Vinoj, S. K. Midya, B. Adhikary (2020), Numerical Simulations of Different Sectoral Contributions to Post monsoon Pollution over Delhi. [Heliyon,  Volume 6, Issue 3, March 2020, e03548, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e03548]. 

*S. K. Pandey, V. Vinoj and A. Panwar (2020), The short-term variability of aerosol and its impact on cloud properties and radiative effect over the Indo-Gangetic Plain. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apr.2019.12.017, [Atmospheric Pollution Research, Volume 11, Issue 3, March 2020, Pages 630-638] 

*Mukherjee. T, V. Vinoj, S. K. Midya, B. Adhikary (2020), Aerosol Radiative impact during a high dust and biomass burning event over South Asia: Effect on Surface Ozone. [Atmospheric Environment, Volume 223, 15 February 2020, 117201 ]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2019.117201

*P.  P.  Gogoi, V. Vinoj and Parag Phukon, (2020),  Role of meteorology and local orography on a flood event in the Lower Subansiri Basin and post-flood changes to land use and land cover, CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 118, NO. 5, 10 MARCH 2020, doi: 10.18520/cs/v118/i5/778-785]

Anasuya Barik, D Swain and V. Vinoj (2019), Rapid urbanization and associated impacts on land surface temperature changes over Bhubaneswar Urban District, India (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 191, Article number: 790 (2019),  DOI : 10.1007/s10661-019-7699-2 , In Print). (I. F. 1.959)

*P. P. Gogoi, V. Vinoj, D. Swain, G. J. Roberts, J. Dash, S. Tripathy (2019), The Land Use-Land Cover (LULC) induced changes to Surface Temperature over Eastern India. Scientific Reports, Volume 9, Article number: 8859, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-45213-z).  (I. F. 4.525) [Highlight: This article was accessed more than 9500 times by readers from around the world since publication during the year 2019; This article was also highlighted by a few national print and other social media news outlets with an attention score of 75 and features among 96th percentile of all articles of similar age published in all journals tracked by Altmetric]

*Mukherjee. T and V. Vinoj, (2019), Atmospheric aerosol optical depth and its variability over an urban location in Eastern India, Natural Hazards, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11069-019-03636-x . (I. F. 2.319)

*T. Mukherjee, A. Asutosh, S. K. Pandey, L. Yang, A. Panwar, P. P. Gogoi and V. Vinoj (2018), Increasing Potential for Air Pollution over Megacity New Delhi: A Study Based on 2016 Diwali Episode, Aerosol and Air Quality Research, DOI: 10.4209/aaqr.2017.11.0440. (I. F. 2.735)

*Pandey. S. K., V. Vinoj, K. Landu, S. S. Babu (2017), Declining dust loading over South Asia: Signature of a changing regional climate,  Scientific Reports, (Nature Publishing Group), https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-16338-w . This article was highlighted in The Hindu, Hindustan Times and several blogs after its publication. [Highlight: This article features among the top 100 (28th of 100) articles in Scientific Reports from Earth Science category for the year 2017] (I. F. 4.525)

D. Swain, G. J. Roberts, J. Dash, V. Vinoj, K. Lekshmi, and S. Tripathy (2017), Impact of rapid urbanization on the microclimate of Indian cities: a case study for the city of Bhubaneswar, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., India, Sect. A Phys. Sci. DOI 10.1007/s40010-017-0453-7). (I. F. 0.396)

Yoon, J.-H., P. J., Rasch, H. Wang, V. Vinoj, and D. Ganguly (2016), The role of carbonaceous aerosols on short‐term variations of precipitation over North Africa, Atmospheric Science Letters., 17: 407–414. doi: 10.1002/asl.672. (I. F. 1.504)

J.D. Fast, J. Allan, R. Bahreini, J. Craven, L. Emmons, R.A. Ferrare, P.L. Hayes, A. Hodzic, J. Holloway, C.A. Hostetler, J.L. Jimenez, H. Jonsson, S. Liu, Y. Liu, A. Metcalf, A. Middlebrook, J. Novak, M. Pekour, A. Perring, L. Russell, A. Sedlacek, J. Seinfeld, A. Setyan, J. Shilling, M. Shrivastava, S. Springston, C. Song, R. Subramanian, J.W. Taylor, V. Vinoj, Q. Yang, R.A. Zaveri, and Q. Zhang, Modeling Regional Aerosol Variability over California and Its Sensitivity to Emissions and Long-Range Transport during the 2010 CalNex and CARES Campaigns. (Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 10013-10060, 2014, doi:10.5194/acp-14-10013-2014). (IF-5.668)

V. Vinoj, P. J. Rasch, Hailong Wang, Jin-Ho Yoon, K. Landu, B. Singh and Po-Lun Ma (2014), Short-term modulation of Indian summer monsoon rainfall by West Asian dust. Nature Geoscience, 7, 308-313, doi:10.1038/ngeo2107). (IF - 13.94).   Highlighted in Nature Asia, Nature Geoscience, Nature India, The Hindu, Indian Express. Hindustan Times, Deccan Herald, Muscat Daily, Oman Tribune, China Post, Science Daily etc.). This paper is featured in Nature Research Highlight and a cover page for PNNL website..

K. Landu, L. Ruby Leung, Samson Hagos, V. Vinoj, Sara Rauscher, Todd Ringler and Mark Taylor (2014), The dependence of ITCZ structure on model resolution and dynamical core. (Journal of Climate). http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00269.1  (IF – 4.805)

D. G. Kaskaoutis, P.R. Sinha, V. Vinoj, P.G. Kosmopoulos, S.N. Tripathi, R.P. Singh (2013), Aerosol properties and radiative forcing estimates over Ganges Basin during severe aerosol loading conditions, Atmospheric Environment, Vol 79, pp 7-19. [Link]. (IF – 4.012)

Wang, H., R. C. Easter, P. J. Rasch, M. Wang, X. Liu, S. J. Ghan, Y. Qian, J.-H. Yoon, P.-L. Ma and V. Vinoj, (2013), Sensitivity of remote aerosol distributions to representation of cloud-aerosol interactions in a global climate model, Geosci. Model Dev., 6, 765-782 [Link].  (IF – 5.03)

S.K. Satheesh, V. Vinoj and K. Krishna Moorthy (2011), Weekly Periodicities in Aerosol Properties at a Continental Urban Location in India, Atmospheric Research,  101 (2011) 307–313, (doi:10.1016/j.atmosres.2011.03.003).  (IF – 3.778).  Among top 20 hot articles in the first quarter.

V. Vinoj, S.K. Satheesh, and K. Krishna Moorthy (2010), Optical, radiative and source characteristics of aerosols at a remote island, Minicoy in the southern Arabian Sea, Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, D01201, doi:10.1029/2009JD011810.  (IF – 3.38)

S.K. Satheesh, V. Vinoj and K. Krishna Moorthy (2010), Radiative effects of aerosols at an urban location in southern India: observations versus model, Atmospheric Environment, Volume 44, Issue 39, December 2010, Pages 5295-530, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.07.020. (IF - 4.012)

S.K. Satheesh, V. Vinoj and K Krishna Moorthy (2010), Assessment of aerosol radiative impact over oceanic regions adjacent to Indian subcontinent using multi-satellite analysis, Advances in Meteorology, Volume 2010, Article ID 139186, 13 pages, doi:10.1155/2010/139186).  (IF – 1.239)

V. Vinoj, S.K. Satheesh and K.Krishna Moorthy (2009), Aerosol characteristics at a continental urban station in southern India, International Journal of Environment and Waste Management, Vol. 4, Nos. 1/2, pp.256–266. DOI: 10.1504/IJEWM.2009.026896. Citation information not available. (Invited Article)

S. K. Satheesh, V. Vinoj, S. Suresh Babu, K. Krishna Moorthy, and Vijayakumar S. Nair, (2009), Vertical distribution of aerosols over the east coast of India inferred from airborne LIDAR measurements, Annales. Geophysicae., 27, 1–13. doi:10.5194/angeo-27-4157-2009. (IF – 1.731)

S.K. Satheesh, O. Torres, L.A. Remer, S. S. Babu, V. Vinoj, T.F. Eck , R.G. Kleidman and B.N. Holben, (2009),  Improved Assessment of Aerosol Absorption using OMI-MODIS data, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D05209, doi:10.1029/2008JD011024.  (IF – 3.38)

S.K. Satheesh, K. Krishna Moorthy, S. Suresh Babu, V. Vinoj, Vijayakumar S.Nair, S. Naseema Beegum, C.B.S. Dutt, D.P. Alappattu and P.K.Kunhikrishnan (2009), Vertical Structure and Horizontal Gradients of Aerosol Extinction Coefficients over Coastal India Inferred from Airborne Lidar Measurements during the ICARB Field Campaign, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D05204, doi:10.1029/2008JD011033. (IF – 3.38)

S. Naseema Beegum, K. Krishna Moorthy, S. Suresh Babu, S.K. Satheesh, V. Vinoj, K.V.S. Badarinath, P.D. Safai, P.C.S. Devara, Sacchidanand Singh, Vinod, U.C. Dumka, P. Pant (2009), Spatial distribution of aerosol black carbon over India during pre-monsoon season, Atmospheric Environment, 43 (2009) 1071–1078. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.11.042. (IF - 4.012)

V. Vinoj, S.K. Satheesh, and K. Krishna Moorthy, (2008) Aerosol characteristics at a remote island: Minicoy in southern Arabian Sea.  Journal of Earth System Science,  117, S1, July 2008, pp. 389–397, doi:10.1007/s12040-008-0017-y. (IF – 0.955)

S. K. Satheesh, K. Krishna Moorthy, S. Suresh Babu, V. Vinoj, and C. B. S. Dutt (2008), Climate implications of large warming by elevated aerosol over India, Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L19809, doi:10.1029/2008GL034944. (IF – 4.339)

R R Reddy, K Rama Gopal, K Narasimhulu, L Siva Sankara Reddy, K Raghavendra Kumar, Y Nazeer Ahammed, V. Vinoj & S K Satheesh, (2008) Measurement of CO and SO2 trace gases in the southern India during ISRO-GBP Land Campaign–I, Indian Journal of Radio & Space Physics, Vol. 37, pp. 221-229. [Link]

S Naseema Beegum, K Krishna Moorthy, Vijayakumar S Nair, S Suresh Babu, S K Satheesh, V. Vinoj, R Ramakrishna Reddy, K Rama Gopal, K V S Badarinath, K Niranjan, Santosh Kumar Pandey, M Behera, A Jayaraman, P K Bhuyan, M. M Gogoi, Sacchidanand Singh, P Pant, U. C. Dumka, Yogesh Kant, J C Kuniyal, Darshan Singh, (2008) Characteristics of Spectral Aerosol Optical Depths over India during ICARB, Journal of Earth System Science., 117, S1, July 2008. [Link] (IF – 0.955)

V. Vinoj, A. Anjan, M. Sudhakar, S. K. Satheesh, J. Srinivasan, and K. K. Moorthy (2007), Latitudinal variation of aerosol optical depths from northern Arabian Sea to Antarctica, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L10807, doi:10.1029/2007GL029419. (IF – 4.339)

S.K. Satheesh, J. Sreenivasan, V. Vinoj and S. Chandra (2007) “Reply to comment on New Directions: How representative are aerosol radiative impact assessments?”, Atmospheric Environment 41, 5536–5540. (IF - 4.012)

S. K. Satheesh, V. Vinoj, and K. Krishna Moorthy (2006), Vertical distribution of aerosols over an urban continental site in India inferred using a micro pulse lidar. Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L20816, doi:10.1029/2006GL027729. (IF – 4.339)

S.K. Satheesh, J. Sreenivasan, V. Vinoj and S. Chandra (2006) New Directions: How representative are aerosol radiative impact assessments? Atmospheric Environment, 40, 3008–3010. (IF - 4.012)

Moorthy, K. Krishna; Sunilkumar, S. V.; Pillai, Preetha S.; Parameswaran, K.; Nair, Prabha R.; Ahmed, Y. Nazeer; Ramgopal, K.; Narasimhulu, K.; Reddy, R. Ramakrishna; Vinoj, V.; Satheesh, S. K.; Niranjan, K.; Rao, B. Malleswara; Brahmanandam, P. S.; Saha, Auromeet; Badarinath, K. V. S.; Kiranchand, T. R.; Latha, K. Madhavi (2005), Wintertime spatial characteristics of boundary layer aerosols over peninsular India. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 110, No. D8, D08207 10.1029/2004JD005520. (IF – 3.38)

V. Vinoj,  S.K. Satheesh, S S Babu, and K. Krishna Moorthy (2004): Large aerosol optical depths observed at an urban location in southern India associated with rain-deficit summer monsoon season, Annales Geophysicae, 22 (8): 3073-3077. [Link] (IF – 1.731)

V. Vinoj, Babu S S, Satheesh S K, Moorthy K K and Kaufman Y J (2004): Radiative forcing by aerosols over the Bay of Bengal region derived from ship-borne, island-based, and satellite (Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) observations, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109 (D5): Art. No. D05203. doi:10.1029/2003JD004329. (IF – 3.38)

V. Vinoj and S.K. Satheesh (2004), Direct and indirect radiative effects of sea-salt aerosols over Arabian Sea, Current Science, 86 (10): 1381-1390. [Link]. (IF – 0.92).  Highlighted on Journal Cover.

Sumanth, E.; Mallikarjuna, K.; Stephen, Joshi; Moole, Mahesh; Vinoj, V.; Satheesh, S. K.; Moorthy, K. Krishna Moorthy (2004) Measurements of aerosol optical depths and black carbon over Bay of Bengal during post-monsoon season, Geophysical Research Letters., Vol. 31, No. 16, L16115 10.1029/2004GL020681. (IF – 4.339)

V. Vinoj and S.K. Satheesh (2003), Measurements of aerosol optical depth over Arabian Sea during summer monsoon season, Geophysical Research Letters, 30(5), 1263, doi: 10.1029/2002GL016664. (IF – 4.339)

V. Vinoj and S.K. Satheesh (2003), Observation of aerosols from space, Mausam, 54, 1, 287-298. Citation information not available. (Invited Article). (IF – 0.46)

2016 (Peer-reviewed Proceedings)

*V. Vinoj and Satyendra Pandey, (2016), Towards understanding the variability of aerosol characteristics over the Indo-Gangetic Plain, Proc. SPIE 9882, Remote Sensing and Modeling of the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Interactions VI, 988205 (July 5, 2016); doi:10.1117/12.2223315.

*Satyendra. K. Pandey; Honey Bakshi and V. Vinoj, (2016) "Recent changes in dust and its impact on aerosol trends over the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) ", Proc. SPIE 9876, Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere, Clouds, and Precipitation VI, 98761Z (May 5, 2016); doi:10.1117/12.2223314.

D. Swain; G. J. Roberts; J. Dash; V. Vinoj; *K. Lekshmi, (2016), "Impact of rapid urbanization on the microclimate of Indian cities: a case study for the city of Bhubaneswar", Proc. SPIE 9877, Land Surface and Cryosphere Remote Sensing III, 98772X (May 5, 2016); doi:10.1117/12.2228111.

Naseema Begum, K. Krishna Moorthy, Vijayakumar S Nair, S.K. Satheesh and V. Vinoj et al., (2007), Aerosol characteristics over India during the ICARB, Indian  Aerosol Sci. & Tech. Assoc. (IASTA) Bullettin.

V. Vinoj, S.K. Satheesh, S. Suresh Babu, and K. Krishna Moorthy (2002), Seasonal Variation of Aerosol Spectral Optical Depths over Bangalore, Indian  Aerosol Sci. & Tech. Assoc. (IASTA) Bullettin, 14, 130-134.

S. Suresh Babu, S.K. Satheesh, K. Krishna Moorthy, and V. Vinoj (2002), Aerosol Radiative Forcing over Land due to Black Carbon Aerosols, Indian  Aerosol Sci. & Tech. Assoc. (IASTA) Bullettin, 14, 88-90. 

Pre-print Articles  

*Sethi, Soumya Satyakanta, Vinoj, V and Gogoi, Partha Pratim and Landu, Kiranmayi and Swain, Debadatta and Mohanty, U. C., Surface Urban Heat Island (Suhi) and its Evolution Over a Rapidly Growing Tropical Urban Complex in Eastern India. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4063144 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4063144

*Asutosh, A.; Vinoj, V.; Nuncio, M (2021). Investigation of June 2020 Giant Saharan Dust Storm Using Remote Sensing Observations and Model Reanalysis. Preprints 2021, 2021070100 (https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202107.0100/v1).

*Asutosh, A.; Pandey, S.K.; Vinoj, V. (2021),  Assessment of Recent Changes in Dust over South Asia Using RegCM. Preprints 2021, 2021060282 (doi: 10.20944/preprints202106.0282.v1). https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202106.0282/v1

*Pandey, Satyndera K., and Vinoj V. (2020),  “Surprising Increase in Aerosol Amid Widespread Decline in Pollution over India During the COVID19 Lockdown.” EarthArXiv. July 6. https://doi.org/10.31223/osf.io/5kmx2

Vinoj, V.; Gopinath, N.; Landu, K.; Behera, B.; Mishra, B. (2020), The COVID-19 Spread in India and Its Dependence on Temperature and Relative Humidity. Preprints 2020, 2020070082. https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202007.0082/v1; doi: 10.20944/preprints202007.0082.v1

Vinoj, V.; Swain, D. (2020), Did COVID-19 Lockdown Brew '"Amphan" into a Super Cyclone?. Preprints 2020, 2020070033 (doi: 10.20944/preprints202007.0033.v1). https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202007.0033/v1  

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