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Dr. Prabir K.
Patra Sub-Group Leader (Greenhouse Gases Modelling Group) |
| Address Frontier Research Center for Global Change 3173-25 Showa-machi, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama Kanagawa 236-0001, Japan. Tel: +81-45-778-5727 Fax: +81-45-778-5496 e-mail: prabir(@jamstec.go.jp) URL: http://www.jamstec.go.jp/frcgc/research/p3/prabir.htm |
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| Research Experience: Apr 2007 - present: Senior Scientist at FRCGC Apr 2005 - Mar 2007: Research Scientist at FRCGC Jan 2001 - Mar 2005: Post-doc. Researcher at FRCGC (FRSGC untill 2004) Mar 1998 -Jan 2001: Research Staff Member at IBM India Res. Lab. Aug 1997 -Mar 1998: Post Doctoral Fellow at Physical Res. Lab. Education: 1997: Ph. D., Gujarat University (Physics) 1992: M. Sc., Jadavpur University (Physics) 1989: B. Sc., Vidyasagar University (Physics) |
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| Research area: 1. Estimation of spatial and temporal distributions of sources/sinks of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. 2. Feasibility study of various types of measurement strategies for improved surface source inversion. 3. Measurements of minor constituents from different observational platforms, e.g. balloons, ships, flask sampling. 4. Chemistry and dynamics of the tropical stratosphere. 5. Application of Principal Component Analysis to the large volume atmospheric data sets. 6. Use of global and regional numerical weather prediction models for the simulation of tropical cyclones. |
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| Recent publications:
Patra, P.K., S. Maksyutov, and T. Nakazawa, Analysis of atmospheric CO2 growth rates at Mauna Loa using inverse model derived CO2 fluxes, Tellus, 57B, 357-365, 2005. Patra, P.K., S. Maksyutov, M. Ishizawa, T. Nakazawa, T. Takahashi, and J. Ukita, Interannual and decadal changes in the sea-air CO2 flux from atmospheric CO2 inverse modelling, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 19, GB4013, 2005. Patra, P.K., M. Ishizawa, S. Maksyutov, T. Nakazawa, and G. Inoue, Role of biomass burning and climate anomalies for land-atmosphere carbon fluxes based on inverse modeling of atmospheric CO2, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 19, GB3005, 2005. Patra, P.K., S. K. Behera, J. R. Herman, S. Maksyutov, H. Akimoto, and T. Yamagata, Indian summer monsoon rainfall: Interplay of coupled dynamics, radiation balance and cloud microphysics, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 5, 2181-2188, 2005. |
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| Project Participations: 1. Measurement and modelling programmes of GreenHouse Gases in Japan (Gakujutsu Sousei - Tohoku University, GOSAT - JAXA/NIES, RR2002-FRCGC, S-1-NIES, JAL Foundation) 2. TransCom-3 (Level 2 & Level 3) 3. Design and implementation of Numerical Weather Forecasting system at IRL 4. JGOFS - India (Oceanic flux and biogeochemistry of N2O and CH4) 5. ISRO - GBP at PRL (Vertical distribution of trace gases) | |
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