Publication List of Prabir Patra
Reviewed Journal
1. Lal, S., R. Borchers, P. Fabian, P. K. Patra and B. H. Subbaraya,
Vertical distribution of methyl bromide over Hyderabad, India, Tellus,
46B, 373-377, 1994.
2. Lal, S., Y. B. Acharya, P. K. Patra, P. Rajaratnam, B. H. Subbaraya,
and S.Venkataramani, Balloon-borne cryogenic air sampler experiment for
the study of atmospheric trace gases, Ind. J. Radio and Space Phys.,
25(1), 1-7, 1996.
3. Lal S., P. K. Patra, S. Venkataramani, and M. M. Sarin, Distribution
of nitrous oxide and methane in the Arabian Sea, Curr. Sci., 71, 894-899,
1996
4. Patra, P. K., S. Lal, B. H. Subbaraya, C. H. Jackman, and P.
Rajaratnam, Observed vertical profile of sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) and
its atmospheric applications, J.
Geophys. Res., 102(D7), 8855-8859, 1997
5. Patra, P. K., and S. Lal, Variability of eddy diffusivity in
the stratosphere deduced from vertical distributions of N2O and CFC-12, J.
Atmos. Solar Terr. Phys., 5(10), 1149-1157, 1997.
6. Patra, P. K., S. Lal, S. Venkataramani, M. Gauns, and V. V. S.
S. Sarma, Seasonal variability in distribution and fluxes of methane in
the Arabian Sea, J.
Geophys. Res., 103(C1), 1167-1176, 1998
7. Lal, S., and P. K. Patra, Variability in the fluxes of
nitrous oxide in the Arabian Sea, Global
Biogeochem. Cycle, 12(2), 321-327, 1998.
8. Patra, P. K., S. Lal, S. Venkataramani, S. N. de Sousa, V. V. S. S.
Sarma, and S. Sardesai, Seasonal and spatial variability in N2O distribution
in the Arabian Sea, Deep-Sea
Res., 46(3), 529-543, 1999.
9. Patra, P. K., S. Lal, V. Sheel, B. H. Subbaraya, C. Bruehl, R.
Borchers, and P. Fabian, Chlorine partitioning in the stratosphere
based on in situ measurements,
Tellus, 52B(3), 934-946, 2000.
10. Patra, P. K., M. S. Santhanam, K. V. J. Potty, M. Tewari, and P. L. S.
Rao, Simulation of tropical cyclones using regional weather prediction
models,
Current Sci., 79, 70-78, 2000.
11. Santhanam, M. S., and P. K. Patra, Statistics
of Atmospheric Correlations, Physical Reviews-E, 64,
016102, July 2001.
12. Bange, H. W., M. O. Andreae, S. Lal, C. S. Law, S. W. A. Naqvi, P. K.
Patra, T. Rixen, and R. C. Upstill-Goddard, Nitrous oxide emissions
from the Arabian Sea: A Synthesis, Atmos.
Chem. and Phys., 1, 61-71, 2001. (FREE ACCESS)
13. Patra, P. K., and S. Maksyutov, Incremental approach to the
optimal network design for CO2 surface source inversion, Geophys.
Res. Lett., 29(10), 1459, 2002.
14. Patra, P. K., and M. S. Santhanam, Comment on ``Effects
of Cosmic Rays on Atmospheric Chloroflurocarbon Dissociation and Ozone Depletion'', Phys.
Rev. Lett., 89(21), 219803-1, 2002.
15. Patra, P. K., S. Maksyutov, and TransCom-3 modelers, Sensitivity
of Optimal Extension of CO2 Observation Networks to Model Transport,
Tellus, 55B(2), 498-511, 2003.
16. Maksyutov, S., T. Machida, H. Mukai, P. K. Patra, T. Nakazawa,
G. Inoue, and TransCom-3 modelers, Effect of recent observations on Asian
CO2 flus estimates with transport model inversions,
Tellus, 55B(2), 522-529, 2003.
17. Lal, S., V. Sheel, and P. K. Patra, Satellite techniques for trace gas measurements, Mausam,
54(1), 315-326, 2003.
18. Patra, P. K., S. Lal, D. Chand, and S. Venkataramani, HALOE
and balloon-borne measurements of methane in the stratosphere and their relation to QBO, Atmos.
Chem. Phys. Discuss., 3, 1925-1947, 2003. Final Paper: Atmos.
Chem. Phys., 3, 1051-1062, 2003. (FREE ACCESS)
19. Patra, P. K., S. Maksyutov, Y. Sasano, H. Nakajima, G. Inoue,
and T. Nakazawa, An evaluation of CO2 observations with Solar Occultation
FTS for Inclined-Orbit Satellite sensor for surface source inversion, J.
Geophys. Res., 108(D24), 4759, 2003.
20. Patra, P. K., S. Maksyutov, and T. Nakazawa,
Tropical cyclones in the Northern Indian Ocean and their impact on atmospheric
N2O budget, Ind. J. Marine Sci.,
33(1), 2004.
21. Lal, S., D. Chand, S. Venkataramani, K. S. Appu, M. Naja, and P. K.
Patra, Trends in CH4 and SF6 at tropical site Thumba in India, Atmos.
Env., 38(8), 145-1151, 2004.
22. 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. Discuss., 5, 2879-2895, 2005. Final
paper:
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 5, 2181-2188, 2005. (FREE ACCESS)
Animation for May-Jun-Jul-Aug:
2001 (gif animation);
2002 (gif animation);
2003 (gif animation)
23. 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.
(PDF) (Copyright AGU)
[TDI model estimated flux anomaly data:
1. original 22 regions, and
2. aggregated 11 regions ]
24. Patra, P. K., S. Maksyutov, M. Ishizawa, T. Nakazawa, and 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.
(PDF) (Copyright AGU)
[TDI model estimated flux anomaly data: 1. original 42 regions -
first 28 region,
next 14 region, and
2. aggregated 11 regions ]
25. 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.
(PDF) (Copyright Blackwell)
26. Patra, P. K., K. R. Gurney, A. S. Denning, S. Maksyutov, T. Nakazawa,
D. F. Baker, P. Bousquet, L. Bruhwiler, Y.-H. Chen, P. Ciais, S.-M. Fan, I. Fung,
M. Gloor, M. Heimann, K. Higuchi, J. John, R. M. Law, T. Maki, B. C. Pak, P.
Peylin, M. Prather, P. J. Rayner, J. Sarmiento, S. Taguchi, T. Takahashi, and
C.-W. Yuen, Sensitivity of inverse estimation of annual mean CO2
sources and sinks to ocean-only sites versus all-sites observational networks,
Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L05814, 2006.
(PDF) (Copyright AGU)
27. Patra, P. K., S. E. Mikaloff-Fletcher, K. Ishijima, S. Maksyutov, and
T. Nakazawa, Comparison of CO2 fluxes estimated using atmospheric and oceanic
inversions, and role of fluxes and their interannual variability in
simulating atmospheric CO2 concentrations,
Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 6, 6801-6823, 2006 (FREE ACCESS).
(Unpublished ACP version)
28. Patra, P. K., J.K. Moore, N. Mahowald, M. Uematsu, S.C. Doney, and
T. Nakazawa, Exploring the sensitivity of basin-scale air-sea CO2 fluxes to
interannual to decadal variability in atmospheric dust deposition using
ocean carbon models and atmospheric CO2 inversions,
J. Geophys. Res. - Biogeochemistry, 112, G02012, 2007.
(PDF) (Copyright AGU)
29. Patra, P. K., M. D. Kumar, N. Mahowald, and V. V. S. S. Sarma,
Atmospheric deposition and surface stratification as controls of contrasting
chlorophyll abundance in the North Indian Ocean,
J. Geophys. Res. - Oceans, 112, C05029, 2007.
(PDF) (Copyright AGU)
30. Patra, P. K., Coupling between land and ocean biospheres as observed
by Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS),
SOLA, 3, 77-80, 2007.
(PDF) (Copyright JMSJ)
31. Maksyutov, S., P. K. Patra, R. Onishi, T. Saeki, and T. Nakazawa,
NIES/FRCGC global atmospheric tracer transport model: description, validation,
and surface sources and sinks inversion,
J. Earth. Simulator, 9, 3-18, 2008.
(PDF) (Copyright ESJ)
32. Zhang, D., J. Tang, G. Shi, M. Wen, T. Nakazawa, S. Aoki, S. Sugawara,
S. Morimoto, P. K. Patra, T. Hayasaka, and T. Saeki, Temporal and
spatial variations of the atmospheric CO2 concentration in China,
Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L03801, 2008.
(PDF) (Copyright AGU)
33. Law, R. M., W. Peters, C. Rodenbeck, C. Aulagnier, I. Baker, D. J. Bergmann,
P. Bousquet, J. Brandt, L. Bruhwiler, P. J. Cameron-Smith, J. H. Christensen,
F. Delage, A. S. Denning, S. Fan, C. Geels, S. Houweling, R. Imasu, U. Karstens,
S. R. Kawa, J. Kleist, M. C. Krol, S.-J. Lin, R. Lokupitiya, T. Maki, S. Maksyutov,
Y. Niwa, R. Onishi, N. Parazoo, P. K. Patra, G. Pieterse, L. Rivier,
M. Satoh, S. Serrar, S. Taguchi, M. Takigawa, R. Vautard, A. T. Vermeulen, and Z. Zhu,
TransCom model simulations of hourly atmospheric CO2:
experimental overview and diurnal cycle results for 2002,
Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 22, GB3009, 2008.
(PDF) (Copyright AGU)
34. Patra, P. K., R. M. Law, W. Peters, C. Rodenbeck, M. Takigawa,
C. Aulagnier, I. Baker, D. J. Bergmann,
P. Bousquet, J. Brandt, L. Bruhwiler, P. J. Cameron-Smith, J. H. Christensen,
F. Delage, A. S. Denning, S. Fan, C. Geels, S. Houweling, R. Imasu, U. Karstens,
S. R. Kawa, J. Kleist, M. C. Krol, S.-J. Lin, R. Lokupitiya, T. Maki, S. Maksyutov,
Y. Niwa, R. Onishi, N. Parazoo, G. Pieterse, L. Rivier,
M. Satoh, S. Serrar, S. Taguchi, R. Vautard, A. T. Vermeulen, and Z. Zhu,
TransCom model simulations of hourly atmospheric CO2:
analysis of synoptic scale variations for the period 2002-2003,
Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 22, GB4013, 2008.
(PDF) (Copyright AGU)
35. Miyazaki, K., P. K. Patra, M. Takigawa, T. Iwasaki, and T.
Nakazawa, Global-scale transport of carbon dioxide in the troposphere,
J. Geophys. Res., 113, D15301, 2008.
(PDF) (Copyright AGU)
36. Maksyutov, S., N. Kadygrov, Y. Nakatsuka, P. K. Patra, T. Nakazawa,
T. Yokota, and G., Inoue,
Projected impact of the GOSAT observations on regional CO2 flux estimations as a function of total retrieval error,
J. Remote Sensing Soc. Japan, 28, 190-197, 2008.
(PDF) (Copyright JRSSJ)
37. Patra, P. K., M. Takigawa, G. S. Dutton, K. Uhse, K. Ishijima, B. R. Lintner,
K. Miyazaki, and J. W. Elkins, Transport mechanisms for synoptic, seasonal and
interannual SF6 variations and "age" of air in troposphere,
Atmos. Chem. Phys.
Discuss., 8, 12737-12767, 2008. Final paper:
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 1209-1225, 2009
(PDF). (FREE ACCESS)
38. Miyazaki, K., T. Machida, P. K. Patra, T. Iwasaki, Y. Sawa, H. Matsueda,
and T. Nakazawa, Formation mechanisms of latitudinal CO2 gradients in the upper
troposphere over the subtropics and tropics,
J. Geophys. Res., 114, D03306, 2009.
(PDF) (Copyright AGU)
39. Patra, P. K., M. Takigawa, K. Ishijima, B.-C. Choi, D. Cunnold, E. J.
Dlugokencky, P. Fraser, A. J. Gomez-Pelaez, T.-Y. Goo, J.-S. Kim, P. Krummel,
R. Langenfelds, F. Meinhardt, H. Mukai, S. O'Doherty, R. G. Prinn, P. Simmonds,
P. Steele, Y. Tohjima, K. Tsuboi, K. Uhse, R. Weiss, D. Worthy and T. Nakazawa,
Growth rate, seasonal, synoptic, diurnal variations and budget of methane in lower atmosphere,
J. Meteorol. Soc. Jpn., 87(4), 635-663, 2009.
(PDF) (Copyright MSJ),
Colour Figures
(download).
40. Bhattacharya, S. K., D. V. Borole, R. J. Francey, C. E. Allison, L. P. Steele,
P. Krummel, R. Langenfelds, K. A. Masarie, Y. K. Tiwari and P. K. Patra,
Trace gases and CO2 isotope records from Cabo de Rama, India,
Curr. Sci., 97, 1336-1344, 2009.
(PDF)
Journal highlight
(in this issue)
41. Tohjima, Y., H. Mukai, S. Hashimoto and P. K. Patra, Increasing synoptic
scale variability in atmospheric CO2 at Hateruma Island associated with increasing
East Asian emissions,
Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 9, 15725-15746, 2009. Final paper:
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 453-462, 2010.
(PDF) (FREE ACCESS)
42. Neelin, J. D., B. R. Lintner, B. Tian, Q. Lin, L. Zhang, P. K.
Patra, M. T. Chahine and S. N. Stechmann, Long tails in deep columns of
natural and anthropogenic tropospheric tracers,
Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L05804, 2010.
(PDF) (Copyright AGU)
43. S. W. A. Naqvi, J. W. Moffett, M. U. Gauns, P. V. Narvekar, A. K.
Pratihary, H. Naik, D. M. Shenoy, D. A. Jayakumar, T. J. Goepfert,
P. K. Patra, A. Al-Azri, and S. I. Ahmed, The Arabian Sea as
a high-nutrient, low-chlorophyll region during the late Southwest Monsoon,
Biogeosciences Discuss., 7, 25-53, 2010.
(PDF) (FREE ACCESS)
44. Ishijima, K., P. K. Patra, M. Takigawa, T. Machida, H. Matsueda,
Y. Sawa, P. Steele, P. Krummel, R. Langenfelds, S. Aoki and T. Nakazawa,
The stratospheric influence on seasonal cycle of nitrous oxide in the
troposphere deduced from aircraft observation and model,
J. Geophys. Res., submitted, Dxxxx, 2009.
(preprint)
Animation for N2O seasonal cycle:
2001 (gif animation)
45. Xiong, X., C. Barnet, Q. Zhuang, P. K. Patra, T. Machida,
and C. Sweeney, Mid-upper tropospheric methane in the high northern
hemisphere: space-borne observations by AIRS, aircraft measurements and model simulations
J. Geophys. Res., submitted, 2009.
(Preprint)
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