PRIYANKA SINHA

A professional air quality researcher with 7+ years of experience in research driven organizations

Stellar record in working on air quality dispersion models, air quality emission inventories, air quality programs, monitoring and management.

Competent in policy making and implementation of Clean Air Action Plans at the city and the Urban Local Body level.

Adaptable and driven with strong work ethics and ability to thrive in team based or individually motivated work environment.

• Microsoft Power BI
• R
• Python
• FORTRAN (Intermediate)

• Met Monographs, Met Monograph No. ESSO/ IMD/EMRC (OZONE)/ 01 (2015)/ 02, Assessment of Surface Ozone Trend over Delhi, Pune and Thiruvanthapuram
• Met Monographs, Met Monograph No. : ESSO/ IMD/ EMRC (OZONE)/ 01(2016)/ 03, Study of Total Columnar Ozone over Indian Stations
• Papers, Long term Study of Surface Ozone over three Indian Stations, Priyanka Sinha, S.K. Peshin and Amit Bisht, MAUSAM, 67, 4, October 2016, 887-896
• Papers, Study of impact of Diwali firework emissions on Air quality of New Delhi from 2013-2015, S.K. Peshin, Priyanka Sinha and Amit Bisht, MAUSAM, 68, 1, January 2017, 111-118
• Papers, Relationship of Surface Ozone (O3) with its precursors and meteorological parameters over New Delhi,India, Priyanka Sinha, Siddhartha Singh and Pooja Saroj, Mausam, 73, October 2022, 829-842
• Papers, Callibration Of Indian Dobson Spctrophotometer NOs D112 and D036 during WMO Dobson Spectrophotometer Campaigns, Siddhartha Singh, Pooja Saroj, Chirashree Ghosh and Priyanka Sinha, Mausam, 74, 1, January 2023, 73-82
• Papers, Effect of Uttarakhand Forest Fire on Black Carbon Emissions and their Atmospheric Radiative Forcings during 2016, Siddhartha Singh, V. K. Soni, Ravi Ranjan Kumar, Priyanka Sinha, Sateesh M. Arpit Tiwari and R. K. Giri, Mausam, under review
• Conference Papers, Study of Particulate Matter, NOx, Ozone, Aerosol Optical Depth and Black Carbon in and around Delhi, IISC 2016, December 07 – 11, CSIR – NPL, 392 – 393
• Conference Papers, Characterization of Surface Ozone at three different latitudes over India during 1990 – 2013, Tropmet 2016, December 18 – 21, SOA University, Bhubaneshwar
• Talks/Presentations, Simulation of Trace Gases over the Indian Domain-validation of the SILAM model, European Geosciences General Assembly, 22-28 April 2023, Vienna
• Talks/Presentations, International E-conference on “Recent Advancements in Chemical Sciences Health, Environment and Society”, Delhi(Deshbandhu College, Delhi University), 08-09 April 2022
• Talks/Presentations, International Workshop on Air Quality, New Delhi, October 5 – 7
• Talks/Presentations, Tropmet-2016, Bhubaneshwar
• Talks/Presentations, INTROMET-2017, SAC, Ahmedabad
• Talks/Presentations, India International Science Festival 2016, National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, Dec.07 – 11, 2016
• Talks/Presentations, International Tropical Meteorology Symposium 2017 (Intromet-2017), SAC, Ahmedabad, 07 – 10 Nov., 2017
• Talks/Presentations, Tropment 2017, SAC, Ahmedabad, 07 – 10 Nov., 2017

Ph.D. (Ongoing)

Title: Temporal and Spatial Variability of Tropospheric ozone over Northwest India: Observations and Model Simulations,Amity University, Noida , Uttar Pradesh

Guide: Prof. Dr Tanu Jindal, Group Additional Pro Vice Chancellor (R&D), Director ,Amity Institute of Environmental Toxicology, Safety and Management, AIWTM, ACARS, AIOAS, Advisor- AIMST

External Co-Guide: Dr. Vijay Kumar Soni, Scientist F & Head, Environment Monitoring and Research Center (EMRC), Polar Meteorological Research Division (PMRD),India Meteorological Department,Ministry of Earth Sciences, Mausam Bhawan, Lodi Road,New Delhi-110003

· Mapping of surface ozone and its precursor gases concentration (NOx and CO) over North-West India using available ground based datasets and modeled reanalysis values.

· This study will aim to validate WRF-Chem and SILAM model performance for simulating tropospheric ozone and precursor gases concentration (NOx and CO) with due emphasis on the impact from different chemical mechanisms to understand the seasonal variation and model performance of gaseous pollutants over parts of India.

· The major objective will also include the study of effects of surface ozone concentrations on major agricultural crops of India.

M.Tech. Thesis (2013-2014)

Title: Terrain based Avalanche Hazard Mapping of North Portal (Rohtang Tunnel), Leh-Manali Highway, Lahaul - Spiti area of Himachal Pradesh, India by using Advanced Geoinformatics technique, Snow and Avalanche Study Establishment-DRDO, Chandigarh, Chandigarh

· Preparation of a high resolution Digital elevation Models (DEMs) from Cartosat-1 PAN Ortho-Stereo imagery acquired from NRSC, Hyderabad.

· Accuracy assessment of Generated Cartosat-1 digital elevation models of 10 m spatial resolution against Survey of India (SoI) topographic DEMs derived from digitized contour lines of 1: 50,000 scale topographic map sheets, Aster DEMs (30 m), and SRTM DEMs (90 m).

· Generation of GIS layer maps of topographic parameters like slope, aspect, curvature, ruggedness index using Arc-GIS software version 10.1.

· Generation of Land Use-Land Cover map using LISS-III satellite imagery., Used Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) method based on GIS framework to prepare avalanche hazard zonation maps and finally carrying out sensitivity analysis of the prepared zonation map using Dempster Shaefer Theory.

M.Sc. Dissertation (Jan 2012- June 2012)

Title: Monitoring of Aerosol Optical Thickness over the Indo-Gangetic Basin for the year 2011-2012.,Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Varanasi

• Studied diurnally, monthly, annually and seasonal calibration of AERONET data of Kanpur obtained from Terra satellite, NASA.
• Used the Microtop instrument over 4 stations in the region of Varanasi and have validated the satellite data obtained diurnally, monthly, seasonally and annually for the year 2012