N. (Namita) Sinha

Profile

I am Namita Sinha, a PhD candidate in the Department of Geoscience & Remote Sensing. I have completed my M.Tech degree in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences & Technology from Centre for Atmospheric Sciences at IIT Delhi, India. In my M.Tech program, I gained exposure to the earth's weather and climate, various techniques for measuring and analysing atmospheric data and I have been introduced to fascinating aerosol-cloud interaction and its sensitivity to different aerosol and meteorology. My M.Tech thesis analyses aerosols, especially Black Carbon, and their impact on cloud formation and monsoon precipitation. I attended the AGU Fall - 2022 conference and was honoured with the competitive student travel grant. My research also had been shortlisted for the prestigious Precipitation Award.

Research

In the CAINA project, I will study aerosol-cloud interaction in the boundary layer in different meteorological regimes, using a combination of ground-based remote sensing instruments, such as radars, radiometers and lidars. With the radars cloud properties are studied. Dynamics and lidar measurements will be used to obtain aerosol properties and water vapour. By combining these data with 3D simulations, I will aim at understanding what the dominant parameters are in the interaction between polluted air and clouds.

Website CAINA project: https://sites.google.com/view/cainaproject/team

Publications

Investigating the Different Pathways of South Asian Summer Monsoon Response to Black Carbon Aerosols 
Link : https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022AGUFM.A32I1499S/abstract