CACS

Center for Atmospheric And Climate Sciences

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

About

Dr. Chandan Sarangi is an earth system scientist who completed his Post Doctorate Research from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA, USA, and Integrated Ph.D. from IIT Kanpur, India. His under graduation is from NIT Warangal, India. He has extensive experience in Aerosol-cloud-climate interactions; Impact of climate change on Cloud systems and rainfall; Impact of aerosols on Evapotranspiration and land-atmosphere interactions; Effect of dust deposition on snow darkening and Himalayan glaciers; Urban heat island effect and air quality over mega cities; Extreme rainfall and coupling with aerosols and urbanization, and Cloud seeding research. He is experienced in large data analysis of remote sensing data and in-situ measurements related to urban air quality and micro- meteorology. He is also a pioneer in high resolution simulations of aerosol-climate interactions and their impact on hydro-climate over India. In last 10 years has been part of many cutting edge research teams and has first author publications in many reputed and high impact journals like Nature Communications, Nature Climate Change, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics etc.

Phone: +91-44-22574326
Email: chandansarangi@iitm.ac.in
Website: Personal Webpage

Earned Degrees

Integrated M.Tech + Ph.D., 2017, IIT Kanpur, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Kalyanpur Kanpur -208 016.
B.Tech., 2008, NIT Warangal, National Institute of Technology, Warangal - 506004, Telangana.

Professional Experiences

2020 – ongoing : Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
2017 – 2020 : Post Doctorate Research Associate,, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), WA, USA, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory 902 Battelle Boulevard Richland, WA,U.S.A
2010 – 2017 : Integrated M.Tech + Ph.D. candidate in Civil Engineering,, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India
2013 – 2013 : Graduate Visitor Program Fellow, Atmospheric Chemistry Division (ACD), National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A , Atmospheric Chemistry Division (ACD), National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A, Boulder, CO 80307, U.S.A
2008 – 2010 : Construction Engineer,, Shapoorji Pallonji Pvt. Limited, Hyderabad, India, Hyderabad, India

Research Areas

Aerosol Science and transport in atmosphere
Air quality and air pollution-climate coupling in megacities
Numerical simulations of aerosol movement and air quality
Cloud vertical structure and cloud radiative forcing
Impact of absorbing aerosols on Himalayan snow and glaciers
Aerosol-Land-Atmosphere coupling
Regional climatic impact of aerosols on hydrological processes

Publications

Kant, S., Panda, J., Rao, P., Sarangi, C., Ghude, and S.D. (2021). “Study of aerosol-cloud-precipitation-meteorology interaction during a distinct weather event over the Indian region using WRF-Chem.“ Atmospheric Research, 247.
Choudhury, G., Tyagi, B., Krishna Vissa, N., Singh, J., Sarangi, C., Nand Tripathi, S., Tesche, and M. (2020). “Aerosol-enhanced high precipitation events near the Himalayan foothills.“ Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 20.
Sarangi, C., Qian, Y., Rittger, K., Ruby Leung, L., Chand, D., Bormann, K.J., Painter, and T.H. (2020). “Dust dominates high-altitude snow darkening and melt over high-mountain Asia.“ Nature Climate Change, 10.
Niu, H., Kang, S., Gao, W., Sarangi, C., Tripathee, L., Rupakheti, D., Zhang, G., Yan, and X. (2020). “Investigation of the spatio-temporal heterogeneity and optical property of water-soluble organic carbon in atmospheric aerosol and snow over the Yulong Snow Mountain, southeastern Tibetan Plateau.“ Environment International, 144.
Niu, H., Kang, S., Wang, Y., Sarangi, C., Rupakheti, D., Qian, and Y. (2020). “Measurements of light-absorbing impurities in snow over four glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau.“ Atmospheric Research, 243.

Experimental

Spectroradiometer
Total Sky Imager
Sunphotometer
Portable 4-component radiation budget
Direct/Diffuse solar radiation

Modelling

Radiative transfer models
Aerosol growth dynamics and Cloud parcel models
State-of-the-art regional model WRF-Chem
CESM etc

Special Laboratory

High Altitude observations at Himalayas for Dust-Radiation-Snow interactions