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Sayantan Sarkar

Associate Professor

Sayantan Sarkar

Environmental Engineering

  • Atmospheric aerosols
  • Air quality
  • Climate forcing
  • Source apportionment
  • Population exposure
sayantan@iitmandi.ac.in 8017810340

Journal Article

1 Sarkar, S. (2026). Source Attributes of PM2.5 Over the Indian Himalaya Using PMF and CWT Analysis View More
2 Sarkar, S. (2026). Respiratory health impacts of coal-fired power plant emissions with transboundary environmental complexities View More
3 Yadav, R. K., Rana, A., & Sarkar, S. (2026). Brown carbon is a significant contributor to aerosol climate forcing in the northwestern Himalayas View More
4 Yadav, R. K., Prabhakar, A., Singh, A., Rana, A., & Sarkar, S. (2026). The dual role of atmospheric HULIS in inducing climate forcing and oxidative stress in the northwestern Himalayas View More
5 Sarkar, S. (2026). Size-resolved aerosols from residential fuel combustion in the northwestern Himalayas: potential effects on light absorption, hygroscopicity and CCN activation View More
6 Rana, A., & Sarkar, S. (2026). Sources and chemical drivers of aerosol oxidative stress in surrogate lung fluid: insights from the Northwestern Himalayas View More
7 Sarkar, S. (2025). The energy-health-environment nexus: assessing the transboundary impacts of coal-fired power plants View More
8 Sarkar, S., & Lawande, S. A. (2025). Tagging Emissions from Indoor Biomass Combustion with a Cost-Effective Sensor Array: From Design to Field Deployment in Rural Indian Households View More
9 Sarkar, S. (2025). A quantitative study on the influencing pathways of aerosol acidity: the non-neglectable role of non-ideality View More
10 Shekhar, S., & Sarkar, S. (2025). Microplastic aging and adsorption in the atmosphere, and their associated impacts on various spheres of the earth: A review View More
11 Sarkar, S. (2025). Unmasking Emissions: Tracing organic aerosols around a coal-fired power plant in India View More
12 Sharma, B., & Sarkar, S. (2024). Size-distribution and driving factors of aerosol oxidative potential in rural kitchen microenvironments of northeastern India View More
13 Sarkar, S. (2024). The role of nitroaromatic compounds (NACs) in constraining BrC absorption in the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) View More
14 Sarkar, S. (2024). Compositional and optical characteristics of aqueous brown carbon and HULIS in the eastern Indo-Gangetic Plain using a coupled EEM PARAFAC, FT-IR and 1H NMR approach View More
15 Sarkar, S. (2024). Soil contamination caused by fly ash from coal-fired thermal power plants in India: Spatiotemporal distribution and elemental leaching potential View More
16 Dey, S., Ghosh, P., & Sarkar, S. (2023). Optical source apportionment of aqueous brown carbon (BrC) on a daytime and nighttime basis in the eastern Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) and insights from 13C and 15N isotopic signatures View More
17 Sharma, B., & Sarkar, S. (2023). Understanding population exposure to size-segregated aerosol and associated trace elements during residential cooking in northeastern India: Implications for disease burden and health risk View More
18 Sharma, B., & Sarkar, S. (2023). Disease burden and health risk to rural communities of northeastern India from indoor cooking-related exposure to parent, oxygenated and alkylated PAHs View More
19 Rawat, P., & Sarkar, S. (2023). Sources, transport pathways and radiative effects of BC aerosol during 2018–2020 at a receptor site in the eastern Indo-Gangetic Plain View More
20 Sarkar, S., & Dey, S. (2023). Chemical Characterization and Source Apportionment of PM10 Using Receptor Models over the Himalayan Region of India View More
21 Sarkar, S. (2023). Contribution of marine biological emissions to gaseous methylamines in the atmosphere: An emission inventory based on multi-source data sets View More
22 Sharma, B., & Sarkar, S. (2022). Seasonal variations in aerosol acidity and its driving factors in the eastern Indo-Gangetic Plain: A quantitative analysis View More
23 Sarkar, S. (2022). Seven-year study of monsoonal rainwater chemistry over the mid-Brahmaputra plain, India: assessment of trends and source regions of soluble ions View More
24 Rawat, P., Dey, S., & Sarkar, S. (2022). Are fireworks a significant episodic source of brown carbon? View More
25 Sarkar, S. (2021). Deposition of ambient particles in the human respiratory system based on single particle analysis: A case study in the Pearl River Delta, China View More
26 Sarkar, S. (2021). Peat-forest burning smoke in Maritime Continent: Impacts on receptor PM2.5 and implications at emission sources View More
27 Sarkar, S. (2021). Comparative study of chemical characterization and source apportionment of PM2.5 in South China by filter-based and single particle analysis View More
28 Dey, S., & Sarkar, S. (2021). Brown carbon aerosols in the Indo-Gangetic Plain outflow: insights from excitation emission matrix (EEM) fluorescence spectroscopy View More
29 Sarkar, S. (2021). Fine Particulate Matter Bound Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Carbonaceous Species in Delhi’s Atmosphere: Seasonal Variation, Sources, and Health Risk Assessment View More
30 Sarkar, S. (2020). The role of natural factors in constraining long-term tropospheric ozone trends over Southern China View More
31 Rawat, P., & Sarkar, S. (2020). Optical properties of aerosol brown carbon (BrC) in the eastern Indo-Gangetic Plain View More
32 Rawat, P., & Sarkar, S. (2020). Spatially resolved distribution, sources and health risks of heavy metals in size-fractionated road dust from 57 sites across megacity Kolkata, India View More
33 Sarkar, S. (2020). Size-segregated deposition of atmospheric elemental carbon (EC) in the human respiratory system: A case study of the Pearl River Delta, China View More
34 Dey, S., & Sarkar, S. (2020). Sources and atmospheric processing of brown carbon and HULIS in the Indo-Gangetic Plain: Insights from compositional analysis View More
35 Sarkar, S. (2019). Evaluation of factors influencing secondary organic carbon (SOC) estimation by CO and EC tracer methods View More
36 Sarkar, S. (2019). Impacts of peat-forest smoke on urban PM2.5 in the Maritime Continent during 2012–2015: Carbonaceous profiles and indicators View More
37 Sarkar, S. (2019). Black carbon aerosol in India: A comprehensive review of current status and future prospects View More
38 Rawat, P., & Sarkar, S. (2019). Regional sulfate drives long-term rise in AOD over megacity Kolkata, India View More
39 Sarkar, S. (2018). Comparison and interconversion of pH based on different standard states for aerosol acidity characterization View More
40 Sarkar, S. (2018). A quantitative assessment of distributions and sources of tropospheric halocarbons measured in Singapore View More
41 Sarkar, S. (2018). Technical note: Comparison and interconversion of pH based on different standard states for aerosol acidity characterization View More
42 Sarkar, S. (2018). Characterization of diurnal variations of PM2.5 acidity using an open thermodynamic system: A case study of Guangzhou, China View More
43 Sarkar, S. (2016). Can low-carbon urban development be pro-poor? The case of Kolkata, India View More
44 Sarkar, S. (2015). History of atmospheric deposition of trace elements in lake sediments, ~1880 to 2007 View More
45 Sarkar, S. (2014). Accumulation and risks of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and trace metals in tropical urban soils View More
46 Sarkar, S. (2014). Particulate phase polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the ambient atmosphere of a protected and ecologically sensitive area in a tropical megacity View More
47 Sarkar, S. (2014). Risk assessment of inhalation exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in school children View More
48 Sarkar, S. (2013). Profile of PAHs in the inhalable particulate fraction: source apportionment and associated health risks in a tropical megacity View More
49 Sarkar, S. (2012). Health risk assessment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and heavy metals via dietary intake of vegetables grown in the vicinity of thermal power plants View More
50 Sarkar, S. (2012). Airborne inhalable metals in residential areas of Delhi, India: distribution, source apportionment and health risks View More
51 Sarkar, S. (2011). Association of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and metallic species in a tropical urban atmosphere – Delhi, India View More
52 Sarkar, S. (2010). Chemical speciation of respirable suspended particulate matter during a major firework festival in India View More

Conference Paper

1 Sarkar, S., Rana, A., & Yadav, R. K. (2026, January). Association between oxidative potential and optical properties of PM2. 5 over the northwestern Himalayan region View More
2 Rawat, P., & Sarkar, S. (2023, January). Humic-like substances in residential biofuel use emissions from the northwestern Himalayan region, India View More
3 Sarkar, S., & Sharma, B. (2023, January). Human exposure to size-segregated particulate polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons during residential cooking in northeastern India View More
4 Sarkar, S., & Dey, S. (2023, January). Molecular characteristics of aqueous brown carbon in the eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains: Insights from a high resolution mass spectrometry approach View More
5 Sarkar, S., & Rana, A. (2023, January). Molecular characterization of methanol-soluble BrC using 1H NMR fingerprinting and high-resolution mass spectrometry. View More
6 Sarkar, S., & Dey, S. (2023, January). Polarity-based chemical characterization of humic-like substances (HULIS) in the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) and linkage with optical signatures of aqueous brown carbon View More
7 Sarkar, S. (2022, January). . Aerosol climate forcing agents in biofuel emissions in Northwestern Himalayan states, India. View More
8 Sarkar, S., & Rawat, P. (2022, January). Characterization of aerosol climate forcing agents in residential biofuel use emissions from the north-western Himalayan region, India. View More
9 Sarkar, S., & Rana, A. (2022, January). Diurnal variation of nitroaromatic compounds (NACs) in the eastern Indo-Gangetic Plain. View More
10 Sarkar, S. (2022, January). Sources And Chemical Signatures Of Aqueous Brown Carbon and HULIS: Insights From NMR, 13C And 15N Isotopic Measurements View More
11 Sarkar, S. (2022, January). Understanding Size Distribution and Respiratory Tract Deposition of Aerosol Oxidative Potential in Indoor Kitchens of Northeastern India View More
12 Sarkar, S. (2021, January). Characterization of Exposure and Respiratory Tract Deposition of Size-fractionated Trace Metals from Indoor Cooking in Northeast India View More
13 Sarkar, S., & Sharma, B. (2021, January). Variation in carbonaceous and ionic species at a rural receptor location in the eastern Indo-Gangetic Plain View More
14 Sarkar, S. (2021, January). Linkage Between Chemical and Optical Properties Of Aqueous Brown Carbon And HULIS: Insights From EEM Fluorescence Coupled With PARAFAC Analysis View More
15 Sarkar, S., & Rana, A. (2021, January). Fluorescent Properties of Brown Carbon Aerosols Using Excitation Emission Matrix (EEM) for Different Seasons. View More
16 Rawat, P., & Sarkar, S. (2020, January). Optical and chemical properties of wintertime light-absorbing aerosols in the eastern Indo-Gangetic Plain, India View More
17 Sarkar, S., Sharma, B., & Rawat, P. (2020, January). Aerosol acidity and its neutralization in the eastern Indo-Gangetic Plain: implications for water-soluble organic carbon View More
18 Sarkar, S., Rana, A., & Dey, S. (2020, January). Optical properties of atmospheric brown carbon (BrC) for photochemical and biomass burning-dominated aerosol regimes in India. View More
19 Sarkar, S. (2019, January). Characterization of PM2. 5 Acidity in the Urban Area of Pearl River Delta (PRD), China View More
20 Sarkar, S. (2018, January). Tropospheric halocarbons in Southeast Asia-levels, sources and delineation of regional and local-scale emissions View More
21 Sarkar, S. (2016, January). Atmospheric black carbon concentrations in North America from 1850 to 2014 View More
22 Sarkar, S. (2015, January). Contribution of Fossil Fuels and Wood Combustion to Carcinogenic PAHs in the Ambient Atmosphere of a Tropical Megacity View More
23 Sarkar, S. (2015, January). Measurement of Atmospheric Black Carbon Concentrations, [BC]atm, in the Arctic Region from ~1700 to 2013 View More
24 Sarkar, S. (2013, January). Risk assessment of inhalation exposure to Particulate Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in school children View More

Book Chapter

1 Sarkar, S. (2021). Optical properties of brown carbon in aerosols and surface snow at Ny-Ålesund during the polar summer View More