Name: Prashant Rawat

Enrolment No.: D21112

Admission year: 2019

Research Interests: Environment, Aerosols, Air quality research, Black carbon, Brown carbon, HULIS, Radiative forcing

Supervisor:

Education

Sl No. Degree University Year
1 Master of Sciences INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH KOLKATA 2018
2 Ph.D. INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MANDI 2019-PRESENT

Professional Experience

Sl No. Position(Company name) Year
1 Research assistant (IISER Kolkata) 2018-2019

Journal Article

1 Rawat, P., Sharma, B., Dey, S., Rana, A., Mukherjee, A., Polana, J, A., Mao, J., Jia, S., Khillare, P., & Sarkar, S. (2022). Are fireworks a significant episodic source of brown carbon?. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 29(), 40252–40261. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-20183-4 View More
2 Rawat, P., Sarkar, S., Jia, S., Khillare, P., Sharma, B., Polana, J, A., Mao, J., Jia, S., & Khillare, P. (2019). Regional sulfate drives long-term rise in AOD over megacity Kolkata, India. Atmospheric Environment, 209(), 167-181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2019.04.031 View More
3 Kolakkandi, V., Sharma, B., Rana, A., Dey, S., Rawat, P., Sarkar, S., Mao, J., & Jia, S. (2020). Spatially resolved distribution, sources and health risks of heavy metals in size-fractionated road dust from 57 sites across megacity Kolkata, India. Science of The Total Environment, 705(), 135805. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135805 View More
4 Rana, A., Dey, S., Rawat, P., Mukherjee, A., Mao, J., Jia, S., Khillare, P., Yadav, K, A., & Sarkar, S. (2020). Optical properties of aerosol brown carbon (BrC) in the eastern Indo-Gangetic Plain. Science of The Total Environment, 716(), 137102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137102 View More
5 Rana, A., Rawat, P., Sarkar, S., Mukherjee, A., Mao, J., Jia, S., Khillare, P., & Yadav, K, A. (2023). Sources, transport pathways and radiative effects of BC aerosol during 2018–2020 at a receptor site in the eastern Indo-Gangetic Plain. Atmospheric Environment, 309(), 119900. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2023.119900 View More
6 Dey, S., Ghosh, P., Rawat, P., CHOUDHARY, N., Rai, A., Meena, R., Mandal, K, T., Mao, J., Jia, S., Rastogi, N., Sharma, K, S., & 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. Science of The Total Environment, 894(), 164872. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164872 View More

Conference Paper

1 Dey, S., Rana, A., Rawat, P., & Sarkar, S. (2020, June). Optical and chemical properties of wintertime light-absorbing aerosols in the eastern Indo-Gangetic Plain, India. EGU 2020, View More
2 Rawat, P., Bau, S., & Sarkar, S. (2023, April). Humic-like substances in residential biofuel use emissions from the northwestern Himalayan region, India. EGU 2023, View More
3 Rawat, P., Bau, S., & Sarkar, S. (2022, December). . Aerosol climate forcing agents in biofuel emissions in Northwestern Himalayan states, India.. AGU 2022, online View More

Awards and Honours

Name Year
DST-INSPIRE 2019