Gufran Beig

PeerJ Editor

Summary

Dr. Gufran Beig is an atmospheric scientist, focussing on Environmental science aspects of atmosphere and air quality. He is working as Project Director at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune under the Indian Union Ministry of Earth Sciences. His broad area of research is Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Pollution. Specific topics of expertise include developing air pollution monitoring and forecasting systems and assessment of its impact on Human Health and food security; as well as long term changes and trends in the troposphere and Stratosphere. He has the distinction of developing and commissioning the first air quality Forecasting system for Indian Mega cities which is recognised as a pilot project of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO-GURME). He is the recipient of several awards, viz. the coveted Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award, Norbert Gerbier-Mumm International Award of WMO, etc. He has been a committee member of the scientific steering /advisory committee member of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) project; SPARC of World Climate research; and Global Atmospheric Watch’s GURME-WMO project.

Atmospheric Chemistry Environmental Impacts

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Work details

PROJECT DIRECTOR

Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology

July 1996

SAFAR

Identification of important anthropogenic climate change signal in the atmosphere and reliable estimation of role of atmospheric chemistry on regional climate change and environment. Group's work includes path breaking contributions in the area of 'Chemical Climate' which led to the development of first air quality forecasting system in Indian Metro cities including Delhi with significant societal impact. Exploited the global change signals in the middle atmosphere which revealed significant cooling resulting in its shrinking, influence to navigation system, satellite movement and lower atmospheric climate-weather patterns. Careful separation of natural variability from climate change signal by the group unraveled a significant anthropogenic cooling trend in the upper atmosphere resulting in shrinking of the ionosphere with significant potential influence on radio propagation and navigation systems. Further, group used coupled 3-D chemistry-climate model to quantifying reliably the role of atmospheric chemistry on regional climate change of the lower and middle atmosphere. In this context, gridded emission inventory of several pollutants for India along with their decadal growth have been constructed and resulted radiative forcing estimated..

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May 7, 2021

The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on nitrogen dioxide levels in Nigeria

Johnson Adedeji Olusola, Adebola Adekunle Shote, Abdellah Ouigmane, Rima J. Isaifan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11387 PubMed 34012730

July 31, 2020

Air quality improvement during triple-lockdown in the coastal city of Kannur, Kerala to combat Covid-19 transmission

C.T. Resmi, T. Nishanth, M.K. Satheesh Kumar, M.G. Manoj, M. Balachandramohan, K.T. Valsaraj

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9642 PubMed 32821548