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Pratapaditya Ghosh

Portrait of  Pratapaditya Ghosh
  • Title
    Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Email
    ghosh9@llnl.gov
  • Phone
    (925) 423-5329
  • Organization
    PLS-AEED-ATMOSPHERIC, EARTH, ENERGY

I am a postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. I study atmospheric processes and their implementation in atmospheric models. My research interests include Aerosol-Cloud Interactions, Cloud Parameterizations, and High-Resolution Modeling.

Ph.D, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 2025

M.Tech, Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 2020

B.E, Civil Engineering, Jadavpur University, 2018

Selected publications

Ghosh, P., Evans, K. J., Grosvenor, D. P., Kang, H.-G., Mahajan, S., Xu, M., Zhang, W., and Gordon, H.:Assessing modifications to the Abdul-Razzak and Ghan aerosol activation parameterization (version ARG2000) to improve simulated aerosol–cloud radiative effects in the UK Met Office Unified Model (UM version 13.0), Geosci. Model Dev., 18, 4899–4913, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-4899-2025

Ghosh, P., Boutle, I., Field, P., Hill, A., Jones, A., Mazoyer, M., Evans, K. J., Mahajan, S., Kang, H.-G., Xu, M., Zhang, W., Asch, N., and Gordon, H.: High sensitivity of simulated fog properties to parameterized aerosol activation in case studies from ParisFog, Atmos.Chem. Phys., 25, 11129–11156, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-11129-2025

Ghosh, P., Boutle, I., Field, P., Hill, A., Mazoyer, M., Evans, K. J., Mahajan, S., Kang, H.-G., Xu, M., Zhang, W., and Gordon, H.: Adiabatic and radiative cooling are both important causes of aerosol activation in simulated fog events in Europe, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 25,11157–11182, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-11157-2025

Gordon, H., Carslaw, K. S., Hill, A. A., Field, P. R., Abraham, N. L., Beyersdorf, A., Corr-Limoges, C., Ghosh, P., Hemmings, J., Jones, A. C., Sanchez, C., Wang, X., Wilkinson, J. (2023). NUMAC: Description of the Nested Unified Model with Aerosols and Chemistry, and evaluation with KORUS-AQ data. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 15, e2022MS003457. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022MS003457

 

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  1. ‘Air Pollution Control and Waste Minimization Research’ scholarship from Air & Waste Management Association in 2022
  2. Dr. S.D. Bokil Memorial Medal for the best MTech student in Environmental Engineering Specialization of Civil Engineering Department of IIT Kanpur, for the year 2020
  3. Academic Excellence Award from IIT Kanpur for being among the top 10% students of the Civil Engineering Department (2019, 2020)
  4. Sarada Memorial Silver Medal from Jadavpur University in 2018