Pratapaditya Ghosh profile

Pratapaditya Ghosh

Postdoctoral Researcher

PLS / AEED / Atmospheric, Earth, Energy

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Biography

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.

Education

  • 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

Publications

2025 3 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

2023 1 publication

  • 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

Other 3 publications

Awards

  • ‘Air Pollution Control and Waste Minimization Research’ scholarship from Air & Waste Management Association in 2022

  • 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

  • Academic Excellence Award from IIT Kanpur for being among the top 10% students of the Civil Engineering Department (2019, 2020)

  • Sarada Memorial Silver Medal from Jadavpur University in 2018