DCCC

Priyanka Banerjee

DST Inspire Faculty Fellow

Divecha Centre for Climate Change
Indian Institute of Science,
Bengaluru-560012
Karnataka
India

Email: pbanerjee@iisc.ac.in/pbanerjee.ocean@gmail.com

Tel: +91-80-2293-3425

ACADEMIC DETAILS
Publications

Education

CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India Ph.D., Marine Sciences, November 2015. Dissertation: “Spatio-temporal variability of mineral dust over the Arabian Sea and its impact on primary production”

University of Calcutta, Calcutta, India Master of Science, Geography, 2010. Bachelor of Science, Geography, 2008.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Divecha Centre for Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science DST INSPIRE Faculty Fellow, April 2019-present

Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Project Scientist, May 2016 – March 2019

RESEARCH AREA

Aerosol transport and its long-term variability, impact of aerosol depositions on ocean biogeochemistry.

JOURNALS

Banerjee, P. (2023). Importance of multiple sources of iron for the upper ocean biogeochemistry over the northern Indian Ocean, Biogeosciences, 20, 2613–2643, 2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-2613-2023
Banerjee, P., S. K. Satheesh, & K. K. Moorthy (2021). Is the Atlantic Ocean driving the recent variability in South Asian dust?. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21, 17665–17685. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-17665-2021

Banerjee, P., S. K. Satheesh, & K. K. Moorthy (2021). The unusual severe dust storm of May 2018 over Northern India: Genesis, propagation, and associated conditions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126, e2020JD032369. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD032369

Banerjee, P., S. K. Satheesh, K. K. Moorthy, R. S. Nanjundiah, & V. S. Nair (2019). Long-range transport of mineral dust to the northeast Indian Ocean: Regional versus remote sources and the implications. Journal of Climate, 32, 1525–1549. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0403.1

Narvekar, J., J. R. D'Mello, S. P. Kumar, P. Banerjee, V. Sharma, & P. Shenai-Tirodkar (2017). Winter-time variability of the eastern Arabian Sea: A comparison between 2003 and 2013. Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 6269–6277. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017gl072965

Singh, A., et al. (2016). Perspectives on future Indian Ocean research from early career scientists. Current Science, 111 (11), 1741–1742.

Banerjee, P., & S. P. Kumar (2016). ENSO modulation of interannual variability of dust aerosols over the northwest Indian Ocean. Journal of Climate, 29(4), 1287–1303. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0039.1

Banerjee, P., & S. P. Kumar (2014). Dust-induced episodic phytoplankton blooms in the Arabian Sea during winter monsoon. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 119, 7123–7138. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JC010304

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Banerjee, P., et al. (2020). “Air Pollution- Clean Air and Energy in South Asia”, Chapter in Tackling Food Insecurity, Air Pollution, Water Insecurity and Associated Health Risks in South Asia: A Future Earth Working Document.

Prasanna Kumar, S., N. Ramaiah & R. A. Sreepada (2015). Ecosystem Characterisation of Indian Coast with special focus on West Coast, CSIR-NIO, Goa, India, BOBLME Thematic Report, BOBLME-2015-Ecology-17. (Contributing author).

Banerjee, P., and S. Prasanna Kumar (2014). Dust depositions leading to phytoplankton blooms in the Arabian Sea, SOLAS Newsletter, 16, 13-14.

PEER REVIEWS

Aeolian Research, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Atmospheric Environment, Atmospheric Research, Current Science, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research, Meteorological Applications, Nature Communications, Scientific Reports.

Awards & Grants:

AWARDS:
Highest GPA award in Master of Science in Geography, 2010; Junior Research Fellowship in Earth Science from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India, 2010; CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography best student paper award for “Dust-induced episodic phytoplankton blooms in the Arabian Sea during winter monsoon”, 2015.

GRANTS

Principal Investigator in “Constraining DUst CYcle and its CLimate implications over the northern Indian Ocean (DUCYCLIO)” funded by Department of Science & Technology, Government of India (2019).

Principal Investigator in “Ice CorE Records of Asian DUST variability (ICEDUST)” funded by Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India (2022).

Co-Principal Investigator in “Trace metal and isotope studies of South Asian aerosols” funded by Imperial-Indian Institute of Science Innovative Research and Education Fund (2022).

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DEPARTMENTAL ACTIVITIES:

Member of Ph.D. Admissions Committee, Divecha Centre for Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science; Instructor at training programme on aerosol modelling at Indian Institute of Science, 2022; Advising 2 project interns and 5 project associates; Advisor on air pollution for Future Earth South Asia.

CONFERENCES ATTENDED:

Pan Ocean Remote Sensing Conference (PORSEC), 2012; SOLAS Summer School, 2013; International Indian Ocean Expedition-2 IIOE-2) - International Symposium on the Indian Ocean, 2015; The World Academy of Sciences, 2016; European Geophysical Union 2018, 2021, 2023.