Research subject Nexus of Air Pollution and Climate Change

The Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP; northern Pakistan, N. India and Bangladesh) as well as the eastern corridor of China are two examples of hotspot regions with massive anthropogenic effects on public health and climate with a myriad of cascading effects on other environmental systems.

Research in this area takes a decadal-scale perspective to pinpoint the changing sources, composition and climate effects of both gases and aerosols.  This includes working closely with international colleagues in enabling advanced and strategically-located atmospheric observatories that are both well instrumented and collecting samples for many analyses back at SU, including powerful isotopic studies of both sources and atmospheric reactions.