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Krishan Kumar

Professor

Centre/School/Special Centre

School of Environmental Sciences

Room No

309

Off. Phone

011-26704163

Residence

011-26704626 ext 24

krishan_kumar@mail.jnu.ac.in

Personal Webpage

http://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/kkumar/cv.pdf

Qualifications

Ph.D.

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Remote Sensing Applications in Urban Climate & Air Quality, Air and Noise Pollution

Experience

Teaching & research as faculty in Environmental Science at PG level since January 1994

International Collaboration/Consultancy

Visiting Fellow, University of Technology, Sydney

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

1) Pandey, A. K., Kumar, D., Singh, S., Pandey, P., Prakash, A., Berwal, S., Lodhi, N., Maithani, S., Jain, V. K. and Kumar, K. (2014). Spatio - temporal variations of Urban Heat Island over Delhi. Urban Climate, 10, 119-133.

2) Lodhi, N. K., Beegum, S. N., Singh, S. and Kumar, K. (2013). Aerosol climatology at Delhi in the western Indo-Gangetic Plain:Microphysics, long-term trends, and source strengths. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 118, 1–15, doi:10.1002/ jgrd. 50165, 2013

3) Prakash A., Kumar U., Kumar K. and Jain V. K. (2011). A Wavelet-based Neural Network Model to Predict Ambient Air Pollutants’ Concentration. Environ Model Assess,16:503–517.

4) Tyagi, V., Kumar, K. and Jain, V. K. (2006), “A study of the spectral characterisitics of traffic noise attenuation by vegetation belts in Delhi”, Applied Acoustics, 67, p.926-935.

5) Yadav, A.K., Kumar, K., Kasim, A.M. B. H. A., Singh, M. P., Parida, S.K., and Sharan, M. (2003), “Visibility and Incidence of Respiratory Diseases during the 1998 Haze Episode in Brunei Darussalam”, Pure and Applied Geophysics (ISSN: 0033- 4553), 160, p. 265-277