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Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre
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About: Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre is a facility organization based out in Thiruvananthapuram, India. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Aerosol & Ultimate tensile strength. The organization has 2092 authors who have published 3058 publications receiving 47975 citations. The organization is also known as: VSSC.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the correlation between the Integrated EEJ strength (IEEJ) and the Equatorial Ionization Anomaly (EIA) parameters like the total electron content at the northern crest, location of crest in Magnetic latitude and strength of the EIA for the Indian sector.
Abstract: . Equatorial Electrojet (EEJ) and Equatorial Ionization Anomaly (EIA) are two large-scale processes in the equatorial/low latitude ionosphere, driven primarily by the eastward electric field during daytime. In the present paper we investigate the correlation between the Integrated EEJ strength (IEEJ) and the EIA parameters like the total electron content at the northern crest, location of crest in Magnetic latitude and strength of the EIA for the Indian sector. A good correlation has been observed between the IEEJ and EIA when a time delay is introduced between IEEJ and EIA parameters. This time delay is regarded as the response time of equatorial ionosphere in context of the evolution of EIA vis-a-vis EEJ. Further, a seasonal variation in the time delay has been observed, which is believed to be due to changes in thermospheric wind. Using the response time and the linear relationship obtained, the possibility of near-real time prediction of EIA parameters has been attempted and found that the prediction holds well during the geomagnetically quiet periods. The paper discusses these aspects in detail.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the transport of mineral dust over the West Asian desert, the Indian subcontinent and the surrounding oceanic regions during the summer monsoon season with the help of a regional scale model, WRF-Chem.
Abstract: Aerosol distribution over the Arabian Sea and the Indian subcontinent during the northern hemispheric summer is dominated by mineral dust transport from the West Asian desert regions. The radiative impact of these dust plumes is expected to have a prominent role in regulating the Asian Summer Monsoon circulation. While satellite observations have provided information in the spatial distribution of aerosols over the oceanic regions during the season, their utility over the land is rather limited. This study examines the transport of mineral dust over the West Asian desert, the Indian subcontinent and the surrounding oceanic regions during the summer monsoon season with the help of a regional scale model, WRF-Chem. Geographical locations of prominent dust sources, altitude ranges of mineral dust transport and their inter-annual variations are examined in detail. Multi-year model simulations were carried out during 2007 to 2012 with a model integration from 15 May to 31 August of each year. Six-year seasonal mean (June to August) vertically integrated dust amount from 1000 to 300 hPa level shows prominent dust loading over the eastern parts of Arabian desert and the northwestern part of India which are identified as two major sources of dust production. Large latitudinal gradient in dust amount is observed over the Arabian Sea with the largest dust concentration over the northwestern part and is primarily caused by the prevailing northwesterly wind at 925 hPa level from the Arabian desert. The model simulations clearly show that most of the dust distributed over the Indo-Gangetic plane originates from the Rajasthan desert located in the northwestern part of India, whereas dust observed over the central and south peninsular India and over the Arabian Sea are mainly transported from the Arabian desert. Abnormal dust loading is observed over the north Arabian Sea during June 2008. This has been produced as a result of the low pressure system (associated with the onset of summer monsoon) which entered in to the Arabian land mass, resulting strong wind and large dust storms over the region; the prevailing northwesterly wind transported these dust in to the Arabian Sea.
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TL;DR: In this article, a model for the production and loss of CO(a 3 Π), which has been applied to comet 103P/Hartley 2: the target of the EPOXI mission, was developed.
Abstract: The CO 2 production rate has been derived in comets using Cameron-band (a 3 Π→X 1 Σ) emission of CO molecules, assuming that photodissociative excitation of CO 2 is the main production mechanism of CO in the a 3 Π metastable state. We have developed a model for the production and loss of CO(a 3 Π), which has been applied to comet 103P/Hartley 2: the target of the EPOXI mission. Our model calculations show that photoelectron impact excitation of CO and dissociative excitation of CO 2 can together contribute about 60–90 per cent to Cameron-band emission. The modelled brightness of (0–0) Cameron-band emission on comet Hartley 2 is consistent with Hubble Space Telescope observations for 3–5 per cent CO 2 (depending on the model input solar flux) and 0.5 per cent CO relative to water, where the photoelectron impact contribution is about 50–75 per cent. We suggest that estimation of CO 2 abundances on comets using Cameron-band emission may be reconsidered. We predict a height-integrated column brightness of the Cameron band of ∼1300 Rayleigh during the EPOXI mission encounter period.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a study has been carried out to reinforce the commonly believed fact that the dispersion of carbon nanotubes in a composite has a profound effect on the properties of the composite.
Abstract: This study has been carried out to reinforce the commonly believed fact that the dispersion of carbon nanotubes in a composite has a profound effect on the properties of the composite. In this study, ball milling was carried out using two different parameters to obtain distinctly different degrees of dispersion of carbon nanotubes (4 wt.%) in Al-9 wt.% Si powders. Composite disks, 80 mm in diameter, having good and bad dispersions of carbon nanotubes were obtained by hot pressing. Optical micrographs and Raman spectroscopy images showed the presence of larger carbon nanotube clusters in the bad dispersion sample. Transmission electron microscopy images confirmed the presence of large clusters in the bad dispersion sample, while the good dispersion sample showed individual carbon nanotubes in the Al matrix. Nanoindentation results indicated a 41% increase in the hardness and a 27% increase in the elastic-to-plastic work ratio, while compression tests indicated a 185% increase in compression yield strength and a 109% increase in fracture strength with improvement in carbon nanotube’s dispersion.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the spectral aerosol optical depth (AOD) using multi-wavelength solar radiometer (MWR) for a period of seven years (from 2002 to 2008) from the island location, Port Blair (11.63° N, 92.7° E, PBR) in the Bay of Bengal (BoB), along with the concurrent measurements of the size distribution of near-surface aerosols, have been analyzed to delineate the climatological features of aerosols over eastern BoB.
Abstract: . Long-term measurements of spectral aerosol optical depth (AOD) using multi-wavelength solar radiometer (MWR) for a period of seven years (from 2002 to 2008) from the island location, Port Blair (11.63° N, 92.7° E, PBR) in the Bay of Bengal (BoB), along with the concurrent measurements of the size distribution of near-surface aerosols, have been analyzed to delineate the climatological features of aerosols over eastern BoB. In order to identity the contribution of different aerosol types from distinct sources, concentration weighted trajectory (CWT) analysis has been employed. Climatologically, AODs increase from January to reach peak value of ~0.4 (at 500 nm) in March, followed by a weak decrease towards May. Over this general pattern, significant modulations of intra-seasonal time scales, caused by the changes in the relative strength of distinctively different sources, are noticed. The derivative (α') of the Angstrom wavelength exponent α in the wavelength domain, along with CWT analysis, are used to delineate the different important aerosol types that influence this remote island. Corresponding changes in the aerosol size distributions are inferred from the numerical inversion of the spectral AODs as well from (surface) measurements. The analyses revealed that advection plays a major role in modifying the aerosol properties over the remote island location, the potential sources contributing to the accumulation mode (coarse mode) aerosols over eastern BoB being the East Asia and South China regions (Indian mainland and the oceanic regions).
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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M. Santosh | 103 | 1344 | 49846 |
Sabu Thomas | 102 | 1554 | 51366 |
S. Suresh Babu | 70 | 498 | 17113 |
K. Krishna Moorthy | 54 | 263 | 9749 |
Sathianeson Satheesh | 53 | 172 | 11099 |
M. Y. Hussaini | 49 | 207 | 16794 |
J.R. Banerjee | 44 | 146 | 5620 |
C. P. Reghunadhan Nair | 37 | 181 | 4825 |
K. N. Ninan | 36 | 159 | 4156 |
Anil Bhardwaj | 35 | 230 | 4527 |
Ivatury S. Raju | 33 | 121 | 6626 |
Venkata Sai Kiran Chakravadhanula | 32 | 102 | 3011 |
P.K. Sinha | 32 | 118 | 2918 |
J.-P. St.-Maurice | 31 | 113 | 3446 |
Subramaniam Gopalakrishnan | 28 | 123 | 2951 |