ENVIRONMENTAL
ACADEMICS
DUKE CEE FACULTY

Prasad S Kasibhatla

Research Area(s): Atmospheric Science
Climate Modeling

Professor Kasibhatla's experience lies in Atmospheric chemistry, Regional and Global Modeling and Atmospheric chemical data analysis.

TEACHING (Fall 2009)

ENVIRON 49S.01, FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR (TOP),
ENVIRON 179.01, INTRO ATMOSPHERIC CHEM,
ENVIRON 279.01, INTRO TO ATMOS CHEM,

TEACHING (Spring 2010)

ENVIRON 298.95, SCIENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE,

Representative Publications (More Publications)

  1. Arellano, A.F., Jr. and Kasibhatla, P.S. and Giglio, L. and van der Werf, G.R. and Randerson, J.T. and Collatz, G.J., Time-dependent inversion estimates of global biomass-burning CO emissions using Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) measurements, J. Geophys. Res, D, Atmos. (USA), vol. 111 no. D9 (2006), ppt. 17 pp. - , [2005JD006613] [abs]
  2. Van Der Werf, Guido R. and Randerson, James T. and Collatz, G. James and Giglio, Louis and Kasibhatla, Prasad S. and Arellano Jr., Avelino F. and Olsen, Seth C. and Kasischke, Eric S., Continental-Scale Partitioning of Fire Emissions during the 1997 to 2001 El Nino/La Nina Period, Science, vol. 303 no. 5654 (2004), ppt. 73 - 76 , [science.1090753] [abs]
  3. Arellano Jr., Avelino F. and Kasibhatla, Prasad S. and Giglio, Louis and van der Werf, Guido R. and Randerson, James T., Top-down estimates of global CO sources using MOPITT measurements, Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 31 no. 1 (2004), ppt. 01104 - 1 [abs]
  4. Arellano, A.F., Jr. and Kasibhatla, P.S. and Giglio, L. and van der Werf, G.R. and Randerson, J.T., Correction to "Top-down estimates of global CO sources using MOPITT measurements", Geophys. Res. Lett. (USA), vol. 31 no. 12 (2004), ppt. 1 pp. - , [2004GL020311] [abs]
  5. Giglio, L. and Pinzon, J. and Kasibhatla, P., Comment on "Seasonal, intraseasonal, and interannual variability of global land fires and their effects on atmospheric aerosol distribution" by Y. Ji and E. Stocker, J. Geophys. Res. (USA), vol. 108 no. D24 (2003), ppt. 3 - 1 , [2003JD003548] [abs]
  6. Shaocai Yu and Kasibhatla, P.S. and Wright, D.L. and Schwartz, S.E. and McGraw, R., Moment-based simulation of microphysical properties of sulfate aerosols in the eastern United States: model description, evaluation, and regional analysis, J. Geophys. Res. (USA), vol. 108 no. D12 (2003), ppt. 4 - 1 , [2002JD002890] [abs]
  7. Wright, D.L. and Yu, S. and Kasibhatla, P.S. and McGraw, R. and Schwartz, S.E. and Saxena, V.K. and Yue, G.K., Retrieval of aerosol properties from moments of the particle size distribution for kernels involving the step function: Cloud droplet activation, Journal of Aerosol Science, vol. 33 no. 2 (2002), ppt. 319 - 337 , [S0021-8502(01)00172-0] [abs]
  8. Kasibhatla, Prasad and Arellano, Avelino and Logan, Jennifer A. and Palmer, Paul I. and Novelli, Paul, Top-down estimate of a large source of atmospheric carbon monoxide associated with fuel combustion in Asia, Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 29 no. 19 (2002), ppt. 6 - 1 , [2002GL015581] [abs]
  9. Cooke, W.F. and Ramaswamy, V. and Kasibhatla, P., A general circulation model study of the global carbonaceous aerosol distribution, J. Geophys. Res. (USA), vol. 107 no. D16 (2002), ppt. 2 - 1 [abs]
  10. Cooke, W.F. and Ramaswamy, V. and Kasibhatla, P., A general circulation model study of the global carbonaceous aerosol distribution, J. Geophys. Res. (USA), vol. 107 no. D16 (2002), ppt. 2 - 1 , [2001JD001274] [abs]
  11. Roelofs, G.J. and Kasibhatla, P. and Barrie, L. and Bergmann, D. and Bridgeman, C. and Chin, M. and Christensen, J. and Easter, R. and Feichter, J. and Jeuken, A. and Kjellstrom, E. and Koch, D. and Land, C. and Lohmann, U. and Rasch, P., Analysis of regional budgets of sulfur species modeled for the COSAM exercise, Tellus B, Chem. Phys. Meteorol. (Sweden), vol. 53B no. 5 (2001), ppt. 673 - 94 [abs]
  12. Barrie, L.A. and Yi, Y. and Leaitch, W.R. and Lohmann, U. and Kasibhatla, P. and Roelofs, G.-J. and Wilson, J. and McGovern, F. and Benkovitz, C. and Melieres, M.A. and Law, K. and Prospero, J. and Kritz, M. and Bergmann, D. and Bridgeman, C. and Chin, M. and Christensen, J. and Easter, R. and Feichter, J. and Land, C. and Jeuken, A. and Kjellstrom, E. and Koch, D. and Rasch, P., A comparison of large-scale atmospheric sulphate aerosol models (COSAM): overview and highlights, Tellus B, Chem. Phys. Meteorol. (Sweden), vol. 53B no. 5 (2001), ppt. 615 - 45 [abs]
  13. Hogrefe, C. and Rao, S.T. and Kasibhatla, P. and Hao, W. and Sistla, G. and Mathur, R. and McHenry, J., Evaluating the performance of regional-scale photochemical modeling systems: Part II - Ozone predictions, Atmospheric Environment, vol. 35 no. 24 (2001), ppt. 4175 - 4188 , [S1352-2310(01)00183-2] [abs]
  14. Hogrefe, C. and Rao, S.T. and Kasibhatla, P. and Kallos, G. and Tremback, C.J. and Hao, W. and Olerud, D. and Xiu, A. and McHenry, J. and Alapaty, K., Evaluating the performance of regional-scale photochemical modeling systems: Part I - Meteorological predictions, Atmospheric Environment, vol. 35 no. 24 (2001), ppt. 4159 - 4174 , [S1352-2310(01)00182-0] [abs]
  15. Davis, D.D. and Grodzinsky, G. and Kasibhatla, P. and Crawford, J. and Chen, G. and Liu, S. and Bandy, A. and Thornton, D. and Guan, H. and Sandholm, S., Impact of ship emissions on marine boundary layer NO<sub>x</sub> and SO<sub>2</sub> distributions over the Pacific Basin, Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 28 no. 2 (2001), ppt. 235 - 238 , [2000GL012013] [abs]
  16. Kasibhatla, P., and W. L. Chameides, Seasonal modeling of regional ozone pollution in the eastern United States, Geophys. Res. Lett., vol. 27 (2000), ppt. 1415-1418
  17. Kasibhatla, P., H. Levy II, W. J. Moxim, S. N. Pandis, J. J. Corbett, M. C. Peterson, R. E. Honrath, G. J. Frost, K. Knapp, D. D. Parrish, and T. B. Ryerson, Do emissions from ships have a significant impact on concentrations of nitrogen oxides in the marine boundary layer?, Geophys. Res. Lett., vol. 27 (2000), ppt. 2229-2232
  18. Holloway, T. and Levy, H., II and Kasibhatla, P., Global distribution of carbon monoxide, J. Geophys. Res. (USA), vol. 105 no. D10 (2000), ppt. 12123 - 47 , [1999JD901173] [abs]
  19. Houyoux, M.R. and Vukovich, J.M. and Coats, C.J., Jr. and Wheeler, N.J.M. and Kasibhatla, P.S., Emission inventory development and processing for the Seasonal Model for Regional Air Quality (SMRAQ) project, J. Geophys. Res. (USA), vol. 105 no. D7 (2000), ppt. 9079 - 90 , [1999JD900975] [abs]

Education:

  • PhD, University of Kentucky,
  • MS, University of Kentucky,
  • B Chem E, University of Bombay,

Research Interests:

    Atmospheric chemistry, Regional and Global Modeling and Atmospheric chemical data analysis

UPCOMING EVENTS:

CEE Events


Graduate Reading Period
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
12:00 AM-12:00 AM, None

Graduate Classes End
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
10:00 PM-10:00 PM, None

Thanksgiving Recess Begins
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
10:30 PM-10:30 PM, None

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