List of works - Prabir K. Patra

A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks

scientific article published on 07 October 2020

A multi-model intercomparison of halogenated very short-lived substances (TransCom-VSLS): linking oceanic emissions and tropospheric transport for a reconciled estimate of the stratospheric source gas injection of bromine ⬇️

scholarly article

A segmentation algorithm for characterizing Rise and Fall segments in seasonal cycles: an application to XCO2 to estimate benchmarks and assess model bias

article

A segmentation algorithm for characterizing rise and fall segments in seasonal cycles: an application to XCO2 to estimate benchmarks and assess model bias

scientific article published in 2019

Age of Air as a diagnostic for transport time-scales in global models

Age of air as a diagnostic for transport timescales in global models ⬇️

scientific article published in 2018

Air‐Sea Fluxes of CO2 in the Indian Ocean Between 1985 and 2018: A Synthesis Based on Observation‐Based Surface CO2, Hindcast and Atmospheric Inversion Models

scientific article published in 2023

An evaluation of CO2observations with Solar Occultation FTS for Inclined-Orbit Satellite sensor for surface source inversion

scientific article published on 17 December 2003

Analysis of atmospheric CO2 growth rates at Mauna Loa using CO2 fluxes derived from an inverse model

article

Are Land‐Use Change Emissions in Southeast Asia Decreasing or Increasing?

scientific article published in 2022

Assessing Lagrangian inverse modelling of urban anthropogenic CO2 fluxes using in situ aircraft and ground-based measurements in the Tokyo area

scientific article published on 17 May 2019

Assessing the impact of satellite, aircraft, and surface observations on CO2flux estimation using an ensemble-based 4-D data assimilation system

scientific article published on 23 August 2011

Atmospheric deposition and surface stratification as controls of contrasting chlorophyll abundance in the North Indian Ocean

scholarly article

Comment on “Effects of Cosmic Rays on Atmospheric Chlorofluorocarbon Dissociation and Ozone Depletion”

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Coupling between Land and Ocean Biospheres as Observed by Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS)

scientific article published in 2007

Definitions and methods to estimate regional land carbon fluxes for the second phase of the REgional Carbon Cycle Assessment and Processes Project (RECCAP-2)

scientific article

Definitions and methods to estimate regional land carbon fluxes for the second phase of the REgional Carbon Cycle Assessment and Processes Project (RECCAP-2)

scientific article published on 16 February 2022

Detection of fossil-fuel CO2 plummet in China due to COVID-19 by observation at Hateruma

scientific article published on 29 October 2020

Effect of recent observations on Asian CO2 flux estimates by transport model inversions

article

Empirical estimates of regional carbon budgets imply reduced global soil heterotrophic respiration

scientific article

Estimated regional CO2 flux and uncertainty based on an ensemble of atmospheric CO2 inversions

scientific article published in 2022

Evaluating Northern Hemisphere Growing Season Net Carbon Flux in Climate Models Using Aircraft Observations

scientific article published in 2023

Evaluating Simulations of Interhemispheric Transport: Interhemispheric Exchange Time Versus SF6 Age

scholarly article

Evaluation of column-averaged methane in models and TCCON with a focus on the stratosphere

Exploring the sensitivity of interannual basin-scale air-sea CO2fluxes to variability in atmospheric dust deposition using ocean carbon cycle models and atmospheric CO2inversions

scholarly article

Formation mechanisms of latitudinal CO2gradients in the upper troposphere over the subtropics and tropics

scientific article published on 13 February 2009

GOSAT CH4 Vertical Profiles over the Indian Subcontinent: Effect of a Priori and Averaging Kernels for Climate Applications

scientific article published in 2021

Global Carbon Budget 2018

article published in 2018

Global atmospheric CO2 inverse models converging on neutral tropical land exchange but diverging on fossil fuel and atmospheric growth rate

Global atmospheric CO2 inverse models converging on neutral tropical land exchange, but disagreeing on fossil fuel and atmospheric growth rate

scientific article published on 16 January 2019

Global emissions of refrigerants HCFC-22 and HFC-134a: unforeseen seasonal contributions

scientific article

Global inverse modeling of CH4 sources and sinks: an overview of methods

scholarly article

Global-scale transport of carbon dioxide in the troposphere

scientific article published in August 2008

Gridded fossil CO2 emissions and related O2 combustion consistent with national inventories 1959-2018

scientific article published on 07 January 2021

Growth Rate, Seasonal, Synoptic, Diurnal Variations and Budget of Methane in the Lower Atmosphere

Iconic CO2 time series at risk

scientific article published in August 2012

Implications of overestimated anthropogenic CO2 emissions on East Asian and global land CO2 flux inversion

article

Improved Chemical Tracer Simulation by MIROC4.0-based Atmospheric Chemistry-Transport Model (MIROC4-ACTM)

scholarly article published 2018

Increasing summer net CO2 uptake in high northern ecosystems inferred from atmospheric inversions and comparisons to remote-sensing NDVI

scholarly article

Interannual and decadal changes in the sea-air CO2flux from atmospheric CO2inverse modeling

article by Prabir K Patra et al published 15 November 2005 in Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Intercomparison of Atmospheric Carbonyl Sulfide (TransCom‐COS; Part One): Evaluating the Impact of Transport and Emissions on Tropospheric Variability Using Ground‐Based and Aircraft Data

scientific article published in 2023

Investigation of scale interaction between rainfall and ecosystem carbon exchange ofWestern Himalayan Pine dominated vegetation

scientific article published on 24 August 2018

Land use change and El Niño-Southern Oscillation drive decadal carbon balance shifts in Southeast Asia.

scientific article published on 20 March 2018

Long tails in deep columns of natural and anthropogenic tropospheric tracers

scholarly article

Mid-upper tropospheric methane in the high Northern Hemisphere: Spaceborne observations by AIRS, aircraft measurements, and model simulations

scientific article published on 9 October 2010

Model – TCCON comparisons of column-averaged methane with a focus on the stratosphere

article

Observational evidence for interhemispheric hydroxyl-radical parity

scientific article

On the variation of regional CO2exchange over temperate and boreal North America

article

PM2.5 diminution and haze events over Delhi during the COVID-19 lockdown period: an interplay between the baseline pollution and meteorology

scientific article published on 10 August 2020

Plant Regrowth as a Driver of Recent Enhancement of Terrestrial CO2 Uptake

article

Reconciliation of top-down and bottom-up CO2 fluxes in Siberian larch forest

scientific article published in December 2017

Regional Methane Emission Estimation Based on Observed Atmospheric Concentrations (2002-2012)

Regional carbon fluxes from land use and land cover change in Asia, 1980–2009

article

Role of biomass burning and climate anomalies for land-atmosphere carbon fluxes based on inverse modeling of atmospheric CO2

article

Sensitivity of inverse estimation of annual mean CO2sources and sinks to ocean-only sites versus all-sites observational networks

scholarly article

Sensitivity of optimal extension of CO2 observation networks to model transport

article

Spatio-temporal variations of the atmospheric greenhouse gases and their sources and sinks in the Arctic region

scholarly article

State of the science in reconciling top-down and bottom-up approaches for terrestrial CO2 budget

scientific article published on 12 December 2019

Statistics of atmospheric correlations

scientific article published on 11 June 2001

Stratospheric influence on the seasonal cycle of nitrous oxide in the troposphere as deduced from aircraft observations and model simulations

article

Supplementary material to "The Global Methane Budget 2000–2017"

scientific article

Temporal Variations of the Mole Fraction, Carbon, and Hydrogen Isotope Ratios of Atmospheric Methane in the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada

article

Temporal and spatial variations of the atmospheric CO2concentration in China

article

Temporal variations of atmospheric CO2 and CO at Ahmedabad in western India

scholarly article

The Global Methane Budget 2000–2017

scientific article

The Global Methane Budget 2000–2017

preprint

The Impact of Transport Model Differences on CO2 Surface Flux Estimates from OCO-2 Retrievals of Column Average CO2

article

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) tracks 2-3 peta-gram increase in carbon release to the atmosphere during the 2014-2016 El Niño

scientific article published on 19 October 2017

The consolidated European synthesis of CH4 and N2O emissions for the European Union and United Kingdom: 1990–2017

scientific article

The global methane budget 2000–2012

article

The impact of transport model differences on CO2 surface flux estimates from OCO-2 retrievals of column average CO2

scholarly article

The seasonal cycle amplitude of total column CO2: Factors behind the model-observation mismatch

article

The severe Delhi SMOG of 2016: A case of delayed crop residue burning, coincident firecracker emissions, and atypical meteorology

scholarly article by Ravi Sawlani published in December 2018

The terrestrial carbon budget of South and Southeast Asia

article

Top-down assessment of the Asian carbon budget since the mid 1990s

scientific article

TransCom model simulations of methane: Comparison of vertical profiles with aircraft measurements ⬇️

scientific article

TransCom satellite intercomparison experiment: Construction of a bias corrected atmospheric CO2climatology

article

Variability and quasi-decadal changes in the methane budget over the period 2000–2012

scholarly article

What controls the seasonal cycle of columnar methane observed by GOSAT over different regions in India?

scientific article published on 26 April 2017

What controls the seasonal cycle of columnar methane observed by GOSAT over different regions in India?

scholarly article

List of works by Prabir K. Patra

A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks

A multi-model intercomparison of halogenated very short-lived substances (TransCom-VSLS): linking oceanic emissions and tropospheric transport for a reconciled estimate of the stratospheric source gas injection of bromine ⬇️

A segmentation algorithm for characterizing Rise and Fall segments in seasonal cycles: an application to XCO<sub>2</sub> to estimate benchmarks and assess model bias

A segmentation algorithm for characterizing rise and fall segments in seasonal cycles: an application to XCO<sub>2</sub> to estimate benchmarks and assess model bias

Age of Air as a diagnostic for transport time-scales in global models

Age of air as a diagnostic for transport timescales in global models ⬇️

Air‐Sea Fluxes of CO<sub>2</sub> in the Indian Ocean Between 1985 and 2018: A Synthesis Based on Observation‐Based Surface CO<sub>2</sub>, Hindcast and Atmospheric Inversion Models

An evaluation of CO2observations with Solar Occultation FTS for Inclined-Orbit Satellite sensor for surface source inversion

Analysis of atmospheric CO2 growth rates at Mauna Loa using CO2 fluxes derived from an inverse model

Are Land‐Use Change Emissions in Southeast Asia Decreasing or Increasing?

Assessing Lagrangian inverse modelling of urban anthropogenic CO2 fluxes using in situ aircraft and ground-based measurements in the Tokyo area

Assessing the impact of satellite, aircraft, and surface observations on CO2flux estimation using an ensemble-based 4-D data assimilation system

Atmospheric deposition and surface stratification as controls of contrasting chlorophyll abundance in the North Indian Ocean

Comment on “Effects of Cosmic Rays on Atmospheric Chlorofluorocarbon Dissociation and Ozone Depletion”

Coupling between Land and Ocean Biospheres as Observed by Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS)

Definitions and methods to estimate regional land carbon fluxes for the second phase of the REgional Carbon Cycle Assessment and Processes Project (RECCAP-2)

Definitions and methods to estimate regional land carbon fluxes for the second phase of the REgional Carbon Cycle Assessment and Processes Project (RECCAP-2)

Detection of fossil-fuel CO2 plummet in China due to COVID-19 by observation at Hateruma

Effect of recent observations on Asian CO2 flux estimates by transport model inversions

Empirical estimates of regional carbon budgets imply reduced global soil heterotrophic respiration

Estimated regional CO<sub>2</sub> flux and uncertainty based on an ensemble of atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> inversions

Evaluating Northern Hemisphere Growing Season Net Carbon Flux in Climate Models Using Aircraft Observations

Evaluating Simulations of Interhemispheric Transport: Interhemispheric Exchange Time Versus SF6 Age

Evaluation of column-averaged methane in models and TCCON with a focus on the stratosphere

Exploring the sensitivity of interannual basin-scale air-sea CO2fluxes to variability in atmospheric dust deposition using ocean carbon cycle models and atmospheric CO2inversions

Formation mechanisms of latitudinal CO2gradients in the upper troposphere over the subtropics and tropics

GOSAT CH4 Vertical Profiles over the Indian Subcontinent: Effect of a Priori and Averaging Kernels for Climate Applications

Global Carbon Budget 2018

Global atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> inverse models converging on neutral tropical land exchange but diverging on fossil fuel and atmospheric growth rate

Global atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> inverse models converging on neutral tropical land exchange, but disagreeing on fossil fuel and atmospheric growth rate

Global emissions of refrigerants HCFC-22 and HFC-134a: unforeseen seasonal contributions

Global inverse modeling of CH4 sources and sinks: an overview of methods

Global-scale transport of carbon dioxide in the troposphere

Gridded fossil CO<sub>2</sub> emissions and related O<sub>2</sub> combustion consistent with national inventories 1959-2018

Growth Rate, Seasonal, Synoptic, Diurnal Variations and Budget of Methane in the Lower Atmosphere

Iconic CO2 time series at risk

Implications of overestimated anthropogenic CO2 emissions on East Asian and global land CO2 flux inversion

Improved Chemical Tracer Simulation by MIROC4.0-based Atmospheric Chemistry-Transport Model (MIROC4-ACTM)

Increasing summer net CO<sub>2</sub> uptake in high northern ecosystems inferred from atmospheric inversions and comparisons to remote-sensing NDVI

Interannual and decadal changes in the sea-air CO2flux from atmospheric CO2inverse modeling

Intercomparison of Atmospheric Carbonyl Sulfide (TransCom‐COS; Part One): Evaluating the Impact of Transport and Emissions on Tropospheric Variability Using Ground‐Based and Aircraft Data

Investigation of scale interaction between rainfall and ecosystem carbon exchange ofWestern Himalayan Pine dominated vegetation

Land use change and El Niño-Southern Oscillation drive decadal carbon balance shifts in Southeast Asia.

Long tails in deep columns of natural and anthropogenic tropospheric tracers

Mid-upper tropospheric methane in the high Northern Hemisphere: Spaceborne observations by AIRS, aircraft measurements, and model simulations

Model – TCCON comparisons of column-averaged methane with a focus on the stratosphere

Observational evidence for interhemispheric hydroxyl-radical parity

On the variation of regional CO2exchange over temperate and boreal North America

PM2.5 diminution and haze events over Delhi during the COVID-19 lockdown period: an interplay between the baseline pollution and meteorology

Plant Regrowth as a Driver of Recent Enhancement of Terrestrial CO2 Uptake

Reconciliation of top-down and bottom-up CO2 fluxes in Siberian larch forest

Regional Methane Emission Estimation Based on Observed Atmospheric Concentrations (2002-2012)

Regional carbon fluxes from land use and land cover change in Asia, 1980–2009

Role of biomass burning and climate anomalies for land-atmosphere carbon fluxes based on inverse modeling of atmospheric CO2

Sensitivity of inverse estimation of annual mean CO2sources and sinks to ocean-only sites versus all-sites observational networks

Sensitivity of optimal extension of CO2 observation networks to model transport

Spatio-temporal variations of the atmospheric greenhouse gases and their sources and sinks in the Arctic region

State of the science in reconciling top-down and bottom-up approaches for terrestrial CO2 budget

Statistics of atmospheric correlations

Stratospheric influence on the seasonal cycle of nitrous oxide in the troposphere as deduced from aircraft observations and model simulations

Supplementary material to "The Global Methane Budget 2000–2017"

Temporal Variations of the Mole Fraction, Carbon, and Hydrogen Isotope Ratios of Atmospheric Methane in the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada

Temporal and spatial variations of the atmospheric CO2concentration in China

Temporal variations of atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> and CO at Ahmedabad in western India

The Global Methane Budget 2000–2017

The Global Methane Budget 2000–2017

The Impact of Transport Model Differences on CO<sub>2</sub> Surface Flux Estimates from OCO-2 Retrievals of Column Average CO<sub>2</sub>

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) tracks 2-3 peta-gram increase in carbon release to the atmosphere during the 2014-2016 El Niño

The consolidated European synthesis of CH4 and N2O emissions for the European Union and United Kingdom: 1990–2017

The global methane budget 2000–2012

The impact of transport model differences on CO<sub>2</sub> surface flux estimates from OCO-2 retrievals of column average CO<sub>2</sub>

The seasonal cycle amplitude of total column CO2: Factors behind the model-observation mismatch

The severe Delhi SMOG of 2016: A case of delayed crop residue burning, coincident firecracker emissions, and atypical meteorology

The terrestrial carbon budget of South and Southeast Asia

Top-down assessment of the Asian carbon budget since the mid 1990s

TransCom model simulations of methane: Comparison of vertical profiles with aircraft measurements ⬇️

TransCom satellite intercomparison experiment: Construction of a bias corrected atmospheric CO2climatology

Variability and quasi-decadal changes in the methane budget over the period 2000–2012

What controls the seasonal cycle of columnar methane observed by GOSAT over different regions in India?