Atmosphere Research over Southern Africa & Indian Ocean (ARSAIO)

Principal Investigator - South Africa

Later, He continued his research work at CNRS laboratory in France for 4 ½ years and now continuing as a Principal researcher / Scientist at National Laser Centre. His present work at NLC involves the development of mobile LiDAR system for studying atmosphere particulate matter and pollutants. More recently, he has been appointed as Extra-Ordinary Professor at University of Pretoria based on his Southern Educational Research Alliance project between CSIR. Last year, under his leadership, they have achieved working LIDAR systems which address the atmosphere backscatter measurements for the height region from ground to 40 km. He has also been acting as a project leader for different projects funded by CSIR-NLC, DST, CNRS and other national/international bodies. The most recent project works are focussed on Global Climate Change and Global Warming. His contribution and involvements in various scientific research programmes are wide range of atmospheric scale. In fact, most of the lidar related publications are of the first findings from a tropical station. He has published 33 journal publications, one chapter in a text book and more than 34 peer reviewed conference proceedings. The published journal publications provide right evidence of possessing a very good knowledge on the functioning and electronics of various remote sensing devices, LiDAR, RADAR, LAWP, Radio-sonde, Ozone-sonde, satellite and model simulations. He also acts steering committee members of CSIR-Bi-annual conference, panel member of NLC, different advisory panel member of NRF (RSA), Council member of South Africa atmosphere Science society (SASAS) and steering committee members of DST space physics.