• Mathew T, A., Pillai, D., Deshpande M, V., Thilakan V., Backer Kanakkassery S.: A Comprehensive Approach Towards Improving Regional Methane Emission Estimates Over India, 21st Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, June 2024.

  • Thilakan, V., Pillai, D., S Kumar, J., Gerbig, C., Hakkim, H., Sinha, V., Terao, Y., Naja, M., and Deshpande, M. V.: The potential of using atmospheric CO2 observations to constrain regional carbon budget over India, in: ICDC-11, Manaus, Brazil, 2024.

  • Sukumaran, J., Pillai, D., Thilakan, V., Ravi, A., Mathew, T, A., Udayakumar, G.: On quantifying the uncertainties in simulating urban CO2 enhancements - A Lagrangian approach. ICOS 2022, online, 13-15 September, Utrecht, Netherlands.

  • Ravi, A., Pillai, D., Gerbig, C., and Jha, C.S.: Mapping of regional terrestrial flux estimations over Indian region by considering the bio-physiological and environmental parameters. ICOS 2022, online, 13-15 September, Utrecht, Netherlands.

  • Thilakan, V., Pillai, D., Gerbig, C., Ravi, A., Galkowski, M., and Anna Mathew, T.: Towards implementing a regional high-resolution inverse modelling system for estimating the CO2 fluxes over India: quantification of fine-scale CO2 spatiotemporal variability, in: GAW Quadrennial symposium, 2021c.

  • EGU Conference, “Satellite-derived Indian methane emission sources with TROPOMI retrievals and high-resolution modelling framework: Initial comparison with WRF-GHG model results." 06 May 2020, 08:30-10.15(CET)

  • Thilakan, V., Pillai, D., Gerbig, C., Marshall, J., Hossein Abdi, A., and Galkowski, M.: Quantifying the sources and sinks of CO2 over India using WRF-Chem, in: IWGGMS-16, pp. Session–3A, 767, 2020.

  • International Workshop on Greenhouse Gas Measurements from Space organized by ESA, “Quantifying the sources and sinks of CO2 over India using WRF-Chem - Retrieval algorithms and uncertainty quantification”, EUMETSAT, and ECMWF June 2-5, 2020

  • MPI-BGC Sys. research seminar, “WRF-GHG implementation and inverse optimization”, MPI-BGC, Germany, 2nd May, 2019

  • Monitoring the city breathe: Need and Challenges (Indian perspective), 1st ICOS workshop on strategies to monitor greenhouse gases in urban environments (invited), Helsinki, Finland, July 1 -4, 2019.

  • Towards designing a high-resolution atmospheric CO2 modeling system over India- Mesoscale variability using WRF-Chem, European WRF-Chem Workshop, LMU, Munich, Germany, May 7-8, 2019.

  • WRF-GHG implementation and inverse optimization, MPI-BGC Sys. research seminar, MPI-BGC, Germany, May 2, 2019

  • Carbon “Weather”: Why do we need data-model fusion system at high-resolution?, Stakeholders’ workshop, UKEIRI program on Climate and Air quality Stress on Agriculture sector in India, IIT Delhi, April 15-16, 2019.

  • Tracing the future with an observationally driven approach, Collaborative research between IISERB and NRSC, ISRO, NRSC Hyderabad, March 26-28, 2019.

  • Greenhouse gas modeling and applications- Overview, 7th Meeting of Heads of Max-Planck Partner Groups, Hotel Taj Land Ends, Mumbai, March 15-16, 2019.

  • On quantifying Indian carbon balance: Integrating observations and models at different scales, MPI-BGC Sys. research seminar, MPI-BGC, Germany, December 4, 2018.

  • Greenhouse gas budgets from atmospheric fingerprints: High-resolution forward and inverse modeling technique combining measurements and simulations, Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (CAOS), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, October 14-15, 2015

  • CarbonSat Earth Explorer 8 Candidate Mission (LOGOFLUX Study) – Inverse Modelling and Mission Performance - Local Performance Assessment, European Space Agency (ESA) meeting, Bremen, Germany, April 24, 2014

  • Inferring city CO2 emissions from space – Berlin City Emissions, WRF Users Workshop, IASS Potsdam, November 8, 2013

  • Inferring Source and Sink of Atmospheric CO2 at High-resolution from Space: a Mesoscale Modeling Approach using Inverse Technique, EGU General Assembly 2013,Vienna, Austria, April 7-12, 2013

  • A Mesoscale Modeling Approach using Inverse Technique, COSPAR Assembly -2012, Mysore, India, July 14-22, 2012

  • Estimating the Regional CO2 Budget Using Observational Constraints From Flux And Mixing ratio Measurements, AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, December 5-9, 2011

  • Towards regional carbon budgeting using WRF/STILT-VPRM: A comparison of Lagrangian and Eulerian models for atmospheric CO2 transport, AGU Chapman Conference on Advances in Lagrangian Modeling of the Atmosphere, Grindelwald, Switzerland, October 10-14, 2011

  • Tightening Atmospheric Constraints on GHG budgets (Chorus talk with Christoph Gerbig), Max Planck Institute Retreat 2011, Oberhof, Germany, January 17-20, 2011

  • Mesoscale simulations of atmospheric CO2: Can we represent measurements over complex terrain?(Invited talk),Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India, May 24, 2011

  • High-resolution modeling of atmospheric CO2: a top-down approach (Invited talk), IUP, University of Bremen, Germany, March 10, 2011

  • Mesoscale Simulations and Inversions of Atmospheric CO2 using airborne and ground based data, MPI-BGC-Systems Department Retreat, Jena, Germany, December 3, 2010

  • Airborne trace gas measurements and mesoscale modeling: High resolution modeling of CO2 over Europe: implications for representation errors of satellite retrievals, Max Planck Institute's Retreat 2009, Bad Sulza, Germany, 2 - 5 November 2009

  • High resolution modeling of CO2 over Europe: Implications for remote sensing, 8-th International Carbon Dioxide Conference (ICDC08), Jena, Germany, September 13-19, 2009

  • Regional CO2 Modeling: Evaluation of models with tower measurements, 8th International Carbon Dioxide Conference (ICDC08), Jena, Germany, September 13-19, 2009

  • High Resolution CO2 Simulations: Scaling C- fluxes From Point to Region, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, December 15-19, 2008

  • Accounting for Small scale Variability on Regional Flux Estimates: An Inverse Technique Approach, 6th Annual CarboEurope-IP Meeting, Jena, Germany, September 29 - 3 October 2008

  • Airborne trace gas measurements and mesoscale modeling: Mesoscale transport of CO2 by Lagrangian model framework WRF-STILT-VPRM, Max Planck Institute's Retreat 2008, Suhl, Germany, June 16-19, 2008

  • Mesoscale transport of CO2 by Lagrangian model framework WRF-STILT-VPRM, Transom workshop program, Utrecht, Netherlands, June 2-5, 2008

  • Scaling C fluxes from point to region using observational constraints from flux and mixing ratio measurements, European Geophysical Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 13 - 18 April 2008

  • Assessment of modeling and observational tools - Linking point measurements with models, MPI-BGC-Systems Department Retreat, Erfurt, Germany, January 10-11, 2008

  • Mesoscale Simulations for the Ochsenkopf tall tower: combining WRF with MODIS data, University Colloquium, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany, 1 November 2007

  • Mesoscale Simulations and Inversions of Atmospheric CO2 using airborne and ground based data: Plans for Implementing WRF-VPRM-STILT Modeling Framework, Advanced Study Program summer colloquium, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, USA, 3-15 June 2007

  • Mesoscale simulations and inversions using tall tower data: plans for implementing the WRF-VPRM-STILT modeling framework, Max Planck Institute Retreat, Oberhof, Germany, February 12-14, 2007