Thara Anna Mathew

Greenhouse Gas Modelling and Application (GMA) LAB
Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal,
Bhopal Bypass Road, Bhauri, Bhopal-462 066,
Madhya Pradesh, INDIA

Email: tharaanna@iiserb.ac.in


    Research Interest
  • I'm working on accounting the variability in meteorology simulations for quantifying the Indian source-sink distribution of carbon.

    Research Experience
  • Project JRF (From November 2019 to July 2021) At the Greenhouse Gas Modelling and Applications Group (GMA), Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Bhopal, India.

  • M.Sc Project Student (From Dec 2017 to April 2018) at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune.

  • M.Sc Summer Research Fellow (From May 2017 to July 2017) at Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), with Fellowship offered by IASc (Bengluru), INSA (Delhi), NASI(Allahabad).

    Educational Qualifications
  • M.Sc (2016-2018) Meteorology, Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), Kerala

  • B.Sc (2013-2016) Physics, University of Calicut, Kerala.

    Awards and Honours
  • PMRF, Cycle 9 (Nov 2022)
  • Qualified Junior Research Fellowship, NTA-CSIR June 2020 (conducted in Nov 2020) in Earth Sciences.
  • Qualified NET for Assistant Professor, NTA-CSIR June 2019 in Earth Sciences.
  • Selected for Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment (KSCSTE) Fellowship, 2018 in Earth, Atmospheric, Ocean and Planetary Sciences.


    Publications
  • Mathew, Thara Anna, Neelam Malap, M. G. Manoj, Y. Jayarao, Kiran Todekar, V.Rakesh, Rejoy Rebello, K. Mohankumar, and Thara Prabhakaran. "Pre-monsoon convective events and thermodynamic features of southwest monsoon onset over Kerala, India–A case study." Atmospheric Research 248 (2021): 105218.
  • Kariyathan, Theertha, Dhanyalekshmi Pillai, Eldho Elias, and Thara Anna Mathew."On deriving influences of upwind agricultural and anthropogenic emissions on greenhouse gas concentrations and air quality over Delhi in India: A stochastic Lagrangian footprint approach." Journal of Earth System Science 129, no. 1 (2020):1-15.
  • Thilakan, V., Pillai, D., Gerbig, C., Galkowski, M., Ravi, A., and Anna Mathew, T. (2022)."Towards monitoring the CO 2 source–sink distribution over India via inverse modelling:quantifying the fine-scale spatiotemporal variability in the atmospheric CO 2 mole fraction." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 22(23), 15287-15312.
  • Ravi, A., Pillai, D., Thilakan, V. and Mathew, T.A., 2024. Methodological advancement in deriving primary productivity and ecosystem respiration fluxes across different biomes. Methods X, 12.
  • Sukumaran, J., Pillai, D., Thilakan, V., Lekshmi, S., Udayakumar, G., Mathew, T.A., Ravi, A. and MG, M., 2024. How critical is the accuracy of the atmospheric transport modeling to improve the urban CO2 emission in India?—A Lagrangian‐based approach. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 129(13), p.e2023JD039680.


    International Conferences
  • EGU24: European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2024 at Vienna, Austria between 14-19 April 2024
  • AOGS24: Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) 23rd Annual Meeting at Pyeongchang, South Korea between 23-28 June 2024 .