Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Blogging and graduate school - Are you kidding?



Are you a PhD student/ a researcher, busy to breathe, and busy to get excited kind? Have you transformed into a grad student who has placed the blog on the back burner? Hold on, I felt the same way. Perhaps, blogging could be a game changer!

It was a Sunday evening , when I was frantically piecing together a bunch of scientific figures for my talk. That's really what drove me to blog again. I realized ,I missed the art of scientific storytelling very much. This was indeed a game changer! Here I am, happy to jump start my blog to help you connect with my research. If you buzz around , this is the sort of interesting information you will learn about my research. 


1. What makes the cultural capitals of India appear hazy during the winter months and what makes the summer skies vigorously turn brown in the southwestern United States? - Are emissions the only culprit?

Desert dust storms























Rashtrapathi Bhavan, Delhi : Morning haze



2. How can we combine data from different platforms and sources to optimize the data analysis - yup, you got me! I'm not a data assimilation expert. But, that's where I'm heading!
An example of Ozone data assimilation system (Lahoz et al., 2010


3. How can we design more efficient satellite missions and instruments to tackle major air pollution issues?
While you wait for my other blogs , stay hungry, stay foolish! Looking forward to your comments and creativity!



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