B L Madhavan

About

I am a passionate atmospheric and climate researcher with motivation for pursuing advanced research to better understand our Earth’s atmosphere, radiation budget and climate change through observations and modelling approaches.

Employment

• National Atmospheric Research Laboratory Scientist
  2017 - Present
• Maldives Climate Observatory Resident Scientist & The Paul Crutzen International Climate Fellow
  2017 - 2017
• Goa University UGC Assistant Professor
  2016 - 2017
• Leibniz-Institut für Troposphärenforschung Post-doctoral Scientist
  2013 - 2016
• Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Post-doctoral Research Associate
  2011 - 2013
• Research Foundation of The City University of New York Post-doctoral Research Associate
  2009 - 2011

Education

• Andhra University PhD in Physics
  2005 - 2009
• Andhra University College of Science and Technology MSc in Physics
  2002 - 2004
• Andhra University BSc in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics
  1999 - 2002

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (70)

• Investigating the impact of rain on aerosol morphology and chemical composition across size fractions in Hyderabad, India
  Atmospheric Pollution Research 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.apr.2025.102751
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• Nonlinear meteorological controls on coastal air quality along the Indian East Coast: Insights from a multi-city interpretable machine learning framework
  Environmental Pollution 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2026.128448
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• Classification of global aerosol types and its radiative effects using Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) data
  Atmospheric Environment 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2025.121530
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• Spectroscopic and chemical compositional analysis of the atmospheric aerosols in urban and rural tropical environment of southern India
  Atmospheric Environment 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2025.121431
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• Cloud fraction estimation using random forest classifier on sky images
  Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 2025 DOI: 10.5194/amt-18-5637-2025
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• Shortwave radiative impacts of the Asian Tropopause Aerosol Layer (ATAL) using balloon-borne in situ measurements at three distinct locations in India
  Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 2025 DOI: 10.5194/acp-25-8255-2025
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• Characterization of aerosol optical and radiative properties at Leh, located over the climate sensitive Hindu Kush Himalayan region using sky radiometer observation
  Atmospheric Environment 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2025.121234
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• Quantifying shortwave radiative forcing and heating rates of UTLS aerosols in the Asian summer monsoon anticyclone region
  Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2025.109430
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• Cloud Fraction estimation using Random Forest classifier on Sky Images
  2025 DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2024-3364
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• Sensitivity analysis of aerosol optical and radiative properties over the climate sensitive Hindu Kush Himalayan region using sky radiometer observation
  Atmospheric Environment 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2024.121008
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