Prabir Patra
Prabir Patra is a Professor at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), leading the Aakash Project for 2023-2024, and a Principal Scientist at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) where he works since 2001. He also holds visiting professorships at Tohoku University. At the WMO, he chairs the Task Team on G3W Networks (TT-G3W-Networks), with a dream of colocated measurements of greenhouse gases and key air pollutants at the weather stations worldwide.
His research primarily focuses on estimating the sources and sinks of greenhouse gases, ozone-depleting substances and air pollutants using atmospheric chemistry-transport models. Additionally, he has a keen interest in ambient air and remote sensing measurement strategies to improve the inversion of surface sources and sinks. Patra received the prestigious Horiuchi Award from the Meteorological Society of Japan in 2016. He has significantly contributed to the estimation of CO2, CH4, and N2O budgets for the Global Carbon Project and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), where he also served as a lead author for the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). Moreover, he has been actively involved internationally as an editor for numerous scientific journals and as a steering committee member for satellite observation and carbon cycle science projects.
