1. Garima Sharma, Pareshbhai Dineshbhai Parmar, Arvind Kumar Nema, Prashant Gargava, Sri Harsha Kota. Systematic exposure bias in city-level air quality reporting revealed by 38 years of Indian observations. 2026. Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group UK. In Press.
2. Yash Jain, Vivek Kumar, Rajyalakshmi Garaga, Sri Harsha Kota. Assessment of Discrepancies in PM2.5 Modeling and Heavy Metal Associated Health Implications in Tier 2 and 3 Non-Attainment Cities: EDGAR-Driven WRF-Chem vs. Field Data in Alwar and Amritsar. 2025. Environmental Pollution. 374, 126223.
3. Baby Keerthi Thirunagari, Rajesh Kumar, Sri Harsha Kota. Assessing and Mitigating India's Agricultural Emissions: A Regional and Temporal Perspective on Crop Residue, Tillage, and Livestock Contributions. 2025. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 488, 137407.
4. Syed Shah Areeb Hussain, Sanchit Bedi, Chander Prakash Yadav, Ajeet Kumar Mohanty, Kalpana Mahatme, Suchi Tyagi, NM Anoop Krishnan, Sri Harsha Kota, Amit Sharma. Hybrid models combining trend and seasonality components with machine learning algorithms provide accurate forecasting of malaria incidence. 2025. PLOS Global Public Health. 5 (10).
5. Garima Sharma, Medhavi Gupta, Prashant Gargava, Sri Harsha Kota. Mapping air quality trends across 336 cities in India: Insights from three decades of monitoring (1987–2019). 2024. Environment International, 108979.
6. Baby Keerthi Thirunagari, M Kancheti, Rajesh Kumar, Sri Harsha Kota. 2024. Managing synthetic N-fertilizer emissions in India: Insights from field surveys across 102 districts. Journal of Environmental Management 366, 121909.
7. Sanchit Bedi, Karn Tiwari, Prathosh AP, Sri Harsha Kota, NM Anoop Krishnan. 2024. A neural operator for forecasting carbon monoxide evolution in cities. npj Clean Air, 1, 2.
8. Anjali Bansal, Sheikh Junaid Fayaz, NM Anoop Krishnan, Sri Harsha Kota, Arvind Kumar Nema. Interpretable Machine Learning for Cost Estimation in Underground Pipe Installation. 2025. Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice, 16, 05025004.
9. Viswanath Velamuri, Diljit Kumar Nayak, Shubham Sharma, Pareshbhai Dineshbhai Parmar, Pavan Kumar Nagar, Dhirendra Singh, Mukesh Sharma, Yash Jain, Arpit Katiyar, Sunil Dahiya, Nandikesh Sivalingam, Lauri Myllyvirta, Rao Y. Surampalli, and Tian C. Zhang, Hongliang Zhang and Sri Harsha Kota. 2024. India leads in emission intensity per GDP: Insights from the gridded emission inventory for residential, road transport, and energy sectors. Journal of Environmental Sciences. 158, 644-658.
10. Anjali Bansal, Sri Harsha Kota, NM Anoop Krishnan, Arvind Kumar Nema. 2024. Critical Evaluation of Commonly Used Software Packages for Designing Wastewater Networks. Journal of Environmental Engineering. Volume 150, Issue 12.
11. Ajit Singh, Amruta Joshi, Francis D Pope, Bhim Singh, Mukesh Khare, Sri Harsha Kota, Jonathan Radcliffe. 2024. Evaluating alternative technologies to diesel generation in India using multi-criteria decision analysis. Cleaner Energy Systems. Volume 9, 100133.
12. Shuai Wang, Mengyuan Zhang, Hui Zhao, Peng Wang, Sri Harsha Kota, Qingyan Fu, Hongliang Zhang. 2024. Extracting regional and temporal features to improve machine learning for hourly air pollutants in urban India. Atmospheric Environment, 120834.
13. Shuai Wang, Mengyuan Zhang, Hui Zhao, Peng Wang, Sri Harsha Kota, Qingyan Fu, Cong Liu, Hongliang Zhang. 2024. Reconstructing long-term (1980–2022) daily ground particulate matter concentrations in India (LongPMInd). Earth System Science Data 16 (8), 3565-3577.
14. Yiyi Wang, Jianlin Hu, Yangyang Wu, Sri Harsha Kota, Hongliang Zhang, Kangjia Gong, Xiaodong Xie, Xu Yue, Hong Liao, Lei Huang. 2024. Continued Rise in Health Burden from Ambient PM2.5 in India under SSP Scenarios Until 2100 despite Decreasing Concentrations. Environmental Science & Technology. 58. 8685-8695.
15. Medhavi Gupta, Supriya Dwivedi, Sri Harsha Kota. 2024. From Kitchen to Air: Emissions from India’s Thriving Restaurant Food Service Sector. ACS EST Air, 1, 6, 570–581.
16. Diljit Kumar Nayak, Gazala Habib, Sri Harsha Kota. 2024. Can Landuse Landcover changes influence the success of India's national clean air plans? Atmospheric Environment X. Volume 22, 100251.
17. Sanchit Bedi, Arpit Katiyar, NM Anoop Krishnan, Sri Harsha Kota. 2024. Utilizing LSTM models to predict PM2.5 levels during critical episodes in Delhi, the world's most polluted capital city. Urban Climate. 53, 101835.
18. Arpit Katiyar, Diljit Kumar Nayak, Pavan Kumar Nagar, Dhirendra Singh, Mukesh Sharma and Sri Harsha Kota. 2023. Fugitive road dust particulate matter emission inventory for India: A field campaign in 32 Indian cities. Science of The Total Environment, 912, 169232.
19. Amit Munjal, Archana Chawla, Arvind K Nema and Sri Harsha Kota. 2024. Particle Number Emission for Different Toll Collection Systems in India. Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste, 28 (2).
20. Baby Keerthi Thirunagari, Rajyalakshmi Garaga and Sri Harsha Kota. 2023. Association of Ventilation Rates with Building Design in Various Built Environments: A Critical Review. Current Pollution Reports, 9 (3), 569-589.
21. Medhavi Gupta, Diljit Kumar Nayak, Sri Harsha Kota. 2023. Impact of Particulate Matter-Centric Clean Air Action Plans on Ozone Concentrations in India. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 7 (5), 1038-1048.
22. Qi Qi, Shuai Wang, Hui Zhao, Sri Harsha Kota and Hongliang Zhang. 2023. Rice yield losses due to O3 pollution in China from 2013 to 2020 based on the WRF-CMAQ model. Journal of Cleaner Production, 401, 136801.
23. Amit Munjal, Shubham Sharma, Arvind K. Nema and Sri Harsha Kota. 2022. Factors affecting particulate matter levels near highway toll plazas in India. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 110, 103403.
24. Pratibha Anand, Usha Mina, Mukesh Khare, Prashant Kumar and Sri Harsha Kota. 2022. Air Pollution and Plant Health Response-Current Status and Future Directions. Atmospheric Pollution Research. 10508.
25. Shubham Sharma, Mina Chandra and Sri Harsha Kota. 2022. Four year long simulation of carbonaceous aerosols in India: Seasonality, sources and associated health effects. Environmental Research. 213, 113676.
26. Shubham Sharma, Mukesh Khare and Sri Harsha Kota. 2022. Action Plans to Reduce PM2.5 Concentrations in Hotspots of Delhi-NCR Using a One-way Coupled Modeling Approach. Aerosol and Air Quality Research 22, 210377.
27. Fenglin Han, Sri Harsha Kota, Shubham Sharma, Jie Zhang, Qi Ying and Hongliang Zhang. 2022. Modeling polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in India: Seasonal variations, sources and associated health risks. Environmental Research. 113466.
28. Prashant Kumar, Sarkawt Hama, Rana Alaa Abbass, Thiago Nogueira, Veronika S. Brand, Huai-Wen Wu, Francis Olawale Abulude... Mukesh Khare, Sri Harsha Kota, et al. 2022. In-kitchen aerosol exposure in twelve cities across the globe. Environment International. 162, 107155.
29. Mina Chandra, Chandra Bhushan Rai, Neelam Kumari, Vipindeep Kaur Sandhu, Kalpana Chandra, Murali Krishna, Sri Harsha Kota, Kuljeet Singh Anand and Anna Oudin. 2022. Air Pollution and Cognitive Impairment across the Life Course in Humans: A Systematic Review with Specific Focus on Income Level of Study Area. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health. 19, 1405.
30. Shubham Sharma, Rojna Sharma, Shovan Sahu, Sri Harsha Kota. 2021. Transboundary sources dominated PM2.5 in Thimphu, Bhutan. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology. 19 (6), 5649-5658.
31. Mengyuan Zhang, Apit Katiyar, Shengqiang Zhu, Juanyong Shen, Men Xia, Jinlong Ma, Sri Harsha Kota, Peng Wang, Hongliang Zhang. 2021. Impact of reduced anthropogenic emissions during COVID-19 on air quality in India. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 21, 4025–4037.
32. Aifang Gao, Junyi Wang, Jianfei Luo, Pengfei Wang, Kaiyu Chen, Yiyi Wang, Jingyi Li, Jianlin Hu, Sri Harsha Kota, Hongliang Zhang. 2020. Health and economic losses attributable to PM 2.5 and ozone exposure in Handan, China. Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health. 14, 5, 605-615.
33. Shovan Kumar Sahu, S Zhu, H Guo, K Chen, S Liu, J Xing, Sri Harsha Kota, Hongliang Zhang. 2021. Contributions of power generation to air pollution and associated health risks in India: current status and control scenarios. Journal of Cleaner Production, 288, 125587.
34. Shubham Sharma, Mina Chandra, Sri Harsha Kota. 2020. Health Effects Associated with PM2.5: a Systematic Review. Current Pollution Reports, 5, 144-158.
35. Shubham Sharma, Mengyuan Zhang M, Jingsi Gao, Hongliang Zhang, Sri Harsha Kota. 2020. Effect of restricted emissions during COVID-19 on air quality in India. Science of The Total Environment, 728, 138878.
36. Rajyalakshmi Garaga, Sharad Gokhale, Sri Harsha Kota. 2020. Source Apportionment of Size-Segregated Atmospheric Particles and the Influence of Particles Deposition in the Human Respiratory Tract in Rural and Urban Locations of north-east India. Chemosphere, 255, 126980.
37. Shovan Kumar Sahu, Shubham Sharma, Hongliang Zhang, Venkatesh Chejarla, Hao Guo, Jianlin Hu, Qi Ying, Jia Xing, Sri Harsha Kota. 2020. Estimating ground level PM2.5 concentrations and associated health risk in India using satellite based AOD and WRF predicted meteorological parameters. Chemosphere, 255, 126969.
38. Rajyalakshmi Garaga, Supriyo Chakraborty, Hongliang Zhang, Sharad Gokhale, Qiao Xue, Sri Harsha Kota. 2020. Influence of anthropogenic emissions on wet deposition of pollutants and rainwater acidity in Guwahati, a UNESCO heritage city in Northeast India. Atmospheric Research, 232, 104683.
39. Hao Guo, Sri Harsha Kota, Shovan Kumar Sahu, Hongliang Zhang. 2019. Contributions of local and regional sources to PM2.5 and its health effects in north India. Atmospheric Environment, 214, 116867.
40. Vishal Kumar Verma, Senthilmurugan Subbiah, Sri Harsha Kota. 2019. Sericin-coated polyester based air-filter for removal of particulate matter and volatile organic compounds (BTEX) from indoor air. Chemosphere, 237, 124462.
41. Jianing Lou, Yangyang Wu, Penghui Liu, Sri Harsha Kota, Lei Huang. 2019. Health Effects of climate change through temperature and air pollution. Current Pollution Reports, 5, 144-158.
42. Wasim Javed, Iakovid, Rajyalakshmi Garaga, Sri Harsha Kota, Qi Ying, Wolfson, Koutrakis, Bing Guo. 2019. Source apportionment of organic pollutants in fine and coarse atmospheric particles in Doha, Qatar. Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association 69, 1277-1292.
43. Pengfei Wang, Hao Guo, Jianlin Hu, Sri Harsha Kota, Qi Ying, Hongliang Zhang. 2019. Responses of PM2.5 and O3 concentrations to changes of meteorology and emissions in China. Science of The Total Environment, 662, 297-307.
44. Jinjin Sun, Mingjie Liang, Zhihao Shi, Fuzhen Shen, Jingyi Li, Lin Huang, Xinlei Ge, Qi Chen, Yele Sun, Yanlin Zhang, Yunhua Chang, Dongsheng Ji, Qi Ying, Hongliang Zhang, Sri Harsha Kota, Jianlin Hu. 2019. Investigating the PM2.5 mass concentration growth processes during 2013–2016 in Beijing and Shanghai. Chemosphere, 221, 452-463.
45. Kaiyu Chen, Hao Guo, Jianlin Hu, Sri Harsha Kota, Wenye Deng, Qi Ying, Lauri Myllyvirta, Sunil Dahiya and Hongliang Zhang. 2019. Projected air quality and health benefits from future policy interventions in India. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 142, 232-234.
46. Hao Guo, Shovan Kumar Sahu, Sri Harsha Kota and Hongliang Zhang. 2019. Characterization and health risks of criteria air pollutants in Delhi, 2017. Chemosphere, 225, 27-34.
47. Shovan Kumar Sahu, Hongliang Zhang, H. Guo, J. Hu, Q. Ying and Sri Harsha Kota. 2019. Health risk associated with potential source regions of PM 2.5 in Indian cities. Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health. 12. 327-340.
48. Rajyalakshmi Garaga, C.K.R. Avinash and Sri Harsha Kota. 2019. Seasonal variation of airborne allergenic fungal spores in ambient PM10—a study in Guwahati, the largest city of north-east India. Air Quality Atmosphere & Health. 12. 11-20.
49. Sai Kumar Annadanam and Sri Harsha Kota. 2019. Emission of greenhouse gases and criteria pollutants from railways in India estimated using a modified top-down approach. Journal of Cleaner Production. 20, 610-617.
50. Rajyalakshmi Garaga and Sri Harsha Kota. 2018. Characterization of PM10 and Impact on Human Health during the annual festival of lights (Diwali). Journal of Health and Pollution, 8, 181206.
51. Hao Guo, Sri Harsha Kota, Chen K, Shovan Kumar Sahu, Jianlin Hu, Qi Ying, Yuan Wang and Hongliang Zhang. 2018. Source contributions and potential reductions to health effects of particulate matter in India. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 18, 15219-15229.
52. Sri Harsha Kota, Hao Guo, Lauri Myllyvirta, Jianlin Hu, Shovan Kumar Sahu, Rajyalakshmi Garaga, Qi Ying, Aifang Gao, Sunil Dahiya, Yuan Wang and Hongliang Zhang. 2018. Year-long simulation of gaseous and particulate air pollutants in India. Atmospheric Environment, 180, 244-255.
53. Rajyalakshmi Garaga, Shovan Kumar Sahu and Sri Harsha Kota. 2018. A Review of Air Quality Modeling Studies in India: Local and Regional Scale. Current Pollution Reports, 4, 59-73.
54. Muralidhar Gollapalli and Sri Harsha Kota. 2018. Methane emissions from landfills in North-East India: Performance of various landfill gas emission models. Environmental Pollution, 234, 174-180.
55. Mohammad Hashem Askariyeh, Sri Harsha Kota, Suriya Vallamsundar, Joe Zietsman and Qi Ying. 2017. AERMOD for near-road pollutant dispersion: Evaluation of model performance with different emission source representations and low wind options. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 57, 392-402.
56. Xue Qiao, Jie Du, Sri Harsha Kota, Qi Ying, Weiyang Xiao and Ya Tang. 2017. Wet deposition of sulfur and nitrogen in Jiuzhaigou National Nature Reserve, Sichuan China during 2015-2016: possible effects from regional emission reduction and local tourist activities. Environmental Pollution, 233, 267-277.
57. Hao Guo, Sri Harsha Kota, Shovan Kumar Sahu, Jianlin Hu, Qi Ying, Aifang Gao, Hongliang Zhang. 2017. Source apportionment of PM2.5 in North India using a source-oriented regional air quality model. Environmental Pollution, 231, 426-436.
58. Fenglin Han, Sri Harsha Kota, Yungang Wang and Hongliang Zhang. 2017. Source apportionment of PM2.5 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana during 2009-2014. Science of the Total Environment, 586, 115-126.
59. Shovan Kumar Sahu and Sri Harsha Kota. 2017. Significance of PM2.5 air quality in the Indian capital. Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 17(2), 588-597.
60. Qi Ying, Jingyi Li and Sri Harsha Kota. 2015. Significant Contributions of Isoprene to Summertime Secondary Organic Aerosol in Eastern United States. Environmental Science & Technology, 49(13), 7834-7842.
61. Xue Qiao, Ya Tang, Sri Harsha Kota, Jingyi Li, Li Wu; Jianlin Hu and Hongliang Zhang. 2015. Modeling Dry and Wet Deposition of Sulfate, Nitrate, and Ammonium Ions in Jiuzhaigou National Nature Reserve, China using a Source-Oriented CMAQ Model: Part II. Emission Sector and Source Region Contributions. Science of the Total Environment, 532, 840-848.
62. Xue Qiao, Ya Yang, Jianlin Hu, Shuai Zhang; Jingyi Li, Sri Harsha Kota, Li Wu, Huilin Gao, Hongliang Zhang and Qi Ying. 2015. Modeling Dry and Wet Deposition of Sulfate, Nitrate, and Ammonium Ions in Jiuzhaigou National Nature Reserve, China using a Source-Oriented CMAQ Model: Part I. Base Case Model. Science of the Total Environment, 532, 831-839.
63. Sri Harsha Kota, Gunnar W. Schade, Mark Estes, Doug Boyer and Qi Ying. 2015. Evaluation of MEGAN Predicted Biogenic Isoprene Emissions at Urban Locations in Southeast Texas. Atmospheric Environment, 110, 54-64.
64. Xue Qiao, Daniel Jaffe, Sri Harsha Kota, Qi Ying and Ya Tang. 2015. Atmospheric wet deposition of sulfur and nitrogen in Jiuzhaigou National Nature Reserve, Sichuan Province, China. Science of the Total Environment, 511, 28-36.
65. Sri Harsha Kota, Hongliang Zhang, Gang Chen, Gunnar W. Schade, and Qi Ying. 2014. Evaluation of On-road Vehicle CO and NOx National Emission Inventories Using an Urban-scale Source-oriented Air Quality Model. Atmospheric Environment, 85, 99-108.
66. Sri Harsha Kota, Changhyoun Park, Martin C. Hale, Nicholas D. Werner, Gunnar W. Schade and Qi Ying. 2014. Estimation of VOC Emission Factors from Flux Measurements using a Receptor Model and Footprint Analysis. Atmospheric Environment, 82, 24-35.
67. Sri Harsha Kota, Qi Ying and Yunlong Zhang. 2013. Simulating Near-road Reactive Dispersion of Gaseous Air Pollutants using a Three-Dimensional Eulerian Model. Science of the Total Environment, 454-455, 348-357.
68. Sri Harsha Kota, Qi Ying and Yunlong Zhang. 2010. TAMNROM-3D: A Three-Dimensional Eulerian Model to Simulate Air Quality near Highways. Transportation Research Record: Journal of Transportation Research Board, 2158, 61-68.