In 2010, Dr. Kondragunta received Department of Commerce gold medal for
scientific achievement in developing and advancing satellite-based
products in support of national air quality monitoring and forecasting.
In 2002, Dr. Kondragunta received NOAA bronze medal for developing a new
total ozone product by combining information from two different
instruments, one measuring in the Infrared and one in the Ultraviolet.
Dr. Kondragunta routinely reviews proposals for EPA and NASA, and
manuscripts for journals such as Geophysical Research letters, Atmospheric
Environment, and Journal of Geophysical Research.
Dr. Kondragunta's work is supported by Trevor Beck, Pubu Ciren, Jessica
Ram, Chuanyu Xu, Xiaoyang Zhang, Jian Zeng, Qiang Zhao, and Hai Zhang.
Yang, E., S. A. Christopher, S. Kondragunta, and X. Zhang (2011), Use of
hourly Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) fire
emissions in a Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model for
improving surface particulate matter predictions, J. Geophys. Res.,
116, D04303, doi:10.1029/2010JD014482.
Mark Green, Shobha Kondragunta, Pubu Ciren, Chuanyu Xu, 2009, Comparison
of GOES and MODIS Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) to AErosol RObotic NETwork
(AERONET) AOD and IMPROVE PM2.5 mass at Bondville, Illinois, Journal of
the Air & Waste Management Association (in press).
Christopher, S., P. Gupta, U. Nair, T. A. Jones, S. Kondragunta, Y-L Wu,
J. Hand, and X. Zhang (2009), Satellite Remote Sensing and Mesoscale Modeling
of the 2007 Georgia/Florida Fires, IEEE J. of Selected Topics in Applied
Earth Sciences and Remote Sensing.
Neil, D., S. Kondragunta, K. Pickering, R. Pinder, G. Osterman, and J.
Szykman, Satellite observations for detecting and tracking changes in
atmospheric composition, J. of Environmental Monitoring, in review, 2009
Rolph, G., A. F. Stein, R. D. Draxler, A. Taylor, M. Ruminski, S.
Kondragunta, H-C. Huang, J. T. McQueen, and P. Davidson, Verification of
the NOAA Smoke Forecast: the 2007 Smoke Season, Weather and Forecasting,
2009
Hoff, R., H. Zhag, N. Jordan, A. Prados, J. Engel-Cox, A. Huff, S.
Weber, E. Zell, S. Kondragunta, J. Szykman, B. Johns, F. Dimmick, A.
Wimmers, Applications of the Three-Dimensional Air Quality System to
Western U.S. Air Qulaity: IDEA, Smog Blog, Smog Stories, AirQuest, and
the Remote Sensing Information Gateway, J. of Air and Waste Management,
2009
Al-Saadi, J. A. Soja, R. B. Pierce, J. Szykman, C. Wiedinmyer, L.
Emmons, S. Kondragunta, X. Zhang, C. Kittaka, T. Schaack, K. Bowman,
Intercomparison of Near-Real Time Biomass Burning Emissions Estimates
Constrained by Satellite Fire Detection, J. of Applied Remote Sensing,
2009
Zhang, X., S. Kondragunta, C. Schmidt, and F. Kogan, Near real time
monitoring of biomass burning particulate emissions (PM2.5) across
contiguous United States using multiple satellite instruments, Atmos.
Environment, 42, 2008
Zhang, X. and S. Kondragunta, Temporal and spatial variability in
biomass burned area across the USA derived from the GOES fire product,
Remote Sensing of Environment, 2008
Paciorek, C.J., Liu, Y., Moreno-Macias, H. and S. Kondragunta. 2008.
Spatio-temporal associations between GOES aerosol optical depth
retrievals and ground-level PM2.5. Environmental Science and Technology
42:5800-5806. DOI: 10.1021/es703181j.
Kondragunta. S., et al., Air quality forecast verification using
satellite data, J. of Applied Meteorology and
Climatology, doi:10.1175/2007JAMC1392.1, 2008
Prados, A., S. Kondragunta, P. Ciren, K. Knapp, The GOES Aerosol/Smoke
Product (GASP) over North America: Comparisons to AERONET and MODIS
Observations, J. of Geophys. Res., 112, D15201,
doi:10.1029/2006JD007968, 2007
Laszlo, I., P. Ciren, H. Liu, S. Kondragunta, J. D. Tarpley, and M.
Goldberg, Remote sensing of aerosol and radiation from geostationary
satellites, Advances in Space Research, 2007
Knapp, K., R. Fourin, S. Kondragunta, A. Prados, Toward aerosol optical
depth retrievals over land from GOES visible radiances: Determining
surface reflectance, Int. J. of Remote Sensing, 26, 4097-4116, 2005. (PDF, 960KB)
Pu, R., Z. Li, P. Gong, I. Csiszar, F. Fraser, W-M. Hao, S. Kodnragunta,
and F. Weng, Development and analysis of 12-year daily 1-km forest fire
dataset across North America from NOAA/AVHRR data, Remote Sensing and
Environment, 2006
Zhang, Xiaoyang and Shobha Kondragunta, 2006: Estimating forest biomass
in the USA using generalized allometric models and MODIS land
products. Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L09402,
doi:10.1029/2006GL025879. (PDF, 3.9MB)
Kondragunta, S., L. E. Flynn, A. Neuendorffer, A. J. Miller, C. Long, R.
Nagatani, S. Zhou, T. Beck, E. Beach, R. McPeters, R. Stolarski, P. K.
Bhartia, M. T. DeLand, L. -K. Huang, Vertical structure of the anomalous
2002 Antarctic ozone hole, J. of Atmospheric Science, 2005
Miller, A. J., R. Nagatani, L. E. Flynn, S. Kondragunta, E. Beach, R.
Stolarski, R. McPeters, P. K. Bhartia, M. T. DeLand, C. H. Jackman, D.
J. Wuebbles, K. O. Patten, and R. P. Cebula, A cohesive total ozone data
set from the NOAA satellite system, J. Geophys. Res., 107(0),
doi:10.1029/2001JD000853, 2002.
Planet, W. G., A. J. Miller, K. Horvath, R. Nagatani, L. E. Flynn, E.
Hilsenrath, S. Kondragunta, R. P. Cebula, and M. T. DeLand, Total Ozone
determinations from NOAA operational SBUV/2 observations: an update, J.
Geophys. Res., 106, 17,471-17,478, 2001
Park, R. J., G. L. Stenchikov, K. E. Pickering, R. R. Dickerson, D. J.
Allen, S. Kondragunta, Regional air pollution and its radiative forcing:
studies with a single column chemical and radiation transport model, J.
Geophys. Res., 106, 28, 751-28, 770, 2001.
Dickerson, R. R., S. Kondragunta, G. Stenchikov, K. L. Civerolo, B. G.
Doddridge, B. Holben, The Impact of Aerosols on Solar UV Radiation and
Photochemical Smog, Science, 278, 827-830, 1997.
Ellis, W.G., Jr., A. M. Thompson, S. Kondragunta, K. E. Pickering, R. R.
Dickerson, J. R. Scala, and W.-K. Tao, Potential Ozone Production
Following Convective Transport Based on Future Emission Scenarios,
Atmospheric Environment, 1996.
Stenchikov, G., R. R. Dickerson, K. Pickering, W. G. Ellis, B.
Doddridge, S. Kondragunta, O. Poulida, Troposphere-Stratosphere Exchange
in a Mid Latitude Mesoscale Convective Complex:Part 2, Numerical
Simulations, J. of Geophys. Res., 1996
Haky, J.E. and S. Vemulapalli, Comparison of octadecyl-bonded alumina
and other stationary phases for lipophilicity estimation by high
performance liquid chromatography, J. of Liquid Chromatography, 13, 1990
Haky, J. E., S. Vemulapalli, and L. Wieserman, Comparison of octadecyl-
bonded alumina and silica for reversed-phase high performance liquid
chromatography, J. of Chromatography, 505, 1990.
Dept. of Commerce • NOAA • NESDIS • STAR • Last revised: May 8, 2013
Shobha Kondragunta
Shobha Kondragunta received an M.S.
degree in chemistry from Florida Atlantic University in 1990, and a
Ph.D degree in chemistry from University of Maryland in 1997. She
worked as a UCAR postdoctoral fellow at the Environmental Protection
Agency for over a year before joining NOAA/NESDIS in 1999. She is the
principal investigator for the