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Sagnik Dey is affiliated with the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in India. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant emphasis on air quality and its impacts on health and the environment.

Their work spans several specialized subfields including health, toxicology and mutagenesis; global and planetary change; atmospheric science; pollution; and environmental engineering. These areas reflect a multidisciplinary approach to understanding complex environmental issues.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • COVID-19 impact on air quality

They have published extensively in several key venues in the environmental sciences, including:

  • ISEE Conference Abstracts
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Atmospheric Environment
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Environmental Research Communications

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Santu Ghosh
  • Dilip Ganguly
  • Ekta Chaudhary
  • Sourangsu Chowdhury
  • Alok Kumar

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Sagnik Dey include:

  • "Health and economic impact of air pollution in the states of India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019" (2020), published in The Lancet Planetary Health
  • "Subnational mapping of under-5 and neonatal mortality trends in India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2000-17" (2020), published in The Lancet
  • "Mortality Attributable to Ambient Air Pollution: A Review of Global Estimates" (2022), published in GeoHealth
  • "A review of statistical methods used for developing large-scale and long-term PM2.5 models from satellite data" (2021), published in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "A Satellite-Based High-Resolution (1-km) Ambient PM2.5 Database for India over Two Decades (2000-2019): Applications for Air Quality Management" (2020), published in Remote Sensing

Best Publications

  • Nations within a nation: variations in epidemiological transition across the states of India, 1990–2016 in the Global Burden of Disease Study

    Lalit Dandona;Rakhi Dandona;G Anil Kumar;D K Shukla

  • The impact of air pollution on deaths, disease burden, and life expectancy across the states of India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Kalpana Balakrishnan;Sagnik Dey;Tarun Gupta;R S Dhaliwal

  • Health and economic impact of air pollution in the states of India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Anamika Pandey;Michael Brauer;Maureen L Cropper;Kalpana Balakrishnan

  • Variability of aerosol parameters over Kanpur, northern India

    R. P. Singh;R. P. Singh;Sagnik Dey;S. N. Tripathi;Vinod Tare

  • Influence of dust storms on the aerosol optical properties over the Indo‐Gangetic basin

    Sagnik Dey;Sachchida Nand Tripathi;Ramesh P. Singh;Ramesh P. Singh;B. N. Holben

  • Global, regional, and national progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 for neonatal and child health: all-cause and cause-specific mortality findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.

    Katherine R Paulson;Aruna M Kamath;Tahiya Alam;Kelly Bienhoff

  • The burden of chronic respiratory diseases and their heterogeneity across the states of India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 1990–2016

    Sundeep Salvi;G Anil Kumar;R S Dhaliwal;Katherine Paulson

  • A climatology of aerosol optical and microphysical properties over the Indian subcontinent from 9 years (2000–2008) of Multiangle Imaging Spectroradiometer (MISR) data

    Sagnik Dey;Larry Di Girolamo

  • Aerosol black carbon radiative forcing at an industrial city in northern India

    S. N. Tripathi;Sagnik Dey;V. Tare;S. K. Satheesh

  • Variability of outdoor fine particulate (PM2.5) concentration in the Indian Subcontinent: A remote sensing approach

    Sagnik Dey;Larry Di Girolamo;Aaron van Donkelaar;S.N. Tripathi

  • Surface latent heat flux as an earthquake precursor

    S. Dey;R. P. Singh

  • Mapping 123 million neonatal, infant and child deaths between 2000 and 2017

    Roy Burstein;Nathaniel J. Henry;Michael L. Collison;Laurie B. Marczak

  • Comparison of MODIS and AERONET derived aerosol optical depth over the Ganga Basin, India

    S. N. Tripathi;Sagnik Dey;A. Chandel;S. Srivastava

  • Cause-specific premature death from ambient PM2.5 exposure in India: Estimate adjusted for baseline mortality.

    Sourangsu Chowdhury;Sagnik Dey

  • Inferring absorbing organic carbon content from AERONET data

    A. Arola;G. Schuster;G. Myhre;S. Kazadzis

  • Indian annual ambient air quality standard is achievable by completely mitigating emissions from household sources.

    Sourangsu Chowdhury;Sourangsu Chowdhury;Sagnik Dey;Sarath Guttikunda;Ajay Pillarisetti

  • A decade of change in aerosol properties over the Indian subcontinent

    Sagnik Dey;Larry Di Girolamo

  • Ambient PM 2.5 exposure and expected premature mortality to 2100 in India under climate change scenarios

    Sourangsu Chowdhury;Sagnik Dey;Kirk R. Smith

  • Subnational mapping of under-5 and neonatal mortality trends in India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2000–17

    Rakhi Dandona;G Anil Kumar;Nathaniel J Henry;Vasna Joshua

  • A review of statistical methods used for developing large-scale and long-term PM2.5 models from satellite data

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  • Measurements of atmospheric parameters during Indian Space Research Organization Geosphere Biosphere Programme Land Campaign II at a typical location in the Ganga basin: 1. Physical and optical properties

    Vinod Tare;S. N. Tripathi;N. Chinnam;A. K. Srivastava

  • Global warming and local air pollution have reduced wheat yields in India

    Ridhima Gupta;E. Somanathan;Sagnik Dey

Frequent Co-Authors

Sachchida Nand Tripathi
Sachchida Nand Tripathi Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Ramesh P. Singh
Ramesh P. Singh Chapman University
U. C. Mohanty
U. C. Mohanty Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar
Atul Kumar Srivastava
Atul Kumar Srivastava Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology
Rakhi Dandona
Rakhi Dandona Public Health Foundation of India
Randall V. Martin
Randall V. Martin Washington University in St. Louis
Michael Brauer
Michael Brauer University of British Columbia
Tarun Gupta
Tarun Gupta Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Theo Vos
Theo Vos Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Brent N. Holben
Brent N. Holben Goddard Space Flight Center

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