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Tarun Gupta is affiliated with the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in India and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad range of environmental and atmospheric issues. Key areas include:

  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols
  • Atmospheric Aerosols and Clouds
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Vehicle Emissions and Performance
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact

Recent notable publications authored or co-authored by Tarun Gupta include:

  • Global, regional, and national burden of chronic kidney disease, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 (2020) in The Lancet
  • Estimation of the global prevalence of dementia in 2019 and forecasted prevalence in 2050: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 (2022) in The Lancet Public Health
  • Health and economic impact of air pollution in the states of India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 (2020) in The Lancet Planetary Health
  • Indian Network Project on Carbonaceous Aerosol Emissions, Source Apportionment and Climate Impacts (COALESCE) (2020) in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Absorption properties and forcing efficiency of light-absorbing water-soluble organic aerosols: Seasonal and spatial variability (2020) in Environmental Pollution

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Tarun Gupta include Gyanesh Kumar Singh, Adnan Mateen Qadri, Pradhi Rajeev, Binoy K. Saikia, and Avinash Kumar Ágarwal.

Publication venues where the scientist has contributed frequently are:

  • Environmental Pollution
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Atmospheric Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Tarun Gupta has also contributed to book publications under the Springer Nature publisher. Titles include "Pollution Control Technologies" and "Nanomaterials and Nanocomposites for Environmental Remediation," both published in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Christopher J.L. Murray;Christopher J.L. Murray;Christopher J.L. Murray;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Peng Zheng;Peng Zheng;Peng Zheng;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati

  • 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

  • Measuring performance on the Healthcare Access and Quality Index for 195 countries and territories and selected subnational locations: A systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Nancy Fullman;Jamal Yearwood;Solomon M Abay;Cristiana Abbafati

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Chemical Characterization and Source Apportionment of Submicron (PM1) Aerosol in Kanpur Region, India

    Abhishek Chakraborty;Tarun Gupta

  • Particulate emissions from biodiesel vs diesel fuelled compression ignition engine

    Avinash Kumar Agarwal;Tarun Gupta;Abhishek Kothari

  • Secondary organic aerosol: a comparison between foggy and nonfoggy days.

    D. S. Kaul;Tarun Gupta;S. N. Tripathi;V. Tare

  • Annual trends in occurrence of submicron particles in ambient air and health risk posed by particle bound metals.

    Saifi Izhar;Anubha Goel;Abhishek Chakraborty;Tarun Gupta

  • Comparative compression ignition engine performance, combustion, and emission characteristics, and trace metals in particulates from Waste cooking oil, Jatropha and Karanja oil derived biodiesels

    Chetankumar Patel;Krishn Chandra;Joonsik Hwang;Rashmi A. Agarwal

  • Removal of hexavalent chromium upon interaction with biochar under acidic conditions: mechanistic insights and application

    Bharat Choudhary;Debajyoti Paul;Abhas Singh;Tarun Gupta

  • Particulate emissions from biodiesel fuelled CI engines

    Avinash Kumar Agarwal;Tarun Gupta;Pravesh C. Shukla;Atul Dhar

  • Chemical characterization of PM 1.0 aerosol in Delhi and source apportionment using positive matrix factorization.

    Jaiprakash;Amrita Singhai;Gazala Habib;Ramya Sunder Raman

  • Application of waste cooking oil (WCO) biodiesel in a compression ignition engine

    Joonsik Hwang;Choongsik Bae;Tarun Gupta

  • Photocatalytic reduction of organic pollutant under visible light by green route synthesized gold nanoparticles

    Bharat C. Choudhary;Bharat C. Choudhary;Debajyoti Paul;Tarun Gupta;Sandesh R. Tetgure

  • Composition and comparative toxicity of particulate matter emitted from a diesel and biodiesel fuelled CRDI engine

    Jitendra N. Gangwar;Tarun Gupta;Avinash K. Agarwal

  • Measurement of number and size distribution of particles emitted from a mid-sized transportation multipoint port fuel injection gasoline engine

    Tarun Gupta;Abhishek Kothari;Dhananjay Kumar Srivastava;Avinash Kumar Agarwal

  • Effect through inhalation on human health of PM1 bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons collected from foggy days in northern part of India.

    Dharmendra Kumar Singh;Tarun Gupta

  • Sources of submicron aerosol during fog-dominated wintertime at Kanpur

    Tarun Gupta;Anil Mandariya

  • Source apportionment of carbonaceous fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in two contrasting cities across the Indo–Gangetic Plain

    Ana M. Villalobos;Mansur O. Amonov;Martin M. Shafer;J. Jai Devi

Frequent Co-Authors

Avinash Kumar Agarwal
Avinash Kumar Agarwal Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Sachchida Nand Tripathi
Sachchida Nand Tripathi Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Choongsik Bae
Choongsik Bae Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Petros Koutrakis
Petros Koutrakis Harvard University
Stephen S Lim
Stephen S Lim University of Washington
Theo Vos
Theo Vos Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Christopher J L Murray
Christopher J L Murray University of Washington
G Anil Kumar
G Anil Kumar SRM Institute of Science and Technology Private university in Chennai, India
Sagnik Dey
Sagnik Dey Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Philip Demokritou
Philip Demokritou Harvard University

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