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email: beig (at) tropmet.res.in 
Dr. Gufran Beig is a senior scientist at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, IITM, Pune, India.
After completing his PhD in Atmospheric Sciences, he worked as visiting scientist at National Center for
Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, USA, then moved on to IITM. He is a member of several International
scientific organizations dealing with global climate change and also an editor of the Journal of
Atmospheric and Solar Terrestrial physics.
The main area of Dr. Beig's research is the study of atmospheric chemistry and climate forcing factors
(surface to 100 km) under the influence of global change. He works with regional and global atmospheric
chemistry-transport models to study the influence of anthropogenic emissions on lower and middle
atmospheric chemical species and thermal structure and on the intercontinental transport of pollutants.
His recent interest includes the development of emissions inventories of several chemical pollutants using
GIS methodology, especially for the south Asian region. He is also instrumental in setting-up the urban
air pollution network to monitor the ozone and other secondary pollutants like NOx, CO, HC, SO2,
BC, SPM, etc. over the Indian tropical region. He has developed the coupled neutral-ion chemical models of
troposphere in the upper atmosphere and introduced the concept of human-induced global influence on the
ionized components. He has recently studied the adverse impact of geo-engineering solutions to climate
change on the ion composition of the stratosphere.
Dr. Beig led an international scientific assessment of atmospheric temperature trends which firmly resolved
significant global change signals in the upper atmosphere. These findings influence radio communications,
satellite movement and climate and weather patterns. This work yielded him in 2005 the Norbert Gerbier-Mumm
International Award of the World Meteorological Organization.
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