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Dr. Andimuthu Ramachandran Ph.D., D.Sc.

Emeritus Professor Centre for Climate Change and Disaster Management Anna University, Chennai

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andimuthu.ramachandran@gmail.com

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Andimuthu Ramachandran

Emeritus Professor, Centre for Climate Change and Disaster Management

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Understanding the Local Perception, Adaptation to Climate Change and Resilience Planning Among the Farmers of Semi-Arid Tracks of South India

P Dhanya, A Ramachandran, K Palanivelu Agricultural Research 11 (2), 291-308 (2022)

Carbon capture and storage using coal fly ash with flue gas

TDR Revathy, A Ramachandran, K Palanivelu Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy 24 (4), 1053-1071 (2022)

Climate variability trend and extreme indices for the Thanjavur Delta region of Tamil Nadu in South India

S PAVITHRAPRIYA, A RAMACHANDRAN, SN AHAMEDIBRAHIM, ... MAUSAM 73 (2), 237-250 (2022)

Spatio-temporal variation and sensitivity analysis of aerosol particulate matter during the COVID-19 phase-wise lockdowns in Indian cities

AI SN, A Ramachandran, K Palanivelu Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry, 1-28 (2022)

Application of Biochar from Waste for Carbon Dioxide Sequestration and Sustainable Agriculture

S Sri Shalini, K Palanivelu, A Ramachandran Strategies and Tools for Pollutant Mitigation, 113-126 (2022)

Biochar Pyrolyzed from Municipal Solid Waste—Properties, Activation, Applications and Climate Benefits

S Sri Shalini, K Palanivelu, A Ramachandran Zero Waste Biorefinery, 383-423 (2022)

Utilization of steelmaking slag for carbon capture and storage with flue gas

TD RushendraRevathy, A Ramachandran, K Palanivelu Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 1-18

Understanding the Local Perception, Adaptation to Climate Change and Resilience Planning Among the Farmers of Semi-Arid Tracks of South India. Agricultural Research, 1-18

Dhanya, P., Ramachandran, A., & Palanivelu, K. (2021)

Prediction of Future Extremes During the Northeast Monsoon in the Coastal Districts of Tamil Nadu State in India Based on ENSO. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 1-22.

Lakshmi, S., Nivethaa, E. A. K., Ahamed Ibrahim, S. N., Ramachandran, A., & Palanivelu, K. (2021)

Climate risks and socio-economic vulnerability in Tamil Nadu, India. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 1-15.

Jeganathan, A., Andimuthu, R., & Kandasamy, P. (2021)

Sequestration of CO2 by red mud with flue gas using response surface methodology. Carbon Management, 12(2), 139-151.

Rushendra Revathy, T. D., Ramachandran, A., & Palanivelu, K. (2021)

Challenges in Chennai City to Cope with Changing Climate. European Journal of Climate Change. Journal reference: Eur. J. Clim. Ch, 1(01), 17-23

Jeganathan, A., Andimuthu, R., & Kandasamy, P. (2021).

Waste cooking oil as an efficient solvent for the production of urea precursor ammonium carbamate from carbon dioxide. Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology, 11(2), 222-231.

Sachin, E. K., Ramachandran, A., Palanivelu, K., Syrtsova, D. A., Teplyakov, V. V., & Kunalan, S. (2020)

Enhancement of Gas Separation Properties of Polyvinyltrimethylsilane by Low-Temperature Plasma Treatment for Carbon Dioxide Utilization in “Green Chemistry” Processes. Membranes and Membrane Technologies, 3(1), 43-51.

Syrtsova, D. A., Shalygin, M. G., Teplyakov, V. V., Palanivelu, K., Zinoviev, A. V., Piskarev, M. S., & Kuznetsov, A. A. (2020).

Transmembrane gas transfer: Mathematics of diffusion and experimental practice. Journal of Membrane Science, 601, 117737.

Beckman, I. N., Syrtsova, D. А., Shalygin, M. G., Kandasamy, P., & Teplyakov, V. V. (2020)

Methane emission from municipal solid waste dumpsites: A case study of Chennai city in India. Advances in environmental research, 9(2), 97-107.

Srinivasan, P., Andimuthu, R., SN, A. I., Ramachandran, P., Rajkumar, E., & Kandasamy, P. (2020)

Biochar from biomass waste as a renewable carbon material for climate change mitigation in reducing greenhouse gas emissions—a review. Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery, 1-21.

Sri Shalini, S., Palanivelu, K., Ramachandran, A., & Raghavan, V. (2020)

Characterization of future climate extremes over Tamil Nadu, India, using high-resolution regional climate model simulation. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 138(3), 1297-1309

Geetha, R., Ramachandran, A., Indumathi, J., Palanivelu, K., Uma, G. V., Bal, P. K., & Thirumurugan, P. (2019).

Thermal comfort level in Chennai Metropolis under present and future climate scenarios. European Journal of Climate Change, 1(1), 17-23.

Jeganathan, A., Andimuthu, R., & Kandasamy, P. (2019).

Climate change impact on fluvial flooding in the Indian sub-basin: A case study on the Adyar sub-basin. PloS one, 14(5), e0216461

Ramachandran, A., Palanivelu, K., Mudgal, B. V., Jeganathan, A., Guganesh, S., Abinaya, B., & Elangovan, A. (2019).

Performance of urban storm drainage network under changing climate scenarios: Flood mitigation in Indian coastal city. Scientific reports, 9(1), 1-10.

Andimuthu, R., Kandasamy, P., Mudgal, B. V., Jeganathan, A., Balu, A., & Sankar, G. (2019)

Spatial and temporal variations of water quality in Pallikaranai wetland, Chennai, India. International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, 18(1), 86-106.

Karpagavalli, M. S., Ramachandran, A., & Palanivelu, K. (2019)

Trends of the observed temperature and its variations in the Tamil Nadu State of India, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-018-2582-6.

Anushiya Jeganathan, Ramachandran Andimuthu and Palanivelu Kandasamy (2018)

Changing aridity status in the purview of climate change in Kancheepuram district, Tamil Nadu, India, (2018), Journal of Agrometerology,20 (1).

Dhanya Praveen, Andimuthu Ramachandran and Kandasamy Palanivelu,

Spatiotemporal analysis of projected impacts of climate change on the major C3 and C4 crop yield under representative concentration pathway 4.5: Insight from the coasts of Tamil Nadu, South India, PLoS ONE,12(7): e0180706. https://doi.org/ 10.1371/journal.pone.0180706.

Ramachandran A, Dhanya Praveen, Jaganathan R, Raja Lakshmi D, Palanivelu K. (2017).

Projection of climate change-induced sea-level rise for the coasts of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, India using SimCLIM: a first step towards planning adaptation policies, Journal Coastal conservation, DOI: 10.1007/s11852-017-0532-6.

Ramachandran, A. Saleem Khan, K. Palanivelu, R. Prasannavenkatesh and N. (2017).

Restoration of Degraded Soil in the Nanmangalam Reserve Forest with Native Tree Species: Effect of Indigenous Plant Growth-Promoting Bacteria,” The Scientific World Journal, vol. 2016, Article ID 5465841, 9 pages, 2016. doi:10.1155/2016/5465841.

Andimuthu Ramachandran and Parthasarathy Radhapriya

Climate Change Projections Over India By A Downscaling Approach Using Precis, Asia-Pacififc. Journal of Atmospheric science, Vol 52(2), pp – 1- 16, 2016.

Prasanta Kumar Bal,, Andimuthu Ramachandran,, Kandasamy Palanivelu, P. Thirumurugan, Geetha. R, and B. Bhaskaran

Farmers' perceptions of climate change and the proposed agriculture adaptation strategies in a semi arid region of south India”, Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences ,13, Iss. 1, 2016

Dhanya P , Ramachandran A

Critical Analysis of Forest Degradation in the Southern Eastern Ghats of India: Comparison of Satellite Imagery and Soil Quality Index. PLoS ONE11(1): e0147541. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0147541

Ramachandran A, Radhapriya P, Jayakumar S, Dhanya P, Geetha R (2016)

Pseudomonas aeruginosa RRALC3 Enhances the Biomass, Nutrient and Carbon Contents ofPongamiapinnata Seedlings in Degraded Forest Soil. PLoS ONE10(10): e0139881. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0139881

Radhapriya P, Ramachandran A, Anandham R, Mahalingam S (2015)

Projected and Observed Aridity and Climate Change in the East Coast of South India under RCP 4.5,” The Scientific World Journal, vol. 2015, Article ID 169761, 11 pages, 2015. doi:10.1155/2015/169761

Ramachandran, Dhanya Praveen, R. Jaganathan, and K. Palanivelu

Assessment of Population Exposure to Coarse and Fine Particulate Matter in the Urban Areas of Chennai, India. The Scientific World Journal.2015;2015:643714. doi:10.1155/2015/643714.

Prasannavenkatesh R, Andimuthu R, Kandasamy P,

Predicting the current and future suitable habitat distribution of MyristicadactyloidesGaertnusing MaxEnt model in the Eastern Ghats, India” Ecological Engineering. (Accepted).

Remya K, Ramachandran A and Jayakumar S, 2015

Direct Mineral Carbonation of Coal Fly Ash for CO2 Sequestration”, Journal of Cleaner Production, DOI, 10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.05.145 ( In Press)

RushendraRevathy T D , Palanivelu K, Ramachandran, A (2015),

Projected Warming and Occurrence ofMeteorological Droughts—Insights from theCoasts of South India”, American Journal of Climate Changehttp://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ajcc.2015.42013

Dhanya P, Ramachandran A (2015)

Climate Change Projections for Tamil Nadu, India: Deriving High Resolution Climate Data by a downscaling approach using PRECIS” Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Prasanta Kumar Bal, Ramachandran A, Geetha.R, Bhaskaran, P.Thirumurugan, J.Indumathi, N.Jayanthi (2015)

Sequestration of carbon dioxide by red mud through direct mineral carbonation at room temperature” International journal of Global Warming, In press, ISSN 1758-2083

RushendraRevathy, K. Palanivelu and Ramachandran A (2015)

Rainfall trend analysis of Kolli hill, Tamil Nadu, India” Mausam, vol.66, No.1. [J-065 (5586)].

Remya K, Ramachandran A, Jayakumar S, DivyaSubash Kumar, Radhapriya P and Malini P (2015)

An assessment of perceptions and autonomous adaptation among the farmers of North East Tamil Nadu, under the purview of climate change, Journal of Studies in Dynamics and Change1, No.8: 309-319

Dhanya P, Ramachandran A, and K Palanivelu, 2014

Spatial variation of temperature and indicative of the urban heat island in Chennai Metropolitan Area, India’, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, doi: 10.1007/s00704-014-1331-8.

AnushiyaJeganathan, Ramachandran A, Ramachandran Prasannavenkatesh&DivyaSubashKumar (2014)

Long-term rainfall trends of Indian urban station and its variation in different phases and seasons”, International Journal of Global Warming, (In Press)

Ramachandran, A &Anushiya, J (2014)

A Preliminary assessment of observed and projected trends in the diurnal temperature ranges over South India under SRES A1B scenario”. International Journal of Global Warming (Accepted), Article In press.

Dhanya P, Ramachandran A, Radhapriya P, Thirumurugan P (2014)

Spatial trend, environmental and socioeconomic factors associated with malaria prevalence in Chennai”, Malaria Journal13:14

DivyaSubash Kumar, Ramachandran A, RupaRajan and Mada Suresh Venkatesan (2014)

FT-IR, UV and antimicrobial activity with Aniasomniferaand with Aniaobtusifolia, International journal of Pharma and Biosciences, Vol.5, No.4:111-117

Ramachandran A and Senthil Kumar M, 2014,

Climate portfolio’ of Pichavaram mangrove region of Tamil Nadu coast, India: an add-on information for adaptation policy planning”. Journal of Integrative and Environmental Sciences. http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1080/ 1943815X. 2014.975724.

Saleem Khan, Ramachandran A, P. Malini and K. Palanivelu (2014)

Vulnerability and Adaptation assessment a way forward for sustainable sectoral development in the purview of climate variability and change: insights from the coast of Tamil Nadu, India” .International Journal of Global Warming(Article in Press).

Ramachandran A, Dhanya P, Radhapriya P, Divya SK, Remya K, Palanivelu K (2014)

An appraisal of physic-chemical and microbiological characteristics of nanmangalam Reserve forest soil” Journal of Environmental Biology,ISSN No:0254-8704

Radhapriya P, Ramachandran A, Dhanya P, Remya K, Malini P (2014)

Evaluation of antimicrobial activity of Leaf extracts of wattakakavolubilis(L.) stapf”. Journal of Engineering Research and Applications4,Issue 1,pp.06-10

Ramachandran A, M.Senthilkumar and D.Vinothkumar (2014)

Cyperusodoratus L.(Cyperaceae) A newly recorded Species in India, International Journal of Pharm Tech Research, vol.6, 2:518-520

Ramachandran A and Soosairaj S 2014

Identification of Inter Species Genetic variability between two morphologically similar species of withania through protein and RAPD markers”. International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research.4(7):2817-2820.

Ramachandran A, M. Senthil Kumar, K. Paneerselvam, D.vinothkumar and A.Shajahan(2013)

Developing climate scenarios for Tamil Nadu, India using MAGICC/SCENGEN" Theoretical and Applied Climatology, Published online on March 15 2013. DOI 10.1007/s00704-013-0871-7.

AnushiyaJeganathan and Ramachandran A (2013)

Recent and future weather and climate trends of Kancheepuram(TN) and its possible impacts”. Journal of Agrometeorology,Special Issue-2,vol.15

P, Ramachandran A, Prasanta Kumar Bal, Thirumurugan. P,(2013)

Regional climate model applications on sub-regional scales over the Indian monsoon region: The role of domain size on downscaling uncertainty”. Journal of geophysical research, vol. 117, DXXXXX, doi:10.1029/2012JD017956.

Bhaskaran, Ramachandran A, R. Jones, and W. Moufouma-Okia (2012)

Temperature trends of Chennai City, India" Theoretical and Applied Climatology. doi: 10.1007/s00704-012-0646-6.

AnushiyaJeganathan and Ramachandran A (2012)

Adopt Adaptation to Climate changing climate - Realising the need of the hour" Ecology, Environment and Conservation18 (1), pp. 83-90.

Saleem Khan, Ramachandran A N. Usha and P. Malini,(2012)

Climate Change And Emerging Infectious Diseases - A Review To Establish The Link" Ecology, Environment and Conservation, 18(2):2012; pp, 375-380

DivyaChandranand Ramachandran A (2012)

Rising Sea and Threatened Mangroves- A case study on stakeholders engagement in climate change communication and non-formal education" International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology1 doi:10.1080/13504509.2011.650230

Saleem Khan, Ramachandran A, N.Usha, I. Arul Aram and V. Selvam (2012)

Adaptation policy road map appraisal”. Environmental Policy and Law 42(6): 312-316.

Saleem Khan, Ramachandran A N. Usha and P. Malini, (2012).

Predicted Impact of the sea-level rise at velar – Coleroonesturine region of Tamil Nadu Coast in India: Mainstreaming adaptation as a coastal zone management option, Ocean and Coastal Mangement 69: 327-339

Saleem Khan, Ramachandran A N.Usha, S. Punitha, V.Selvam (2012)

Assessment of Air Pollution tolerance levels of selected plants around cement industry, Coimbatore, India" Journal of Environmental Biology 33, 635-641.

Radhapriya, P A. NavaneenthaGopalakrishnan, P. Malini and Ramachandran A (2012)

Analysis of heavy metals in dying Wetland, Pallikaranai, Tamil Nadu, India" Journal of Environmental Biology 33 , 757-761.

Sridevikarpagavalli, P. Malini and Ramachandran A (2012)

Distributional new report of Cymbidium macrorhizonLindl.(Orchidaceae) A Terrestrial orchid to peninsular India”. Journal of Econ.Taxon.Bot.Vol.36 No.4

Ramachandran A &S.Soosairaj (2012)

Phytochemical screening of the ethanolic and petether extracts of Gymnemakollimalayanum Ramachandran. Using HPLC and GCMS techniques". Journal of Pharmacy Research. Vol.4 (11) pp. 4100-4102.

Ramachandran A A.Leo Stanley and V. Alex Ramani (2011)

Antibacterial and Preliminary Phytochemical Screening of the Common Medicinal Plant Spilanthes calva” Ecobiol. Vol. 28 (02), pp. 195-199

Ananthi, Ramachandran A and E. Natarajan (2011)

Evaluation of Antibacterial and structural elucidation of biological compounds from Gymnemakollimalayanum A. Ramachandran and M.B.Viswan: A New Record Plant”, Research Journal of Pharmacology, Vol.5, No1: 4-8.

Natarajan D, Ramachandran A and Yuvarajan R, 2011,

In vitro propagation of RorippaindicaL. from nodal and shoot tip explants” International Journal for Biotechnology and Molecular Biology Research 2 (3), pp. 51-55.

Ananthi, B.D. RanjithaKumari and Ramachandran A (2011)

Solanum cordatum(Solanaceae) - A new record to Southern India" Rheeda20 (1) pp. 56-58.

Ramachandran A and M.B. Viswanathan (2010)

Antibacterial Activity of Gymnemakollimalayanum Ramachandran. A new plant from Peninsular India” Advances in Biological Research4 (6), pp. 292-295

Ramachandran A and D.Natarajan (2010)

Invitro propagation of Rhinacanthusnasutus- A medicinal herb, Journal of Phytological Research, vol.23, 2:259-262

Ananthi P and Ramachandran A 2010

Screening for antibacterial, phytochemical and pharmacognostical properties of IndigoferacaeruleaRoxb." Journal of Medicinal Plants Research4 (15), pp. 1561-1565.

Devarajan Natarajan, Ramachandran, A, Kesavan Srinivasan and ChokkalingamMohanasundari (2010)

Comparative Studies on Leaf-Epidermal Features of WithaniaSomniferaandWithaniaObtusifolia – Highly Medicinal Species of India” Advanced Biotech. Vol. 10 (02).

Senthil Kumar, A. Aslam, D. VinothKumar, Ramachandran A and A. Shajahan, (2010)

Evaluation of WithaniaobtusifoliaTackh. (Solanaceae) leaf and root extracts as an antimicrobial agent”. Journal of Basic and Applied Biology4, pp.1-4.

Senthil Kumar, A. Saravana Kumar, Ramachandran A and A. Shajahan(2010)

anatomical Studies in WithaniaSomniferaL. (Dunal) an Important Medicinal Plant” Advanced Biotech. Vol. 10 (01).

Senthil Kumar, D.Vinoth Kumar, Ramachandran A and A.Shajahan (2010)

Antifungal Activity of Euphorbia fusiformis. A Red-listed Medicinal Plant” Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology, Vol. 3 (2), pp. 747-750.

Ramachandran A and D.Natarajan (2009)

Soil resource Inventory and mapping using Geo-spatial technique” Journal of the Korean Society for Geo-Spatial Information System 17, pp. 3-12.

Jayakumar, Ramachandran A Jung Bin Lee and JoonHeo (2009)

A New Species of Gymnema(Asclepiadaceae) from the Kollihills in Peninsular India”Adansonia, Vol. 31 (02), pp. 407-411

Ramachandran A and M. Viswanathan (2009)

Influence of VAM and Microbial inoculants on growth, nutrients and bio chemical constituents in Jatropha curcas L.” Indian Journal of Plant Physiology14 (02), pp. 181-185.

Raja, RanjithaKumari and Ramachandran A (2009)

Rooting and shooting: dual function of thidiazuron in in vitro regeneration of soybean (Glycine max.L)”Plant.Springer publication. DOI 10.1007/s11738-009-0356-6

Radhakrishnan, B.D. RanjithaKumari and Ramachandran A (2009)

Comparison of floristic diversity of evergreen forest inferred from different sampling approaches in the Eastern Ghats of Tamil Nadu, India” Current Science 96 (4), pp. 575-581.

Jayakumar, Ramachandran A and JoonHeo (2009)

Forest Dynamics in the Eastern Ghats of Tamil Nadu” Environmental Management,43, pp. 326-345.

Jayakumar, Ramachandran A G.Bhaskaran and J.Heo (2009)

BOOKS

Waste Management Policies and Practices in BRICS Nations

Solid waste management practices in India and China – Sustainability issues and Opportunities

S. Sri Shalini, Kurian Joseph, Binghua Yan, O. P. Karthikeyan, K. Palanivelu and A. Ramachandran

PUBLISHER: CRC Press of Taylor & Francis, 2021

Climate Change-Resilient Agriculture and Agroforestry. Climate Change Management

The Urgent Need for Enhancing Forest Ecosystem Resilience Under the Anticipated Climate Portfolio Over Kerala Under RCP 4.5 and Its Possible Implications on Forests.

Dhanya P., Ramachandran A

PUBLISHER: Springer https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75004-0_9 , 2019

Oceanography - Sea level rise and coastal infrastructure

Constructing local sea level rise scenarios for assessing possible impacts and adaptation needs: insights from coasts of India.

Praveen, D., Ramachandran, A., & Palanivelu, K.

PUBLISHER: Intechopen, 2018

Environmental Management of River Basin Ecosystems

Assessment of Water Availability in Chennai Basin under Present and Future Climate Scenarios 18

Jeganathan A and Ramachandran A

PUBLISHER: Springer Earth System Sciences Publications, 2015

Emerging Technologies, Climate Change and environmental sustainability: innovative prespective

Direct mineral carbonation of coal fly ash at varying low pressure conditions

Revathy TD, Palanivelu K and Ramachandran A

PUBLISHER: Excellent publishing house, New Delhi, 2014

Advances in Computer Science, Engineering & Applications

Adaptation of Cognitive Psychological Framework as Knowledge Explication Strategy

Wenisch MS, Ramachandran A & Uma GV

PUBLISHER: Springer, New Delhi, 2012

Journals

P Dhanya, A Ramachandran, K Palanivelu Agricultural Research 11 (2), 291-308 (2022)

Membership Counsils

Vice President, Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS), Chennai Chapter, 2010 to 2013.

Member, Carbon Credit Cell, TN Bio diversity conservation and Greening project, 2012.

Member- Governing Council for National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management, 2012.

Member- Syndicate, Senate and Academic council University of Madras, 2010-2013

Member- Syndicate and Academic council Anna University, 2009-2011.

Member-Consultative Group on Climate Change Forestry Sub Group, 2007

Member-Steering Committee Climate Change Innovation Programme CCIP, 2007

CONTRIBUTION TO RESEARCH

Chennai Model for climate proof storm water drains, Chennai Corporation, 2019

Developing regional climate model for Tamil Nadu (Anna University publication), Government of Tamil Nadu, 2013

Climate modeling & vulnerability assessment, Yonsei University, South Korea, 2009