Browsing by Author "Vethamony, P."
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Assessment of the environmental health of an ecologically sensitive, semi-enclosed, basin - A water quality modelling approach.
VishnuRadhan, Renjith; Eldho, T I; Vethamony, P; Saheed, P P; Shirodkar, P V ( Elsevier , 2018 , Article)Semi-enclosed basins are environmentally dynamic and some of the most anthropogenically affected components of the coastal realm. They can reflect various environmental impacts, thus qualifying as natural laboratories to ... -
Attenuation of wave energy due to mangrove vegetation off Mumbai, India
Samiksha S.V.; Vethamony P.; Bhaskaran P.K.; Pednekar P.; Jishad M.; James R.A.... more authors ... less authors ( MDPI AG , 2019 , Article)Coastal regions of India are prone to sea level rise, cyclones, storm surges, and human-induced activities, resulting in flood, erosion, and inundation, and some of these impacts could be attributed to climate change. ... -
Contributions of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy in microplastic pollution research: A review
Veerasingam, S.; Ranjani, M.; Venkatachalapathy, R.; Bagaev, Andrei; Mukhanov, Vladimir; Litvinyuk, Daria; Mugilarasan, M.; Gurumoorthi, K.; Guganathan, L.; Aboobacker, V. M.; Vethamony, P.... more authors ... less authors ( Taylor and Francis , 2020 , Article)© 2020 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy has been extensively used in microplastic (MP) pollution research since 2004. The aim of this review is to discuss and highlight the ... -
Detection and assessment of marine litter in an uninhabited island, Arabian Gulf: A case study with conventional and machine learning approaches
S., Veerasingam; Chatting, Mark; Asim, Fahad Syed; Al-Khayat, Jassim; Vethamony, P. ( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)In 2018, the Ministry of Municipality and Environment, Qatar removed 90 t of marine litter (ML) from the Ras Rakan Island (RRI), a remote uninhabited island in the Arabian Gulf (hereinafter referred to as Gulf). To identify ... -
Editorial: Challenges in characterizing nano- to macro-plastics and adhered substances in the aquatic environment
Veerasingam, S.; Anbumani, S.; Bagaev, Andrei; Vethamony, P. ( Frontiers Media , 2022 , Other)Globally, plastic contamination is one of the serious planetary threats, affecting almost all environmental matrices such as air, water, soil, sediment, and biota (including humans). It is estimated that ∼19 to 23 million ... -
Formation and weathering assessment of oil-suspended sediment aggregates through a laboratory investigation.
Suneel, V; Sathish Kumar, S; Balaji, R; Vethamony, P ( Springer , 2021 , Article)Formation of oil-suspended sediment aggregates (OSAs) is believed to be one of the natural cleaning processes in the marine environment. In this study, we have investigated the formation processes of OSAs under different ... -
The maxima in northerly wind speeds and wave heights over the Arabian Sea, the Arabian/Persian Gulf and the Red Sea derived from 40 years of ERA5 data
Aboobacker, V.M.; Aboobacker, V. M.; Shanas, P. R.; Al-Ansari, Ebrahim M.A.S.; Sanil Kumar, V.; Vethamony, P.... more authors ... less authors ( Springer , 2020 , Article)Recent studies point out the importance of northerly winds and waves in the Arabian Sea, especially those due to shamal and makran events in addition to the northeast monsoon system. We have analyzed climatology and trends ... -
Microplastics in the beach sediments around the Ras Rakan Island, Qatar
Subramanian, Veerasingam; Aboobacker, V.M; Giraldes, A.E.; Dib, S; Al-Khayat, Jassim; Vethamony, P... more authors ... less authors ( Qatar University Press , 2021 , Poster)The ubiquitous microplastic (MP) pollution is an emerging environmental issue in the marine environment. In this study, historical accumulation trends of MPs in the beach sediments around the Ras Rakan Island of Qatar have ... -
Molluscan diversity influenced by mangrove habitat in the khors of Qatar
Al-Khayat, Jassim A.; Vethamony, P.; Nanajkar, Mandar ( Springer , 2021 , Article)The Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Qatar is a rapidly developing region within the Arabian Gulf, where monitoring of changes in benthic biodiversity and its functioning is needed. The influence of mangroves and seasonality ... -
Oil Spill Index (OSI) to Sentinel-2 satellite data: QU in International Contribution
Rajendran, S; Fahad, AS; Sadooni, FN,; Al-Kuwari, HAS; Vethamony, P; Anisimov, O; Nasir, S; Al-Khayat, J; Govil, H; Seegobin, VO... more authors ... less authors ( Qatar University Press , 2021 , Poster)An Oil Spill Index (OSI = (B3+B4)/B2) was developed and applied to Sentinel-2 optical satellite data of the European Space Agency (ESA) to map marine oil spills using spectral absorption characters of spectral bands of the ... -
Role of shamal and easterly winds on the wave characteristics off Qatar, central Arabian Gulf
Aboobacker, V. M.; Samiksha, S. V.; Veerasingam, S.; Al-Ansari, Ebrahim M.A.S.; Vethamony, P. ( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)Waves in the Arabian Gulf (Gulf) are dominated by shamal winds during winter and early summer. Although wave characteristics in the Gulf are broadly studied, features associated with various wind systems are not explicitly ... -
Seasonal variation, polymer hazard risk and controlling factors of microplastics in beach sediments along the southeast coast of India
M., Ranjani; Veerasingam, S.; Venkatachalapathy, R.; Jinoj, T.P.S.; Guganathan, L.; Mugilarasan, M.; Vethamony, P.... more authors ... less authors ( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)Microplastics (MPs) and its associated organic and inorganic contaminants are one among the significant health hazards to almost all biota, including human. We investigated the polymer hazard risk and its adsorbed contaminants ... -
Sources, spatial distribution and characteristics of marine litter along the west coast of Qatar
S., Veerasingam; Al-Khayat, Jassim A.; Aboobacker, V.M.; Hamza, Shafeeq; Vethamony, P. ( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)The spatial distribution, sources and characteristics of marine litter (ML) from 36 locations spread over 12 beaches along the west coast of Qatar have been assessed. A total of 2376 ML items with varying sizes were found ... -
Spatial distribution, structural characterization and weathering of tarmats along the west coast of Qatar
S., Veerasingam; Al-Khayat, Jassim A.; Haseeba, K.P.; Aboobacker, V.M.; Hamza, Shafeeq; Vethamony, P.... more authors ... less authors ( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)Oil pollution resulting from natural and anthropogenic activities in the Arabian Gulf as well as oil residue in the form of tarmat (TM) deposited on the coast is a major environmental concern. The spatial distribution, ... -
WorldView-3 mapping of Tarmat deposits of the Ras Rakan Island, Northern Coast of Qatar: Environmental perspective
Sankaran, Rajendran; Al-Khayat, Jassim A.; Veerasingam, S.; Nasir, Sobhi; Vethamony, P.; Sadooni, Fadhil N.; Al-Kuwari, Hamad Al-Saad... more authors ... less authors ( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)This study characterizes the spectral behavior of tarmats and maps the tarmat deposits found along the coast of Ras Rakan Island off Qatar using WorldView-3 (WV-3) sensor data. The laboratory spectra of tar materials showed ...