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Overview

Raghu Murtugudde is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. The scientist has contributed extensively to subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Soil Science.

The main topics covered in their work encompass Climate Variability and Models, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Climate Change and Health Impacts, as well as Flood Risk Assessment and Management.

Recent publications include:

  • Progress in understanding of Indian Ocean circulation, variability, air-sea exchange, and impacts on biogeochemistry, 2021, Ocean Science
  • Use of Observing System Simulation Experiments in the United States, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Food insecurity and compound environmental shocks in Nepal: Implications for a changing climate, 2021, World Development
  • The Role of Vorticity Tilting in Northward-Propagating Monsoon Intraseasonal Oscillation, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Unexpected limitation of tropical cyclone genesis by subsurface tropical central-north Pacific during El Niño, 2022, Nature Communications

Frequent coauthors in their collaborative network include Lei Zhou, Subimal Ghosh, Xiujun Wang, Rong-Hua Zhang, and Baosheng Li. Their publication record spans multiple venues, with notable concentrations in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Nature Communications

The scientist's work addresses a broad range of environmental and climatic factors, often linking observational data with theoretical models to explore interactions between ocean, atmosphere, and ecosystem dynamics.

Best Publications

  • Drying of Indian subcontinent by rapid Indian Ocean warming and a weakening land-sea thermal gradient.

    Mathew Koll Roxy;Kapoor Ritika;Kapoor Ritika;Pascal Terray;Raghu Murtugudde

  • A threefold rise in widespread extreme rain events over central India

    M. K. Roxy;Subimal Ghosh;Amey Pathak;R. Athulya;R. Athulya

  • Oceanic processes associated with anomalous events in the Indian Ocean with relevance to 1997–1998

    Raghu Murtugudde;Julian P. McCreary;Antonio J. Busalacchi

  • Twentieth-century sea surface temperature trends

    Mark A. Cane;Amy C. Clement;Alexey Kaplan;Yochanan Kushnir

  • Impact of Indian Ocean Sea Surface Temperature on Developing El Niño

    H. Annamalai;S. P. Xie;J. P. McCreary;R. Murtugudde

  • A reduction in marine primary productivity driven by rapid warming over the tropical Indian Ocean

    Mathew Koll Roxy;Aditi Modi;Raghu Murtugudde;Vinu Valsala

  • Strong influence of westerly wind bursts on El Niño diversity

    Dake Chen;Tao Lian;Congbin Fu;Mark A. Cane

  • A spatial ecosystem and populations dynamics model (SEAPODYM) – Modeling of tuna and tuna-like populations

    Patrick Lehodey;Inna Senina;Raghu Murtugudde

  • Coupled dynamics over the Indian Ocean: spring initiation of the Zonal Mode

    H Annamalai;R Murtugudde;J Potemra;S.P Xie

  • Environmental signatures associated with cholera epidemics

    Guillaume Constantin de Magny;Raghu Murtugudde;Mathew R. P. Sapiano;Azhar Nizam

  • Interannual Variability of the Dynamics and Thermodynamics of the Tropical Indian Ocean

    Ragu Murtugudde;Antonio J. Busalacchi

  • Effects of Penetrative Radiation on the Upper Tropical Ocean Circulation

    Raghu Murtugudde;James Beauchamp;Charles R. McClain;Marlon Lewis

  • Ocean color variability of the tropical Indo-Pacific basin observed by SeaWiFS during 1997-1998

    Ragu G. Murtugudde;Sergio R. Signorini;James R. Christian;Antonio J. Busalacchi

  • A semiannual Indian Ocean forced Kelvin wave observed in the Indonesian seas in May 1997

    Janet Sprintall;Arnold L. Gordon;Ragu Murtugudde;R. Dwi Susanto

  • Indian Ocean Climate event brings floods to East Africa's lakes and the Sudd Marsh

    Charon Birkett;Ragu Murtugudde;Tony Allan

  • Annual ecosystem variability in the tropical Indian Ocean: Results of a coupled bio-physical ocean general circulation model

    J.D. Wiggert;J.D. Wiggert;R.G. Murtugudde;J.R. Christian;J.R. Christian

  • Ocean dynamics, thermocline adjustment, and regulation of tropical SST

    Richard Seager;Ragu Murtugudde

  • Air–Sea Interaction and the Seasonal Cycle of the Subtropical Anticyclones*

    Richard Seager;Ragu Murtugudde;Naomi H. Naik;Amy Clement

  • Bridging the gap from ocean models to population dynamics of large marine predators: A model of mid-trophic functional groups

    Patrick Lehodey;Raghu Murtugudde;Inna Senina

  • Seasonal‐to‐interannual effects of the Indonesian throughflow on the tropical Indo‐Pacific Basin

    Ragu Murtugudde;Antonio J. Busalacchi;James Beauchamp

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus Jochum
Markus Jochum University of Copenhagen
Antonio J. Busalacchi
Antonio J. Busalacchi University of Maryland, College Park
Subimal Ghosh
Subimal Ghosh Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Rita R. Colwell
Rita R. Colwell University of Maryland, College Park
Duane E. Waliser
Duane E. Waliser Jet Propulsion Lab
Arthur J. Miller
Arthur J. Miller University of California, San Diego
Bhupendra Nath Goswami
Bhupendra Nath Goswami Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune
Olivier Maury
Olivier Maury École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Laurent Bopp
Laurent Bopp École Normale Supérieure

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