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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2008 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)

Overview

Venkatachalam Ramaswamy is a researcher affiliated with the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in the United States. Their work spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and related subfields.

Their research covers a range of topics including climate variability and models, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, meteorological phenomena and simulations, atmospheric ozone and climate, tropical and extratropical cyclones, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, and the dynamics of atmospheric aerosols and clouds.

Recent publications by Venkatachalam Ramaswamy include:

  • Scattering and absorbing aerosols in the climate system, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Anthropogenic forcing and response yield observed positive trend in Earth's energy imbalance, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Assessing the Influence of COVID-19 on the Shortwave Radiative Fluxes Over the East Asian Marginal Seas, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Representation of Tropical Mesoscale Convective Systems in a General Circulation Model: Climatology and Response to Global Warming, 2021, Journal of Climate
  • Projected Changes in South Asian Monsoon Low Pressure Systems, 2020, Journal of Climate

Frequent co-authors of Ramaswamy include:

  • David Paynter
  • Shiv Priyam Raghuraman
  • Wenhao Dong
  • Ming Zhao
  • Yi Ming

Publication venues where they have frequently contributed include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Climate
  • Frontiers in Climate
  • Earth's Future

Ramaswamy has received several distinctions including Fellowships from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) awarded in 2016, the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2008, and the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE).

Best Publications

  • Changes in Atmospheric Constituents and in Radiative Forcing. Chapter 2

    P. Forster;V. Ramaswamy;P. Artaxo;T. Berntsen

  • Changes in Atmospheric Constituents and in Radiative Forcing

    Piers Forster;Venkatachalam Ramaswamy;Paulo Artaxo;Terje Berntsen

  • GFDL's CM2 global coupled climate models. Part I: Formulation and simulation characteristics

    Thomas L. Delworth;Anthony J. Broccoli;Anthony Rosati;Ronald J. Stouffer

  • Anthropogenic Aerosols and the Weakening of the South Asian Summer Monsoon

    Massimo A. Bollasina;Yi Ming;V. Ramaswamy

  • The dynamical core, physical parameterizations, and basic simulation characteristics of the atmospheric component AM3 of the GFDL global coupled model CM3

    Leo J. Donner;Bruce L. Wyman;Richard S. Hemler;Larry W. Horowitz

  • Improving our fundamental understanding of the role of aerosol−cloud interactions in the climate system

    John H. Seinfeld;Christopher Bretherton;Kenneth S. Carslaw;Hugh Coe

  • A search for human influences on the thermal structure of the atmosphere

    B. D. Santer;K. E. Taylor;T. M. L. Wigley;T. C. Johns

  • Scattering and absorbing aerosols in the climate system

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  • Global sensitivity studies of the direct radiative forcing due to anthropogenic sulfate and black carbon aerosols

    J. M. Haywood;V. Ramaswamy

  • Structure and Performance of GFDL's CM4.0 Climate Model

    I. M. Held;H. Guo;A. Adcroft;J. P. Dunne

  • Stratospheric Temperature Changes: Observations and Model Simulations

    V. Ramaswamy;M.-L. Chanin;J. Angell;J. Barnett

  • Tropospheric Aerosol Climate Forcing in Clear-Sky Satellite Observations over the Oceans

    J. M. Haywood;Venkatachalam Ramaswamy;B. J. Soden

  • Amplification of Surface Temperature Trends and Variability in the Tropical Atmosphere

    Benjamin D. Santer;Tom M. L. Wigley;Carl Mears;Frank J. Wentz

  • The Radiative Signature of Upper Tropospheric Moistening

    Brian J. Soden;Darren L. Jackson;V. Ramaswamy;M. D. Schwarzkopf

  • Arctic Oscillation response to the 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption: Effects of volcanic aerosols and ozone depletion

    Georgiy Stenchikov;Alan Robock;V. Ramaswamy;M. Daniel Schwarzkopf

  • Radiative-convective equilibrium with explicit two-dimensional moist convection

    Isaac M. Held;Richard S. Hemler;V. Ramaswamy

  • Distribution, transport, and deposition of mineral dust in the Southern Ocean and Antarctica: Contribution of major sources

    Fuyu Li;Paul Ginoux;Venkatachalam Ramaswamy

  • The GFDL Global Atmosphere and Land Model AM4.0/LM4.0: 2. Model Description, Sensitivity Studies, and Tuning Strategies

    M. Zhao;J.-C. Golaz;I. M. Held;H. Guo

  • Radiative forcing by well‐mixed greenhouse gases: Estimates from climate models in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4)

    W. D. Collins;V. Ramaswamy;M. D. Schwarzkopf;Y. Sun

  • The GFDL Global Atmosphere and Land Model AM4.0/LM4.0: 1. Simulation Characteristics With Prescribed SSTs

    M. Zhao;J. C. Golaz;Isaac M. Held;H. Guo

  • Assessment of Twentieth-Century Regional Surface Temperature Trends using the GFDL CM2 Coupled Models

    Thomas R. Knutson;T. L. Delworth;K. W. Dixon;Isaac M. Held

  • Achieving Climate Change Absolute Accuracy in Orbit

    Bruce A. Wielicki;D. F. Young;M. G. Mlynczak;K. J. Thome

  • Arctic Oscillation response to volcanic eruptions in the IPCC AR4 climate models

    Georgiy Stenchikov;Kevin Hamilton;Ronald J. Stouffer;Alan Robock

Frequent Co-Authors

Yi Ming
Yi Ming Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Paul Ginoux
Paul Ginoux Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Georgiy L. Stenchikov
Georgiy L. Stenchikov King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Larry W. Horowitz
Larry W. Horowitz Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Jim Haywood
Jim Haywood University of Exeter
Leo J. Donner
Leo J. Donner Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
William D. Collins
William D. Collins Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Vaishali Naik
Vaishali Naik Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Venugopalan Ittekkot
Venugopalan Ittekkot University of Bremen
Ronald J. Stouffer
Ronald J. Stouffer University of Arizona

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