V. Ramaswamy

22.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
140 papers, 8.1k citations indexed

About

V. Ramaswamy is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, V. Ramaswamy has authored 140 papers receiving a total of 8.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 128 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 120 papers in Atmospheric Science and 7 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in V. Ramaswamy's work include Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (79 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (71 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (69 papers). V. Ramaswamy is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (79 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (71 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (69 papers). V. Ramaswamy collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. V. Ramaswamy's co-authors include Yi Ming, M. D. Schwarzkopf, Massimo Bollasina, Jim Haywood, Petr Chýlek, Georgiy Stenchikov, S. M. Freidenreich, Isaac M. Held, Cynthia A. Randles and Ronald J. Stouffer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

V. Ramaswamy

137 papers receiving 7.6k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Anthropogenic Aerosols and the Weakening of the South Asian Summer Monsoon

2011 841 citations Yi Ming, V. Ramaswamy et al. profile →
Scattering and absorbing aerosols in the climate system

2022 257 citations Jing Li, Barbara E. Carlson et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
V. Ramaswamy United States	47	6.9k	6.8k	607	510	301	140	8.1k
Jón Egill Kristjánsson Norway	37	4.6k 0.7×	4.6k 0.7×	385 0.6×	377 0.7×	151 0.5×	87	5.5k
Justus Notholt Germany	45	6.7k 1.0×	6.4k 0.9×	538 0.9×	347 0.7×	591 2.0×	265	8.2k
Frøde Stordal Norway	45	4.7k 0.7×	4.3k 0.6×	768 1.3×	224 0.4×	357 1.2×	170	6.3k
Christos Zerefos Greece	51	5.5k 0.8×	5.3k 0.8×	1.2k 1.9×	276 0.5×	955 3.2×	211	7.5k
Steven C. Sherwood Australia	49	7.5k 1.1×	8.3k 1.2×	899 1.5×	859 1.7×	711 2.4×	174	10.2k
D. Koch United States	45	6.8k 1.0×	5.8k 0.9×	1.7k 2.7×	313 0.6×	465 1.5×	79	8.4k
C. A. Hostetler United States	45	6.5k 0.9×	7.0k 1.0×	596 1.0×	801 1.6×	632 2.1×	168	8.2k
Dylan B. A. Jones Canada	43	5.8k 0.8×	5.4k 0.8×	806 1.3×	334 0.7×	454 1.5×	131	6.9k
Stefan Kinne Germany	41	10.3k 1.5×	9.8k 1.4×	1.6k 2.7×	362 0.7×	521 1.7×	87	11.3k
E. J. Highwood United Kingdom	42	5.0k 0.7×	4.9k 0.7×	825 1.4×	224 0.4×	238 0.8×	87	6.0k

Countries citing papers authored by V. Ramaswamy

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of V. Ramaswamy

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of V. Ramaswamy. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of V. Ramaswamy based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with V. Ramaswamy. V. Ramaswamy is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Dong, Wenhao, Ming Zhao, Zhihong Tan, & V. Ramaswamy. (2025). Opposing trends in winter Atmospheric River over the Western and Eastern US during the past four decades. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 8(1). 2 indexed citations

Mariotti, Annarita, David C. Bader, Susanne E. Bauer, et al.. (2024). Envisioning U.S. Climate Predictions and Projections to Meet New Challenges. Earth s Future. 12(6). 5 indexed citations

Govardhan, Gaurav, David Paynter, & V. Ramaswamy. (2023). Effective Radiative Forcing of the Internally Mixed Sulfate and Black Carbon Aerosol in the GFDL AM4 Model: The Role Played by Other Aerosol Species. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 128(23). 2 indexed citations

Paynter, David, et al.. (2023). Greenhouse Gas Forcing and Climate Feedback Signatures Identified in Hyperspectral Infrared Satellite Observations. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(24). 2 indexed citations

Li, Jing, Barbara E. Carlson, Yuk L. Yung, et al.. (2022). Scattering and absorbing aerosols in the climate system. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 3(6). 363–379. 257 indexed citations breakdown →

Freidenreich, S. M., David Paynter, Pu Lin, et al.. (2021). An Investigation Into Biases in Instantaneous Aerosol Radiative Effects Calculated by Shortwave Parameterizations in Two Earth System Models. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(11). 1 indexed citations

Paynter, David, et al.. (2021). Anthropogenic forcing and response yield observed positive trend in Earth’s energy imbalance. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4577–4577. 56 indexed citations

Ming, Yi, Norman G. Loeb, Pu Lin, et al.. (2020). Assessing the influence of COVID-19 on Earth's radiative balance. 1 indexed citations

Paynter, David, et al.. (2019). Quantifying the Drivers of the Clear Sky Greenhouse Effect, 2000–2016. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 124(21). 11354–11371. 21 indexed citations

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Lin, Pu, David Paynter, Lorenzo M. Polvani, et al.. (2017). Dependence of model‐simulated response to ozone depletion on stratospheric polar vortex climatology. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(12). 6391–6398. 22 indexed citations

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Feldman, Daniel, S. M. Freidenreich, David Paynter, et al.. (2017). A New Paradigm for Diagnosing Contributions to Model Aerosol Forcing Error. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(23). 24 indexed citations

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Previdi, Michael, Beate G. Liepert, James E. Hansen, et al.. (2011). Climate sensitivity in the Anthropocene. Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University). 2 indexed citations

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Randles, Cynthia A. & V. Ramaswamy. (2010). Impacts of absorbing biomass burning aerosol on the climate of southern Africa: a Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory GCM sensitivity study. 2 indexed citations

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Randles, Cynthia A. & V. Ramaswamy. (2010). Direct and semi-direct impacts of absorbing biomass burning aerosol on the climate of southern Africa: a Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory GCM sensitivity study. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 10(20). 9819–9831. 35 indexed citations

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Randles, Cynthia A. & V. Ramaswamy. (2007). Absorbing aerosols over Asia: A Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory general circulation model sensitivity study of model response to aerosol optical depth and aerosol absorption. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2007. 1 indexed citations

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Naïk, Vaishali, Denise L. Mauzerall, Larry W. Horowitz, et al.. (2006). The Sensitivity of Radiative Forcing from Biomass Burning Aerosols and Ozone to Emission Location. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2006. 1 indexed citations

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Stenchikov, Georgiy, Alan Robock, V. Ramaswamy, et al.. (2002). Southern Hemisphere Annular Mode Response to the 1991 Mount Pinatubo Eruption. AGUFM. 2002. 1 indexed citations

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Garrett, T. J., Lynn M. Russell, V. Ramaswamy, Steven F. Maria, & B. J. Huebert. (2002). Microphysical and Radiative Evolution of Aerosol Plumes Over the Tropical North Atlantic Ocean. AGUFM. 2002. 1 indexed citations

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Allan, Richard P., A. Slingo, & V. Ramaswamy. (2002). Analysis of moisture variability in the European Centre for Medium‐Range Weather Forecasts 15‐year reanalysis over the tropical oceans. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 107(D15). 26 indexed citations

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Chýlek, Petr, V. Ramaswamy, A. Ashkin, & J. M. Dziedzic. (1983). Simultaneous determination of refractive index and size of spherical dielectric particles from light scattering data. Applied Optics. 22(15). 2302–2302. 128 indexed citations

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