Venkatachalam Ramaswamy
| Venkatachalam Ramaswamy | |
|---|---|
| Born | India |
| Residence | U.S. |
| Fields | Climate change |
| Institutions | National Center for Atmospheric Research, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory |
| Alma mater | Delhi University, State University of New York at Albany |
 “Understanding Trends and Extremes in Climate”, Venkatachalam Ramaswamy, Yale University
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Venkatachalam Ramaswamy (V. "Ram" Ramaswamy) is the Director of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), studying climate modeling and climate change. "A leading climate scientist", his work is cited as supporting evidence for significant stratospheric climate change. He focuses in particular on radiative transfer models and the hydrologic cycle in the atmosphere. He has actively supported the development of supercomputing approaches that enable researchers to achieve higher resolution and greater complexity in climate models. As a lead author involved in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Ramaswamy's contributions (along with the contributions of many scientists) was recognised by the joint award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize to the IPCC.
Born in India, Venkatachalam Ramaswamy went to school in a Methodist mission high school, where he received a strong science education. He went on to earn his bachelor's degree (1975) and his master's degree (1977) in Physics, from Delhi University. Although his program focused on theoretical physics, he became interested in practical applications. For the final year of his Master's program, he did independent research, writing a dissertation on the effects of nonspherical raindrops on microwave transmission signals and telecommunications.
In 1977, Ramaswamy came to the U.S. In 1982, he received his Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from the State University of New York at Albany (SUNY-Albany), where he worked with Petr Chylek From 1983-1985, Ramaswamy held a postdoctoral position at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
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