Publications

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In review

21. Li, R., Plaas, H. E., Zhang, Y., Chen, Y., Zhang, T., Yang, Y., Rathod, S. D.,et al. (2025). Residential burning is a significant source of soluble iron to the ocean. In review at EGUsphere, 1–52. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4058

Published

20. Sagar Rathod, Daniel J. Vimont, Jack Zweifel, Salil Mahajan, Simone Tilmes, Xiaohong Liu, Wei-Yi Wang, David Henderson, and Tristan L'Ecuyer. Impact of U.S. SO2 emission reductions between 1970 and 2010 on seasonal sulfate aerosol burden and radiative forcing over the North Atlantic. Accepted in Geophysical Research Letters (preprint available upon request)

19. Bergas-Masso, E., Hamilton, D. S., Myriokefalitakis, S., Rathod, S., Gonçalves Ageitos, M., & Pérez García-Pando, C. (2025). Future climate-driven fires may boost ocean productivity in the iron-limited North Atlantic. Nature Climate Change, 1-9.

18. Rathod, S. D., & Hamilton, D. S. (2025). A global emission inventory of particulate phosphorus from fertilizer production and handling. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 39(7), e2025GB008555. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GB008555

17. Rathod, S. D.; Hamilton, D. S.; Nino, L.; Kreidenweis, S. M.; Bian, Q.; Mahowald, N. M.; Alastuey, A.; Querol, X.; Paytan, A.; Artaxo, P.; Herut, B.; Gaston, C.; Prospero, J.; Chellam, S.; Hueglin, C.; Varrica, D.; Dongarra, G.; Cohen, D. D.; Smichowski, P.; Gomez, D.; Lambert, F.; Barraza, F.; Bergametti, G.; Rodríguez, S.; Gonzalez-Ramos, Y.; Hand, J.; Kyllönen, K.; Hakola, H.; Chuang, P.; Hopke, P. K.; Harrison, R. M.; Martin, R. V.; Walsh, B.; Weagle, C.; Maenhaut, W.; Morera-Gómez, Y.; Chen, Y.-C.; Pierce, J. R.; Bond, T. C. Constraining Present-Day Anthropogenic Total Iron Emissions Using Model and Observations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 2024, 129 (17), e2023JD040332. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD040332.

16. Lu, L.; Li, L.; Rathod, S.; Hess, P.; Martínez, C.; Fernandez, N.; Goodale, C.; Thies, J.; Wong, M. Y.; Alaimo, M. G.; Artaxo, P.; Barraza, F.; Barreto, A.; Beddows, D.; Chellam, S.; Chen, Y.; Chuang, P.; Cohen, D. D.; Dongarrà, G.; Gaston, C.; Gómez, D.; Morera-Gómez, Y.; Hakola, H.; Hand, J.; Harrison, R.; Hopke, P.; Hueglin, C.; Kuang, Y.-W.; Kyllönen, K.; Lambert, F.; Maenhaut, W.; Martin, R.; Paytan, A.; Prospero, J.; González, Y.; Rodriguez, S.; Smichowski, P.; Varrica, D.; Walsh, B.; Weagle, C.; Xiao, Y.-H.; Mahowald, N. Characterizing the Atmospheric Mn Cycle and Its Impact on Terrestrial Biogeochemistry. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 2024, 38 (4), e2023GB007967. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GB007967.

15. Liu, M.; Matsui, H.; Hamilton, D.; Rathod, S.; Lamb, K.; Mahowald, N. Representation of Iron Aerosol Size Distributions Is Critical in Evaluating Atmospheric Soluble Iron Input to the Ocean. EGUsphere 2024, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-1454.

14. Edwards, M. R.; Thomas, Z. H.; Nemet, G. F.; Rathod, S.; Greene, J.; Surana, K.; Kennedy, K. M.; Fuhrman, J.; McJeon, H. C. Modeling Direct Air Carbon Capture and Storage in a 1.5 °C Climate Future Using Historical Analogs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2024, 121 (20), e2215679121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2215679121.

13. Edwards, M. R.; Surana, K.; Rathod, S.; Biswas, N.; Bindl, M. Costs and Key Leverage Points for Atmospheric Methane Removal Technologies. NAP 2024.

12. Roy, C.; Ravishankara, A. R.; Newman, P. A.; David, L. M.; Fadnavis, S.; Rathod, S. D.; Lait, L.; Krishnan, R.; Clark, H.; Sauvage, B. Estimation of Stratospheric Intrusions During Indian Cyclones. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 2023, 128 (3), e2022JD037519. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD037519.

11. Roy, C.; Rathod, S. D.; Ayantika, D. C. NOx-Induced Changes in Upper Tropospheric O3 During the Asian Summer Monsoon in Present-Day and Future Climate. Geophysical Research Letters 2023, 50 (3), e2022GL101439. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL101439.

10. Rathod, S.; Edwards, M. R.; Roy, C.; Warnecke, L.; Rafaj, P.; Kiesewetter, G.; Klimont, Z. Air Quality and Health Effects of a Transition to Ammonia–Fueled Shipping in Singapore. Environ. Res.: Health 2023, 1 (4), 041002. https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-5309/acfb2e.

9. Rathod, S. D.; Bond, T. C.; Klimont, Z.; Pierce, J. R.; Mahowald, N.; Roy, C.; Thompson, J.; Scott, R. P.; Hoal, K. O.; Rafaj, P. Future PM2.5 Emissions from Metal Production to Meet Renewable Energy Demand. Environ. Res. Lett. 2022, 17 (4), 044043. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac5d9c.

8. Rathod, S. D.; Hamilton, D. S.; Li, L.; Mahowald, N. M.; Matsui, H.; Pierce, J. R.; Bond, T. C. Atmospheric Radiative and Oceanic Biological Productivity Responses to Increasing Anthropogenic Combustion-Iron Emission in the 1850–2010 Period. Geophysical Research Letters 2022, 49 (16), e2022GL099323. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL099323.

7. Liu, M.; Matsui, H.; Hamilton, D. S.; Lamb, K. D.; Rathod, S. D.; Schwarz, J. P.; Mahowald, N. M. The Underappreciated Role of Anthropogenic Sources in Atmospheric Soluble Iron Flux to the Southern Ocean. npj Clim Atmos Sci 2022, 5 (1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-022-00250-w.

6. Hamilton, D. S.; Perron, M. M. G.; Bond, T. C.; Bowie, A. R.; Buchholz, R. R.; Guieu, C.; Ito, A.; Maenhaut, W.; Myriokefalitakis, S.; Olgun, N.; Rathod, S. D.; Schepanski, K.; Tagliabue, A.; Wagner, R.; Mahowald, N. M. Earth, Wind, Fire, and Pollution: Aerosol Nutrient Sources and Impacts on Ocean Biogeochemistry. Annual Review of Marine Science 2022, 14 (Volume 14, 2022), 303–330. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-marine-031921-013612.

5. Wong, M. Y.; Rathod, S. D.; Marino, R.; Li, L.; Howarth, R. W.; Alastuey, A.; Alaimo, M. G.; Barraza, F.; Carneiro, M. C.; Chellam, S.; Chen, Y.-C.; Cohen, D. D.; Connelly, D.; Dongarra, G.; Gómez, D.; Hand, J.; Harrison, R. M.; Hopke, P. K.; Hueglin, C.; Kuang, Y.; Lambert, F.; Liang, J.; Losno, R.; Maenhaut, W.; Milando, C.; Monteiro, M. I. C.; Morera-Gómez, Y.; Querol, X.; Rodríguez, S.; Smichowski, P.; Varrica, D.; Xiao, Y.; Xu, Y.; Mahowald, N. M. Anthropogenic Perturbations to the Atmospheric Molybdenum Cycle. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 2021, 35 (2), e2020GB006787. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GB006787.

4. Rathod, S. D.; Hamilton, D. S.; Mahowald, N. M.; Klimont, Z.; Corbett, J. J.; Bond, T. C. A Mineralogy-Based Anthropogenic Combustion-Iron Emission Inventory. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 2020, 125 (17), e2019JD032114. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JD032114.

3. Hamilton, D. S.; Scanza, R. A.; Rathod, S. D.; Bond, T. C.; Kok, J. F.; Li, L.; Matsui, H.; Mahowald, N. M. Recent (1980 to 2015) Trends and Variability in Daily-to-Interannual Soluble Iron Deposition from Dust, Fire, and Anthropogenic Sources. Geophysical Research Letters 2020, 47 (17), e2020GL089688. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL089688.

2. Hamilton, D. S.; Moore, J. K.; Arneth, A.; Bond, T. C.; Carslaw, K. S.; Hantson, S.; Ito, A.; Kaplan, J. O.; Lindsay, K.; Nieradzik, L.; Rathod, S. D.; Scanza, R. A.; Mahowald, N. M. Impact of Changes to the Atmospheric Soluble Iron Deposition Flux on Ocean Biogeochemical Cycles in the Anthropocene. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 2020, 34 (3), e2019GB006448. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GB006448.

1. Hamilton, D. S.; Scanza, R. A.; Feng, Y.; Guinness, J.; Kok, J. F.; Li, L.; Liu, X.; Rathod, S. D.; Wan, J. S.; Wu, M.; Mahowald, N. M. Improved Methodologies for Earth System Modelling of Atmospheric Soluble Iron and Observation Comparisons Using the Mechanism of Intermediate Complexity for Modelling Iron (MIMI v1.0). Geoscientific Model Development 2019, 12 (9), 3835–3862. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-3835-2019.