14. Yuan, T., Song, H., Kramer, R., Oreopoulos, L., Raghuraman, SP., Wood, R., & Chin, M. (2026). Aerosol effective radiative forcing increases Earth’s energy imbalance in recent decades. Nature Communications. Link.
13. Raghuraman, SP., & Medeiros, B. (2026). Cloud feedback overestimated in coupled CESM2 simulations relative to AMIP simulations and satellite observations: importance of the pattern effect and implications for climate sensitivity. Environmental Research Letters, 21(8), 084018. Link.
12. Raghuraman, SP. (2026). Radiation and climate. Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences, Elsevier. Link.
11. Paynter, D., Feng, J., Menzel, R., & Raghuraman, SP. (2025). The longwave spectral signature of the hemispheric asymmetry in global warming. Journal of Climate, 38(20), 5725-5741. Link.
10. Menemenlis, S., Vecchi, G. A., Yang, W., Fueglistaler, S., & Raghuraman, SP. (2025). Consequential differences in satellite-era sea surface temperature trends across datasets. Nature Climate Change, 15(8), 897-903. Link.
9. Raghuraman, SP., Soden, B., Clement, A., Vecchi, G., Menemenlis, S., & Yang, W. (2024). The 2023 global warming spike was driven by the El Niño–Southern Oscillation. Atmospheric chemistry and physics, 24(19), 11275-11283. Link.
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8. Raghuraman, SP., Medeiros, B., & Gettelman, A. (2024). Observational quantification of tropical high cloud changes and feedbacks. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 129, e2023JD039364. Link
7. Hodnebrog Ø, Myhre G, Jouan C, Andrews T, Forster P, Jia H, Loeb N, Olivié D, Quaas J, Paynter D, Raghuraman SP, and Schulz M. (2024). Recent reductions in aerosol emissions have increased Earth's energy imbalance. Communications Earth & Environment 5(1), 166. Link
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6. Raghuraman, SP., Paynter, D., Ramaswamy, V., Menzel, R., & Huang, X. (2023). Greenhouse gas forcing and climate feedback signatures identified in hyperspectral infrared satellite observations. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(24), e2023GL103947. Link
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5. Schmidt GA, Andrews T, Bauer SE, Durack PJ, Loeb NG, Ramaswamy V, Arnold NP, Bosilovich MG, Cole J, Horowitz LW, Johnson GC, Lyman JM, Medeiros B, Michibata T, Olonscheck D, Paynter D, Raghuraman SP, Schulz M, Takasuka D, Tallapragada V, Taylor PC and Ziehn T (2023). CERESMIP: a climate modeling protocol to investigate recent trends in the Earth’s Energy Imbalance. Frontiers in Climate, 5, 1202161. Link
4. Raghuraman, SP., Paynter, D., Menzel, R., & Ramaswamy, V. (2023). Forcing, cloud feedbacks, cloud masking, and internal variability in the cloud radiative effect satellite record. Journal of Climate, 36(12), 4151-4167. Link
3. Raghuraman, SP., Paynter, D., & Ramaswamy, V. (2021). Anthropogenic forcing and response yield observed positive trend in Earth’s energy imbalance. Nature Communications, 12(1), 4577. Link
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2. Raghuraman, SP., Paynter, D., & Ramaswamy, V. (2019). Quantifying the drivers of the clear sky greenhouse effect, 2000–2016. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124(21), 11354-11371. Link
1. Raghuraman, SP. (2017). Glacial Cycles and Milankovitch Forcing. Minnesota Journal of Undergraduate Mathematics, 2(1). Link