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.
[5] He has actively supported the development of supercomputing approaches that enable researchers to achieve higher resolution and greater complexity in climate models.
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.
"[10]In 2007, the contributions of many scientists, including Ramaswamy, to the IPCC was recognized by the Nobel Peace Prize.
[12] He is recognized as an NOAA Distinguished Author (1992, 1993, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2008) and has received the NOAA Administrator Award (2014)[23] He has been recognized with a number of international professorships and lectureships, including the Professor K. R. Ramanathan Distinguished Professorship, Ahmedabad, India (2004);[15] the Bert Bolin Lecturer, Stockholm University (2009);[24] and the Sir Gilbert Walker Distinguished Professorship, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India (2013-2016)[25] He was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2021.