PhD Students

James Barkas - Urban Air Quality

Ethan Hack-Chabot - Turbulent Transport in the UBL

Asma Tufail - Urban Heat Islands across spatial and temporal scales

Rebecca Bonness - Climate/Weather Risk Analysis

Master's Students

Aya Nasri - Urban Remote Sensing for Air Quality

Angy Lara - Urban Air Pollution

Undergraduate Students

Soterios Homeneides

Jennifer Ramirez

Tahmidul Islam

James Lu

Terra Emmerich

Scott Atlixqueno

Alex Leon

PostDoc

Jordan Eissner

External Students

Jean Carlos Pena (PhD, U Albany, Urban Convection)

Marco Baldelli (Master's, Università degli Studi di Brescia, EU Energy Risks)

Ni-Meister, W., Luo, Q., Covert, J., Ramamurthy, P., & Lu, L. (2026). Urbanization controls surface energy partitioning and energy balance closure across the New York City urban-exurban gradient. Urban Climate.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2026.102982

Gamarro, H., Angevine, W. M., McDonald, B. C., Bornstein, R., Ramamurthy, P., & Moshary, F. (2026). Simulations of a high ozone episode and heatwave day using a coupled multi-layer urban canopy and chemistry model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 131, e2025JD045552.

https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JD045552

Cerquetelli, S., Pigliautile, I., Cureau, R. J., Ramamurthy, P., Bonafoni, S., & Pisello, A. L. (2026). A novel pedestrian-level approach for estimating urban storage heat flux using wearable sensing and modeling. Sustainable Cities and Society, 140, 107242. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2026.107242

Ramamurthy, P., Pena, J. C., & Sarah, L. (2025) The interaction between urban heat island intensity and sea breeze effect. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.  https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2024-0578

Jensen, M. P., Ramamurthy, P., et al. (2025, in press). Studying aerosol, clouds, and air quality in the coastal urban environment of southeastern Texas. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0331.1

Pena, J. C., Bornstein, R., Ramamurthy, P., Gamarro, H., Rahman, K., & Gonzalez, J. (2025, in press). Observations of coastal urban influences on convective precipitation over Houston, Texas. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.70034

Rahman, K., Pena, J. C., Gamarro, H., Gonzalez, J., Bornstein, R., & Ramamurthy, P. (2024). The boundary layer characteristics of coastal urban environments. Theoretical and Applied Climatology.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-024-05036-z

Xinjie, H., Bou-Zeid, E., Vanos, J., Middel, A., & Ramamurthy, P. (2025). Outdoor misting for heat mitigation: towards optimized urban blue cooling portfolio. Landscape and Urban Planning, 256, 105290.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105290

Garraway, D., Rob, S. M., Turbeville, G., Ramamurthy, P., & Gonzalez-Cruz, J. E. (2024). Improved performance of transcritical R744 gas coolers for efficient heat pumps in the northeastern US winter markets. Proceedings of the ASME 2024 18th International Conference on Energy Sustainability, ES2024.https://doi.org/10.1115/ES2024-129597

Rob, S. M., Turbeville, G., Garraway, D., Ramamurthy, P., & Gonzalez-Cruz, J. E. (2024). Experimental performance analysis of R410A heat pump system in the northeastern US winter climates. ASME Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities.

Bartsevich, M., Rahman, K., Addasi, O., & Ramamurthy, P. (2024). On the applicability of ground-based microwave radiometers for urban boundary layer research. Sensors, 24(7), 2101. https://doi.org/10.3390/s24072101

Rios, G., & Ramamurthy, P. (2023). Turbulence in the mixed layer over an urban area: a New York City case study. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 188, 419–440.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10546-023-00802-4

Pokhrel, R., Gonzalez, J., Ramamurthy, P., & Comarazamy, D. (2023). Impact of building energy mitigation measures on future climate. Atmosphere, 14(3).

https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos14030535

Garraway, D., Rob, A., Gonzalez, J., & Ramamurthy, P. (2023). Development of electrified transcritical R744 heat pump systems for northeastern winter markets. Proceedings of the ASME Energy Sustainability Conference, ES2022-90241.https://doi.org/10.1115/ES2022-90241

Rios, G., & Ramamurthy, P. (2022). A novel model to estimate sensible heat fluxes in urban areas using satellite-derived data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 270, 112880. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112880

Shreevastava, A., Prasanth, S., Ramamurthy, P., & Rao, P. S. C. (2021). Scale-dependent response of the urban heat island to the European heatwave of 2018. Environmental Research Letters, 16(10), 104021.https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac25bb

Pioppi, B., Pisello, A. L., & Ramamurthy, P. (2021). Wearable sensing techniques to understand pedestrian-level outdoor microclimate affecting heat related risk in urban parks. Solar Energy, 242, 397–412. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2021.05.076

González, J., Ramamurthy, P., Bornstein, R., Chen, F., Bou-Zeid, E., Ghandehari, M., Luvall, J., Mitra, C., & Niyogi, D. (2021). Urban climate and resiliency: a synthesis report of state of the art and future research directions. Urban Climate, 38, 100858.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2021.100858

Hrisko, J., Ramamurthy, P., Melecio-Vázquez, D., & Gonzalez, J. E. (2021). Spatiotemporal variability of heat storage in major US cities — a satellite-based analysis. Remote Sensing, 13(1), 59. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13010059

Hrisko, J., & Ramamurthy, P. (2021). Estimating heat storage in urban areas using multispectral satellite data and machine learning. Remote Sensing of Environment, 252, 112125.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112125

Hosannah, N., Ramamurthy, P., Marti, J., Munoz, J., & González, J. E. (2021). Impacts of Hurricane Maria on land and convection modification over Puerto Rico. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126, e2020JD032493.

https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD032493

Hrisko, J., Ramamurthy, P., Yu, Y., Yu, P., & Melecio-Vázquez, D. (2020). Urban air temperature model using GOES-16 LST and a diurnal regressive neural network algorithm. Remote Sensing of Environment, 237, 111495.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111495

Ortiz, L., Gonzalez, J., Ramamurthy, P., et al. (2019). High-resolution projections of extreme heat in New York City. International Journal of Climatology, 39, 4721–4735.https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.6102

Yu, M., Ramamurthy, P., et al. (2019). On the assessment of a cooling tower scheme for high-resolution numerical weather modeling for urban areas. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 58(6), 1399–1415.https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-18-0299.1

Melecio, D., Ramamurthy, P., Gonzalez, J., & Arend, M. (2018). Thermal structure of a coastal urban boundary layer. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 169, 151–161.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10546-018-0361-6

Vant-Hull, B., & Ramamurthy, P. (2018). The Harlem Heat Project: a unique media/community collaboration to study indoor heat waves. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 99, 2491–2506.https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0280.1

Mailings, C., Pozzi, M., Klima, K., Berges, M., Bou-Zeid, E., & Ramamurthy, P. (2018). Surface heat assessment for developed environments: optimizing urban temperature monitoring. Building and Environment, 141, 143–154.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2018.05.046

Olivo, Y. A., Hamidi, A., & Ramamurthy, P. (2017). Spatiotemporal variability in building energy use in New York City. Energy, 141, 1393–1401.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2017.10.057

Ramamurthy, P., & Bou-Zeid, E. (2017). Heatwaves and urban heat islands: a comparative analysis of multiple cities. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 122, 168–178.https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JD025357

Mailings, C., Pozzi, M., Klima, K., Berges, M., Bou-Zeid, E., & Ramamurthy, P. (2017). Surface heat assessment for developed environments: probabilistic urban temperature modeling. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 36, 43–64.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2017.01.002

Hosannah, N., Gonzalez, J., Rodriguez-Solis, R., Parsiani, H., Moshary, F., Aponte, L., Armstrong, R., Harmsen, E., Ramamurthy, P., Angeles, M., León, L., Ramírez, N., Niyogi, D., & Bornstein, R. (2017). The Convection, Aerosol, and Synoptic-Effects in the Tropics (CAST) experiment: building an understanding of multi-scale impacts on Caribbean weather via field campaigns. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 98, 1593–1600.https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00151.1

Ramamurthy, P., Gonzalez, J., Ortiz, L., Moshary, F., & Arend, M. (2017). Impact of heatwave on a megacity: an observational analysis of New York City during July 2016. Environmental Research Letters, 12(5), 054011.https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa6e59

Ramamurthy, P., Li, D., & Bou-Zeid, E. (2017). High-resolution simulation of heatwave events in New York City. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 128(1), 89–102.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-015-1703-8

Wang, W., Smith, J. A., Ramamurthy, P., Baeck, M. L., Bou-Zeid, E., & Scanlon, T. M. (2016). On the correlation of water vapor and CO₂: application to flux partitioning of evapotranspiration. Water Resources Research, 52, 9452–9469.

https://doi.org/10.1002/2016WR019469

Ramamurthy, P., & Sangobanwo, M. (2016). Inter-annual variability in urban heat island intensity over 10 major cities in the United States. Sustainable Cities and Society, 26, 65–75.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2016.05.012

Ramamurthy, P., Bou-Zeid, E., Sun, T., & Rule, K. (2015). Joint influence of albedo and insulation on roof performance: observations. Energy and Buildings, 93, 249–258.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2015.02.022

Ramamurthy, P., Bou-Zeid, E., Sun, T., & Rule, K. (2015). Joint influence of albedo and insulation on roof performance: modeling study. Energy and Buildings, 102, 317–327.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2015.05.030

Ramamurthy, P., & Pardyjak, E. (2015). Turbulent transport of carbon dioxide over a highly vegetated suburban neighborhood. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 157, 461–479.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10546-015-0074-x

Ramamurthy, P., & Bou-Zeid, E. (2014). Contribution of impermeable surfaces to urban evaporation. Water Resources Research, 50, 2889–2902.https://doi.org/10.1002/2013WR013909

Ramamurthy, P., Bou-Zeid, E., Smith, J., Baeck, M., Welty, C., Hom, J., & Saliendra, N. (2014). Influence of urban materials and morphology on the surface energy budget. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 53, 2114–2129.

https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-13-0400.1

Ramamurthy, P., & Pardyjak, E. (2011). Toward understanding the behavior of carbon dioxide and surface energy fluxes in the urbanized semi-arid Salt Lake Valley, Utah, USA. Atmospheric Environment, 45, 73–84.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.09.009

Ramamurthy, P., Pardyjak, E., & Klewicki, J. (2008). Observation of the effects of atmospheric stability on turbulence statistics deep within an urban street canyon. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 46, 2075–2085.

https://doi.org/10.1175/2007JAMC1722.1