Alumni Bibliographies

Publications by Zachary McGraw

This citation list includes papers published while the author was on staff at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. It may also include some publications before or after that period if another GISS researcher was a co-author.

Submitted / In Review

McGraw, Z., and Polvani Lorenzo M., 2025: Direct radiative impacts of stratospheric aerosols on the tropical troposphere: Clouds, precipitation, and circulation in convection-resolving and global simulations. J. Climate, submitted.

2025

McGraw, Z., and L.M. Polvani, 2025: Do climate models support claims of volcanic global catastrophes? Geophys. Res. Lett., 52, no. 18, e2025GL117611, doi:10.1029/2025GL117611.

Raiter, D., Z. McGraw, and L.M. Polvani, 2025: Non-linear and distinct responses of temperature and precipitation to volcanic eruptions with stratospheric sulfur injection from 5 to 160 Tg. Geophys. Res. Lett., 52, no. 20, e2025GL116372, doi:10.1029/2025GL116372.

2024

Hofer, S., L.C. Hahn, J.K. Shaw, Z.S. McGraw, O. Bruno, F. Hellmuth, M. Pietschnig, I.A. Mostue, R.O. David, T. Carlsen, and T. Storelvmo, 2024: Realistic representation of mixed-phase clouds increases future climate warming. Commun. Earth Environ., 5, 390, doi:10.1038/s43247-024-01524-2.

McGraw, Z., L.M. Polvani, B. Gasparini, E.K. Van De Koot, and A. Voigt, 2024: The cloud radiative response to surface warming weakens hydrological sensitivity. Geophys. Res. Lett., 52, no. 2, e2024GL112368, doi:10.1029/2024GL112368.

McGraw, Z., K. DallaSanta, L. Polvani, K. Tsigaridis, C. Orbe, and S.E. Bauer, 2024: Severe global cooling after volcanic super-eruptions? The answer hinges on unknown aerosol size. J. Climate, 37, no. 4, 1449-1464, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0116.1.

McGraw, Z., and L.M. Polvani, 2024: How volcanic aerosols globally inhibit precipitation. Geophys. Res. Lett., 51, no. 13, e2023GL107930, doi:10.1029/2023GL107930.

2023

Gettelman, A., H. Morrison, T. Eidhammer, K. Thayer-Calder, J. Sun, R. Forbes, Z. McGraw, J. Zhu, T. Storelvmo, and J. Dennis, 2023: Importance of ice nucleation and precipitation on climate with the Parameterization of Unified Microphysics Across Scales version 1 (PUMASv1). Geosci. Model Dev., 16, no. 6, 1735-1754, doi:10.5194/gmd-16-1735-2023.

McGraw, Z., T. Storelvmo, L.M. Polvani, S. Hofer, J.K. Shaw, and A. Gettelman, 2023: On the links between ice nucleation, cloud phase, and climate sensitivity in CESM2. Geophys. Res. Lett., 50, no. 17, e2023GL105053, doi:10.1029/2023GL105053.

2022

Zhu, J., B.L. Otto-Bliesner, E.C. Brady, A. Gettelman, J.T. Bacmeister, R.B. Neale, C.J. Poulsen, J.K. Shaw, Z.S. McGraw, and J.E. Kay, 2022: LGM paleoclimate constraints inform cloud parameterizations and equilibrium climate sensitivity in CESM2. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 14, no. 4, e2021MS002776, doi:10.1029/2021MS002776.

2021

Shaw, J.K., Z. McGraw, O. Bruno, T. Storelvmo, and S. Hofer, 2021: Using satellite observations to evaluate model microphysical representation of Arctic mixed-phase clouds. Geophys. Res. Lett., 49, no. 3, e2021GL096191, doi:10.1029/2021GL096191.

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