PNNL

Tirthankar Chakraborty (goes by TC) is a staff scientist in the Earth System Modeling group under the Atmospheric, Climate, and Earth Sciences Division of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). His broad research interest is in atmosphere-biosphere interactions, and he has worked on this topic across scales using both modeling frameworks and observations. Before joining PNNL in 2021, Chakraborty received his PhD from Yale University, where he developed a surface-energy budget perspective on aerosol-climate interactions by combining theory and global climate modeling. As a follow-up to this research, he has worked on the role of diffuse radiation and the variability of its representation across models on the terrestrial carbon, water, and energy budgets. His master's thesis was on urban climate, particularly the urban heat island effect and he has continued to work on various aspects of urban climate using satellite measurements, crowdsourced weather station data, and both process-based and machine learning models. His past contributions in this space include developing the most comprehensive global urban heat island dataset, conducting some of the first large-scale studies on urban heat disparities, examining the impact of urban humidity feedback on heat stress across scales, demonstrating key disagreements in global estimates of urban land, and isolating urban warming signals from regional to continental scales. 

Chakraborty's current work at PNNL is focused on improving urban representation in land models and examining extreme events over coastal cities, and he contributes to three multi-institutional projects, namely Coastal Observations, Mechanisms, and Predictions Across Systems and Scales - Great Lakes Modeling (COMPASS-GLM), Integrated Coastal Modeling (ICoM), and Integrated Multisector Multiscale Modeling (IM3). TC is also the PNNL institutional PI on multiple other projects funded by DOE, NASA, and NIH on topics ranging from psychologically relevant heat stress estimates to impacts of energy transition scenarios on building energy demand. 

Beyond his domain research, TC is interested in improving machine learning applications and general AI literacy among domain scientists and is involved in several internal PNNL efforts and communities to achieve this goal. TC has also been a long-term contributor to the Google Earth Engine (GEE) user community and uses the GEE cloud computing platform often for geospatial analyses. His contributions led to him being recognized as one of 26 inaugural GEE Developer Experts in the world.

Chakraborty received the U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Award in 2023 to improve urban representation in Earth system models through planetary-scale data-model integration. He also received the Ronald L. Brodzinski Award for Early Career Exceptional Achievement, a PNNL director’s award, in 2025 for his contributions to research, education, and societal impact, particularly in the context of urban effects on physical and human systems.

• Atmosphere-biosphere interactions
• Urban climate
• Impacts of aerosols on surface climate
• Satellite remote sensing of natural and built environments
• Machine learning applications in the Earth sciences
• Terrestrial carbon budget

• Satellite remote sensing
• Machine learning
• Land surface modeling
• Earth system modeling
• Urban Climatology
• Meteorological observations

• PhD in Earth & Environmental Science, Yale University
• MPh in Earth & Environmental Science, Yale University
• M.Tech in Environmental Engineering and Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
• B.Tech in Civil Engineering, West Bengal University of Technology

Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 2026 onwards

Program Chair, 18th Conference on Environment and Health, American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 2026 - 2027

Chair (elected), Early Career Committee, International Association for Urban Climate, 2026 onwards

Board member (elected), Board of Environment and Health, American Meteorological Society, 2025 onwards

Session chair, Weather-Human-Energy Dynamics in Urban Areas, American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 2026

Session chair, Environmental Health Across Scales II: Understanding and Addressing Rural and Urban Heat Impacts and Exposures, American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 2026

Session chair, Mapping and Modeling Urban Environmental Exposures and Corresponding Health Impacts, American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 2026

Session chair, Analysis and Modeling of Coastal Urban Environments, American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 2024, 2025

Session convener, Advancing Representation of Urban Processes and Dynamics in Models Across Scales, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, 2024, 2025 (primary convener)

Session convener, Urban Areas and Global Change, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, 2021, 2022, 2023 (primary convener), 2024 (primary convener), 2025

Geohealth Early Career Committee, American Geophysical Union, 2024 - present

Organizing Committee, HydroML Symposium, 2024

Session convener, Solar Radiation Modification, Clouds, Aerosols, and their Impacts on the Biosphere and Earth System, European Geophysical Union General Assembly, 2024

Session convener, Enhancing Geospatial Analysis with Google Earth Engine: Innovations, Applications, and Extensions, European Geophysical Union General Assembly, 2024

Session chair, Analysis and Modeling of Coastal Urban Environments, American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 2024

Session co-chair, Healthy Cities Under Climate Change, American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 2024

Session convener, Representing Urban Processes and Dynamics in Models Across Scales, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, 2023

Session convener, Compound Climate Hazards, Urbanization, and Public Health, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, 2023

Session convener, Integrated assessments of urban climate: Urban climate vulnerability in developing countries, 11th International Conference on Urban Climate, 2023

Member (elected), Bibliography Committee, International Association for Urban Climate, 2023 - present

Community Scientist , American Geophysical Union's Thriving Earth Exchange project on Assessing Heat Vulnerability in Olympia, WA, 2023 - 2024

Session convener, Biosphere under ozone, changing aerosols, clouds, and solar radiation modification, European Geophysical Union General Assembly, 2023

Session co-chair, Blending Artificial Intelligence with Numerical Weather and Climate Models, American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 2021

Guest editor, Special issue "Coupling between Surface and Canopy Urban Heat Islands: Implications for Heat Stress" of the journal 'Sustainability', 2020 – 2021

Proposal reviewer for Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development, NASA, NSF, and Environmental Defense Fund

Over 400 journal peer-review contributions (considering revisions), including for journals like Nature Communications, Nature Geoscience, Nature Sustainability, Nature Cities, Science Advances, One Earth, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Remote Sensing of Environment, Earth System Science Data, Sustainable Cities and Society, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Earth’s Future, AGU Advances, Journal of Climate, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Nexus, Communications Earth & Environment, Agriculture and Forest Meteorology, Urban Climate, Environmental Research Letters, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Hydrometeorology, Remote Sensing, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, npj Urban Sustainability, etc.

Co-host, Earth Engine Virtual Meetup, 2020

Member of steering committee, Yale GIS Day, 2020

Founder and co-lead, Geospatial Colloquium at Yale, 2019 - 2020

Departmental representative, Graduate Student Assembly, Yale University, 2019 - 2020

Workshop organizer and member of organizing team, Yale GIS Day, 2018 - 2019

Co-founder and co-lead, Google Earth Engine working group at Yale University, 2017 - 2019

Session co-chair, Google Earth Engine lightning talks session, Connecticut GIS Day 2017

Students' Senate representative, Departmental Post-Graduate Committee, Indian Insitute of Technology, Kanpur, 2014 - 2015

Postgraduate representative, Society of Civil Engineers, Indian Insitute of Technology, Kanpur, 2014 - 2015

• Ronald L. Brodzinski Award for Early Career Exceptional Achievement, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 2025
• Stuart L. and Nancy J. Levenick Resident Scholar in Sustainability Leadership, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2024
• Early Career Research Program Award, U.S. Department of Energy, 2023
• Multiple papers in highly cited papers list, Web of Science, since 2022
• Recognized as Google Developer Expert for Earth Engine, Google, 2022
• Outstanding poster presentation, second place, Yale Climate Day, 2021
• Esri Innovation Program Student of the Year, Yale University, 2021
• Teaching Innovation Project Grant, Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, Yale University, 2020
• Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, 2020
• YIBS Fellowship, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, 2020
• Honorable mention for excellent presentation, American Meteorological Society AI for Environmental Science Conference, 2020
• Climate Change Innovation Seed Grant, Yale Center for Business and the Environment, 2019
• Dean's Fund for Research Workshops, Seminars and Colloquia, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Yale University, 2019
• AI for Earth Azure Compute Grant and AI for Good summit attendance sponsorship, Microsoft, 2019
• ComSciCon-AIP workshop attendance funding, American Institute of Physics, 2019
• Digital Education Innovation Grant, Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, Yale University, 2019
• Outstanding Poster, Yale Climate Day, 2019
• CESM tutorial attendance funding, U.S. Department of Energy, 2018
• 5-year doctoral fellowship, Yale School of the Environment, 2016
• Academic Excellence Award, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 2014

2026

• T.A. Endreny, T. Chakraborty, J. Diez-Sierra, M. Esperon-Rodriguez, R. Grote, C.C. Holst, R. McDonald, P. Porada, N. Ruehr, C. Wang, "Beyond the Thermometer: Responsible Interpretation and Framing of Vegetation-Climate Modeling Studies", Ecosystem Services, Accepted
• Y. Cheng, L. Zhao, K.W. Oleson, T. Chakraborty, K. Zhang, C. He, J. Yang, "Importance of spatially continuous urban surface properties in urban-resolving Earth system modeling", Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Accepted
• Y. Lin, H. Zhang, T. Chakraborty, S. Wei, Y. Cao, P. Gong, Y. Zhou, "Underestimated mortality risks from compound urban heat and air pollution islands in global north cities", npj Urban Sustainability, Accepted
• Y. Zhang, L. Zhao, T. Chakraborty, P. Mazumdar, K. Zhang, P. Gentine, "Transfer learning reveals large discrepancies between air and land surface temperatures in cities", Nature Communications, 2026, doi:10.1038/s41467-026-73716-7 
• S. Lee, C. Yoo, B. Son, D. Cho, J. Im, T. Chakraborty, "Global patterns of urban heat shaped by climate and morphology", Nature Communications, 2026, doi:10.1038/s41467-026-73062-8 
• L. Chen, T. Chakraborty, J.A. Casey, C.H. Huang, T.H.K. Chen, "Heat metrics and thresholds reshape population exposure and inequality signals", Environmental Research Letters, 2026, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ae6711 
• M. Esperon-Rodriguez, R. McDonald, T. Chakraborty, "Urban trees cool the world's cities more than we thought – but we can't rely on them alone", The Conversation, 2026, doi:10.3316/informit.T2026050700002001927493466
• R.I. McDonald, T. Chakraborty, T.A. Endreny, L.A. Parsons, M. Marsagishvili, M. Esperon-Rodriguez, "Trees halve urban heat island effect globally but unequal benefits only modestly mitigate climate-change warming", Nature Communications, 2026, doi:10.1038/s41467-026-71825-x 
• Y. Liu, Y. Qian, C.M. Kaul, B.J. Gaudet, L.K. Berg, Z. Feng, A.C. Varble, S.L. Tai, Y.C. Feng, Z. Yang, T. Chakraborty, J.D. Fast, "Urban land surface effects on summertime clouds and moist convection in Houston under different synoptic conditions", Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 2026, doi:10.1029/2025JD045131 
• A.M. Abadi, K.D. Brumfield, M. Usmani, G. Jiang, T. Chakraborty, Y. Wang, Z. Zhou, C. He, M. Qiu, J. D. Stowell, D. Fritz, S. Kumar, Q. Guo, Y. Xiong, G. Destouni, Q. Xiao, X.C. Hu, K.C. Fong, Y. Hang, J. Nielsen-Gammon, R. Habre, J.R. Bratburd, C.W. Tessum, A. Jutla, R.R. Colwell, G.M. Filippelli, T.H. Nguyen, "Developing scenario‐based strategies for health, climate, and environmental preparedness: The One Health, One Earth approach", GeoHealth, 2026, doi:10.1029/2025GH001674 
• H. Li, L. Meng, H. Baroud, T. Chakraborty, J. Mao, Z. Zheng, "Will cities keep getting hotter? The interplay of urban expansion and greening reshapes future urban heat trajectories", PNAS Nexus, 2026, doi:10.1093/pnasnexus/pgag070 
• W. Hao, M. Mehra, G. Budhwani, T. Chakraborty, F. Mei, Y. Wang, "Employing Machine Learning for New Particle Formation Identification and Mechanistic Analysis: Insights From a Six-Year Observational Study in the Southern Great Plains", Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 2026, doi:10.1029/2024JD043116 

2025

• Q. Yang, R. Ye, T. Chakraborty, T. Hu, Y. Liu, "Estimation of intensity, footprint, and capacity of surface urban heat islands using a direction-enhanced adaptive synchronous extraction (DEASE) method", Remote Sensing of Environment, 2025, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2025.115118 
• K. Song, A. Hsu, T. Chakraborty, W. Peng, Y. Yu, N. Kittner, "Projected widening of sociodemographic heat disparities in the United States by end of century", One Earth, 2025, doi:10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101528 
• W. Zhan, L. Li, T. Chakraborty, L. Hu, D. Wang, W. Liao, S. Wang, H. Du, F. Huang, C. Wang, Z. Liu, M. Li, "Recent Widespread Deceleration of Global Surface Urban Heat Islands Unveiled by Satellites", Geophysical Research Letters, 2025, doi:10.1029/2024GL112711 
• H. Li, M. Wu, T. Chakraborty, A. Rutgersson, T. Tagesson, B. Xue, Z. Zheng, "Human–Earth system interactions under climate change", Environmental Research Letters, 2025, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/adda65 
• F. Montana, N. Mueller, E.P. Barboza, S. Khomenko, T. Iungman, M. Cirach, C. Daher, T. Chakraborty, K.d. Hoogh, A. Battiston, R. Schifanella, M. Nieuwenhuijsen*, "Building a Healthy Urban Design Index (HUDI): how to promote health and sustainability in European cities", The Lancet Planetary Health, 2025, doi:10.1016/S2542-5196(25)00109-3
• A. Shreevastava, G. Hulley, S. Prasanth, T. Chakraborty, D.R. Aguilera, K.T. Sanders, Y. Yin, "Contemporary income inequality outweighs historic redlining in shaping intra-urban heat disparities in Los Angeles", Nature Communications, 2025, doi:10.1038/s41467-025-59912-x 
• Y. Cheng, L. Zhao, T. Chakraborty, K. Oleson, M. Demuzere, X. Liu, Y. Che, W. Liao, Y. Zhou, X. Li, "U-Surf: A Global 1 km spatially continuous urban surface property dataset for kilometer-scale urban-resolving Earth system modeling", Earth System Science Data, 2025, doi:10.5194/essd-17-2147-2025 
• W. Zhan, H. Du, Z. Liu, J. Li, T. Chakraborty, F. Huang, "Harnessing Satellite Data Alone for Mapping Global Thermal Anisotropy", Geophysical Research Letters, 2025, doi:10.1029/2024GL113479 
• L. Goldberger, P. Jiang, T. Chakraborty, A. Geiss, X. Chen, "A Two-Step Approach to Training Earth Scientists in AI", AGU EOS, 2025, doi:10.1029/2025EO250160 
• S. Wang, W. Zhan, B. Zhou, S. Tong, T. Chakraborty, Z. Wang, K. Huang, H. Du, A. Middel, J. Li, Z. Liu, L. Li, F. Huang, M. Li, "Dual Impact of Global Urban Overheating on Mortality", Nature Climate Change, 2025, doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02303-3 
• J. Chen, B. Qiu, T. Chakraborty, X. Miao, Y. Cao, L. Li, S. Zhao, Y. Ni, X. Tian, Y. Qian, W. Guo*, "Contrasting effects of urbanization on vegetation between Global South and Global North", Nature Sustainability, 2025, doi:10.1038/s41893-025-01520-0 
• H. Huang, Y. Qian, G. Bisht, J. Wang, T. Chakraborty, D. Hao, J. Li, T. Thurber, B. Singh, Z. Yang, Y. Liu, P. Xue, W. Sacks, E. Coon, R. Hetland, "WRF-ELM v1.0: a regional climate model to study land–atmosphere interactions over heterogeneous land use regions", Geoscientific Model Development, 2025, doi:10.5194/gmd-18-1427-2025 
• W.J. Pringle, C. Huang, P. Xue, J. Wang, K. Sargsyan, M.B. Kayastha, T. Chakraborty, Z. Yang, Y. Qian, R.D. Hetland, "Coupled Lake-Atmosphere-Land Physics Uncertainties in a Great Lakes Regional Climate Model", Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 2025, doi:10.1029/2024MS004337 
• T. Chakraborty, Y. Qian, J. Li, L.R. Leung, C. Sarangi, "Daytime urban heat stress in North America reduced by irrigation", Nature Geoscience, 2025, doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01613-z 
• H. Du, W. Zhan, B. Zhou, Y. Ju, Z. Liu, A. Middel, K. Huang, L. Zhao, T. Chakraborty, Z. Wang, S. Wang, J. Li, L. Li, F. Huang, Y. Ji, X. Li, M. Li, "Exacerbated Heat Stress Induced by Urban Browning in the Global South", Nature Cities, 2025, doi:10.1038/s44284-024-00184-9 

2024

• A. Newman, C. Kalb, T. Chakraborty, A. Fitch, L. Darrow, J. Warren, M. Strickland, H. Holmes, A. Monaghan, H. Chang, "The High-resolution Urban Meteorology for Impacts Dataset (HUMID) daily for the Conterminous United States", Scientific Data, 2024, doi:10.1038/s41597-024-04086-2 
• X. Li, H. Wang, T. Chakraborty, A. Sorooshian, L.D. Ziemba, C. Voigt, K.L. Thornhill, "On the Prediction of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions Within a Data-Driven Framework", Geophysical Research Letters, 2024, doi:10.1029/2024GL110757 
• P. Namdeo, T. Chakraborty, A. Chakraborty, "Two decades of aerosol trends over India: Seasonal characteristics and urban-rural dynamics", Environmental Research Letters, 2024, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ad929 
• T. Chakraborty, Z.S. Venter, M. Demuzere, W. Zhan, J. Gao, L. Zhao, Y. Qian, "Large disagreements in estimates of urban land across scales and their implications", Nature Communications, 2024, doi:10.1038/s41467-024-52241-5 
• Z. Liu, R. Ye, Q. Yang, T. Hu, Y. Liu, T. Chakraborty, Z. Liao, "Identification of surface urban heat versus cool islands for arid cities depends on the choice of urban and rural definitions", Science of The Total Environment, 2024, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.175631 
• X. Li, G. Wang, B. Zaitchik, A. Hsu, T. Chakraborty, "Sensitivity and vulnerability to summer heat extremes in major cities of the United States", Environmental Research Letters, 2024, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ad6c64 
• Z. Yang, J. Wang, Y. Qian*, T. Chakraborty, P. Xue, W.J. Pringle, C. Huang, M.B. Kayastha, H. Huang, J. Li, R. Hetland, "Summer Convective Precipitation Changes Over the Great Lakes Region Under a Warming Scenario", Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmosphere, 2024, doi:10.1029/2024JD041011 
• Q. Yang, Y. Xu, T. Chakraborty, M. Du, T. Hu, L. Zhang, Y. Liu, R. Yao, J. Yang, S. Chen, C. Xiao, R. Liu, M. Zhang, R. Chen, "A global urban heat island intensity dataset: Generation, comparison, and analysis", Remote Sensing of Environment, 2024, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2024.114343 
• T. Iungman, S. Khomenko, E.P. Barboza, M. Cirach, K. Gonçalves, P. Petrone, T. Erbertseder, H. Taubenböck, T. Chakraborty, M. Nieuwenhuijsen, "The impact of urban configuration types on urban heat islands, air pollution, CO₂ emissions, and mortality in Europe: a data science approach", Lancet Planetary Health, 2024, doi:10.1016/S2542-5196(24)00120-7 
• M. Kayastha, C. Huang, J. Wang, Y. Qian, Z. Yang, T. Chakraborty, W.J. Pringle, R.D. Hetland, P. Xue, "How Could Future Climate Conditions Reshape a Devastating Lake‐Effect Snow Storm?", Earth's Future, 2024, doi:10.1029/2024EF004622 
• T. Chakraborty, Y. Qian, "Urbanization exacerbates continental- to regional-scale warming", One Earth, 2024, doi:10.1016/j.oneear.2024.05.005
• R. McDonald, T. Biswas, T. Chakraborty, T. Kroeger, S. Cook-Patton, J. Fargione, "Current inequality and future potential of US urban tree canopy cover for reducing heat-related mortality, morbidity and electricity consumption", npj Urban Sustainability, 2024, doi:10.1038/s42949-024-00150-3 
• M. Du, N. Li, T. Hu, Q. Yang, T. Chakraborty, Z. Venter, R. Yao, "Daytime cooling efficiencies of urban trees derived from land surface temperature are much higher than those for air temperature", Environmental Research Letters, 2024, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ad30a3 
• J. Chen, Y. Qian, T. Chakraborty, Z. Yang, "Complexities of urban impacts on long-term seasonal trends in a mid-sized arid city", Environmental Research Communications, 2024, doi:10.1088/2515-7620/ad2b18 
• Q. Yang, Y. Xu, D. Wen, T. Hu, T. Chakraborty, Y. Liu, R. Yao, S. Chen, C. Xiao, J. Yang, "Satellite Clear-Sky Observations Overestimate Surface Urban Heat Islands in Humid Cities", Geophysical Research Letters, 2024, doi:10.1029/2023GL106995 

2023

• T. Chakraborty, J. Wang, Y. Qian, W. Pringle, Z. Yang, P. Xue, "Urban versus lake impacts on heat stress and its disparities in a shoreline city", Geohealth, 2023, doi:10.1029/2023GH000869 
• Q. Yang, Y. Xu, X. Tong, T. Hu, Y. Liu, T. Chakraborty, R. Yao, C. Xiao, S. Chen, Z. Ma, "Influence of urban extent discrepancy on the estimation of surface urban heat island intensity: A global-scale assessment in 892 cities", Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023, doi:doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.139032
• Q. Yang, Y. Xu, X. Tong, X. Huang, Y. Liu, T. Chakraborty, C. Xiao, T. Hu, "An adaptive synchronous extraction (ASE) method for estimating intensity and footprint of surface urban heat islands: A case study of 254 North American cities", Remote Sensing of Environment, 2023, doi:doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2023.113777 
• X. Wang, A. Hsu, T. Chakraborty, "Citizen and Machine Learning-aided high-resolution mapping of urban heat exposure and stress", Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability, 2023, doi:doi.org/10.1088/2634-4505/acef57 
• H. Du, W. Zhan, J. Voogt, B. Bechtel, T. Chakraborty, Z. Liu, L. Hu, Z. Wang, J. Li, P. Fu, W. Liao, M. Luo, L. Li, S. Wang, F. Huang, S. Miao, "Contrasting Trends and Drivers of Global Surface and Canopy Urban Heat Islands", Geophysical Research Letters, 2023, doi:doi.org/10.1029/2023GL104661 
• X. Li, T. Chakraborty, G. Wang, "Comparing land surface temperature and mean radiant temperature for urban heat mapping in Philadelphia", Urban Climate, 2023, doi:doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2023.101615 
• M. Crowley, M. Stuhlmacher, E.D. Trochim, J.V.D. Hoek, V.J. Pasquarella, S.H. Szeto, J.T. Howarth, R. Platt, S. Roy, B. Tellman, T. Chakraborty, A. Ignatius, E. Cherrington, K. Markert, Q. Wu, M.D. Madhusudan, T. Mayer, J.A. Cardille, T. Erickson, R. Moore, N.E. Clinton, D. Saah, "Pillars of Cloud-Based Earth Observation Science Education", AGU Advances, 2023, doi:doi.org/10.1029/2023AV000894 
• P. Jiang, Z. Yang, J. Wang, C. Huang, P. Xue, T. Chakraborty, X. Chen, Y. Qian, "Efficient Super-Resolution of Near-Surface Climate Modeling Using the Fourier Neural Operator", Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 2023, doi:doi.org/10.1029/2023MS003800 
• M. Kayastha, C. Huang, J. Wang, W.J. Pringle, T. Chakraborty, Z. Yang, R.D. Hetland, Y. Qian, P. Xue, "Insights on Simulating Summer Warming of the Great Lakes: Understanding the Behavior of a Newly Developed Coupled Lake-Atmosphere Modeling System", Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 2023, doi:doi.org/10.1029/2023MS003620 
• H. Du, W. Zhan, Z. Liu, E.S. Krayenhoff, T. Chakraborty, L. Zhao, L. Jiang, P. Dong, L. Li, F. Huang, S. Wang, Y. Xu, "Global mapping of urban thermal anisotropy reveals substantial potential biases for remotely sensed urban climates", Science Bulletin, 2023, doi:doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2023.06.032 
• T. Chakraborty, A. Newman, Y. Qian, A. Hsu, G. Sheriff, "Residential segregation and outdoor urban moist heat stress disparities in the United States", One Earth, 2023, doi:doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.05.016 
• J. Li, W. Zhan, T. Chakraborty, Z. Liu, H. Du, W. Liao, M. Luo, L. Li, S. Miao, H. Fu, S. Wang, F. Huang, M. Li, "Satellite-based Ranking of the World’s Hottest and Coldest Cities Reveals Inequitable Distribution of Temperature Extremes", Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2023, doi:doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0233.1 
• L. Li, W. Zhan, L. Hu, T. Chakraborty, Z. Wang, P. Fu, D. Wang, W. Liao, F. Huang, H. Fu, J. Li, Z. Liu, H. Du, S. Wang, "Divergent urbanization-induced impacts on global surface urban heat island trends since 1980s", Remote Sensing of Environment, 2023, doi:doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2023.113650 
• Z. Yang, Y. Qian, P. Xue, J. Wang, T. Chakraborty, W. Pringle, J. Li, "Moisture Sources of Precipitation in the Great Lakes Region: Climatology and Recent Changes", Geophysical Research Letters, 2023, doi:doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100682 
• J. Wang, Y. Qian, W. Pringle, T. Chakraborty, R. Hetland, Z. Yang, P. Xue, "Contrasting effects of lake breeze and urbanization on heat stress in Chicago metropolitan area", Urban Climate, 2023, doi:doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2023.101429 
• H. Tan, R. Kotamarthi, J. Wang, Y. Qian, T. Chakraborty, "Impact of different roofing mitigation strategies on near-surface temperature and energy consumption over the Chicago metropolitan area during a heatwave event", Science of the Total Environment, 2022, doi:doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160508

2022

• Botje D., A. Dewan, and T. Chakraborty. 2022. "Comparing coarse-resolution land surface temperature products over Western Australia." Remote Sensing 14, no. 10:Art. No. 2296. PNNL-SA-172774. doi:10.3390/rs14102296
• Chakraborty T., X. Lee, and D.M. Lawrence. 2022. "Diffuse Radiation Forcing Constraints on Gross Primary Productivity and Global Terrestrial Evapotranspiration." Earth's Future 10, no. 8:Art. No. e2022EF002805. PNNL-SA-169503. doi:10.1029/2022EF002805
• Chakraborty T., Z. Venter, Y. Qian, and X. Lee. 2022. "Lower Urban Humidity Moderates Outdoor Heat Stress." AGU Advances 3, no. 5:Art. No. e2022AV000729. PNNL-SA-167533. doi:10.1029/2022AV000729
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