Andrew K. Thorpe

5.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
70 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Andrew K. Thorpe is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrew K. Thorpe has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 40 papers in Atmospheric Science and 19 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Andrew K. Thorpe's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (64 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (26 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (23 papers). Andrew K. Thorpe is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (64 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (26 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (23 papers). Andrew K. Thorpe collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Spain. Andrew K. Thorpe's co-authors include Christian Frankenberg, Riley Duren, Charles E. Miller, Daniel Cusworth, Philip E. Dennison, David R. Thompson, Dar A. Roberts, Michael L. Eastwood, Robert O. Green and Brian Bue and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Andrew K. Thorpe

66 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

California’s methane super-emitters

2019 252 citations Riley Duren, Andrew K. Thorpe et al. profile →
Quantifying methane emissions from the global scale down to point sources using satellite observations of atmospheric methane

2022 186 citations Daniel J. Jacob, Daniel J. Varon et al. Atmospheric chemistry and physics profile →
US oil and gas system emissions from nearly one million aerial site measurements

2024 65 citations Daniel Cusworth, Andrew K. Thorpe et al. profile →
Quantifying methane emissions from United States landfills

2024 50 citations Daniel Cusworth, Riley Duren et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Andrew K. Thorpe United States	30	2.0k	1.3k	459	403	315	70	2.5k
Daniel J. Varon United States	21	1.7k 0.9×	1.0k 0.8×	258 0.6×	452 1.1×	175 0.6×	54	1.9k
Stephen Conley United States	25	2.1k 1.0×	1.5k 1.2×	560 1.2×	365 0.9×	214 0.7×	52	2.5k
Thomas Lauvaux United States	34	3.2k 1.6×	2.5k 2.0×	819 1.8×	218 0.5×	170 0.5×	122	3.7k
A. Karion United States	34	3.6k 1.8×	2.9k 2.3×	836 1.8×	420 1.0×	361 1.1×	74	4.4k
Thomas Nehrkorn United States	22	2.1k 1.0×	1.7k 1.4×	417 0.9×	135 0.3×	77 0.2×	71	2.5k
Maximilian Reuter Germany	29	2.3k 1.1×	1.9k 1.5×	261 0.6×	185 0.5×	217 0.7×	75	2.5k
Brian H. Stirm United States	23	1.3k 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	382 0.8×	166 0.4×	87 0.3×	41	1.7k
Jeff Peischl United States	42	2.8k 1.4×	3.7k 3.0×	857 1.9×	198 0.5×	210 0.7×	110	4.9k
Arjo Segers Netherlands	31	2.4k 1.2×	2.8k 2.2×	681 1.5×	139 0.3×	73 0.2×	110	3.6k
Scot M. Miller United States	21	1.1k 0.6×	851 0.7×	200 0.4×	159 0.4×	53 0.2×	56	1.5k

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Kuhlmann, Gerrit, Stefan Schwietzke, Daniel Zavala‐Araiza, et al.. (2025). Evidence of successful methane mitigation in one of Europe's most important oil production region. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 25(10). 5371–5385. 3 indexed citations

Brodrick, Philip G., Clayton D. Elder, David R. Thompson, et al.. (2024). Sensitivity and Uncertainty in Matched-Filter-Based Gas Detection With Imaging Spectroscopy. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 62. 1–10. 4 indexed citations

Nelson, Robert, Daniel Cusworth, Andrew K. Thorpe, et al.. (2024). Comparing Point Source CO ₂ Emission Rate Estimates From Near‐Simultaneous OCO‐3 and EMIT Observations. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(23). 3 indexed citations

Ayasse, Alana, et al.. (2023). Performance and sensitivity of column-wise and pixel-wise methane retrievals for imaging spectrometers. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 16(24). 6065–6074. 6 indexed citations

Thompson, David R., Niklas Bohn, Philip G. Brodrick, et al.. (2022). Atmospheric Lengthscales for Global VSWIR Imaging Spectroscopy. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 127(6). e2021JG006711–e2021JG006711. 9 indexed citations

Adams, C., Andrea Darlington, M. L. Smith, et al.. (2022). Comparing airborne algorithms for greenhouse gas flux measurements over the Alberta oil sands. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 15(19). 5841–5859. 9 indexed citations

Irakulis‐Loitxate, Itziar, Luis Guanter, Yinnian Liu, et al.. (2021). Satellite-based characterization of methane point sources in the Permian Basin. 1 indexed citations

Cusworth, Daniel, Riley Duren, Andrew K. Thorpe, et al.. (2021). Quantifying Global Power Plant Carbon Dioxide Emissions With Imaging Spectroscopy. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(2). 43 indexed citations

Matheou, Georgios, et al.. (2021). Remote sensing of methane plumes: instrument tradeoff analysis for detecting and quantifying local sources at global scale. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 14(12). 7999–8017. 15 indexed citations

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Elder, Clayton D., et al.. (2020). Airborne Mapping Reveals Emergent Power Law of Arctic Methane Emissions. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(3). 41 indexed citations

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Thorpe, Andrew K., Riley Duren, Brian Bue, et al.. (2020). Visualizing anthropogenic methane plumes from the California Methane Survey.

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Duren, Riley, Jorn D. Herner, D. R. Ardila, et al.. (2020). Carbon Mapper: global tracking of methane and CO 2 point-sources. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2020. 2 indexed citations

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Cusworth, Daniel, Riley Duren, Andrew K. Thorpe, et al.. (2020). Using remote sensing to detect, validate, and quantify methane emissions from California solid waste operations. Environmental Research Letters. 15(5). 54012–54012. 76 indexed citations

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Cusworth, Daniel, Riley Duren, Andrew K. Thorpe, et al.. (2020). A multi-tiered methane analytic framework for constraining budgets, point source attribution, and anomalous event detection. 1 indexed citations

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Cusworth, Daniel, Daniel Jacob, Daniel J. Varon, et al.. (2019). Potential of next-generation imaging spectrometers to detect and quantify methane point sources from space. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 12(10). 5655–5668. 85 indexed citations

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Thorpe, Andrew K., Christian Frankenberg, David R. Thompson, et al.. (2017). Airborne DOAS retrievals of methane, carbon dioxide, and water vapor concentrations at high spatial resolution: application to AVIRIS-NG. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 10(10). 3833–3850. 77 indexed citations

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Krautwurst, Sven, Konstantin Gerilowski, Haflidi H. Jonsson, et al.. (2017). Methane emissions from a Californian landfill, determined from airborne remote sensing and in situ measurements. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 10(9). 3429–3452. 40 indexed citations

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Ayasse, Alana, Andrew K. Thorpe, Dar A. Roberts, & A. D. Aubrey. (2015). Sensitivity Analysis for the Remote Sensing of Methane using the Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS). AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2015. 3 indexed citations

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Thompson, David R., Ira Leifer, H. Bovensmann, et al.. (2015). Real-time remote detection and measurement for airborne imaging spectroscopy: a case study with methane. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 8(10). 4383–4397. 122 indexed citations

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Thorpe, Andrew K., Christian Frankenberg, Dar A. Roberts, et al.. (2014). Mapping methane concentrations from a controlled release experiment using the next generation Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRISng). AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2014. 4 indexed citations

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