L. W. Thomason

12.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
138 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

L. W. Thomason is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, L. W. Thomason has authored 138 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 123 papers in Atmospheric Science, 107 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 22 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in L. W. Thomason's work include Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (116 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (83 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (58 papers). L. W. Thomason is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (116 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (83 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (58 papers). L. W. Thomason collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. L. W. Thomason's co-authors include L. R. Poole, M. P. McCormick, Charles R. Trepte, Susan Solomon, Jean‐Paul Vernier, M. C. Pitts, J. M. Zawodny, Terry Deshler, Rolando R. García and R. W. Portmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

L. W. Thomason

130 papers receiving 6.0k citations

Hit Papers

Atmospheric effects of the Mt Pinatubo eruption 1995 2026 2005 2015 1995 2011 200 400 600
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.

  1. Atmospheric effects of the Mt Pinatubo eruption
    1995 691 citations L. W. Thomason et al. profile →
  2. The Persistently Variable “Background” Stratospheric Aerosol Layer and Global Climate Change
    2011 440 citations L. W. Thomason et al. profile →

Peers

L. W. Thomason
N. J. Livesey United States
Terry Deshler United States
M. L. Santee United States
K. R. Chan United States
L. Pfister United States
C. Barnet United States
Slimane Bekki France
Richard D. McPeters United States
G. Vaughan United Kingdom
A. R. Douglass United States
N. J. Livesey United States
L. W. Thomason
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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of L. W. Thomason

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kovilakam, Mahesh, et al.. (2025). OMPS-LP aerosol extinction coefficients and their applicability in GloSSAC. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 25(1). 535–553.
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Deshler, Terry, et al.. (2025). Spatiotemporal variations of stratospheric aerosol size between 2002 and 2005 from measurements with SAGE III/M3M. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 25(6). 3717–3736.
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Knepp, Travis N., Mahesh Kovilakam, L. W. Thomason, & Stephen J. Miller. (2024). Characterization of stratospheric particle size distribution uncertainties using SAGE II and SAGE III/ISS extinction spectra. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 17(7). 2025–2054. 9 indexed citations
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Damadeo, Robert, Viktoria Sofieva, Alexei Rozanov, & L. W. Thomason. (2024). An empirical characterization of the aerosol Ångström exponent interpolation bias using SAGE III/ISS data. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 17(12). 3669–3678. 2 indexed citations
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Kloss, Corinna, Adriana Bossolasco, L. W. Thomason, et al.. (2024). Reconsidering the Existence of a Trend in the Asian Tropopause Aerosol Layer (ATAL) From 1979 to 2017. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 129(8). 1 indexed citations
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Thomason, L. W. & Travis N. Knepp. (2023). Quantifying SAGE II (1984–2005) and SAGE III/ISS (2017–2022) observations of smoke in the stratosphere. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 23(18). 10361–10381. 2 indexed citations
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Kovilakam, Mahesh, L. W. Thomason, & Travis N. Knepp. (2023). SAGE III/ISS aerosol/cloud categorization and its impact on GloSSAC. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 16(10). 2709–2731. 7 indexed citations
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Thomason, L. W., Mahesh Kovilakam, Anja Schmidt, et al.. (2021). Evidence for the predictability of changes in the stratospheric aerosol size following volcanic eruptions of diverse magnitudes using space-based instruments. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 21(2). 1143–1158. 17 indexed citations
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Knepp, Travis N., L. W. Thomason, Mahesh Kovilakam, et al.. (2021). Identification of Smoke and Sulfuric Acid Aerosol in SAGE III/ISS Extinction Spectra Following the 2019 Raikoke Eruption. 1 indexed citations
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Knepp, Travis N., L. W. Thomason, Robert Damadeo, et al.. (2020). Evaluation of a method for converting Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE) extinction coefficients to backscatter coefficients for intercomparison with lidar observations. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 13(8). 4261–4276. 5 indexed citations
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Antuña, Juan Carlos, et al.. (2020). Shipborne lidar measurements showing the progression of the tropical reservoir of volcanic aerosol after the June 1991 Pinatubo eruption. Earth system science data. 12(4). 2843–2851. 3 indexed citations
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Flittner, D. E., et al.. (2018). Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III installed on the International Space Station (SAGE III/ISS): Overview. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 5483.
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Dhomse, Sandip, Kathryn Emmerson, G. W. Mann, et al.. (2014). Aerosol microphysics simulations of the Mt.~Pinatubo eruption with the UM-UKCA composition-climate model. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 14(20). 11221–11246. 67 indexed citations
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Damadeo, Robert, J. M. Zawodny, & L. W. Thomason. (2014). Reevaluation of stratospheric ozone trends from SAGE II data using a simultaneous temporal and spatial analysis. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 14(24). 13455–13470. 28 indexed citations
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Damadeo, Robert, et al.. (2013). SAGE version 7.0 algorithm: application to SAGE II. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 6(12). 3539–3561. 88 indexed citations
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Pyle, J. A., Theodore G. Shepherd, G. E. Bodeker, et al.. (2005). Ozone and climate: A review of interconnections. JuSER (Forschungszentrum Jülich). 8 indexed citations
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Iyer, Nalini C., et al.. (2003). Recent Advances in SAGE II Data Processing: Version 6.2. AGUFM. 2003. 1 indexed citations
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Thomason, L. W.. (2002). Remote Sensing of the Stratospheric Aerosol Background. AGUSM. 2002. 1 indexed citations
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Borucki, W. J., et al.. (1983). Lightning in the Jovian Ammonia Clouds. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 15. 831. 1 indexed citations

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