Matthew Lebsock

6.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
101 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Matthew Lebsock is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Earth-Surface Processes. According to data from OpenAlex, Matthew Lebsock has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 99 papers in Atmospheric Science, 89 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 13 papers in Earth-Surface Processes. Recurrent topics in Matthew Lebsock's work include Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (83 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (55 papers) and Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (41 papers). Matthew Lebsock is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (83 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (55 papers) and Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (41 papers). Matthew Lebsock collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Japan. Matthew Lebsock's co-authors include Graeme L. Stephens, Tristan L’Ecuyer, Kentaroh Suzuki, Simone Tanelli, Andrew Gettelman, Martin Wild, Carol Anne Clayson, Paul W. Stackhouse, Norman G. Loeb and Timothy Andrews and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Matthew Lebsock

98 papers receiving 4.3k citations

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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.

CloudSat mission: Performance and early science after the first year of operation

2008 799 citations Graeme L. Stephens, Simone Tanelli et al. profile →
An update on Earth's energy balance in light of the latest global observations

2012 671 citations Graeme L. Stephens, Carol Anne Clayson et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Matthew Lebsock United States	31	3.7k	3.4k	325	298	203	101	4.4k
Andreas Macke Germany	28	1.8k 0.5×	1.9k 0.6×	237 0.7×	139 0.5×	132 0.7×	96	2.5k
Tristan L’Ecuyer United States	52	8.6k 2.3×	7.9k 2.3×	458 1.4×	557 1.9×	349 1.7×	207	9.7k
Hiroshi Niino Japan	27	3.7k 1.0×	3.0k 0.9×	271 0.8×	830 2.8×	824 4.1×	109	4.5k
Kentaroh Suzuki Japan	29	3.2k 0.9×	3.2k 0.9×	330 1.0×	105 0.4×	145 0.7×	99	3.6k
J. F. de Haan Netherlands	28	3.1k 0.8×	3.0k 0.9×	149 0.5×	256 0.9×	302 1.5×	74	3.8k
Trude Storelvmo Norway	36	3.2k 0.9×	3.3k 1.0×	306 0.9×	119 0.4×	71 0.3×	99	3.8k
Haflidi H. Jonsson United States	44	5.4k 1.4×	4.8k 1.4×	663 2.0×	97 0.3×	465 2.3×	138	6.0k
M. J. Manton Australia	31	2.2k 0.6×	2.1k 0.6×	286 0.9×	297 1.0×	320 1.6×	139	2.8k
Johnathan W. Hair United States	29	2.6k 0.7×	2.9k 0.9×	154 0.5×	395 1.3×	347 1.7×	100	3.4k
Ben Johnson United Kingdom	32	2.9k 0.8×	2.9k 0.9×	361 1.1×	64 0.2×	144 0.7×	85	3.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Matthew Lebsock

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Matthew Lebsock

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Matthew Lebsock. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Matthew Lebsock based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Matthew Lebsock. Matthew Lebsock is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lebsock, Matthew, et al.. (2025). Vertical wind and drop size distribution retrieval with the CloudCube G-band Doppler radar. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 18(19). 5141–5155.

Teixeira, João, Jeffrey R. Piepmeier, Amin R. Nehrir, et al.. (2025). Toward a Global Planetary Boundary Layer Observing System: A Summary. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 106(8). E1566–E1579. 3 indexed citations

Millán, Luis, Matthew Lebsock, Ken B. Cooper, et al.. (2024). Water vapor measurements inside clouds and storms using a differential absorption radar. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 17(2). 539–559. 2 indexed citations

Lebsock, Matthew, et al.. (2024). A random forest algorithm for the prediction of cloud liquid water content from combined CloudSat–CALIPSO observations. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 17(11). 3583–3596. 1 indexed citations

Kurowski, Marcin J., J. Teixeira, C. O. Ao, et al.. (2023). Synthetic Observations of the Planetary Boundary Layer from Space: A Retrieval Observing System Simulation Experiment Framework. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 104(11). E1999–E2022. 4 indexed citations

Richardson, Mark, Richard Roy, & Matthew Lebsock. (2022). Satellites Suggest Rising Tropical High Cloud Altitude: 2002–2021. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(10). 9 indexed citations

Richardson, Mark, David R. Thompson, Marcin J. Kurowski, & Matthew Lebsock. (2022). New sampling strategy mitigates a solar-geometry-induced bias in sub-kilometre vapour scaling statistics derived from imaging spectroscopy. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 15(1). 117–129. 1 indexed citations

Richardson, Mark, David R. Thompson, Marcin J. Kurowski, & Matthew Lebsock. (2021). Boundary layer water vapour statistics from high-spatial-resolution spaceborne imaging spectroscopy. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 14(8). 5555–5576. 4 indexed citations

Thompson, David R., Brian H. Kahn, Philip G. Brodrick, et al.. (2021). Spectroscopic imaging of sub-kilometer spatial structure in lower-tropospheric water vapor. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 14(4). 2827–2840. 11 indexed citations

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Richardson, Mark, David R. Thompson, Marcin J. Kurowski, & Matthew Lebsock. (2021). New sampling strategy removes imaging spectroscopy solar-smearing bias in sub-km vapour scaling statistics. 1 indexed citations

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Richardson, Mark, Matthew Lebsock, James McDuffie, & Graeme L. Stephens. (2020). A new OCO-2 cloud flagging and rapid retrieval of marine boundary layer cloud properties. 1 indexed citations

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Battaglia, Alessandro, Pavlos Kollias, Ranvir Dhillon, et al.. (2020). Spaceborne Cloud and Precipitation Radars: Status, Challenges, and Ways Forward. Reviews of Geophysics. 58(3). e2019RG000686–e2019RG000686. 120 indexed citations

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Richardson, Mark, Matthew Lebsock, James McDuffie, & Graeme L. Stephens. (2020). A new Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 cloud flagging method and rapid retrieval of marine boundary layer cloud properties. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 13(9). 4947–4961. 2 indexed citations

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Richardson, Mark, et al.. (2019). Marine liquid cloud geometric thickness retrieved from OCO-2's oxygen A-band spectrometer. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 12(3). 1717–1737. 17 indexed citations

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Takahashi, Hanii, Matthew Lebsock, Mark Richardson, Roger Marchand, & Jennifer E. Kay. (2019). When Will Spaceborne Cloud Radar Detect Upward Shifts in Cloud Heights?. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 124(13). 7270–7285. 10 indexed citations

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Richardson, Mark, et al.. (2018). Liquid marine cloud geometric thickness retrieved from OCO-2's oxygen A-band spectrometer. 1 indexed citations

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Takahashi, Hanii, Matthew Lebsock, Kentaroh Suzuki, Graeme L. Stephens, & Minghuai Wang. (2017). An investigation of microphysics and subgrid‐scale variability in warm‐rain clouds using the A‐Train observations and a multiscale modeling framework. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 122(14). 7493–7504. 22 indexed citations

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Lebsock, Matthew, Tristan L’Ecuyer, & Robert Pincus. (2017). An Observational View of Relationships Between Moisture Aggregation, Cloud, and Radiative Heating Profiles. Surveys in Geophysics. 38(6). 1237–1254. 14 indexed citations

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Leinonen, Jussi, Matthew Lebsock, Simone Tanelli, et al.. (2015). Performance assessment of a triple-frequency spaceborne cloud–precipitation radar concept using a global cloud-resolving model. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 8(8). 3493–3517. 21 indexed citations

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Böening, Carmen, Matthew Lebsock, Felix W. Landerer, & Graeme L. Stephens. (2012). Snowfall-driven Mass Change in the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Publication Database GFZ (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences). 2012. 94 indexed citations

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