R. G. Grainger

8.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
140 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

R. G. Grainger is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, R. G. Grainger has authored 140 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 128 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 125 papers in Atmospheric Science and 7 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in R. G. Grainger's work include Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (96 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (90 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (78 papers). R. G. Grainger is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (96 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (90 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (78 papers). R. G. Grainger collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. R. G. Grainger's co-authors include G. E. Thomas, A. Lambert, A. Dudhia, Elisa Carboni, A. M. Sayer, David S. Stevenson, Veronika Eyring, Ivar S. A. Isaksen, James J. Corbett and Terje K. Berntsen and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

R. G. Grainger

135 papers receiving 4.2k citations

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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.

Transport impacts on atmosphere and climate: Shipping

2009 706 citations R. G. Grainger et al. profile →
Retrieval and global assessment of terrestrial chlorophyll fluorescence from GOSAT space measurements

2012 447 citations A. Dudhia, R. G. Grainger et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
R. G. Grainger United Kingdom	33	3.4k	3.3k	781	421	384	140	4.5k
James A. Coakley United States	40	7.0k 2.1×	6.7k 2.1×	454 0.6×	197 0.5×	136 0.4×	106	8.8k
Hans Schlager Germany	47	6.0k 1.8×	4.9k 1.5×	1.2k 1.5×	45 0.1×	1.4k 3.6×	228	7.5k
Hartmut Graßl Germany	33	2.3k 0.7×	2.5k 0.8×	478 0.6×	314 0.7×	52 0.1×	127	4.1k
P. Fabian Germany	30	2.0k 0.6×	1.5k 0.5×	295 0.4×	60 0.1×	111 0.3×	139	2.7k
Johannes W. Kaiser Germany	36	3.9k 1.1×	4.3k 1.3×	313 0.4×	343 0.8×	77 0.2×	111	5.3k
Graciela B. Raga Mexico	28	3.5k 1.0×	3.3k 1.0×	445 0.6×	90 0.2×	110 0.3×	142	4.3k
Chuanfeng Zhao China	49	5.7k 1.7×	5.3k 1.6×	1.4k 1.8×	151 0.4×	228 0.6×	218	7.1k
Kuo‐Nan Liou United States	42	5.4k 1.6×	5.4k 1.6×	543 0.7×	142 0.3×	147 0.4×	145	6.7k
Helene Muri Norway	27	1.2k 0.4×	1.8k 0.5×	158 0.2×	78 0.2×	50 0.1×	64	2.1k
Simon Carn United States	46	4.4k 1.3×	3.7k 1.1×	473 0.6×	128 0.3×	51 0.1×	160	6.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of R. G. Grainger

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Prata, Fred, Andrew T. Prata, Robert D. Tanner, et al.. (2025). The radial spreading of volcanic umbrella clouds deduced from satellite measurements. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8(1). 1–29. 1 indexed citations

Lau, S.S., R. G. Grainger, & Isabelle A. Taylor. (2024). Characterizing Volcanic Ash Density and Its Implications on Settling Dynamics. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 129(2). 3 indexed citations

Mather, Tamsin A., et al.. (2023). Quantification of gas, ash, and sulphate aerosols in volcanic plumes from open path Fourier transform infrared (OP-FTIR) emission measurements at Stromboli volcano, Italy. Frontiers in Earth Science. 10. 2 indexed citations

Taylor, Isabelle A., R. G. Grainger, Andrew T. Prata, et al.. (2023). A satellite chronology of plumes from the April 2021 eruption of La Soufrière, St Vincent. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 23(24). 15209–15234. 3 indexed citations

Aubry, Thomas J., Samantha Engwell, Costanza Bonadonna, et al.. (2023). New Insights Into the Relationship Between Mass Eruption Rate and Volcanic Column Height Based On the IVESPA Data Set. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(14). 15 indexed citations

Jenkins, Stuart, Chris Smith, Myles Allen, & R. G. Grainger. (2023). Tonga eruption increases chance of temporary surface temperature anomaly above 1.5 °C. Nature Climate Change. 13(2). 127–129. 45 indexed citations

Koukouli, Maria-Elissavet, Pascal Hedelt, Isabelle A. Taylor, et al.. (2022). Volcanic SO ₂ layer height by TROPOMI/S5P: evaluation against IASI/MetOp and CALIOP/CALIPSO observations. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 22(8). 5665–5683. 10 indexed citations

Prata, Andrew T., R. G. Grainger, Isabelle A. Taylor, et al.. (2022). Uncertainty-bounded estimates of ash cloud properties using the ORAC algorithm: application to the 2019 Raikoke eruption. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 15(20). 5985–6010. 15 indexed citations

Leeuw, Johannes de, Anja Schmidt, Claire Witham, et al.. (2021). The 2019 Raikoke volcanic eruption – Part 1: Dispersion model simulations and satellite retrievals of volcanic sulfur dioxide. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 21(14). 10851–10879. 44 indexed citations

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Hedelt, Pascal, Maria-Elissavet Koukouli, Isabelle A. Taylor, et al.. (2020). Extremely fast retrieval of volcanic SO2 layer heights from UV satellite data using inverse learning machines. 1 indexed citations

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Harvey, Natalie J., Helen Dacre, Helen Webster, et al.. (2020). The Impact of Ensemble Meteorology on Inverse Modeling Estimates of Volcano Emissions and Ash Dispersion Forecasts: Grímsvötn 2011. Atmosphere. 11(10). 1022–1022. 16 indexed citations

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Taylor, Isabelle A., Elisa Carboni, Lucy J. Ventress, Tamsin A. Mather, & R. G. Grainger. (2019). An adaptation of the CO ₂ slicing technique for the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer to obtain the height of tropospheric volcanic ash clouds. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 12(7). 3853–3883. 10 indexed citations

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Taylor, Isabelle A., Elisa Carboni, Tamsin A. Mather, et al.. (2018). Exploring the Utility of IASI for Monitoring Volcanic SO₂ Emissions. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 123(10). 5588–5606. 12 indexed citations

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Corradini, Stefano, Mario Montopoli, Lorenzo Guerrieri, et al.. (2016). A Multi-Sensor Approach for Volcanic Ash Cloud Retrieval and Eruption Characterization: The 23 November 2013 Etna Lava Fountain. Remote Sensing. 8(1). 58–58. 65 indexed citations

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Hayer, Catherine, Elisa Carboni, Lucy J. Ventress, Adam C. Povey, & R. G. Grainger. (2016). Satellite observations of the volcanic plume from the 23rd April 2015 eruption of Calbuco volcano. EGUGA. 1 indexed citations

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Carboni, Elisa, R. G. Grainger, Tamsin A. Mather, et al.. (2015). The vertical distribution of volcanic SO2 plumes measured by IASI. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 11365. 1 indexed citations

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Carboni, Elisa, A. Dudhia, & R. G. Grainger. (2009). Satellite remote sensing of So2 volcanic emission using GOME-2 and IASI data: sensitivity analysis.. EGUGA. 10685. 1 indexed citations

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Poulsen, Caroline, et al.. (2005). Cloud Parameter Retrievals from ATSR-2. ESASP. 597. 245–252. 1 indexed citations

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Grainger, R. G., et al.. (2003). SPARCLE - A new instrument for aerosol measurement. EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly. 7599. 1 indexed citations

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Bradley, Stuart, R. G. Grainger, & C. D. Stow. (1991). Some satellite‐derived cloud statistics for the New Zealand region. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 34(4). 543–548. 4 indexed citations

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