Simone Tanelli

7.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
158 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Simone Tanelli is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Simone Tanelli has authored 158 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 145 papers in Atmospheric Science, 72 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 38 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Simone Tanelli's work include Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (120 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (104 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (61 papers). Simone Tanelli is often cited by papers focused on Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (120 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (104 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (61 papers). Simone Tanelli collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and United Kingdom. Simone Tanelli's co-authors include Stephen L. Durden, E. Im, Alessandro Battaglia, Graeme L. Stephens, Tristan L’Ecuyer, John M. Haynes, Philip T. Partain, Matthew Lebsock, Pavlos Kollias and Luca Facheris and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Proceedings of the IEEE and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Simone Tanelli

153 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

CloudSat mission: Performance and early science after the... 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 250 500 750
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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.

  1. CloudSat mission: Performance and early science after the first year of operation
    2008 799 citations Graeme L. Stephens, Simone Tanelli et al. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Simone Tanelli United States 32 3.9k 2.8k 537 409 313 158 4.5k
Susanne Crewell Germany 37 3.5k 0.9× 3.1k 1.1× 461 0.9× 286 0.7× 195 0.6× 176 4.2k
Alain Protat Australia 39 4.1k 1.1× 3.7k 1.3× 376 0.7× 339 0.8× 281 0.9× 201 4.5k
Hiroshi Niino Japan 27 3.7k 1.0× 3.0k 1.1× 824 1.5× 198 0.5× 830 2.7× 109 4.5k
Johannes Schmetz Germany 30 2.8k 0.7× 2.8k 1.0× 373 0.7× 387 0.9× 360 1.2× 88 3.6k
Ralf Bennartz United States 40 4.5k 1.2× 3.7k 1.3× 397 0.7× 317 0.8× 368 1.2× 146 5.0k
James D. Spinhirne United States 41 5.2k 1.4× 5.2k 1.8× 848 1.6× 386 0.9× 213 0.7× 152 6.6k
Philippe Bougeault France 26 3.0k 0.8× 2.6k 0.9× 1.0k 1.9× 107 0.3× 376 1.2× 45 3.7k
Alexander V. Ryzhkov United States 44 5.7k 1.5× 3.0k 1.1× 1.9k 3.5× 438 1.1× 296 0.9× 93 6.2k
Jacques Pelon France 44 6.1k 1.6× 6.2k 2.2× 542 1.0× 295 0.7× 303 1.0× 194 6.9k
Ewan O’Connor Finland 34 4.4k 1.1× 4.3k 1.5× 643 1.2× 260 0.6× 141 0.5× 103 4.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Simone Tanelli

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simone Tanelli

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Simone Tanelli. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Simone Tanelli 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 Simone Tanelli. Simone Tanelli is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kollias, Pavlos, et al.. (2025). EarthCARE's cloud profiling radar antenna pointing correction using surface Doppler measurements. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 18(20). 5607–5618. 2 indexed citations
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Kirstetter, Pierre‐Emmanuel, et al.. (2023). Precipitation Microphysics in Tropical Cyclones: A Global Perspective Using the NASA Global Precipitation Measurement Mission Dual‐Frequency Precipitation Radar. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 129(1). 3 indexed citations
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Girolamo, Larry Di, Robert M. Rauber, Greg M. McFarquhar, et al.. (2022). An evaluation of the liquid cloud droplet effective radius derived from MODIS, airborne remote sensing, and in situ measurements from CAMP 2 Ex. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 22(12). 8259–8285. 17 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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Reid, Jeffrey S., Derek J. Posselt, Gao Chen, et al.. (2019). Observations and hypotheses related to low to middle free tropospheric aerosol, water vapor and altocumulus cloud layers within convective weather regimes: a SEAC 4 RS case study. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 19(17). 11413–11442. 5 indexed citations
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Tridon, Frédéric, Alessandro Battaglia, Randy J. Chase, et al.. (2019). The Microphysics of Stratiform Precipitation During OLYMPEX: Compatibility Between Triple‐Frequency Radar and Airborne In Situ Observations. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 124(15). 8764–8792. 61 indexed citations
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Peral, Eva, E. Im, Lauren Wye, et al.. (2018). Radar Technologies for Earth Remote Sensing From CubeSat Platforms. Proceedings of the IEEE. 106(3). 404–418. 74 indexed citations
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Houze, Robert A., Lynn A. McMurdie, Walter A. Petersen, et al.. (2017). The Olympic Mountains Experiment (OLYMPEX). Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 98(10). 2167–2188. 135 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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Peral, Eva, Simone Tanelli, Ziad S. Haddad, Graeme L. Stephens, & E. Im. (2014). RaInCube: a proposed constellation of precipitation profiling Radars In Cubesat. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2014. 11 indexed citations
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Williams, Christopher R., V. N. Bringi, Lawrence D. Carey, et al.. (2014). Describing the Shape of Raindrop Size Distributions Using Uncorrelated Raindrop Mass Spectrum Parameters. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 53(5). 1282–1296. 81 indexed citations
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Kuo, Kwo‐Sen, et al.. (2013). Characterizing Scattering of PSD-Integrated Aggregate Ensembles using a Comprehensive Particle Scattering Database. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 13295.
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Sadowy, G., et al.. (2013). A Cross-Track Cloud-Scanning Dual-Frequency Doppler (C2D2) Radar for the Proposed ACE Mission and Beyond. 1 indexed citations
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Braun, Scott A., Ramesh K. Kakar, Edward J. Zipser, et al.. (2012). NASA's Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) Field Experiment. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 94(3). 345–363. 92 indexed citations
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Niamsuwan, N., Simone Tanelli, Michael P. Johnson, & Joseph Jacob. (2012). Development of NASA Earth Observing System Simulator Suite (NEOS3). AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2012. 1 indexed citations
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Durden, Stephen L. & Simone Tanelli. (2011). APR-2 Tropical Cyclone Observations. 1 indexed citations
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Haynes, John M., Tristan L’Ecuyer, Graeme L. Stephens, et al.. (2009). Rainfall retrieval over the ocean with spaceborne W‐band radar. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 114(D8). 294 indexed citations
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Tanelli, Simone. (2009). Development of NASA's integrated Instrument Simulator Suite for Atmospheric Remote Sensing from. 1 indexed citations
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Kobayashi, S., Simone Tanelli, E. Im, & Toshio Iguchi. (2004). Backscattering enhancement with a finite beam width for millimeter-wavelength weather radars. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 5654. 106–113.
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Kobayashi, S., Simone Tanelli, & E. Im. (2004). Effects of Multiple Scattering for Millimeter-Wavelength Weather Radars.

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