Simone Tilmes

29.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
247 papers, 9.8k citations indexed

About

Simone Tilmes is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Simone Tilmes has authored 247 papers receiving a total of 9.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 230 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 222 papers in Atmospheric Science and 27 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Simone Tilmes's work include Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (194 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (143 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (118 papers). Simone Tilmes is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (194 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (143 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (118 papers). Simone Tilmes collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Simone Tilmes's co-authors include Jean‐François Lamarque, Ben Kravitz, Michael Mills, Douglas G. MacMartin, Douglas E. Kinnison, Francis Vitt, Jadwiga H. Richter, L. K. Emmons, Rolf Müller and Alan Robock and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Simone Tilmes

237 papers receiving 9.7k citations

Hit Papers

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  1. Global data set of biogenic VOC emissions calculated by the MEGAN model over the last 30 years
    2014 674 citations Idir Bouarar, Simone Tilmes et al. Atmospheric chemistry and physics profile →
  2. CAM-chem: description and evaluation of interactive atmospheric chemistry in the Community Earth System Model
    2012 583 citations Jean‐François Lamarque, L. K. Emmons et al. Geoscientific model development profile →
  3. Description and evaluation of a new four-mode version of the Modal Aerosol Module (MAM4) within version 5.3 of the Community Atmosphere Model
    2016 391 citations Hailong Wang, Simone Tilmes et al. Geoscientific model development profile →
  4. The Chemistry Mechanism in the Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2)
    2020 265 citations L. K. Emmons, Douglas E. Kinnison et al. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 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 Tilmes United States 52 8.0k 8.0k 1.7k 1.2k 447 247 9.8k
D. Koch United States 45 6.8k 0.8× 5.8k 0.7× 1.7k 1.0× 277 0.2× 465 1.0× 79 8.4k
Douglas E. Kinnison United States 47 9.2k 1.1× 7.3k 0.9× 1.4k 0.9× 1.9k 1.5× 379 0.8× 221 10.4k
R. J. Salawitch United States 50 7.4k 0.9× 5.4k 0.7× 921 0.5× 768 0.6× 366 0.8× 195 8.3k
J. A. Pyle United Kingdom 53 7.8k 1.0× 6.4k 0.8× 1.1k 0.6× 610 0.5× 400 0.9× 285 9.5k
Ulrike Niemeier Germany 32 3.1k 0.4× 3.1k 0.4× 584 0.3× 528 0.4× 186 0.4× 66 4.0k
Luke D. Oman United States 42 4.0k 0.5× 3.9k 0.5× 418 0.2× 540 0.4× 227 0.5× 128 5.1k
W. L. Chameides United States 45 5.6k 0.7× 4.0k 0.5× 1.9k 1.1× 488 0.4× 1.2k 2.6× 107 7.6k
Martyn P. Chipperfield United Kingdom 57 10.7k 1.3× 9.3k 1.2× 1.1k 0.6× 953 0.8× 338 0.8× 370 12.1k
Ben Kravitz United States 47 4.3k 0.5× 5.9k 0.7× 529 0.3× 1.5k 1.2× 150 0.3× 176 6.6k
Robert M. Yantosca United States 62 11.8k 1.5× 9.1k 1.1× 5.4k 3.2× 279 0.2× 1.1k 2.5× 103 14.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simone Tilmes

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Tang, Wenfu, L. K. Emmons, Christine Wiedinmyer, et al.. (2025). Disproportionately large impacts of wildland-urban interface fire emissions on global air quality and human health. Science Advances. 11(11). eadr2616–eadr2616. 10 indexed citations
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Rezaei, Abolfazl, et al.. (2025). Regional and Seasonal Hydrological Changes With and Without Stratospheric Aerosol Intervention Under High Greenhouse Gas Climates. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 130(12).
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Verjans, Vincent, Christian L. E. Franzke, Sun‐Seon Lee, et al.. (2025). Quantifying CO 2 forcing effects on lightning, wildfires, and climate interactions. Science Advances. 11(7). eadt5088–eadt5088. 2 indexed citations
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Zhang, Shipeng, Vaishali Naïk, David Paynter, Simone Tilmes, & Jasmin G. John. (2024). Assessing GFDL‐ESM4.1 Climate Responses to a Stratospheric Aerosol Injection Strategy Intended to Avoid Overshoot 2.0°C Warming. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(23). 2 indexed citations
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Tang, Wenfu, Gabriele Pfister, Rajesh Kumar, et al.. (2023). Capturing High‐Resolution Air Pollution Features Using the Multi‐Scale Infrastructure for Chemistry and Aerosols Version 0 (MUSICAv0) Global Modeling System. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 128(7). 7 indexed citations
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Lee, Walker, Daniele Visioni, Ewa Bednarz, et al.. (2023). Quantifying the Efficiency of Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering at Different Altitudes. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(14). 20 indexed citations
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Davis, Nicholas, Daniele Visioni, Rolando R. García, et al.. (2023). Climate, Variability, and Climate Sensitivity of “Middle Atmosphere” Chemistry Configurations of the Community Earth System Model Version 2, Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model Version 6 (CESM2(WACCM6)). Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 15(9). 22 indexed citations
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Jo, Duseong S., Simone Tilmes, L. K. Emmons, Siyuan Wang, & Francis Vitt. (2023). A new simplified parameterization of secondary organic aerosol in the Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2; CAM6.3). Geoscientific model development. 16(13). 3893–3906. 4 indexed citations
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Zhu, Yunqian, Charles Bardeen, Simone Tilmes, et al.. (2022). Perturbations in stratospheric aerosol evolution due to the water-rich plume of the 2022 Hunga-Tonga eruption. Communications Earth & Environment. 3(1). 64 indexed citations
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Da‐Allada, C. Y., et al.. (2022). Impact of Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering on Meteorological Droughts in West Africa. Atmosphere. 13(2). 234–234. 13 indexed citations
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Gaubert, Benjamin, Idir Bouarar, Thierno Doumbia, et al.. (2021). Global Changes in Secondary Atmospheric Pollutants During the 2020 COVID‐19 Pandemic. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(8). e2020JD034213–e2020JD034213. 69 indexed citations
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Visioni, Daniele, Douglas G. MacMartin, Ben Kravitz, et al.. (2020). Seasonally Modulated Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering Alters the Climate Outcomes. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(12). 34 indexed citations
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Fernández, Rafael P., Douglas E. Kinnison, Julie M. Nicely, et al.. (2020). Intercomparison Between Surrogate, Explicit, and Full Treatments of VSL Bromine Chemistry Within the CAM‐Chem Chemistry‐Climate Model. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(4). e2020GL091125–e2020GL091125. 14 indexed citations
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Richter, Jadwiga H., Simone Tilmes, Anne A. Glanville, et al.. (2018). Stratospheric Response in the First Geoengineering Simulation Meeting Multiple Surface Climate Objectives. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 123(11). 5762–5782. 25 indexed citations
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Navarro, M. A., Alfonso Saiz‐Lopez, Carlos A. Cuevas, et al.. (2017). Modeling the inorganic bromine partitioning in the tropical tropopause layer over the eastern and western Pacific Ocean. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 17(16). 9917–9930. 4 indexed citations
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Kravitz, Ben, Douglas G. MacMartin, Michael Mills, et al.. (2017). First Simulations of Designing Stratospheric Sulfate Aerosol Geoengineering to Meet Multiple Simultaneous Climate Objectives. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 122(23). 164 indexed citations
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Mills, Michael, Jadwiga H. Richter, Simone Tilmes, et al.. (2017). Radiative and Chemical Response to Interactive Stratospheric Sulfate Aerosols in Fully Coupled CESM1(WACCM). Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 122(23). 148 indexed citations
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Richter, Jadwiga H., Simone Tilmes, Michael Mills, et al.. (2017). Stratospheric Dynamical Response and Ozone Feedbacks in the Presence of SO2 Injections. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 122(23). 80 indexed citations
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Arnold, S. R., L. K. Emmons, S. A. Monks, et al.. (2015). Biomass burning influence on high-latitude tropospheric ozone and reactive nitrogen in summer 2008: a multi-model analysis based on POLMIP simulations. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 15(11). 6047–6068. 32 indexed citations
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Kravitz, Ben, Alan Robock, Simone Tilmes, et al.. (2015). The Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (GeoMIP6): simulation design and preliminary results. Geoscientific model development. 8(10). 3379–3392. 181 indexed citations

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