Thomas Dowling

819 total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 491 citations indexed

About

Thomas Dowling is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Dowling has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 491 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Atmospheric Science, 9 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 6 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Thomas Dowling's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (8 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (7 papers) and Landslides and related hazards (7 papers). Thomas Dowling is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (8 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (7 papers) and Landslides and related hazards (7 papers). Thomas Dowling collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Sweden and United States. Thomas Dowling's co-authors include Per Möller, Matteo Spagnolo, Giulia Tagliabue, Cinzia Panigada, Roberto Colombo, Lorenzo Genesio, Sergio Pérez-López, Daniel Scheffler, Alexander Damm and Uwe Rascher and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Remote Sensing of Environment and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Dowling

23 papers receiving 484 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.

The PRISMA imaging spectroscopy mission: overview and first performance analysis

2021 206 citations Sergio Cogliati, Francesco Sarti et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Dowling United Kingdom	12	252	126	114	87	81	24	491
Hyangsun Han South Korea	14	502 2.0×	48 0.4×	150 1.3×	175 2.0×	117 1.4×	63	708
Pankaj R. Dhote India	14	161 0.6×	80 0.6×	58 0.5×	259 3.0×	116 1.4×	42	474
Nicoleta Cristea United States	17	470 1.9×	94 0.7×	131 1.1×	407 4.7×	149 1.8×	28	850
Maria Teresa Melis Italy	12	71 0.3×	133 1.1×	71 0.6×	109 1.3×	93 1.1×	56	422
Roberto Garzonio Italy	12	454 1.8×	66 0.5×	170 1.5×	213 2.4×	101 1.2×	29	648
Kristof Van Tricht Belgium	14	995 3.9×	119 0.9×	243 2.1×	613 7.0×	140 1.7×	21	1.3k
Xingwen Lin China	14	205 0.8×	19 0.2×	169 1.5×	259 3.0×	247 3.0×	57	597
Ashwagosha Ganju India	17	919 3.6×	302 2.4×	48 0.4×	411 4.7×	107 1.3×	67	1.1k
V. V. Salomonson United States	8	849 3.4×	57 0.5×	162 1.4×	335 3.9×	186 2.3×	33	1.1k
Liao Yang China	9	72 0.3×	38 0.3×	107 0.9×	191 2.2×	73 0.9×	21	397

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Dowling

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Verhoelst, Tijl, Adam C. Povey, Nick Schutgens, et al.. (2025). The Challenges and Limitations of Validating Satellite-Derived Datasets Using Independent Measurements: Lessons Learned from Essential Climate Variables. Surveys in Geophysics. 2 indexed citations

Napper, Imogen E., Richard C. Thompson, J. Bentley, et al.. (2025). A sustainable development goal for space: Applying lessons from marine debris to manage space debris. One Earth. 8(2). 101168–101168. 1 indexed citations

Dowling, Thomas, et al.. (2024). Sustainability within Aotearoa New Zealand's aerospace sector: current state and implications for the future. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 55(6). 1663–1682. 1 indexed citations

Atkinson, Philip W., et al.. (2024). Protected areas, drought, and grazing regimes influence fire occurrence in a fire-prone Mediterranean region. Fire Ecology. 20(1). 5 indexed citations

Atkinson, Philip W., et al.. (2023). Landscape fires disproportionally affect high conservation value temperate peatlands, meadows, and deciduous forests, but only under low moisture conditions. The Science of The Total Environment. 884. 163849–163849. 12 indexed citations

Dowling, Thomas, Sofia L. Ermida, Martin J. Wooster, et al.. (2022). A new East African satellite data validation station: Performance of the LSA-SAF all-weather land surface temperature product over a savannah biome. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 187. 240–258. 4 indexed citations

Möller, Per, Svante Björck, Thomas Dowling, et al.. (2022). Deglaciation history and subsequent lake dynamics in the Siljan region, south‐central Sweden, based on new LiDAR evidence and sediment records. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 47(15). 3515–3545.

Chudley, Thomas R., Poul Christoffersen, Samuel Doyle, et al.. (2021). Controls on Water Storage and Drainage in Crevasses on the Greenland Ice Sheet. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 126(9). 21 indexed citations

Merbold, Lutz, et al.. (2021). Nitrogen cycling in pastoral livestock systems in Sub‐Saharan Africa: knowns and unknowns. Ecological Applications. 31(6). e02368–e02368. 11 indexed citations

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Dowling, Thomas, Peilin Song, Mark de Jong, et al.. (2021). An Improved Cloud Gap-Filling Method for Longwave Infrared Land Surface Temperatures through Introducing Passive Microwave Techniques. Remote Sensing. 13(17). 3522–3522. 8 indexed citations

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Cogliati, Sergio, Francesco Sarti, Leandro Chiarantini, et al.. (2021). The PRISMA imaging spectroscopy mission: overview and first performance analysis. Remote Sensing of Environment. 262. 112499–112499. 206 indexed citations breakdown →

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Panigada, Cinzia, Rodolfo Gentili, Giulia Tagliabue, et al.. (2021). UAV RGB, thermal infrared and multispectral imagery used to investigate the control of terrain on the spatial distribution of dryland biocrust. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 46(12). 2466–2484. 13 indexed citations

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Dowling, Thomas, Martin J. Wooster, James W. Johnson, et al.. (2020). Inter-Comparison of Field- and Laboratory-Derived Surface Emissivities of Natural and Manmade Materials in Support of Land Surface Temperature (LST) Remote Sensing. Remote Sensing. 12(24). 4127–4127. 8 indexed citations

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Hillier, John K., Ívar Örn Benediktsson, Thomas Dowling, & Anders Schomacker. (2018). Production and preservation of the smallest drumlins. GFF. 140(2). 136–152. 8 indexed citations

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Möller, Per, Thomas Dowling, Carol E. Cleland, & Mark D. Johnson. (2016). On the issue of equifinality in glacial geomorphology. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 2 indexed citations

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Dowling, Thomas, Per Möller, & Matteo Spagnolo. (2016). Rapid subglacial streamlined bedform formation at a calving bay margin. Journal of Quaternary Science. 31(8). 879–892. 15 indexed citations

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Möller, Per & Thomas Dowling. (2016). Streamlined subglacial bedforms on the Närke plain, south-central Sweden – Areal distribution, morphometrics, internal architecture and formation. Quaternary Science Reviews. 146. 182–215. 16 indexed citations

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Dowling, Thomas, Matteo Spagnolo, & Per Möller. (2015). Morphometry and core type of streamlined bedforms in southern Sweden from high resolution LiDAR. Geomorphology. 236. 54–63. 37 indexed citations

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Möller, Per & Thomas Dowling. (2015). The importance of thermal boundary transitions on glacial geomorphology; mapping of ribbed/hummocky moraine and streamlined terrain from LiDAR, over Småland, South Sweden. GFF. 137(4). 252–283. 24 indexed citations

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Dowling, Thomas, Helena Alexanderson, & Per Möller. (2013). The new high-resolution LiDAR digital height model (‘Ny Nationell Höjdmodell’) and its application to Swedish Quaternary geomorphology. GFF. 135(2). 145–151. 25 indexed citations

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