Thomas Meißner

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
92 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Thomas Meißner is a scholar working on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Meißner has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Oceanography, 60 papers in Atmospheric Science and 40 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Thomas Meißner's work include Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (40 papers), Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (37 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (33 papers). Thomas Meißner is often cited by papers focused on Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (40 papers), Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (37 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (33 papers). Thomas Meißner collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Thomas Meißner's co-authors include F. J. Wentz, Frank Wentz, Lucrezia Ricciardulli, David M. Le Vine, Chelle Gentemann, Gary Lagerloef, Emmanuel P. Dinnat, M. R. Frank, Deborah K. Smith and Simon Yueh and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Meißner

90 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The complex dielectric constant of pure and sea water from microwave satellite observations

2004 556 citations Thomas Meißner, F. J. Wentz IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Meißner United States	25	1.6k	1.4k	803	525	230	92	2.7k
P. W. Rosenkranz United States	25	3.1k 1.9×	364 0.3×	370 0.5×	2.1k 4.0×	308 1.3×	81	3.7k
Semion Sukoriansky Israel	20	1.0k 0.6×	557 0.4×	308 0.4×	811 1.5×	61 0.3×	49	1.7k
J. A. Weinman United States	28	2.4k 1.5×	122 0.1×	487 0.6×	2.2k 4.2×	260 1.1×	116	3.3k
R. Baskaran India	22	863 0.5×	129 0.1×	199 0.2×	857 1.6×	306 1.3×	114	1.8k
Hans J. Liebe United States	16	1.7k 1.1×	199 0.1×	380 0.5×	816 1.6×	551 2.4×	41	2.5k
Hans Bergström Sweden	30	1.3k 0.8×	401 0.3×	533 0.7×	1.2k 2.3×	350 1.5×	106	2.8k
U. Klein Germany	17	414 0.3×	313 0.2×	137 0.2×	370 0.7×	169 0.7×	79	1.4k
Robin M. Pope United States	5	270 0.2×	1.2k 0.9×	170 0.2×	456 0.9×	39 0.2×	6	2.0k
Carl H. Gibson United States	24	527 0.3×	881 0.6×	258 0.3×	414 0.8×	98 0.4×	63	1.9k
Rolf Philipona Switzerland	29	2.1k 1.3×	111 0.1×	243 0.3×	2.2k 4.2×	263 1.1×	75	3.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Meißner

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Meißner, Thomas, et al.. (2024). Absolute Intercalibration of Spaceborne Microwave Radiometers. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 41(12). 1121–1138. 2 indexed citations

Dinnat, Emmanuel P., Stephen English, Catherine Prigent, et al.. (2023). PARMIO: A Reference Quality Model for Ocean Surface Emissivity and Backscatter from the Microwave to the Infrared. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 104(4). E742–E748. 5 indexed citations

Meißner, Thomas, et al.. (2023). Overview of the WSF-M Ocean Surface Vector Winds and Sea Ice Algorithms. 579–581. 1 indexed citations

Kilic, Lise, Catherine Prigent, Carlos Jiménez, et al.. (2023). Development of the SURface Fast Emissivity Model for Ocean (SURFEM‐Ocean) Based on the PARMIO Radiative Transfer Model. Earth and Space Science. 10(11). 12 indexed citations

Ricciardulli, Lucrezia, et al.. (2022). Assessment of Saildrone Extreme Wind Measurements in Hurricane Sam Using MW Satellite Sensors. Remote Sensing. 14(12). 2726–2726. 12 indexed citations

Ricciardulli, Lucrezia, et al.. (2021). Tropical Cyclone Winds from WindSat, AMSR2, and SMAP: Comparison with the HWRF Model. Remote Sensing. 13(12). 2347–2347. 25 indexed citations

Dinnat, Emmanuel P., David M. Le Vine, Jacqueline Boutin, & Thomas Meißner. (2019). Satellite Sea Surface Salinity: Evaluation of Products and Impact of Retrieval Algorithms. 10. 7936–7939. 2 indexed citations

Kao, Hsun‐Ying, Gary Lagerloef, Tong Lee, et al.. (2018). Assessment of Aquarius Sea Surface Salinity. Remote Sensing. 10(9). 1341–1341. 53 indexed citations

Meißner, Thomas. (2017). Ocean Vector Winds in Storms from the SMAP L-Band Radiometer. 2 indexed citations

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Peng, Jinzheng, Jeffrey R. Piepmeier, Sidharth Misra, et al.. (2017). Soil Moisture ActivePassive (SMAP) L-Band Microwave Radiometer Post-Launch Calibration. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 55(9). 2 indexed citations

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Scott, J. P., Thomas Meißner, & F. J. Wentz. (2016). Ocean Surface Salinity from the SMAP Sensor. 2016. 1 indexed citations

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Lee, Tong, Thomas Meißner, Frank Wentz, & Gary Lagerloef. (2016). Evaluation of sea surface salinity retrieval from SMAP. EGUGA. 2 indexed citations

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Vine, David M. Le, Emmanuel P. Dinnat, Thomas Meißner, et al.. (2015). Remote Sensing of Salinity and Overview of Results from Aquarius. 1 indexed citations

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Meißner, Thomas, F. J. Wentz, & J. P. Scott. (2015). Ocean Products from the SMAP Radiometer: Surface Salinity and Wind Speeds. 2015 AGU Fall Meeting. 2015. 1 indexed citations

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Ricciardulli, Lucrezia, Thomas Meißner, J. P. Scott, & F. J. Wentz. (2015). Satellite-based Ocean Vector Wind Climate Data Record. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2015. 1 indexed citations

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Ricciardulli, Lucrezia, Thomas Meißner, & F. J. Wentz. (2014). Building a Climate Data Record for Ocean Vector Winds. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2014. 2 indexed citations

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Wentz, F. J., Kyle Hilburn, Thomas Meißner, & Shannon E. Brown. (2014). Two-Look Polarimetric (2LP) Microwave Radiometers for Ocean Vector Wind Retrieval. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2014. 1 indexed citations

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Ricciardulli, Lucrezia, Thomas Meißner, & Frank Wentz. (2013). Integrating the ASCAT Observations into a Climate Data Record of Ocean Vector Winds. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 1 indexed citations

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Gentemann, Chelle, Thomas Meißner, & F. J. Wentz. (2009). Accuracy of Satellite Sea Surface Temperatures at 7 and 11 GHz. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 48(3). 1009–1018. 111 indexed citations

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Meißner, Thomas & Frank Wentz. (2005). Ocean retrievals for WindSat: radiative transfer model, algorithm, validation. 7. 4761–4764. 24 indexed citations

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