Thomas P. Ackerman

16.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
204 papers, 11.4k citations indexed

About

Thomas P. Ackerman is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas P. Ackerman has authored 204 papers receiving a total of 11.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 174 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 161 papers in Atmospheric Science and 15 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Thomas P. Ackerman's work include Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (143 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (98 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (67 papers). Thomas P. Ackerman is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (143 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (98 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (67 papers). Thomas P. Ackerman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Tunisia and Belgium. Thomas P. Ackerman's co-authors include O. B. Toon, Roger Marchand, Gerald G. Mace, Eugene E. Clothiaux, Charles Long, G. M. Stokes, Christopher P. McKay, James F. Kasting, James B. Pollack and Keshav Santhanam and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Thomas P. Ackerman

190 papers receiving 10.6k citations

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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.

Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument description and experiment overview

1998 806 citations Thomas P. Ackerman et al. profile →
Rapid calculation of radiative heating rates and photodissociation rates in inhomogeneous multiple scattering atmospheres

1989 677 citations Thomas P. Ackerman et al. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres profile →
Nuclear Winter: Global Consequences of Multiple Nuclear Explosions

1983 448 citations Thomas P. Ackerman et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas P. Ackerman United States	50	9.2k	8.9k	1.1k	620	579	204	11.4k
R. D. Cess United States	47	8.7k 1.0×	9.0k 1.0×	840 0.8×	524 0.8×	599 1.0×	188	12.6k
Steven D. Miller United States	39	5.6k 0.6×	4.7k 0.5×	677 0.6×	408 0.7×	723 1.2×	201	8.1k
W. J. Wiscombe United States	44	9.1k 1.0×	9.2k 1.0×	904 0.8×	746 1.2×	983 1.7×	146	13.1k
J. T. Kiehl United States	62	15.1k 1.6×	15.5k 1.7×	651 0.6×	414 0.7×	825 1.4×	137	20.0k
Georgiy Stenchikov United States	54	7.9k 0.9×	7.6k 0.9×	922 0.8×	102 0.2×	380 0.7×	182	9.9k
Stephen Self United States	66	2.3k 0.2×	8.1k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	1.5k 2.4×	390 0.7×	193	14.7k
Stephen G. Warren United States	61	9.6k 1.1×	15.6k 1.7×	1.3k 1.2×	243 0.4×	1.1k 2.0×	158	18.9k
Andrew Gettelman United States	65	13.6k 1.5×	13.7k 1.5×	813 0.7×	146 0.2×	412 0.7×	222	15.8k
Fred Prata Australia	51	5.1k 0.6×	5.4k 0.6×	461 0.4×	411 0.7×	1.4k 2.4×	161	7.9k
Andrew W. Robertson United States	49	9.2k 1.0×	8.5k 0.9×	390 0.4×	268 0.4×	527 0.9×	173	12.3k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ackerman, Thomas P., et al.. (2025). Tropical Cirrus in Global‐Storm Resolving Models: 3. Seasonal Changes and TTL Cirrus in the Tropical Western Pacific Using DYAMOND. Earth and Space Science. 12(4).

Ackerman, Thomas P., et al.. (2021). Tropical Cirrus in Global Storm‐Resolving Models: 2. Cirrus Life Cycle and Top‐of‐Atmosphere Radiative Fluxes. Earth and Space Science. 9(2). 23 indexed citations

Bretherton, Christopher S., et al.. (2021). Tropical Cirrus in Global Storm‐Resolving Models: 1. Role of Deep Convection. Earth and Space Science. 9(2). 25 indexed citations

Schmeisser, Lauren, Nicholas A. Bond, Samantha Siedlecki, & Thomas P. Ackerman. (2019). The Role of Clouds and Surface Heat Fluxes in the Maintenance of the 2013–2016 Northeast Pacific Marine Heatwave. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 124(20). 10772–10783. 49 indexed citations

Ackerman, Thomas P., et al.. (2018). Changes in clouds and thermodynamics under solar geoengineering and implications for required solar reduction. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 18(16). 11905–11925. 14 indexed citations

Possner, Anna, Hailong Wang, Robert Wood, Ken Caldeira, & Thomas P. Ackerman. (2018). The efficacy of aerosol–cloud radiative perturbations from near-surface emissions in deep open-cell stratocumuli. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 18(23). 17475–17488. 30 indexed citations

Hillman, Benjamin, Roger Marchand, & Thomas P. Ackerman. (2018). Sensitivities of Simulated Satellite Views of Clouds to Subgrid‐Scale Overlap and Condensate Heterogeneity. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 123(14). 7506–7529. 14 indexed citations

Schmeisser, Lauren, Laura M. Hinkelman, & Thomas P. Ackerman. (2018). Evaluation of Radiation and Clouds From Five Reanalysis Products in the Northeast Pacific Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 123(14). 7238–7253. 16 indexed citations

Ackerman, Thomas P., et al.. (2018). Energy transport, polar amplification, and ITCZ shifts in the GeoMIP G1 ensemble. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 18(3). 2287–2305. 17 indexed citations

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Wood, Robert, et al.. (2017). Could geoengineering research help answer one of the biggest questions in climate science?. Earth s Future. 5(7). 659–663. 15 indexed citations

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Lenferna, Alex, et al.. (2017). Relevant climate response tests for stratospheric aerosol injection: A combined ethical and scientific analysis. Earth s Future. 5(6). 577–591. 12 indexed citations

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Evans, S. M., Roger Marchand, Thomas P. Ackerman, et al.. (2017). Diagnosing Cloud Biases in the GFDL AM3 Model With Atmospheric Classification. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 122(23). 6 indexed citations

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Magliano, Joseph P., et al.. (2017). A Specialized Corpus for Film Understanding. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. 13(2). 266–272. 1 indexed citations

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Fueglistaler, S., et al.. (2014). Cirrus and water vapour transport in the tropical tropopause layer – Part 2: Roles of ice nucleation and sedimentation, cloud dynamics, and moisture conditions. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 14(22). 12225–12236. 16 indexed citations

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Fueglistaler, S., et al.. (2014). A modelling study of moisture redistribution by thin cirrus clouds. 1 indexed citations

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Durran, Dale R., et al.. (2009). The maintenance of tropical-tropopause-layer cirrus. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2009. 3 indexed citations

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Marchand, Roger, Gerald G. Mace, Thomas P. Ackerman, & Graeme L. Stephens. (2008). Hydrometeor Detection Using Cloudsat—An Earth-Orbiting 94-GHz Cloud Radar. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 25(4). 519–533. 436 indexed citations

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Dong, Xiquan, Patrick Minnis, Thomas P. Ackerman, et al.. (2000). A 25‐month database of stratus cloud properties generated from ground‐based measurements at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Southern Great Plains Site. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 105(D4). 4529–4537. 54 indexed citations

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Clothiaux, Eugene E., Kenneth P. Moran, Brooks E. Martner, et al.. (1999). The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program Cloud Radars: Operational Modes. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 16(7). 819–827. 86 indexed citations

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Ackerman, Thomas P.. (1976). a Study of the Influence of Aerosols on Urban Boundary Layers with Particular Applications to the LOS Angeles Basin.. PhDT. 2 indexed citations

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