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Cynthia H. Twohy is affiliated with Northwest Research Associates in the United States. Their research focuses on atmospheric sciences, specifically on aerosols, clouds, and related environmental processes. They have contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with particular concentration in Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics of their research include:

  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure
  • Allergic Rhinitis and Sensitization

Twohy has published in several scientific venues. The frequent publication venues for their work are:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Earth's Future
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Cynthia H. Twohy are:

  • Observations of Clouds, Aerosols, Precipitation, and Surface Radiation over the Southern Ocean: An Overview of CAPRICORN, MARCUS, MICRE, and SOCRATES, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Simulating Observations of Southern Ocean Clouds and Implications for Climate, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Influences of Recent Particle Formation on Southern Ocean Aerosol Variability and Low Cloud Properties, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Observations of Ice Nucleating Particles in the Free Troposphere From Western US Wildfires, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Cloud-Nucleating Particles Over the Southern Ocean in a Changing Climate, 2021, Earth's Future

They have collaborated frequently with a group of coauthors, including:

  • D. W. Toohey
  • Paul J. DeMott
  • Kathryn A. Moore
  • Christina S. McCluskey
  • Andrew Gettelman

Best Publications

  • Predicting global atmospheric ice nuclei distributions and their impacts on climate

    Paul J. DeMott;Anthony J. Prenni;Xiaohong Liu;Sonia M. Kreidenweis

  • Clarifying the Dominant Sources and Mechanisms of Cirrus Cloud Formation

    Daniel J. Cziczo;Karl D. Froyd;Karl D. Froyd;Corinna Hoose;Eric J. Jensen

  • Rain in Shallow Cumulus Over the Ocean: The RICO Campaign

    R. M. Rauber;B. Stevens;B. Stevens;H. T. Ochs;C. Knight

  • In situ detection of biological particles in cloud ice-crystals

    Kerri A. Pratt;Paul J. DeMott;Jeffrey R. French;Zhien Wang

  • Dynamics and chemistry of marine stratocumulus - DYCOMS II

    Bjorn Stevens;Donald H. Lenschow;Gabor Vali;Hermann Gerber

  • Observations of clouds, aerosols, precipitation, and surface radiation over the southern ocean

    Greg Michael McFarquhar;Christopher S. Bretherton;Roger Marchand;Alain Protat

  • A general approach for deriving the properties of cirrus and stratiform ice cloud particles

    Andrew J. Heymsfield;Sharon Lewis;Aaron Bansemer;Jean Iaquinta

  • Effective Ice Particle Densities Derived from Aircraft Data

    Andrew J. Heymsfield;A Aron Bansemer;Carl Schmitt;Cynthia Twohy

  • Saharan dust particles nucleate droplets in eastern Atlantic clouds

    Cynthia H. Twohy;Sonia M. Kreidenweis;Trude Eidhammer;Edward V. Browell

  • Evaluation of the aerosol indirect effect in marine stratocumulus clouds : droplet number, size, liquid water path, and radiative impact

    Cynthia H. Twohy;Markus D. Petters;Jefferson R. Snider;Bjorn Stevens

  • Improved Representation of Ice Particle Masses Based on Observations in Natural Clouds

    Andrew J. Heymsfield;Carl Schmitt;Aaron Bansemer;Cynthia H. Twohy

  • Measurement of Condensed Water Content in Liquid and Ice Clouds Using an Airborne Counterflow Virtual Impactor

    Cynthia H. Twohy;Allen J. Schanot;William A. Cooper

  • Airborne instruments to measure atmospheric aerosol particles, clouds and radiation: A cook's tour of mature and emerging technology

    D. Baumgardner;J.L. Brenguier;A. Bucholtz;H. Coe

  • The Saharan Air Layer and the Fate of African Easterly Waves—NASA's AMMA Field Study of Tropical Cyclogenesis

    Edward J. Zipser;Cynthia H. Twohy;Si Chee Tsay;K. Lee Thornhill

  • Improvements to an Empirical Parameterization of Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation and Its Comparison with Observations

    Vaughan T. J. Phillips;Paul J. Demott;Constantin Andronache;Kerri A. Pratt

  • Deep convection as a source of new particles in the midlatitude upper troposphere

    Cynthia H. Twohy;Charles F. Clement;Bruce W. Gandrud;Andrew J. Weinheimer

  • An overview of aircraft observations from the Pacific Dust Experiment campaign

    J. L. Stith;V. Ramanathan;W. A. Cooper;G. C. Roberts

  • Effect of changes in relative humidity on aerosol scattering near clouds

    Cynthia H. Twohy;James A. Coakley;William R. Tahnk

  • Observation of playa salts as nuclei in orographic wave clouds

    Kerri A. Pratt;Kerri A. Pratt;Cynthia H. Twohy;Shane M. Murphy;Shane M. Murphy;Ryan C. Moffet

  • Prevalence of ice‐supersaturated regions in the upper troposphere: Implications for optically thin ice cloud formation

    Eric J. Jensen;Owen B. Toon;Stephanie A. Vay;Joëlle Ovarlez

  • Supplement to Dynamics and Chemistry of Marine Stratocumulus—DYCOMS-II

    Bjorn Stevens;Donald H. Lenschow;Gabor Vali;Hermann Gerber

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew J. Heymsfield
Andrew J. Heymsfield National Center for Atmospheric Research
Paul J. DeMott
Paul J. DeMott Colorado State University
Darrel Baumgardner
Darrel Baumgardner National Autonomous University of Mexico
Aaron Bansemer
Aaron Bansemer National Center for Atmospheric Research
Teresa L. Campos
Teresa L. Campos National Center for Atmospheric Research
Kerri A. Pratt
Kerri A. Pratt University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Michael R. Poellot
Michael R. Poellot University of North Dakota
Kimberly A. Prather
Kimberly A. Prather University of California, San Diego
Darin W. Toohey
Darin W. Toohey University of Colorado Boulder
Sonia M. Kreidenweis
Sonia M. Kreidenweis Colorado State University

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