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David W. T. Griffith

David W. T. Griffith

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Environmental Sciences
Australia
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
87
Citations
26444
World Ranking
683
National Ranking
30

David W. T. Griffith publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David W. T. Griffith sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 392 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

David W. T. Griffith D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David W. T. Griffith sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 87 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Australia Leader Award

Overview

David W. T. Griffith is affiliated with the University of Wollongong in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Engineering. The scientist has contributed extensively to subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications, and Artificial Intelligence.

The main topics addressed in their work cover Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Spectroscopy and Laser Applications, Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, Climate variability and models, and IoT and Edge/Fog Computing.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by the scientist are:

  • "Toward Edge-Based Deep Learning in Industrial Internet of Things" (2020), published in IEEE Internet of Things Journal
  • "Ubiquitous atmospheric production of organic acids mediated by cloud droplets" (2021), published in Nature
  • "Validation of methane and carbon monoxide from Sentinel-5 Precursor using TCCON and NDACC-IRWG stations" (2021), published in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • "A decade of GOSAT Proxy satellite CH 4 observations" (2020), published in Earth System Science Data
  • "Intercomparison of low- and high-resolution infrared spectrometers for ground-based solar remote sensing measurements of total column concentrations of CO 2, CH 4, and CO" (2020), published in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

The scientist frequently collaborates with a group of co-authors, including:

  • Nicholas M. Deutscher
  • David F. Pollard
  • Rigel Kivi
  • Frank Hase
  • Isamu Morino

They have published multiple articles in prominent venues. The most frequent publication platforms are:

  • Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal
  • Open Forum Infectious Diseases
  • Earth System Science Data

The combination of fields, subfields, and topics highlights a focus on atmospheric sciences combined with emerging technologies like IoT and artificial intelligence, alongside applied measurement techniques related to environmental monitoring and gas dynamics.

Best Publications

  • The Total Carbon Column Observing Network

    Debra Wunch;Geoffrey C. Toon;Jean-François L. Blavier;Rebecca A. Washenfelder

  • Toward accurate CO2 and CH4 observations from GOSAT

    A Butz;A Butz;S Guerlet;O Hasekamp;D Schepers

  • Calibration of the Total Carbon Column Observing Network using aircraft profile data

    Debra Wunch;Geoffrey C. Toon;Paul O. Wennberg;Steven C. Wofsy

  • Open-path Fourier transform infrared studies of large-scale laboratory biomass fires

    Robert J. Yokelson;David W. T. Griffith;Darold E. Ward

  • Emissions from smoldering combustion of biomass measured by open-path Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy

    Robert J. Yokelson;Ronald A. Susott;Darold E. Ward;James J. Reardon

  • Comparisons of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) X CO 2 measurements with TCCON

    Debra Wunch;Debra Wunch;Paul O. Wennberg;Gregory Osterman;Gregory Osterman;Brendan Fisher;Brendan Fisher

  • Synthetic calibration and quantitative analysis of gas-phase FT-IR spectra

    David W. T. Griffith

  • Emissions of formaldehyde, acetic acid, methanol, and other trace gases from biomass fires in North Carolina measured by airborne Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy

    Robert J. Yokelson;Jon G. Goode;Darold E. Ward;Ronald A. Susott

  • Journal of Geophysical Research. Atmospheres

    Curtis P. Rinsland;Aaron Goldman;Emmanuel Mahieu;Rodolphe Zander

  • Improvement of the retrieval algorithm for GOSAT SWIR XCO2 and XCH4 and their validation using TCCON data

    Y. Yoshida;N. Kikuchi;I. Morino;O. Uchino

  • Improved retrievals of carbon dioxide from Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 with the version 8 ACOS algorithm

    Christopher W. O'Dell;Annmarie Eldering;Paul O. Wennberg;David Crisp

  • The ACOS CO 2 retrieval algorithm – Part II: Global X CO 2 data characterization

    D. Crisp;B. M. Fisher;C. O'Dell;C. Frankenberg

  • Importance of secondary sources in the atmospheric budgets of formic and acetic acids

    F. Paulot;D. Wunch;J. D. Crounse;G. C. Toon

  • Estimating global and North American methane emissions with high spatial resolution using GOSAT satellite data

    A J Turner;Daniel J Jacob;K J Wecht;J D Maasakkers

  • Coupling field and laboratory measurements to estimate the emission factors of identified and unidentified trace gases for prescribed fires

    Robert J. Yokelson;I. R. Burling;J. Gilman;J. Gilman;C. Warneke;C. Warneke

  • Process-evaluation of tropospheric humidity simulated by general circulation models using water vapor isotopologues: 1. Comparison between models and observations

    Camille Risi;Camille Risi;David Noone;John Worden;Christian Frankenberg

  • A method for evaluating bias in global measurements of CO 2 total columns from space

    D. Wunch;P. O. Wennberg;G. C. Toon;B. J. Connor

  • Laboratory measurements of trace gas emissions from biomass burning of fuel types from the southeastern and southwestern United States

    I. R. Burling;Robert J. Yokelson;David W. T. Griffith;T. J. Johnson

  • Methane observations from the Greenhouse Gases Observing SATellite: Comparison to ground‐based TCCON data and model calculations

    Robert Parker;Hartmut Boesch;Austin Cogan;Annemarie Fraser

  • Daily and 3‐hourly variability in global fire emissions and consequences for atmospheric model predictions of carbon monoxide

    M. Mu;J. T. Randerson;G. R. van der Werf;L. Giglio

  • Preliminary validation of column-averaged volume mixing ratios of carbon dioxide and methane retrieved from GOSAT short-wavelength infrared spectra

    I. Morino;O. Uchino;M. Inoue;Y. Yoshida

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas M. Deutscher
Nicholas M. Deutscher University of Wollongong
Justus Notholt
Justus Notholt University of Bremen
Ralf Sussmann
Ralf Sussmann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Nicholas B. Jones
Nicholas B. Jones University of Wollongong
Debra Wunch
Debra Wunch University of Toronto
Thorsten Warneke
Thorsten Warneke University of Bremen
Frank Hase
Frank Hase Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Isamu Morino
Isamu Morino National Institute for Environmental Studies
Paul O. Wennberg
Paul O. Wennberg California Institute of Technology
Voltaire A. Velazco
Voltaire A. Velazco University of Wollongong

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