2026 Joseph M. Prospero: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	111	66	53	30	24	258	53615

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Earth Science in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Earth Science in United States Leader Award
2004 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
2003 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Joseph M. Prospero is affiliated with the University of Miami in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research primarily focuses on atmospheric science and global and planetary change, with significant work in subfields such as health, toxicology and mutagenesis, earth-surface processes, and pollution.

Their research encompasses topics including atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, air quality and health impacts, aeolian processes and effects, atmospheric ozone and climate, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and indoor air quality and microbial exposure.

Joseph M. Prospero has published research in various scientific journals. Frequent venues include:

Atmospheric chemistry and physics
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Geophysical Research Letters
Atmospheric Environment

Some of their recent publications are:

Characterizing and Quantifying African Dust Transport and Deposition to South America: Implications for the Phosphorus Budget in the Amazon Basin, 2020, Global Biogeochemical Cycles
The Discovery of African Dust Transport to the Western Hemisphere and the Saharan Air Layer: A History, 2021, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Other notable papers in the related research community include:

Microplastics and nanoplastics in the marine-atmosphere environment, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
Health and Safety Effects of Airborne Soil Dust in the Americas and Beyond, 2023, Reviews of Geophysics
Retrieving the global distribution of the threshold of wind erosion from satellite data and implementing it into the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory land-atmosphere model (GFDL AM4.0/LM4.0), 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics

The scholar has collaborated frequently with fellow researchers such as Cassandra J. Gaston, N. M. Mahowald, Anne E. Barkley, Kathy Panechou, and Sergio Rodrı́guez.

Joseph M. Prospero has been recognized by scientific communities and is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) since 2004 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2003.

Best Publications

ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION OF GLOBAL SOURCES OF ATMOSPHERIC SOIL DUST IDENTIFIED WITH THE NIMBUS 7 TOTAL OZONE MAPPING SPECTROMETER (TOMS) ABSORBING AEROSOL PRODUCT

Joseph M. Prospero;Paul Ginoux;Omar Torres;Sharon E. Nicholson

3524
Citations
Global Iron Connections Between Desert Dust, Ocean Biogeochemistry, and Climate

T. Jickells;Z An;K.K. Andersen;A.R. Baker

3311
Citations
Sources and distributions of dust aerosols simulated with the GOCART model

Paul Ginoux;Mian Chin;Ina Tegen;Joseph M. Prospero

2487
Citations
The atmospheric input of trace species to the world ocean

R. A. Duce;P. S. Liss;J. T. Merrill;E. L. Atlas

2022
Citations
Global Scale Attribution of Anthropogenic and Natural Dust Sources and their Emission Rates Based on MODIS Deep Blue Aerosol Products

Paul Ginoux;Joseph M. Prospero;Thomas E. Gill;N. Christina Hsu

1684
Citations
Indian Ocean Experiment: An integrated analysis of the climate forcing and effects of the great Indo-Asian haze

V. Ramanathan;P. J. Crutzen;J. Lelieveld;A. P. Mitra

1670
Citations
Atmospheric global dust cycle and iron inputs to the ocean

Natalie M. Mahowald;Alex R. Baker;Gilles Bergametti;Nick Brooks

1391
Citations
Impacts of atmospheric anthropogenic nitrogen on the open ocean.

R. A. Duce;J. LaRoche;K. Altieri;K. R. Arrigo

1250
Citations
African Droughts and Dust Transport to the Caribbean: Climate Change Implications

Joseph M. Prospero;Peter J. Lamb

1207
Citations
Long-Range Atmospheric Transport of Soil Dust from Asia to the Tropical North Pacific: Temporal Variability

R. A. Duce;C. K. Unni;B. J. Ray;J. M. Prospero

1155
Citations
Global dust model intercomparison in AeroCom phase I

N. Huneeus;M. Schulz;Y. Balkanski;J. Griesfeller

1108
Citations
Characterization of tropospheric aerosols over the oceans with the NOAA advanced very high resolution radiometer optical thickness operational product

Rudolf B. Husar;Joseph M. Prospero;Larry L. Stowe

867
Citations
The Large-Scale Movement of Saharan Air Outbreaks over the Northern Equatorial Atlantic

Toby N. Carlson;Joseph M. Prospero

824
Citations
Transport of mineral aerosol from Asia Over the North Pacific Ocean

Mitsuo Uematsu;Robert A. Duce;Joseph M. Prospero;Liqi Chen

802
Citations
Vertical and areal distribution of Saharan dust over the western equatorial north Atlantic Ocean

Joseph M. Prospero;Toby N. Carlson

776
Citations
Long‐term measurements of the transport of African mineral dust to the southeastern United States: Implications for regional air quality

Joseph M. Prospero

755
Citations
Relationships among aerosol constituents from Asia and the North Pacific during PEM-West A

R. Arimoto;R. A. Duce;D. L. Savoie;J. M. Prospero

736
Citations
Atmospheric Iron Deposition: Global Distribution, Variability, and Human Perturbations*

Natalie M. Mahowald;Sebastian Engelstaedter;Chao Luo;Andrea Sealy

724
Citations
Long-range transport of mineral dust in the global atmosphere: impact of African dust on the environment of the southeastern United States.

Joseph M. Prospero

717
Citations
Global connections between aeolian dust, climate and ocean biogeochemistry at the present day and at the last glacial maximum

Barbara Maher;J. M. Prospero;D. Mackie;D. Gaiero

653
Citations
Atmospheric transport of soil dust from Africa to South America

J. M. Prospero;R. A. Glaccum;R. T. Nees

620
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Dennis L. Savoie University of Miami

Robert A. Duce Texas A&M University

Richard Arimoto New Mexico State University Carlsbad

James N. Galloway University of Virginia

Paul Ginoux Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

Hongbin Yu Goddard Space Flight Center

Mitsuo Uematsu University of Tokyo

Eric S. Saltzman University of California, Irvine

Natalie M. Mahowald Cornell University

Hal Maring National Aeronautics and Space Administration

External Links

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