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Joseph M. Prospero

Joseph M. Prospero

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Earth Science
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2026

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
111
Citations
53615
World Ranking
66
National Ranking
30

Joseph M. Prospero publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Joseph M. Prospero sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 258 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Joseph M. Prospero D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Joseph M. Prospero sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 111 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

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

  • Global Iron Connections Between Desert Dust, Ocean Biogeochemistry, and Climate

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

  • Sources and distributions of dust aerosols simulated with the GOCART model

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

  • The atmospheric input of trace species to the world ocean

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Atmospheric global dust cycle and iron inputs to the ocean

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

  • Impacts of atmospheric anthropogenic nitrogen on the open ocean.

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

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

    Joseph M. Prospero;Peter J. Lamb

  • 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

  • Global dust model intercomparison in AeroCom phase I

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

  • 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

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

    Toby N. Carlson;Joseph M. Prospero

  • Transport of mineral aerosol from Asia Over the North Pacific Ocean

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

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

    Joseph M. Prospero;Toby N. Carlson

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

    Joseph M. Prospero

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Atmospheric transport of soil dust from Africa to South America

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Dennis L. Savoie
Dennis L. Savoie University of Miami
Robert A. Duce
Robert A. Duce Texas A&M University
Richard Arimoto
Richard Arimoto New Mexico State University Carlsbad
James N. Galloway
James N. Galloway University of Virginia
Paul Ginoux
Paul Ginoux Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Hongbin Yu
Hongbin Yu Goddard Space Flight Center
Mitsuo Uematsu
Mitsuo Uematsu University of Tokyo
Eric S. Saltzman
Eric S. Saltzman University of California, Irvine
Natalie M. Mahowald
Natalie M. Mahowald Cornell University
Hal Maring
Hal Maring National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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