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35
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5125
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9302
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Lucia Mona 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 Lucia Mona sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 154 publications — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Lucia Mona 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 Lucia Mona sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 5th percentile

5% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

Lucia Mona is affiliated with the National Research Council (CNR) in Italy. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Aerospace Engineering, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The main research topics covered in their work include:

  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture

Lucia Mona has been published in various scientific venues with multiple papers appearing in:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • EPJ Web of Conferences
  • Atmosphere
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Selected recent publications include:

  • Atmospheric boundary layer height from ground-based remote sensing: a review of capabilities and limitations, 2023, Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Investigation of Volcanic Emissions in the Mediterranean: "The Etna-Antikythera Connection", 2020, Atmosphere
  • Aerosol, Clouds and Trace Gases Research Infrastructure (ACTRIS): The European Research Infrastructure Supporting Atmospheric Science, 2024, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • An EARLINET early warning system for atmospheric aerosol aviation hazards, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • A volcanic-hazard demonstration exercise to assess and mitigate the impacts of volcanic ash clouds on civil and military aviation, 2020, Natural hazards and earth system sciences

Lucia Mona has also contributed to book publications, notably through Springer Nature (Netherlands), with a work titled Proceedings of the 30th International Laser Radar Conference published in 2023.

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Nikolaos Papagiannopoulos
  • Vassilis Amiridis
  • Michail Mytilinaios
  • Gelsomina Pappalardo
  • Aldo Amodeo

Best Publications

  • EARLINET: towards an advanced sustainable European aerosol lidar network

    G. Pappalardo;A. Amodeo;A. Apituley;A. Comeron

  • Systematic lidar observations of Saharan dust over Europe in the frame of EARLINET (2000-2002)

    A. Papayannis;V. Amiridis;L. Mona;G. Tsaknakis

  • EARLINET correlative measurements for CALIPSO: First intercomparison results

    Gelsomina Pappalardo;Ulla Wandinger;Lucia Mona;Anja Hiebsch

  • Saharan dust intrusions in the Mediterranean area: Three years of Raman lidar measurements

    Lucia Mona;Aldo Amodeo;Marco Pandolfi;Gelsomina Pappalardo

  • Measuring atmospheric composition change

    Paolo Laj;J. Klausen;M. Bilde;C. Plaß-Duelmer

  • Lidar Measurements for Desert Dust Characterization: An Overview

    L. Mona;Z. Liu;D. Müller;A. Omar

  • Raman lidar observations of aerosol emitted during the 2002 Etna eruption

    Gelsomina Pappalardo;Aldo Amodeo;Lucia Mona;Marco Pandolfi

  • LIVAS: a 3-D multi-wavelength aerosol/cloud database based on CALIPSO and EARLINET

    V. Amiridis;E. Marinou;A. Tsekeri;U. Wandinger

  • The unprecedented 2017–2018 stratospheric smoke event: decay phase and aerosol properties observed with the EARLINET

    Holger Baars;Albert Ansmann;Kevin Ohneiser;Moritz Haarig

  • Atmospheric boundary layer height from ground-based remote sensing: a review of capabilities and limitations

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  • Four-dimensional distribution of the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcanic cloud over Europe observed by EARLINET

    G. Pappalardo;L. Mona;G. D'Amico;U. Wandinger

  • Multi-sectoral impact assessment of an extreme African dust episode in the Eastern Mediterranean in March 2018.

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  • Stratospheric AOD after the 2011 eruption of Nabro volcano measured by lidars over the Northern Hemisphere

    Patricia Sawamura;Jean-Paul Vernier;J.-E. Barnes;Timothy A. Berkoff

  • Multi-wavelength Raman lidar observations of the Eyjafjallajökull volcanic cloud over Potenza, southern Italy

    L. Mona;A. Amodeo;G. D'Amico;A. Giunta

  • CALIPSO climatological products: evaluation and suggestions from EARLINET

    Nikolaos Papagiannopoulos;Lucia Mona;Lucas Alados-Arboledas;Vassilis Amiridis

  • A methodology for investigating dust model performance using synergistic EARLINET/AERONET dust concentration retrievals

    I. Binietoglou;S. Basart;L. Alados-Arboledas;V. Amiridis

  • One year of CNR-IMAA multi-wavelength Raman lidar measurements in coincidence with CALIPSO overpasses: Level 1 products comparison

    L. Mona;G. Pappalardo;A. Amodeo;G. D'Amico

  • An automatic observation-based aerosol typing method for EARLINET

    Nikolaos Papagiannopoulos;Lucia Mona;Aldo Amodeo;Giuseppe D'Amico

  • CIAO: the CNR-IMAA advanced observatory for atmospheric research

    F. Madonna;A. Amodeo;A. Boselli;C. Cornacchia

  • Status and Future of Numerical Atmospheric Aerosol Prediction with a Focus on Data Requirements

    Angela Benedetti;Jeffrey S. Reid;Peter Knippertz;John H. Marsham

  • EARLINET dust observations vs. BSC-DREAM8b modeled profiles: 12-year-long systematic comparison at Potenza, Italy

    L. Mona;N. Papagiannopoulos;S. Basart;J. Baldasano;J. Baldasano

  • EARLINET observations of the 14-22-May long-range dust transport event during SAMUM 2006 : validation of results from dust transport modelling

    D. Müller;B. Heinold;M. Tesche;I. Tegen

Frequent Co-Authors

Gelsomina Pappalardo
Gelsomina Pappalardo National Research Council (CNR)
Vassilis Amiridis
Vassilis Amiridis National Observatory of Athens
Michaël Sicard
Michaël Sicard Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Ina Mattis
Ina Mattis German Meteorological Service
Ulla Wandinger
Ulla Wandinger Leibniz Association
Lucas Alados-Arboledas
Lucas Alados-Arboledas University of Granada
Dimitris Balis
Dimitris Balis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Holger Baars
Holger Baars Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research
Albert Ansmann
Albert Ansmann Leibniz Association
Volker Freudenthaler
Volker Freudenthaler Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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