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D-Index
34
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7049
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9391
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121

Rona Louise Thompson 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 Rona Louise Thompson sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 90 publications — 9th percentile

9% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Rona Louise Thompson 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 Rona Louise Thompson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 34 D-Index — 3rd percentile

3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Rona Louise Thompson is affiliated with the Norwegian Institute for Air Research in Norway. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with substantial contributions to Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Mechanical Engineering, Economics and Econometrics, and Environmental Chemistry.

The main topics of Thompson's research include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies, Climate Change Policy and Economics, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, as well as Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis.

Thompson has published extensively, with multiple contributions in diverse scientific journals and venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Earth system science data
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Nature

Noteworthy recent papers authored or co-authored by Thompson include:

  • Changes in net ecosystem exchange over Europe during the 2018 drought based on atmospheric observations, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks, 2020, Nature
  • Wetland emission and atmospheric sink changes explain methane growth in 2020, 2022, Nature
  • Comparing national greenhouse gas budgets reported in UNFCCC inventories against atmospheric inversions, 2022, Earth system science data
  • Global nitrous oxide budget (1980-2020), 2024, Earth system science data

Thompson regularly collaborates with a number of researchers, including:

  • Philippe Ciais
  • Ronny Lauerwald
  • Francesco N. Tubiello
  • Philippe Peylin
  • Glen P. Peters

The breadth of Thompson's work reflects a focus on greenhouse gas dynamics and climate-related emissions, with patterns of collaboration that emphasize interdisciplinary approaches combining atmospheric science, chemistry, and environmental policy domains.

Best Publications

  • A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks

    Hanquin Tian;Rongting Xu;Josep G. Canadell;Rona L. Thompson

  • Global Carbon and other Biogeochemical Cycles and Feedbacks

    Josep G. Canadell;Pedro M.S. Monteiro;Marcos H. Costa;Leticia Cotrim Da Cunha

  • The Lagrangian particle dispersion model FLEXPART version 10.4

    Ignacio Pisso;Espen Sollum;Henrik Grythe;Nina Iren Kristiansen;Nina Iren Kristiansen

  • Acceleration of global N2O emissions seen from two decades of atmospheric inversion

    R. L. Thompson;L. Lassaletta;P. K. Patra;C. Wilson

  • Global soil nitrous oxide emissions since the preindustrial era estimated by an ensemble of terrestrial biosphere models: Magnitude, attribution, and uncertainty.

    Hanqin Tian;Hanqin Tian;Jia Yang;Jia Yang;Rongting Xu;Chaoqun Lu

  • The Global N2O Model Intercomparison Project

    Hanqin Tian;Jia Yang;Chaoqun Lu;Rongting Xu

  • Top–down assessment of the Asian carbon budget since the mid 1990s

    Rona Louise Thompson;P.K. Patra;F Chevallier;S. Maksyutov

  • Methane emissions in East Asia for 2000–2011 estimated using an atmospheric Bayesian inversion

    Rona Louise Thompson;Andreas Stohl;Lu Xuedu Zhou;Edward J. Dlugokencky

  • Top-down estimates of European CH4 and N2O emissions based on four different inverse models

    P. Bergamaschi;M. Corazza;U. Karstens;M. Athanassiadou

  • Global soil nitrous oxide emissions since the pre-industrial era estimated by an ensemble of Terrestrial Biosphere Models: Magnitude, attribution and uncertainty

    Hanqin Tian;Jia Yang;Rongting Xu;Chaoqun Lu

  • Nitrous oxide emissions 1999 to 2009 from a global atmospheric inversion

    Rona Louise Thompson;Frédéric Chevallier;Andrew M. Crotwell;Andrew M. Crotwell;Geoffrey S. Dutton

  • In-situ measurements of oxygen, carbon monoxide and greenhouse gases from Ochsenkopf tall tower in Germany

    R. L. Thompson;A. C. Manning;E. Gloor;U. Schultz

  • Variability in Atmospheric Methane From Fossil Fuel and Microbial Sources Over the Last Three Decades

    Rona Louise Thompson;E. G. Nisbet;Ignacio Pisso;Andreas Stohl

  • Changes in net ecosystem exchange over Europe during the 2018 drought based on atmospheric observations.

    R. L. Thompson;G. Broquet;Christoph Gerbig;Thomas Koch;Thomas Koch

  • High-resolution simulations of atmospheric CO 2 over complex terrain – representing the Ochsenkopf mountain tall tower

    D. Pillai;C. Gerbig;R. Ahmadov;R. Ahmadov;C. Rödenbeck

  • The regional European atmospheric transport inversion comparison, EUROCOM : First results on European-wide terrestrial carbon fluxes for the period 2006-2015

    Guillaume Monteil;Grégoire Broquet;Marko Scholze;Matthew Lang

  • FLEXINVERT: an atmospheric Bayesian inversion framework for determining surface fluxes of trace species using an optimized grid

    Rona Louise Thompson;Andreas Stohl

  • Regional inversion of CO2 ecosystem fluxes from atmospheric measurements: reliability of the uncertainty estimates

    G. Broquet;F. Chevallier;F-M Breon;N. Kadygrov

  • Inverse Modelling of European N2O Emissions: Assimilating Observations from Different Networks

    M. Corazza;P. Bergamaschi;A. T. Vermeulen;T. Aalto

  • The Lagrangian particle dispersion model FLEXPART version 10.3

    Ignacio Pisso;Espen Sollum;Henrik Grythe;Nina Kristiansen

  • Comparison of four inverse modelling systems applied to the estimation of HFC-125, HFC-134a, and SF6 emissions over Europe

    Dominik Brunner;Tim Arnold;Tim Arnold;Tim Arnold;Stephan Henne;Alistair J. Manning

  • Methane fluxes in the high northern latitudes for 2005–2013 estimated using a Bayesian atmospheric inversion

    Rona Louise Thompson;Motoki Sasakawa;Toshinobu Machida;Tuula Aalto

  • Comparing national greenhouse gas budgets reported in UNFCCC inventories against atmospheric inversions

    Zhu Deng;Philippe Ciais;Zitely A. Tzompa-Sosa;Marielle Saunois

  • Top-Down Assessment of the Asian Carbon Budget Since the Mid 1990s

    Josep Gili Canadell;Rona Thompson;Prabir Kumar Patra;Frédéric Chevallier

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas Stohl
Andreas Stohl University of Vienna
Prabir K. Patra
Prabir K. Patra Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Wilfried Winiwarter
Wilfried Winiwarter International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
F. Chevallier
F. Chevallier University of Paris-Saclay
Edward J. Dlugokencky
Edward J. Dlugokencky National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Ute Karstens
Ute Karstens Lund University
Dominik Brunner
Dominik Brunner Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Alex Vermeulen
Alex Vermeulen Lund University
Stephan Henne
Stephan Henne Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Josep G. Canadell
Josep G. Canadell Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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