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Thomas F. Hanisco is affiliated with the Goddard Space Flight Center in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research focuses primarily on atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, with a significant body of work also covering atmospheric ozone and climate, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, air quality and health impacts, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, air quality monitoring and forecasting, and fire effects on ecosystems.

Hanisco's publication record includes papers in prominent scientific venues such as Atmospheric chemistry and physics, where they have published 13 articles, Atmospheric measurement techniques with 6 contributions, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres with 5 publications, Environmental Science & Technology with 3 papers, and Geophysical Research Letters with 3 papers.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Jason M. St. Clair, Glenn M. Wolfe, Glenn S. Diskin, Jeff Peischl, and Reem A. Hannun, reflecting a broad network within the atmospheric science research community.

Among recent publications, notable works include:

  • "Ozone chemistry in western U.S. wildfire plumes" (2021, Science Advances)
  • "Secondary organic aerosols from anthropogenic volatile organic compounds contribute substantially to air pollution mortality" (2021, Atmospheric chemistry and physics)
  • "The NASA Atmospheric Tomography (ATom) Mission: Imaging the Chemistry of the Global Atmosphere" (2021, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society)
  • "Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality (FIREX-AQ)" (2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres)
  • "ATom: Merged Atmospheric Chemistry, Trace Gases, and Aerosols, Version 2" (2021, University of New Hampshire Scholars Repository)

The main topics of their research span a broad spectrum of atmospheric and environmental science: atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric ozone and climate, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, air quality and health impacts, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, air quality monitoring and forecasting, and fire effects on ecosystems.

Best Publications

  • Hydrogen Radicals, Nitrogen Radicals, and the Production of O3 in the Upper Troposphere

    P. O. Wennberg;T. F. Hanisco;L. Jaeglé;D. J. Jacob

  • Aqueous-phase mechanism for secondary organic aerosol formation from isoprene: application to the southeast United States and co-benefit of SO2 emission controls

    Eloise A Marais;Daniel J Jacob;Jose L Jimenez;Jose L Jimenez;Pedro Campuzano-Jost;Pedro Campuzano-Jost

  • Airborne measurements of western U.S. wildfire emissions: Comparison with prescribed burning and air quality implications

    Xiaoxi Liu;Xiaoxi Liu;Xiaoxi Liu;L. Gregory Huey;Robert J. Yokelson;Vanessa Selimovic

  • Organic nitrate chemistry and its implications for nitrogen budgets in an isoprene- and monoterpene-rich atmosphere: constraints from aircraft (SEAC 4 RS) and ground-based (SOAS) observations in the Southeast US

    Jenny A. Fisher;Daniel J. Jacob;Katherine R. Travis;Patrick S. Kim

  • The photochemistry of acetone in the upper troposphere: A source of odd-hydrogen radicals

    S. A. McKeen;T. Gierczak;J. B. Burkholder;P. O. Wennberg

  • Ozone chemistry in western U.S. wildfire plumes

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  • Fourier Transform Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of the A 2Π3/2 ← X 2Π3/2 Transition of BrO†

    David M. Wilmouth;Thomas F. Hanisco;Neil M. Donahue;James G. Anderson

  • Emission Measurements of the Concorde Supersonic Aircraft in the Lower Stratosphere

    D. W. Fahey;E. R. Keim;K. A. Boering;C. A. Brock

  • Observed OH and HO2 in the upper troposphere suggest a major source from convective injection of peroxides

    L. Jaeglé;Daniel James Jacob;P. O. Wennberg;C. M. Spivakovsky

  • Formaldehyde Production from Isoprene Oxidation Across NOx Regimes

    G. M. Wolfe;G. M. Wolfe;J. Kaiser;T. F. Hanisco;F. N. Keutsch

  • Observations of deep convective influence on stratospheric water vapor and its isotopic composition

    Thomas F. Hanisco;E. J. Moyer;E. M. Weinstock;J. M. St. Clair

  • Secondary organic aerosols from anthropogenic volatile organic compounds contribute substantially to air pollution mortality

    Benjamin A. Nault;Benjamin A. Nault;Duseong S. Jo;Duseong S. Jo;Brian C. McDonald;Brian C. McDonald;Pedro Campuzano-Jost;Pedro Campuzano-Jost

  • Observing atmospheric formaldehyde (HCHO) from space: validation and intercomparison of six retrievals from four satellites (OMI, GOME2A, GOME2B, OMPS) with SEAC4RS aircraft observations over the Southeast US.

    Lei Zhu;Daniel J. Jacob;Patrick S. Kim;Jenny A. Fisher

  • Agricultural fires in the southeastern U.S. during SEAC4RS: emissions of trace gases and particles and evolution of ozone, reactive nitrogen, and organic aerosol.

    Xiaoxi Liu;Y. Zhang;L. G. Huey;R. J. Yokelson

  • Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality (FIREX‐AQ)

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  • THE NASA ATMOSPHERIC TOMOGRAPHY (ATom) MISSION: Imaging the Chemistry of the Global Atmosphere

    Chelsea R. Thompson;Steven C. Wofsy;Michael J. Prather;Paul A. Newman

  • Aircraft-borne, laser-induced fluorescence instrument for the in situ detection of hydroxyl and hydroperoxyl radicals

    P. O. Wennberg;R. C. Cohen;N. L. Hazen;L. B. Lapson

  • Mapping hydroxyl variability throughout the global remote troposphere via synthesis of airborne and satellite formaldehyde observations.

    Glenn M. Wolfe;Glenn M. Wolfe;Julie M. Nicely;Julie M. Nicely;Jason M. St. Clair;Jason M. St. Clair;Thomas F. Hanisco

  • Twilight observations suggest unknown sources of HOx

    P. O. Wennberg;R. J. Salawitch;D. J. Donaldson;T. F. Hanisco

  • A new airborne laser-induced fluorescence instrument for in situ detection of formaldehyde throughout the troposphere and lower stratosphere

    M. Cazorla;M. Cazorla;G. M. Wolfe;G. M. Wolfe;S. A. Bailey;A. K. Swanson;A. K. Swanson

  • ATom: Merged Atmospheric Chemistry, Trace Gases, and Aerosols

    S.C. Wofsy;S. Afshar;H.M. Allen;E.C. Apel

  • A new cavity based absorption instrument for detection of water isotopologues in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere.

    David S. Sayres;E. J. Moyer;T. F. Hanisco;J. M. St. Clair

  • Glyoxal yield from isoprene oxidation and relation to formaldehyde: chemical mechanism, constraints from SENEX aircraft observations, and interpretation of OMI satellite data

    Christopher Chan Miller;Daniel J. Jacob;Eloise A. Marais;Karen Yu

Frequent Co-Authors

Glenn M. Wolfe
Glenn M. Wolfe University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Jeff Peischl
Jeff Peischl Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Paul O. Wennberg
Paul O. Wennberg California Institute of Technology
Carsten Warneke
Carsten Warneke National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Frank N. Keutsch
Frank N. Keutsch Harvard University
James G. Anderson
James G. Anderson Harvard University
Patrick R. Veres
Patrick R. Veres National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Martin Graus
Martin Graus University of Innsbruck
Steven S. Brown
Steven S. Brown National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Jessica B. Gilman
Jessica B. Gilman National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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