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Thomas H. Vonder Haar is affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with specific focus areas including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

The scientist's main research topics cover Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, and Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics. This range of topics reflects a detailed engagement with atmospheric processes and their implications.

Recent publications by Thomas H. Vonder Haar include:

  • Shortwave Radiance to Irradiance Conversion for Earth Radiation Budget Satellite Observations: A Review (2021, Remote Sensing)
  • Evaluation of total column water vapour products from satellite observations and reanalyses within the GEWEX Water Vapor Assessment (2024, Atmospheric chemistry and physics)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Vonder Haar are:

  • Jake J. Gristey
  • Wenying Su
  • Norman G. Loeb
  • Florian Tornow
  • K. Sebastian Schmidt

Publications appear predominantly in the venues Remote Sensing and Atmospheric chemistry and physics. These journals align with the scientist's concentration on atmospheric and environmental sciences.

Best Publications

  • Satellite Meteorology: An Introduction

    Stanley Q. Kidder;Thomas H. Vonder Haar

  • A new global water vapor dataset

    David L. Randel;Thomas J. Greenwald;Thomas H. Vonder Haar;Graeme L. Stephens

  • Evaluation of Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit Tropical-Cyclone Intensity and Size Estimation Algorithms

    Julie L. Demuth;Mark Demaria;John A. Knaff;Thomas H. Vonder Haar

  • On the Observed Annual Cycle in the Ocean-Atmosphere Heat Balance Over the Northern Hemisphere

    Abraham H. Oort;Thomas H. Vonder Haar

  • A physical retrieval of cloud liquid water over the global oceans using special sensor microwave/imager (SSM/I) observations

    Thomas J. Greenwald;Graeme L. Stephens;Thomas H. Vonder Haar;Darren L. Jackson

  • Measurements of the Earth's Radiation Budget from Satellites During a Five-Year Period. Part I: Extended Time and Space Means

    Thomas H. Vonder Haar;Verner E. Suomi

  • Forest fire monitoring using NOAA satellite AVHRR

    M. D. Flannigan;T. H. Vonder Haar

  • New Estimate of Annual Poleward Energy Transport by Northern Hemisphere Oceans

    Thomas H. Vonder Haar;Abraham H. Oort

  • The annual radiation balance of the earth-atmosphere system during 1969-70 from Nimbus 3 measurements.

    Ehrhard Raschke;Thomas H. Vonder Haar;William R. Bandeen;Musa Pasternak

  • Mesoscale and Radar Observations of the Fort Collins Flash Flood of 28 July 1997

    Walter A. Petersen;Lawrence D. Carey;Steven A. Rutledge;Jason C. Knievel

  • Estimating the Meridional Energy Transports in the Atmosphere and Ocean

    B. C. Carissimo;A. H. Oort;T. H. Vonder Haar

  • Observed Microphysical Structure of Midlevel, Mixed-Phase Clouds

    Robert P. Fleishauer;Vincent E. Larson;Thomas H. Vonder Haar

  • Tropical Cyclone Inner-Core Kinetic Energy Evolution

    Katherine S. Maclay;Mark DeMaria;Thomas H. Vonder Haar

  • Objective Estimation of Tropical Cyclone Wind Structure from Infrared Satellite Data

    Kimberly J. Mueller;Mark DeMaria;John Knaff;James P. Kossin

  • GCIP water and energy budget synthesis (WEBS)

    J. Roads;R. Lawford;E. Bainto;E. Berbery

  • Systematic Biases in the Microphysics and Thermodynamics of Numerical Models That Ignore Subgrid-Scale Variability

    Vincent E. Larson;Robert Wood;Paul R. Field;Jean-Christophe Golaz

  • A Bispectral Method for Cloud Parameter Determination

    Davidn W. Reynolds;Thomas H. Vonder Haar

  • The GEWEX Water Vapor Assessment: Results from Intercomparison, Trend, and Homogeneity Analysis of Total Column Water Vapor

    Marc Schröder;Maarit Lockhoff;John M. Forsythe;Heather Q. Cronk

  • Aerosol optical depth retrieval from GOES-8: Uncertainty study and retrieval validation over South America

    Kenneth R. Knapp;Kenneth R. Knapp;Thomas H. Vonder Haar;Yoram J. Kaufman

  • Estimating tropical cyclone central pressure and outer winds from satellite microwave data

    Stanley Q. Kidder;William M. Gray;Thomas H. Vonder Haar

  • Small-Scale and Mesoscale Variability of Scalars in Cloudy Boundary Layers: One-Dimensional Probability Density Functions

    Vincent E. Larson;Robert Wood;Paul R. Field;Jean-Christophe Golaz

Frequent Co-Authors

Vincent E. Larson
Vincent E. Larson University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Graeme L. Stephens
Graeme L. Stephens Jet Propulsion Lab
Mark DeMaria
Mark DeMaria Colorado State University
Sundar A. Christopher
Sundar A. Christopher University of Alabama in Huntsville
Thomas C. Peterson
Thomas C. Peterson National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Eric A. Smith
Eric A. Smith Florida State University
William R. Cotton
William R. Cotton Colorado State University
Robert Wood
Robert Wood University of Washington
John A. Knaff
John A. Knaff National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
William M. Gray
William M. Gray Colorado State University

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