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D-Index
48
Citations
8255
World Ranking
5562
National Ranking
2031

Thomas Lauvaux 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 Thomas Lauvaux sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 248 publications — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thomas Lauvaux 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 Thomas Lauvaux sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 44th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Thomas Lauvaux is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions to subfields such as global and planetary change, atmospheric science, environmental engineering, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, and mechanics of materials.

The main topics of their work include atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric ozone and climate, air quality and health impacts, climate variability and models, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, and air quality monitoring and forecasting.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Thomas Lauvaux include:

  • Global assessment of oil and gas methane ultra-emitters, 2022, Science
  • Urban-focused satellite CO2 observations from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3: A first look at the Los Angeles megacity, 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Comparing national greenhouse gas budgets reported in UNFCCC inventories against atmospheric inversions, 2022, Earth System Science Data
  • Under-reporting of greenhouse gas emissions in U.S. cities, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Policy-Relevant Assessment of Urban CO2 Emissions, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Thomas Lauvaux include:

  • K. J. Davis
  • Philippe Ciais
  • Sha Feng
  • Michel Ramonet
  • Jinghui Lian

Among the venues where Thomas Lauvaux has frequently published are:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Environmental Science & Technology

Best Publications

  • Assessment of methane emissions from the U.S. oil and gas supply chain

    Ramón A. Alvarez;Daniel Zavala-Araiza;David R. Lyon;David T. Allen

  • Global assessment of oil and gas methane ultra-emitters

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  • High Resolution Atmospheric Inversion of Urban CO2 Emissions During the Dormant Season of the Indianapolis Flux Experiment (INFLUX)

    Thomas Lauvaux;Thomas Lauvaux;Natasha Miles;Aijun Deng;Scott Richardson

  • Aircraft-Based Estimate of Total Methane Emissions from the Barnett Shale Region

    Anna Karion;Colm Sweeney;Colm Sweeney;Eric A. Kort;Paul B. Shepson

  • Toward quantification and source sector identification of fossil fuel CO2 emissions from an urban area: Results from the INFLUX experiment

    Jocelyn C. Turnbull;Jocelyn C. Turnbull;Colm Sweeney;Colm Sweeney;Anna Karion;Anna Karion;Timothy Newberger;Timothy Newberger

  • Bridging the gap between atmospheric concentrations and local ecosystem measurements

    T. Lauvaux;B. Gioli;C. Sarrat;P.J. Rayner

  • Urban-focused satellite CO2 observations from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3: A first look at the Los Angeles megacity

    Matthäus Kiel;Annmarie Eldering;Dustin D. Roten;John C. Lin

  • Constraining the CO 2 budget of the corn belt: exploring uncertainties from the assumptions in a mesoscale inverse system

    T. Lauvaux;A. E. Schuh;A. E. Schuh;M. Uliasz;S. Richardson

  • Assessment of uncertainties of an aircraft-based mass balance approach for quantifying urban greenhouse gas emissions

    M. O L Cambaliza;P. B. Shepson;D. R. Caulton;B. Stirm

  • Under-reporting of greenhouse gas emissions in U.S. cities

    Kevin Robert Gurney;Jianming Liang;Geoffrey Roest;Yang Song

  • Direct and Indirect Measurements and Modeling of Methane Emissions in Indianapolis, Indiana

    Brian K Lamb;Maria Obiminda L Cambaliza;Kenneth J Davis;Steven L Edburg

  • Los Angeles megacity: A high-resolution land-atmosphere modelling system for urban CO2 emissions

    Sha Feng;Sha Feng;Sha Feng;Thomas Lauvaux;Thomas Lauvaux;Sally Newman;Preeti Rao

  • Errors and uncertainties in a gridded carbon dioxide emissions inventory

    Tomohiro Oda;Tomohiro Oda;Rostyslav Bun;Vitaliy Kinakh;Petro Topylko

  • The Indianapolis Flux Experiment (INFLUX): A test-bed for developing urban greenhouse gas emission measurements.

    Kenneth J Davis;Aijun Deng;Thomas Lauvaux;Natasha Miles

  • Constraining fossil fuel CO2 emissions from urban area using OCO‐2 observations of total column CO2

    Xinxin Ye;Xinxin Ye;Thomas Lauvaux;Thomas Lauvaux;Eric A. Kort;Tomohiro Oda;Tomohiro Oda

  • Global Tracking and Quantification of Oil and Gas Methane Emissions from Recurrent Sentinel-2 Imagery.

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  • Large amplitude spatial and temporal gradients in atmospheric boundary layer CO2mole fractions detected with a tower-based network in the U.S. upper Midwest

    Natasha L. Miles;Scott J. Richardson;Kenneth J. Davis;Thomas Lauvaux

  • Policy-Relevant Assessment of Urban CO2 Emissions

    Thomas Lauvaux;Thomas Lauvaux;Kevin R. Gurney;Natasha L. Miles;Kenneth J. Davis

  • A Lagrangian approach towards extracting signals of urban CO 2 emissions from satellite observations of atmospheric column CO 2 (XCO 2 ): X-Stochastic Time-Inverted Lagrangian Transport model (“X-STILT v1”)

    Dien Wu;John C. Lin;Benjamin Fasoli;Tomohiro Oda

  • Mesoscale inversion: first results from the CERES campaign with synthetic data

    T. Lauvaux;M. Uliasz;C. Sarrat;F. Chevallier

  • Quantifying methane emissions from natural gas production in north-eastern Pennsylvania

    Zachary R. Barkley;Thomas Lauvaux;Kenneth J. Davis;Aijun Deng

  • Quantification and source apportionment of the methane emission flux from the city of Indianapolis

    M. O.L. Cambaliza;P. B. Shepson;J. Bogner;D. R. Caulton

  • Structure of the transport uncertainty in mesoscale inversions of CO 2 sources and sinks using ensemble model simulations

    T. Lauvaux;O. Pannekoucke;C. Sarrat;F. Chevallier

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth J. Davis
Kenneth J. Davis Pennsylvania State University
Scott J. Richardson
Scott J. Richardson Pennsylvania State University
Kevin R. Gurney
Kevin R. Gurney Northern Arizona University
Colm Sweeney
Colm Sweeney National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Tomohiro Oda
Tomohiro Oda Universities Space Research Association
Anna Karion
Anna Karion National Institute of Standards and Technology
Paul B. Shepson
Paul B. Shepson Stony Brook University
Eric A. Kort
Eric A. Kort University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Klaus Keller
Klaus Keller Dartmouth College
Michel Ramonet
Michel Ramonet University of Paris-Saclay

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