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  • 2011 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Thomas P. Ackerman is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions to subfields such as Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. They also engage in work related to Language and Linguistics, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Major topics covered in Ackerman's research include Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Climate Variability and Models, Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols, Atmospheric Aerosols and Clouds, as well as Subtitles and Audiovisual Media, Video Analysis and Summarization, and Language, Metaphor, and Cognition.

Some of their recent papers are:

  • "Tropical Cirrus in Global Storm-Resolving Models: 1. Role of Deep Convection" (2021), Earth and Space Science
  • "Tropical Cirrus in Global Storm-Resolving Models: 2. Cirrus Life Cycle and Top-of-Atmosphere Radiative Fluxes" (2021), Earth and Space Science
  • "Lights, camera, action: the role of editing and framing on the processing of filmed events" (2020), Journal of Cognitive Psychology
  • "Earth's Energy Imbalance More Than Doubled in Recent Decades" (2025), AGU Advances
  • "Tropical Cirrus in Global-Storm Resolving Models: 3. Seasonal Changes and TTL Cirrus in the Tropical Western Pacific Using DYAMOND" (2025), Earth and Space Science

Ackerman has frequently collaborated with several co-authors, including:

  • Samantha M Turbeville
  • Peter N. Blossey
  • Jacqueline M Nugent
  • Christopher S. Bretherton
  • Joseph P. Magliano

The most common venues for Ackerman's publications include:

  • Earth and Space Science
  • Journal of Cognitive Psychology
  • AGU Advances

Ackerman was recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument description and experiment overview

    D.J. Diner;J.C. Beckert;T.H. Reilly;C.J. Bruegge

  • Nuclear Winter: Global Consequences of Multiple Nuclear Explosions

    R. P. Turco;O. B. Toon;T. P. Ackerman;J. B. Pollack

  • Rapid calculation of radiative heating rates and photodissociation rates in inhomogeneous multiple scattering atmospheres

    Owen B. Toon;C. P. McKay;T. P. Ackerman;K. Santhanam

  • The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program

    Thomas P. Ackerman;Gerald M. Stokes

  • Hydrometeor Detection Using Cloudsat—An Earth-Orbiting 94-GHz Cloud Radar

    Roger Marchand;Gerald G. Mace;Thomas Ackerman;Graeme Stephens

  • Objective Determination of Cloud Heights and Radar Reflectivities Using a Combination of Active Remote Sensors at the ARM CART Sites

    Eugene E. Clothiaux;Thomas P. Ackerman;Gerald G. Mace;Kenneth P. Moran

  • Identification of clear skies from broadband pyranometer measurements and calculation of downwelling shortwave cloud effects

    Charles N. Long;Thomas P. Ackerman

  • Algorithms for the calculation of scattering by stratified spheres

    Owen B. Toon;T. P. Ackerman

  • Absorption of visible radiation in atmosphere containing mixtures of absorbing and nonabsorbing particles

    Thomas P. Ackerman;Owen B. Toon

  • Climatic consequences of very high carbon dioxide levels in the earth's early atmosphere.

    James F. Kasting;Thomas P. Ackerman

  • Techniques for the retrieval of aerosol properties over land and ocean using multiangle imaging

    J.V. Martonchik;D.J. Diner;R.A. Kahn;T.P. Ackerman

  • The k-distribution method and correlated-k approximation for a shortwave radiative transfer model.

    Seiji Kato;Thomas P Ackerman;James H Mather;Eugene E Clothiaux

  • Heating rates in tropical anvils

    Thomas P. Ackerman;Kuo-Nan Liou;Francisco P. J. Valero;Leonhard Pfister

  • Millimeter-Wavelength Radars: New Frontier in Atmospheric Cloud and Precipitation Research

    Pavlos Kollias;E. E. Clothiaux;M. A. Miller;B. A. Albrecht

  • Exposing Global Cloud Biases in the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM) Using Satellite Observations and Their Corresponding Instrument Simulators

    J. E. Kay;B. R. Hillman;B. R. Hillman;S. A. Klein;Y. Zhang

  • Observations of the impact of a major Saharan dust storm on the atmospheric radiation balance

    A. Slingo;Thomas P. Ackerman;R. P. Allan;Evgueni I. Kassianov

  • An Evaluation of a 94-GHz Radar for Remote Sensing of Cloud Properties

    E. E. Clothiaux;M. A. Miller;B. A. Albrecht;T. P. Ackerman

  • Ground‐based lidar and radar remote sensing of tropical cirrus clouds at Nauru Island: Cloud statistics and radiative impacts

    Jennifer M. Comstock;Thomas P. Ackerman;Gerald G. Mace

  • Response of earth's atmosphere to increases in solar flux and implications for loss of water from Venus

    James F. Kasting;James B. Pollack;Thomas P. Ackerman

  • A simple formulation of the delta-four-stream approximation for radiative transfer parameterizations

    Kuo-Nan Liou;Qiang Fu;Thomas P. Ackerman

Frequent Co-Authors

Owen B. Toon
Owen B. Toon University of Colorado Boulder
James B. Pollack
James B. Pollack Ames Research Center
Mark A. Miller
Mark A. Miller Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Gerald G. Mace
Gerald G. Mace University of Utah
Qiang Fu
Qiang Fu University of Washington
Roger Davies
Roger Davies University of Auckland
James C. Barnard
James C. Barnard University of Nevada Reno
David D. Turner
David D. Turner National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Ralph A. Kahn
Ralph A. Kahn Goddard Space Flight Center
Dale R. Durran
Dale R. Durran University of Washington

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