2026 Thomas Peter: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	96	464	439	15	15	406	27346

Overview

Thomas Peter is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and has a substantial body of research primarily focused on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work concentrates significantly on Atmospheric Science and related subfields, contributing extensively to understanding atmospheric processes and environmental changes.

The scientist's research spans several connected topics, including:

Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
Infection Control and Ventilation
Respiratory viral infections research
Climate Change and Geoengineering

Frequent publication venues for Thomas Peter include:

Atmospheric chemistry and physics
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Geoscientific model development
Environmental Science & Technology

Collaborative research is a notable aspect of this scientist's academic profile. Their frequent co-authors are:

Beiping Luo
Ulrich K. Krieger
Nir Bluvshtein
Aline Schaub
Irina Glas

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Thomas Peter include:

European aerosol phenomenology − 8: Harmonised source apportionment of organic aerosol using 22 Year-long ACSM/AMS datasets (2022, Environment International)
Polar Stratospheric Clouds: Satellite Observations, Processes, and Role in Ozone Depletion (2021, Reviews of Geophysics)
A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago (2021, Science)
Reductions in the deposition of sulfur and selenium to agricultural soils pose risk of future nutrient deficiencies (2021, Communications Earth & Environment)
Photolytic radical persistence due to anoxia in viscous aerosol particles (2021, Nature Communications)

Best Publications

Water activity as the determinant for homogeneous ice nucleation in aqueous solutions

Thomas Koop;Beiping Luo;Athanasios Tsias;Thomas Peter

1715
Citations
Stratospheric aerosol growth and HNO3 gas phase depletion from coupled HNO3 and water uptake by liquid particles

K. S. Carslaw;B. P. Luo;S. L. Clegg;Th. Peter

489
Citations
New and extended parameterization of the thermodynamic model AIOMFAC: calculation of activity coefficients for organic-inorganic mixtures containing carboxyl, hydroxyl, carbonyl, ether, ester, alkenyl, alkyl, and aromatic functional groups

A. Zuend;C. Marcolli;A. M. Booth;D. M. Lienhard;D. M. Lienhard

442
Citations
A thermodynamic model of mixed organic-inorganic aerosols to predict activity coefficients

A. Zuend;C. Marcolli;B. P. Luo;Th. Peter

407
Citations
An analytic expression for the composition of aqueous HNO3‐H2SO4 stratospheric aerosols including gas phase removal of HNO3

Kenneth S. Carslaw;Beiping Luo;Thomas Peter

387
Citations
The detection of large HNO3-containing particles in the winter Arctic stratosphere.

D. W. Fahey;R. S. Gao;K. S. Carslaw;J. Kettleborough

368
Citations
Mixing of the Organic Aerosol Fractions: Liquids as the Thermodynamically Stable Phases

Claudia Marcolli;Beiping Luo;Thomas Peter

366
Citations
Evidence for a continuous decline in lower stratospheric ozone offsetting ozone layer recovery

William T. Ball;Justin Alsing;Justin Alsing;Daniel J. Mortlock;Daniel J. Mortlock;Johannes Staehelin

364
Citations
MICROPHYSICS AND HETEROGENEOUS CHEMISTRY OF POLAR STRATOSPHERIC CLOUDS

Thomas Peter

349
Citations
Overview of IGAC/SPARC Chemistry-Climate Model Initiative (CCMI) Community Simulations in Support of Upcoming Ozone and Climate Assessments

Veronika Eyring;Jean-François Lamarque;Peter Hess;Florian Arfeuille

336
Citations
Stratospheric water vapor predicted from the Lagrangian temperature history of air entering the stratosphere in the tropics

S. Fueglistaler;M. Bonazzola;P.H. Haynes;Thomas Peter

329
Citations
Efficiency of immersion mode ice nucleation on surrogates of mineral dust

C. Marcolli;S. Gedamke;T. Peter;B. Zobrist

320
Citations
Unprecedented evidence for deep convection hydrating the tropical stratosphere

T. Corti;B. P. Luo;M. de Reus;D. Brunner

312
Citations
Arctic Ozone Loss Due to Denitrification

A. E. Waibel;Th. Peter;K. S. Carslaw;H. Oelhaf

303
Citations
A global space-based stratospheric aerosol climatology: 1979–2016

Larry W. Thomason;Nicholas Ernest;Luis Millán;Landon Rieger

290
Citations
The Impact of Geoengineering Aerosols on Stratospheric Temperature and Ozone

P. Heckendorn;D. Weisenstein;Stephan Andreas Fueglistaler;B. P. Luo

286
Citations
Ultra-slow water diffusion in aqueous sucrose glasses

Bernhard Zobrist;Bernhard Zobrist;Vacharaporn Soonsin;Bei P. Luo;Ulrich K. Krieger

286
Citations
Modeling the composition of liquid stratospheric aerosols

Kenneth S. Carslaw;Thomas Peter;Simon L. Clegg

283
Citations
Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation Rate Coefficient of Water Droplets Coated by a Nonadecanol Monolayer

B. Zobrist;Thomas Koop;B. P. Luo;C. Marcolli

272
Citations
Increased stratospheric ozone depletion due to mountain-induced atmospheric waves

Kenneth S. Carslaw;Martin Wirth;A. Tsias;B.P. Luo

267
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Eugene Rozanov Saint Petersburg State University

Andrea Stenke ETH Zurich

Claudia Marcolli ETH Zurich

Johannes Staehelin ETH Zurich

Beiping Luo ETH Zurich

Christopher R. Hoyle Paul Scherrer Institute

Kenneth S. Carslaw University of Leeds

Stefan Brönnimann University of Bern

Thomas Koop Bielefeld University

Holger Vömel National Center for Atmospheric Research

External Links

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