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Overview

Troy Thornberry is affiliated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States, contributing extensively to Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research primarily focuses on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change, with additional interests in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Environmental Engineering.

The main topics addressed in Thornberry's body of work include Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols, Atmospheric Aerosols and Clouds, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, and Wind and Air Flow Studies.

Thornberry's recent scientific papers cover a range of subjects related to atmospheric conditions and phenomena. Notable publications include:

  • A microphysics guide to cirrus - Part 2: Climatologies of clouds and humidity from observations, 2020, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Rapid ozone depletion after humidification of the stratosphere by the Hunga Tonga Eruption, 2023, Science
  • A Multimodel Investigation of Asian Summer Monsoon UTLS Transport Over the Western Pacific, 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Unexpectedly rapid aerosol formation in the Hunga Tonga plume, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Aerosol characterization in an oceanic context around Reunion Island (AEROMARINE field campaign), 2021, Atmospheric Environment

The researcher frequently collaborates with other contributors in their field. Frequent co-authors include Elizabeth Asher, Andrew W. Rollins, Karen H. Rosenlof, R. S. Gao, and E. Atlas.

Publication venues for Thornberry's work are varied but show a preference for certain journals. The most common venues include the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Geophysical Research Letters, and Science.

Best Publications

  • Missing OH reactivity in a forest: evidence for unknown reactive biogenic VOCs.

    Piero Di Carlo;Piero Di Carlo;William H. Brune;Monica Martinez;Hartwig Harder

  • Black carbon lofts wildfire smoke high into the stratosphere to form a persistent plume.

    Pengfei Yu;Pengfei Yu;Pengfei Yu;Owen B. Toon;Charles G. Bardeen;Yunqian Zhu

  • Characteristics, sources, and transport of aerosols measured in spring 2008 during the aerosol, radiation, and cloud processes affecting Arctic Climate (ARCPAC) Project

    C. A. Brock;J. Cozic;J. Cozic;R. Bahreini;R. Bahreini;K. D. Froyd;K. D. Froyd

  • HO x budgets in a deciduous forest: Results from the PROPHET summer 1998 campaign

    D. Tan;D. Tan;I. Faloona;I. Faloona;J. B. Simpas;W. Brune

  • A microphysics guide to cirrus – Part 2: Climatologies of clouds and humidity from observations

    Martina Krämer;Christian Rolf;Nicole Spelten;Armin Afchine

  • A light-weight, high-sensitivity particle spectrometer for PM2.5 aerosol measurements

    R. S. Gao;H. Telg;R. J. McLaughlin;S. J. Ciciora

  • Efficient transport of tropospheric aerosol into the stratosphere via the Asian summer monsoon anticyclone.

    Pengfei Yu;Karen H. Rosenlof;Shang Liu;Shang Liu;Shang Liu;Hagen Telg;Hagen Telg

  • Heterogeneous reaction of ozone with liquid unsaturated fatty acids: detailed kinetics and gas-phase product studies

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  • Photochemical production of nitrous acid on glass sample manifold surface

    Xianliang Zhou;Yi He;Gu Huang;Troy D. Thornberry

  • Nighttime observations of anomalously high levels of hydroxyl radicals above a deciduous forest canopy

    Ian Faloona;Ian Faloona;Dave Tan;Dave Tan;William Brune;Julia Hurst

  • Measurement and interpretation of isoprene fluxes and isoprene, methacrolein, and methyl vinyl ketone mixing ratios at the PROPHET site during the 1998 Intensive

    E. C. Apel;D. D. Riemer;D. D. Riemer;A. Hills;W. Baugh

  • Extinction and optical depth of contrails

    C. Voigt;C. Voigt;U. Schumann;P. Jessberger;T. Jurkat

  • THE NASA AIRBORNE TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE EXPERIMENT: High-Altitude Aircraft Measurements in the Tropical Western Pacific

    Eric J. Jensen;Leonhard Pfister;David E. Jordan;Thaopaul V. Bui

  • A study of formaldehyde chemistry above a forest canopy

    Ann Louise Sumner;Paul B. Shepson;Tara L. Couch;Troy Thornberry

  • Formation of cloud condensation nuclei by oxidative processing: Unsaturated fatty acids

    Keith E. Broekhuizen;Troy Thornberry;Troy Thornberry;P. Pradeep Kumar;Jonathan P. D. Abbatt

  • Observations of reactive oxidized nitrogen and speciation of NO y during the PROPHET summer 1998 intensive

    Troy Thornberry;Mary Anne Carroll;Gerald J. Keeler;Sanford Sillman

  • Ozone decomposition kinetics on alumina: effects of ozone partial pressure, relative humidity and repeated oxidation cycles

    R. C. Sullivan;R. C. Sullivan;T. Thornberry;T. Thornberry;J. P. D. Abbatt

  • Two decades of water vapor measurements with the FISH fluorescence hygrometer: a review

    J. Meyer;C. Rolf;C. Schiller;S. Rohs

  • Intercomparison of midlatitude tropospheric and lower-stratospheric water vapor measurements and comparison to ECMWF humidity data

    Stefan Kaufmann;Christiane Voigt;Christiane Voigt;Romy Heller;Tina Jurkat-Witschas

  • Development of Community, Capabilities, and Understanding through Unmanned Aircraft-Based Atmospheric Research: The LAPSE-RATE Campaign

    Gijs de Boer;Constantin Diehl;Jamey Jacob;Adam Houston

  • Distribution of lead in single atmospheric particles

    D. M. Murphy;P. K. Hudson;P. K. Hudson;D. J. Cziczo;S. Gallavardin

  • PROPHET 1998 meteorological overview and air‐mass classification

    O. R. Cooper;J. L. Moody;T. D. Thornberry;M. S. Town

Frequent Co-Authors

David W. Fahey
David W. Fahey National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Ru-Shan Gao
Ru-Shan Gao National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Eric J. Jensen
Eric J. Jensen Ames Research Center
Mary Anne Carroll
Mary Anne Carroll University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Karen H. Rosenlof
Karen H. Rosenlof National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Leonhard Pfister
Leonhard Pfister Ames Research Center
Eric J. Hintsa
Eric J. Hintsa Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Christiane Voigt
Christiane Voigt German Aerospace Center
Ian Faloona
Ian Faloona University of California, Davis
William H. Brune
William H. Brune Pennsylvania State University

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