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31538
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318
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William H. Brune 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 William H. Brune sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 452 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

William H. Brune 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 William H. Brune sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 103 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2003 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

William H. Brune is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans fields related to Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular emphasis on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change subfields. The scientist's work encompasses topics such as atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric ozone and climate, air quality and health impacts, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, air quality monitoring and forecasting, lightning and electromagnetic phenomena, and atmospheric aerosols and clouds.

Their recent publications include studies on diverse aspects of atmospheric chemistry and global atmospheric dynamics. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Global airborne sampling reveals a previously unobserved dimethyl sulfide oxidation mechanism in the marine atmosphere" (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "The NASA Atmospheric Tomography (ATom) Mission: Imaging the Chemistry of the Global Atmosphere" (2021, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society)
  • "Constraining remote oxidation capacity with ATom observations" (2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics)
  • "ATom: Merged Atmospheric Chemistry, Trace Gases, and Aerosols, Version 2" (2021, University of New Hampshire Scholars Repository)
  • "Global Atmospheric Budget of Acetone: Air-Sea Exchange and the Contribution to Hydroxyl Radicals" (2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with William H. Brune include:

  • D. R. Blake
  • D.O. Miller
  • Glenn S. Diskin
  • Kirk Ullmann
  • Samuel R. Hall

William H. Brune's publications have often appeared in specific venues such as:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Atmospheric Environment

The scientist's contributions to the research community have been recognized through fellowships, including being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2013 and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2003.

Best Publications

  • Effects of aging on organic aerosol from open biomass burning smoke in aircraft and laboratory studies

    M. J. Cubison;M. J. Cubison;A. M. Ortega;A. M. Ortega;P. L. Hayes;P. L. Hayes;D. K. Farmer;D. K. Farmer

  • Free Radicals Within the Antarctic Vortex: The Role of CFCs in Antarctic Ozone Loss

    J. G. Anderson;D. W. Toohey;W. H. Brune

  • 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

  • SciENTIFIC AssESSMENT OF OzoNE DEPLETION: 1998

    Daniel L. Albritton;Pieter J. Aucamp;Gerard Megie;Robert T. Watson

  • Laboratory studies of the chemical composition and cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) activity of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) and oxidized primary organic aerosol (OPOA)

    A.T. Lambe;T.B. Onasch;P. Massoli;D.R. Croasdale

  • Highly functionalized organic nitrates in the southeast United States: Contribution to secondary organic aerosol and reactive nitrogen budgets

    Ben H. Lee;Claudia Mohr;Felipe D. Lopez-Hilfiker;Anna Lutz

  • Characterization of aerosol photooxidation flow reactors: heterogeneous oxidation, secondary organic aerosol formation and cloud condensation nuclei activity measurements

    A.T. Lambe;A.T. Ahern;L.R. Williams;J.G. Slowik

  • Introducing the concept of Potential Aerosol Mass (PAM)

    E. Kang;M. J. Root;D. W. Toohey;W. H. Brune

  • OH and HO2 Chemistry in the urban atmosphere of New York City

    Xinrong Ren;Hartwig Harder;Monica Martinez;Robert L. Lesher

  • Characterization of ambient aerosols in Mexico City during the MCMA-2003 campaign with Aerosol Mass Spectrometry: results from the CENICA Supersite

    D. Salcedo;D. Salcedo;T. B. Onasch;K. Dzepina;M. R. Canagaratna

  • Airborne measurement of OH reactivity during INTEX-B

    J. Mao;J. Mao;X. Ren;X. Ren;W. H. Brune;J. R. Olson

  • Relationship between oxidation level and optical properties of secondary organic aerosol.

    Andrew T. Lambe;Christopher D. Cappa;Paola Massoli;Timothy B. Onasch

  • Monoterpenes are the largest source of summertime organic aerosol in the southeastern United States

    Haofei Zhang;Haofei Zhang;Lindsay D. Yee;Ben H. Lee;Michael P. Curtis

  • Surface and Lightning Sources of Nitrogen Oxides over the United States: Magnitudes, Chemical Evolution, and Outflow

    R C Hudman;D J Jacob;S Turquety;Eric M Leibensperger

  • Air quality in North America's most populous city - overview of the MCMA-2003 campaign

    L. T. Molina;C. E. Kolb;B. de Foy;B. de Foy;B. K. Lamb

  • Relationship between aerosol oxidation level and hygroscopic properties of laboratory generated secondary organic aerosol (SOA) particles

    P. Massoli;A.T. Lambe;A.T. Ahern;L.R. Williams

  • Global airborne sampling reveals a previously unobserved dimethyl sulfide oxidation mechanism in the marine atmosphere.

    Patrick R. Veres;J. Andrew Neuman;J. Andrew Neuman;Timothy H. Bertram;Emmanuel Assaf;Emmanuel Assaf

  • Kinetics of O3 destruction by ClO and BrO within the Antarctic vortex: An analysis based on in situ ER‐2 data

    J. G. Anderson;W. H. Brune;S. A. Lloyd;D. W. Toohey

  • Chemistry of HOx radicals in the upper troposphere

    Lyatt Jaeglé;Daniel J. Jacob;William H. Brune;Paul O. Wennberg

  • Atmospheric oxidation capacity in the summer of Houston 2006: Comparison with summer measurements in other metropolitan studies

    Jingqiu Mao;Xinrong Ren;Shuang Chen;William H. Brune

  • DOAS measurement of glyoxal as an indicator for fast VOC chemistry in urban air

    Rainer Volkamer;Luisa T. Molina;Mario J. Molina;Terry Shirley

  • Secondary organic aerosol formation and primary organic aerosol oxidation from biomass-burning smoke in a flow reactor during FLAME-3

    A. M. Ortega;D. A. Day;M. J. Cubison;W. H. Brune

Frequent Co-Authors

Xinrong Ren
Xinrong Ren University of Maryland, College Park
Paul O. Wennberg
Paul O. Wennberg California Institute of Technology
Donald R. Blake
Donald R. Blake University of California, Irvine
James H. Crawford
James H. Crawford Langley Research Center
Alan Fried
Alan Fried University of Colorado Boulder
Allen H. Goldstein
Allen H. Goldstein University of California, Berkeley
John D. Crounse
John D. Crounse California Institute of Technology
Jose L. Jimenez
Jose L. Jimenez University of Colorado Boulder
Jingqiu Mao
Jingqiu Mao University of Alaska Fairbanks
Hartwig Harder
Hartwig Harder Max Planck Institute for Chemistry

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