Anne M. Thompson
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About
Anne M. Thompson is a leading atmospheric scientist whose research focuses on aerosol optical properties, atmospheric composition, and the complex interactions between air quality and climate. Her most influential work includes a landmark 2012 study using AERONET data to classify aerosol absorption properties—partitioning mineral dust, pollution, smoke, and their mixtures—which has garnered 478 citations and become essential for improving satellite retrievals and climate impact assessments. Thompson played a pivotal role in the SEAC⁴RS field mission (2016, 236 citations), a comprehensive airborne campaign that advanced understanding of atmospheric composition and cloud-climate coupling. Her TIGERZ experiment (2011, 189 citations) provided critical mesoscale insights into aerosol loading over the Indo-Gangetic Plain, linking poor air quality to human health and climate perturbations. More recently, her ground-based High Spectral Resolution Lidar observations (2017) have illuminated aerosol vertical distribution in the southeastern United States. Thompson’s work has been instrumental in developing methods to identify aerosol types from absorption properties, directly supporting global efforts to assess radiative forcing and mitigate air pollution impacts.
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