Colm Sweeney

41.8k citations
218 papers · 15.9k · 6 hit papers · h-index 65

Impact in

Papers in

  • Global and Planetary Change 196
    • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 193
    • Climate variability and models 25
  • Atmospheric Science 177
    • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols 121
    • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate 80
    • Climate change and permafrost 22
Co-authors
Rik Wanninkhof (9 shared papers)Taro Takahashi (13 shared papers)Pieter P. Tans (42 shared papers)A. Karion (47 shared papers)Stewart C Sutherland (6 shared papers)E. A. Kort (24 shared papers)A. E. Andrews (34 shared papers)Nicolas Metzl (4 shared papers)
Journals
Atmospheric chemistry and physics (29 papers)Atmospheric measurement techniques (22 papers)Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (19 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (15 papers)Geophysical Research Letters (14 papers)
Partner nations
United StatesGermanyJapan

In The Last Decade

Colm Sweeney

216 papers receiving 15.5k citations

Colm Sweeney's Hit Papers

Permafrost carbon emissions in a changing Arctic 2022 · 292 citations
2920+8+16Years since publication4008001.2k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

  • it has ≥500 total citations;
  • it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
  • it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.
  1. 2022 Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  2. 2014 Marine Chemistry
  3. 2013 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  4. 2008 Annual Review of Marine Science
  5. 2007 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  6. 2002 Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography

Peers

Colm Sweeney
Comparison fields: 5 of 145
  • Global and Planetary Change 10.9k
  • Atmospheric Science 8.7k
  • Oceanography 4.4k
  • Environmental Chemistry 1.3k
  • Environmental Engineering 1.4k
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1
Global sea–air CO2 flux based on climatological surface ocean pCO2, and seasonal biological and temperature effects
Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography ·Taro Takahashi, Stewart C Sutherland, Colm Sweeney, Alain Poisson, Nicolas Metzl, Bronte Tilbrook, Nicolas Bates, Rik Wanninkhof, Richard A. Feely, Christopher L. Sabine, Jón Ólafsson, Yukihiro Nojiri
Hit paper breakdown →		20021488
2
An atmospheric perspective on North American carbon dioxide exchange: CarbonTracker
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Wouter Peters, A. R. Jacobson, Colm Sweeney, A. E. Andrews, T. J. Conway, K. A. Masarie, J. B. Miller, L. M. Bruhwiler, Gabrielle Pétron, A. Hirsch, Douglas E. J. Worthy, Guido R. van der Werf, James T. Randerson, P. O. Wennberg, Maarten Krol, Pieter P. Tans
Hit paper breakdown →		2007789
3
Advances in Quantifying Air-Sea Gas Exchange and Environmental Forcing
Annual Review of Marine Science ·Rik Wanninkhof, William E. Asher, David T. Ho, Colm Sweeney, Wade R. McGillis
Hit paper breakdown →		2008556
4
Effect of calcium carbonate saturation state on the calcification rate of an experimental coral reef
Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Chris Langdon, Taro Takahashi, Colm Sweeney, Dave Chipman, J. Goddard, Francesca Marubini, Heather L. Aceves, H. Barnett, Marlin J. Atkinson
2000471
5
Constraining global air‐sea gas exchange for CO2 with recent bomb 14C measurements
Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Colm Sweeney, Emanuel Gloor, A. R. Jacobson, Robert M. Key, Galen A. McKinley, Jorge L. Sarmiento, Rik Wanninkhof
2007420
6
Anthropogenic emissions of methane in the United States
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Scot M. Miller, Steven C. Wofsy, A. M. Michalak, E. A. Kort, A. E. Andrews, Sébastien Biraud, E. J. Dlugokencky, J. Eluszkiewicz, M. L. Fischer, Greet Janssens‐Maenhout, B. R. Miller, J. B. Miller, S. A. Montzka, Thomas Nehrkorn, Colm Sweeney
Hit paper breakdown →		2013393
7
Methane emissions estimate from airborne measurements over a western United States natural gas field
Geophysical Research Letters ·A. Karion, Colm Sweeney, Gabrielle Pétron, G. J. Frost, R. Michael Hardesty, J. Kofler, B. R. Miller, T. Newberger, S. Wolter, Robert M. Banta, Alan Brewer, E. J. Dlugokencky, Patricia Lang, S. A. Montzka, R. C. Schnell, Pieter P. Tans, M. Trainer, R. J. Zamora, Stephen Conley
2013365
8
Climatological distributions of pH, pCO2, total CO2, alkalinity, and CaCO3 saturation in the global surface ocean, and temporal changes at selected locations
Marine Chemistry ·Taro Takahashi, Stewart C Sutherland, D.W. Chipman, J.G. Goddard, Cheng Ho, Timothy Newberger, Colm Sweeney, David R. Munro
Hit paper breakdown →		2014364
9
The reinvigoration of the Southern Ocean carbon sink
Science ·Peter Landschützer, Nicolas Gruber, F. Alexander Haumann, Christian Rödenbeck, Dorothée C. E. Bakker, Steven van Heuven, Mario Hoppema, Nicolas Metzl, Colm Sweeney, Taro Takahashi, Bronte Tilbrook, Rik Wanninkhof
2015312
10
Enhanced Seasonal Exchange of CO 2 by Northern Ecosystems Since 1960
Science ·Heather Graven, Ralph F. Keeling, Stephen C. Piper, Prabir K. Patra, Britton B. Stephens, Steven C. Wofsy, L. R. Welp, Colm Sweeney, Pieter P. Tans, John J. Kelley, Bruce C. Daube, E. A. Kort, G. W. Santoni, J. D. Bent
2013296
11
Permafrost carbon emissions in a changing Arctic
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment ·Kimberley Miner, Merritt R. Turetsky, Edward Malina, Annett Bartsch, Johanna Tamminen, A. D. McGuire, Andreas Fix, Colm Sweeney, Clayton D. Elder, Charles E. Miller
Hit paper breakdown →		2022292
12
Frequency-comb-based remote sensing of greenhouse gases over kilometer air paths
Optica ·Greg Rieker, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, William C. Swann, J. Kofler, A. M. Zolot, Laura C. Sinclair, Esther Baumann, Christopher L. Cromer, Gabrielle Pétron, Colm Sweeney, Pieter P. Tans, Ian Coddington, Nathan R. Newbury
2014286
13
Cold season emissions dominate the Arctic tundra methane budget
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Donatella Zona, Beniamino Gioli, R. Commane, Jakob Lindaas, Steven C. Wofsy, Charles E. Miller, (unknown), Sigrid Dengel, Colm Sweeney, A. Karion, Rachel Chang, John M. Henderson, Patrick Murphy, Jordan P. Goodrich, Virginie Moreaux, Anna Liljedahl, Jennifer D. Watts, John S. Kimball, David A. Lipson, Walter C. Oechel
2015271
14
Global ocean carbon uptake: magnitude, variability and trends
Biogeosciences ·Rik Wanninkhof, Geun‐Ha Park, Taro Takahashi, Colm Sweeney, Richard A. Feely, Yukihiro Nojiri, Nicolas Gruber, Scott C. Doney, Galen A. McKinley, Andrew Lenton, Corinne Le Quéré, Christoph Heinze, Jörg Schwinger, Heather Graven, Samar Khatiwala
2013267
15
High‐resolution atmospheric inversion of urban CO2 emissions during the dormant season of the Indianapolis Flux Experiment (INFLUX)
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Thomas Lauvaux, N. L. Miles, Aijun Deng, Scott J. Richardson, Maria Obiminda Cambaliza, K. J. Davis, Brian Gaudet, K. R. Gurney, Jianhua Huang, D. o'Keefe, Yang Song, A. Karion, Tomohiro Oda, Risa Patarasuk, I. N. Razlivanov, D. P. Sarmiento, P. B. Shepson, Colm Sweeney, Jocelyn Turnbull, Kai Wu
2016253
16
Demonstration of high‐precision continuous measurements of water vapor isotopologues in laboratory and remote field deployments using wavelength‐scanned cavity ring‐down spectroscopy (WS‐CRDS) technology
Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry ·Priya Gupta, David Noone, Joseph Galewsky, Colm Sweeney, Bruce H. Vaughn
2009242
17
Long‐term ozone trends at rural ozone monitoring sites across the United States, 1990–2010
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Owen R. Cooper, R. S. Gao, D. W. Tarasick, Thierry Leblanc, Colm Sweeney
2012235
18
Airborne methane remote measurements reveal heavy-tail flux distribution in Four Corners region
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Christian Frankenberg, Andrew K. Thorpe, David R. Thompson, Glynn Hulley, E. A. Kort, Nick Vance, Jakob Borchardt, T. Krings, Konstantin Gerilowski, Colm Sweeney, Stephen Conley, Brian Bue, A. D. Aubrey, Simon J. Hook, Robert O. Green
2016227
19
Toward a better understanding and quantification of methane emissions from shale gas development
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·D. Caulton, P. B. Shepson, Renee Santoro, Jed P. Sparks, Robert W. Howarth, Anthony R. Ingraffea, Maria Obiminda Cambaliza, Colm Sweeney, A. Karion, K. J. Davis, Brian H. Stirm, S. A. Montzka, B. R. Miller
2014223
20
Reconciling divergent estimates of oil and gas methane emissions
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Daniel Zavala‐Araiza, David Lyon, Ramón A. Alvarez, K. J. Davis, Robert C. Harriss, Scott C. Herndon, A. Karion, E. A. Kort, Brian Lamb, Xin Lan, Anthony J. Marchese, Stephen W. Pacala, Allen L. Robinson, P. B. Shepson, Colm Sweeney, R. W. Talbot, Amy Townsend‐Small, Tara I. Yacovitch, Daniel Zimmerle, Steven P. Hamburg
2015211

About Colm Sweeney

Colm Sweeney is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Environmental Engineering, having authored 218 papers that have together received 15.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (193 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (121 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (80 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (27 papers), Climate variability and models (25 papers), Climate change and permafrost (22 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (16 papers) and Spectroscopy and Laser Applications (16 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (10.9k citations), Atmospheric Science (8.7k citations), Oceanography (4.4k citations), Environmental Chemistry (1.3k citations) and Environmental Engineering (1.4k citations). Colm Sweeney has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and Japan. Frequent co-authors include Rik Wanninkhof, Taro Takahashi, Pieter P. Tans, A. Karion, Stewart C Sutherland, E. A. Kort, A. E. Andrews, Nicolas Metzl, Bronte Tilbrook and J. B. Miller. Their work appears in journals such as Atmospheric chemistry and physics, Atmospheric measurement techniques, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Geophysical Research Letters.

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