D. G. Steyn

5.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
112 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

D. G. Steyn is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, D. G. Steyn has authored 112 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Atmospheric Science, 55 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 25 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in D. G. Steyn's work include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (37 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (28 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (28 papers). D. G. Steyn is often cited by papers focused on Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (37 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (28 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (28 papers). D. G. Steyn collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and South Africa. D. G. Steyn's co-authors include T. R. Oke, Glenn T. Johnson, Ian D. Watson, Peter Holland, Ian G. McKendry, Marina Baldi, Scott M. Robeson, R. M. Hoff, P.H. Henning and HH Meissner and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Environmental Science & Technology and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

D. G. Steyn

109 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Simulation of surface urban heat islands under ?ideal? conditions at night part 2: Diagnosis of causation

1991 555 citations D. G. Steyn et al. Boundary-Layer Meteorology profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
D. G. Steyn	2.2k	2.0k	1.9k	1.1k	439	112	4.2k
Mathias W. Rotach	3.9k 1.7×	4.2k 2.1×	4.2k 2.2×	881 0.8×	578 1.3×	138	7.5k
Helen Cleugh	1.2k 0.5×	1.8k 0.9×	3.5k 1.8×	508 0.5×	340 0.8×	67	5.1k
Beniamino Gioli	1.6k 0.7×	1.8k 0.9×	2.5k 1.3×	738 0.7×	84 0.2×	145	5.0k
Martin Best	2.8k 1.2×	2.0k 1.0×	4.6k 2.4×	648 0.6×	401 0.9×	50	6.6k
Gensuo Jia	2.5k 1.1×	1.8k 0.9×	3.4k 1.7×	680 0.6×	342 0.8×	150	6.2k
Dimitrios Melas	2.9k 1.3×	1.6k 0.8×	2.2k 1.1×	1.7k 1.5×	273 0.6×	182	4.4k
Petr Dobrovolný	2.0k 0.9×	543 0.3×	2.3k 1.2×	360 0.3×	121 0.3×	145	3.9k
Susanne Grossman‐Clarke	1.3k 0.6×	2.1k 1.1×	1.7k 0.9×	768 0.7×	422 1.0×	31	3.7k
N. A. Brunsell	963 0.4×	1.3k 0.7×	2.5k 1.3×	471 0.4×	155 0.4×	110	4.0k

Countries citing papers authored by D. G. Steyn

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Fields of papers citing papers by D. G. Steyn

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of D. G. Steyn

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20 of 20 papers shown

Steyn, D. G., et al.. (2025). Executing a successful third shot drop in pickleball. International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching.

Altman, Rachel MacKay, et al.. (2023). Statistical Modelling of the Annual Rainfall Pattern in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Water. 15(4). 700–700. 2 indexed citations

Grossmann, Iris, et al.. (2021). Changing Water Resources Under El Niño, Climate Change, and Growing Water Demands in Seasonally Dry Tropical Watersheds. Water Resources Research. 57(11). 15 indexed citations

Steyn, D. G. & Nadine Chaumerliac. (2016). Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XXIV. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 25 indexed citations

Grossmann, I.E. & D. G. Steyn. (2014). Eliciting climate experts' knowledge to address model uncertainties in regional climate projections: a case study of Guanacaste, Northwest Costa Rica. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2014. 1 indexed citations

Steyn, D. G., et al.. (2014). Dynamical analysis of sea-breeze hodograph rotation in Sardinia. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 14(24). 13471–13481. 15 indexed citations

Steyn, D. G., et al.. (2014). Dynamical analysis of sea-breeze hodograph rotation in Sardinia. 1 indexed citations

Booth, Shawn, Vicky W. Y. Lam, William W. L. Cheung, et al.. (2013). Global deposition of airborne dioxin. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 75(1-2). 182–186. 25 indexed citations

Dennis, Robin L., Alice Gilliland, Steven R. Hanna, et al.. (2010). A framework for evaluating regional-scale numerical photochemical modeling systems. Environmental Fluid Mechanics. 10(4). 471–489. 145 indexed citations

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Rencken, Rupert K., Simon Reif, A. R. Pontin, et al.. (2009). Triptorelin 6-Month Formulation in the Management of Patients with Locally Advanced and Metastatic Prostate Cancer. Clinical Drug Investigation. 29(12). 757–765. 49 indexed citations

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Ainslie, Bruce, et al.. (2009). Application of an entropy-based Bayesian optimization technique to the redesign of an existing monitoring network for single air pollutants. Journal of Environmental Management. 90(8). 2715–2729. 34 indexed citations

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Bräuer, Michael, et al.. (2008). Regional assessment of air pollution exposure during the 1997-98 Southeast Asian air pollution episodes. Open Collections.

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Banta, Robert M., et al.. (2008). Along-Valley Structure of Daytime Thermally Driven Flows in the Wipp Valley. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 47(3). 733–751. 20 indexed citations

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Su, Jason, Michael Bräuer, Bruce Ainslie, et al.. (2007). An innovative land use regression model incorporating meteorology for exposure analysis. The Science of The Total Environment. 390(2-3). 520–529. 89 indexed citations

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Ainslie, Bruce & D. G. Steyn. (2006). A scaling analysis of ozone photochemistry. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 6(12). 4067–4077. 2 indexed citations

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Porson, Aurore, D. G. Steyn, & G. Schayes. (2006). Sea-breeze scaling from numerical model simulations, part II: Interaction between the sea breeze and slope flows. Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 122(1). 31–41. 21 indexed citations

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McKendry, Ian G., et al.. (1998). Lower Tropospheric Ozone Measurements by Light Aircraft Equipped with Chemiluminescent Sonde. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 15(1). 136–143. 8 indexed citations

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Pisano, John T., Ian G. McKendry, D. G. Steyn, & D. R. Hastie. (1997). Vertical nitrogen dioxide and ozone concentrations measured from a tethered balloon in the Lower Fraser Valley. Atmospheric Environment. 31(14). 2071–2078. 36 indexed citations

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Henning, P.H., D. G. Steyn, & HH Meissner. (1993). Effect of synchronization of energy and nitrogen supply on ruminal characteristics and microbial growth1. Journal of Animal Science. 71(9). 2516–2528. 120 indexed citations

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Steyn, D. G.. (1980). The calculation of view factors from fisheye‐lens photographs: Research note. ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN. 18(3). 254–258. 139 indexed citations

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