Sean Crowell

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 859 citations indexed

About

Sean Crowell is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sean Crowell has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 859 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 27 papers in Atmospheric Science and 4 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Sean Crowell's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (28 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (17 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (12 papers). Sean Crowell is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (28 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (17 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (12 papers). Sean Crowell collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and China. Sean Crowell's co-authors include Berrien Moore, Zheng Shi, Yiqi Luo, Russell Doughty, Xiangming Xiao, P. J. Rayner, Yao Zhang, Xiaocui Wu, Steven R. Utembe and Jean‐Pierre Wigneron and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Sean Crowell

30 papers receiving 844 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.

Carbon loss from forest degradation exceeds that from deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sean Crowell United States	13	693	408	179	123	67	33	859
N. Parazoo United States	20	1.2k 1.7×	808 2.0×	395 2.2×	172 1.4×	37 0.6×	29	1.5k
Olaf Menzer United States	9	731 1.1×	202 0.5×	317 1.8×	104 0.8×	80 1.2×	13	878
T. Sasai Japan	13	406 0.6×	226 0.6×	136 0.8×	43 0.3×	50 0.7×	28	553
Sigrid Dengel Finland	12	565 0.8×	547 1.3×	242 1.4×	64 0.5×	27 0.4×	21	893
Hengmao Wang China	19	732 1.1×	509 1.2×	74 0.4×	110 0.9×	21 0.3×	48	898
Changjiang Wu China	12	611 0.9×	188 0.5×	219 1.2×	193 1.6×	19 0.3×	24	765
Jiawei Xu China	11	403 0.6×	196 0.5×	381 2.1×	147 1.2×	95 1.4×	42	777
Catherine M. Luke United Kingdom	3	538 0.8×	245 0.6×	100 0.6×	37 0.3×	56 0.8×	4	628
Xianglan Li China	13	538 0.8×	137 0.3×	193 1.1×	145 1.2×	103 1.5×	33	751

Countries citing papers authored by Sean Crowell

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sean Crowell

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sean Crowell

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Laughner, Joshua L., C. O’Dell, Steven T. Massie, et al.. (2025). Uncertainty‐Aware Machine Learning Bias Correction and Filtering for OCO‐2: 1. Earth and Space Science. 12(7).

Doughty, Russell, et al.. (2025). Seasonality and synchrony of photosynthesis in African forests inferred from spaceborne chlorophyll fluorescence and vegetation indices. Biogeosciences. 22(8). 1985–2004.

Wimberly, Michael C., et al.. (2024). Increasing Fire Activity in African Tropical Forests Is Associated With Deforestation and Climate Change. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(9). 15 indexed citations

McGarragh, Gregory, C. O’Dell, Sean Crowell, et al.. (2024). The GeoCarb greenhouse gas retrieval algorithm: simulations and sensitivity to sources of uncertainty. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 17(3). 1091–1121.

Crowell, Sean, et al.. (2023). Atmospheric Variations in Summertime Column Integrated CO ₂ on Synoptic Scales Over the U.S.. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 128(6). 1 indexed citations

Wang, Jun, Ning Zeng, Meirong Wang, et al.. (2023). Anomalous Net Biome Exchange Over Amazonian Rainforests Induced by the 2015/16 El Niño: Soil Dryness‐Shaped Spatial Pattern but Temperature‐dominated Total Flux. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(11). 4 indexed citations

Crowell, Sean, et al.. (2023). Performance and polarization response of slit homogenizers for the GeoCarb mission. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 16(1). 195–208. 4 indexed citations

Crowell, Sean, et al.. (2023). A nonlinear data-driven approach to bias correction of XCO ₂ for NASA's OCO-2 ACOS version 10. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 16(23). 5725–5748. 9 indexed citations

Crowell, Sean, A. E. Schuh, D. F. Baker, et al.. (2022). Four years of global carbon cycle observed from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 (OCO-2) version 9 and in situ data and comparison to OCO-2 version 7. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 22(2). 1097–1130. 72 indexed citations

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Crowell, Sean, et al.. (2022). Optimizing 4 years of CO ₂ biospheric fluxes from OCO-2 and in situ data in TM5: fire emissions from GFED and inferred from MOPITT CO data. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 22(24). 15817–15849. 4 indexed citations

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Zhang, Li, K. J. Davis, A. E. Schuh, et al.. (2022). Multi‐Season Evaluation of CO₂ Weather in OCO‐2 MIP Models. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 127(2). 6 indexed citations

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Crowell, Sean, A. E. Schuh, D. F. Baker, et al.. (2021). Four years of global carbon cycle observed from OCO-2 version 9 and in situ data, and comparison to OCO-2 v7. 7 indexed citations

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Li, Xiaolan, Xiao‐Ming Hu, Changjie Cai, et al.. (2020). Terrestrial CO₂ Fluxes, Concentrations, Sources and Budget in Northeast China: Observational and Modeling Studies. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 125(6). 23 indexed citations

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Crowell, Sean, Chris O’Dell, Eric B. Burgh, et al.. (2019). Characterizing the Effects of Inhomogeneous Scene Illumination on the Retrieval of Greenhouse Gases from a Geostationary Platform. 1 indexed citations

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Crowell, Sean, et al.. (2019). A scanning strategy optimized for signal-to-noise ratio for the Geostationary Carbon Cycle Observatory (GeoCarb) instrument. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 12(6). 3317–3334. 8 indexed citations

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Shi, Zheng, Sean Crowell, Yiqi Luo, & Berrien Moore. (2018). Model structures amplify uncertainty in predicted soil carbon responses to climate change. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2171–2171. 97 indexed citations

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Crowell, Sean, et al.. (2018). An SNR-Optimized Scanning Strategy for Geostationary Carbon Cycle Observatory (GeoCarb) Instrument. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 1 indexed citations

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Hu, Xiao‐Ming, Sean Crowell, Ming Xue, et al.. (2018). Evaluation of WRF-VPRM CO 2 Dynamical Downscaling over the Contiguous United States Using the ACT-America Data. 1 indexed citations

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Crowell, Sean, et al.. (2015). Impacts of atmospheric state uncertainty on O ₂ measurement requirements for the ASCENDS mission. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 8(7). 2685–2697. 3 indexed citations

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Rayner, P. J., Steven R. Utembe, & Sean Crowell. (2014). Constraining regional greenhouse gas emissions using geostationary concentration measurements: a theoretical study. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 7(10). 3285–3293. 41 indexed citations

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