Sean Davis

11.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
112 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Sean Davis is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sean Davis has authored 112 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 88 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 86 papers in Atmospheric Science and 10 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Sean Davis's work include Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (74 papers), Climate variability and models (52 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (45 papers). Sean Davis is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (74 papers), Climate variability and models (52 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (45 papers). Sean Davis collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Sean Davis's co-authors include Karen H. Rosenlof, R. W. Portmann, Susan Solomon, Kevin M. Grise, J. S. Daniel, T. J. Sanford, Gian‐Kasper Plattner, A. E. Dessler, Paul W. Staten and Tao Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Sean Davis

110 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Contributions of Stratospheric Water Vapor to Decadal Changes in the Rate of Global Warming

2010 908 citations Susan Solomon, Karen H. Rosenlof et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sean Davis United States	38	4.1k	4.1k	525	521	150	112	4.8k
A. E. Dessler United States	42	5.2k 1.3×	5.0k 1.2×	296 0.6×	633 1.2×	75 0.5×	135	5.8k
A. J. Miller United States	33	3.7k 0.9×	3.3k 0.8×	453 0.9×	686 1.3×	153 1.0×	102	4.3k
Eric J. Fetzer United States	38	3.9k 1.0×	3.9k 1.0×	568 1.1×	330 0.6×	57 0.4×	152	4.6k
Steven Pawson United States	49	6.6k 1.6×	5.9k 1.5×	345 0.7×	1.2k 2.2×	346 2.3×	180	7.2k
Dian J. Seidel United States	38	5.1k 1.2×	4.8k 1.2×	535 1.0×	774 1.5×	325 2.2×	55	5.9k
Andrea Molod United States	31	2.8k 0.7×	2.8k 0.7×	524 1.0×	239 0.5×	169 1.1×	100	3.4k
A. Slingo United Kingdom	39	5.2k 1.3×	5.3k 1.3×	344 0.7×	171 0.3×	221 1.5×	78	5.9k
Jason N. S. Cole Canada	29	2.6k 0.6×	3.0k 0.7×	266 0.5×	199 0.4×	113 0.8×	92	3.2k
Byron A. Boville United States	37	6.2k 1.5×	5.5k 1.3×	1.1k 2.0×	1.3k 2.5×	121 0.8×	70	7.0k
Ralf Bennartz United States	40	4.5k 1.1×	3.7k 0.9×	368 0.7×	127 0.2×	172 1.1×	146	5.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Sean Davis

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sean Davis

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sean Davis

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sean Davis. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sean Davis based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sean Davis. Sean Davis is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wright, Jonathon S., Jiao Chen, Sean Davis, et al.. (2025). Evaluating reanalysis representations of climatological trace gas distributions in the Asian monsoon tropopause layer. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 25(17). 9617–9643.

Goetz, J. Douglas, L. Kalnajs, Terry Deshler, et al.. (2023). A fiber-optic distributed temperature sensor for continuous in situ profiling up to 2 km beneath constant-altitude scientific balloons. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 16(3). 791–807. 2 indexed citations

Davis, Sean, Nicholas Davis, R. W. Portmann, Eric Ray, & Karen H. Rosenlof. (2023). The role of tropical upwelling in explaining discrepancies between recent modeled and observed lower-stratospheric ozone trends. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 23(5). 3347–3361. 2 indexed citations

Nowack, Peer, Paulo Ceppi, Sean Davis, et al.. (2023). Response of stratospheric water vapour to warming constrained by satellite observations. Nature Geoscience. 16(7). 577–583. 15 indexed citations

Solomon, Susan, Kane A. Stone, Pengfei Yu, et al.. (2022). On the stratospheric chemistry of midlatitude wildfire smoke. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(10). e2117325119–e2117325119. 57 indexed citations

Garfinkel, Chaim I., et al.. (2022). The roles of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation and El Niño for entry stratospheric water vapor in observations and coupled chemistry–ocean CCMI and CMIP6 models. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 22(11). 7523–7538. 6 indexed citations

Yu, Pengfei, Sean Davis, O. B. Toon, et al.. (2021). Persistent Stratospheric Warming Due to 2019–2020 Australian Wildfire Smoke. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(7). 84 indexed citations

Iglesias‐Suarez, Fernando, Oliver Wild, Douglas E. Kinnison, et al.. (2021). Tropical Stratospheric Circulation and Ozone Coupled to Pacific Multi‐Decadal Variability. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(11). 7 indexed citations

Garfinkel, Chaim I., Jian Rao, Olaf Morgenstern, et al.. (2021). Influence of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation on entry stratospheric water vapor in coupled chemistry–ocean CCMI and CMIP6 models. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 21(5). 3725–3740. 8 indexed citations

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Keeble, James, Birgit Haßler, Antara Banerjee, et al.. (2021). Evaluating stratospheric ozone and water vapor changes in CMIP6 models from 1850-2100 . 2 indexed citations

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Davis, Sean, Robert Damadeo, D. E. Flittner, et al.. (2020). Validation of SAGE III/ISS Solar Water Vapor Data With Correlative Satellite and Balloon‐Borne Measurements. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(2). 13 indexed citations

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Wargan, Krzysztof, N. A. Kramarova, Brad Weir, Steven Pawson, & Sean Davis. (2020). Toward a Reanalysis of Stratospheric Ozone for Trend Studies: Assimilation of the Aura Microwave Limb Sounder and Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite Limb Profiler Data. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 125(4). 12 indexed citations

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Staten, Paul W., Kevin M. Grise, Sean Davis, et al.. (2020). Tropical Widening: From Global Variations to Regional Impacts. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 101(6). E897–E904. 34 indexed citations

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Garfinkel, Chaim I., Olaf Morgenstern, Guang Zeng, et al.. (2019). Influence of Arctic stratospheric ozone on surface climate in CCMI models. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 19(14). 9253–9268. 15 indexed citations

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Yu, Pengfei, O. B. Toon, Charles Bardeen, et al.. (2019). Black carbon lofts wildfire smoke high into the stratosphere to form a persistent plume. Science. 365(6453). 587–590. 190 indexed citations

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Garfinkel, Chaim I., et al.. (2018). Nonlinear response of tropical lower-stratospheric temperature and water vapor to ENSO. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 18(7). 4597–4615. 39 indexed citations

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Adam, Ori, Kevin M. Grise, Paul W. Staten, et al.. (2018). The TropD software package: Standardized methods for calculatingTropical Width Diagnostics. 4 indexed citations

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Garfinkel, Chaim I., et al.. (2017). Nonlinear response of tropical lower stratospheric temperature and water vapor to ENSO. 7 indexed citations

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Davis, Sean, Karen H. Rosenlof, Birgit Haßler, et al.. (2016). The Stratospheric Water and Ozone Satellite Homogenized (SWOOSH) database:a long-term database for climate studies. Earth system science data. 8(2). 461–490. 122 indexed citations

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Davis, Sean. (2009). Global Diversification: A Longitudinal Analysis of Diversification’s Impact on Firm Value. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

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