Stephen Conley

5.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Stephen Conley is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen Conley has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 43 papers in Atmospheric Science and 10 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Stephen Conley's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (44 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (39 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (10 papers). Stephen Conley is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (44 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (39 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (10 papers). Stephen Conley collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. Stephen Conley's co-authors include I. C. Faloona, Colm Sweeney, E. A. Kort, Stefan Schwietzke, Thomas B. Ryerson, Jeff Peischl, Gabrielle Pétron, A. Karion, R. C. Schnell and Christian Frankenberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Stephen Conley

50 papers receiving 2.5k citations

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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.

California’s methane super-emitters

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Author						Papers	Cites
Stephen Conley	2.1k	1.5k	560	365	312	52	2.5k
David Lyon	2.1k 1.0×	934 0.6×	655 1.2×	561 1.5×	168 0.5×	43	2.4k
Joannes D. Maasakkers	2.8k 1.3×	2.0k 1.3×	356 0.6×	661 1.8×	286 0.9×	74	3.1k
Daniel Zavala‐Araiza	2.1k 1.0×	967 0.7×	473 0.8×	562 1.5×	107 0.3×	50	2.5k
Daniel Cusworth	1.5k 0.7×	917 0.6×	331 0.6×	366 1.0×	282 0.9×	52	1.9k
Andrew K. Thorpe	2.0k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	459 0.8×	403 1.1×	96 0.3×	70	2.5k
Brian H. Stirm	1.3k 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	382 0.7×	166 0.5×	379 1.2×	41	1.7k
Alba Lorente	1.5k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	294 0.5×	284 0.8×	336 1.1×	43	1.8k
Daniel J. Varon	1.7k 0.8×	1.0k 0.7×	258 0.5×	452 1.2×	59 0.2×	54	1.9k
Maria Obiminda Cambaliza	1.4k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	468 0.8×	155 0.4×	506 1.6×	47	1.7k
Yuzhong Zhang	2.3k 1.1×	2.6k 1.8×	846 1.5×	361 1.0×	1.6k 5.2×	92	4.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen Conley

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Dawson, Kyle, et al.. (2025). Quantitative estimate of several sources of uncertainty in drone-based methane emission measurements. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 18(5). 1301–1324. 1 indexed citations

Sweeney, Colm, Abhishek Chatterjee, S. Wolter, et al.. (2022). Using atmospheric trace gas vertical profiles to evaluate model fluxes: a case study of Arctic-CAP observations and GEOS simulations for the ABoVE domain. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 22(9). 6347–6364. 7 indexed citations

Cleary, Patricia, Angela F. Dickens, Joseph P. Hupy, et al.. (2021). Impacts of lake breeze meteorology on ozone gradient observations along Lake Michigan shorelines in Wisconsin. Atmospheric Environment. 269. 118834–118834. 14 indexed citations

Zhang, Li, Meiyun Lin, A. O. Langford, et al.. (2020). Characterizing sources of high surface ozone events in the southwestern US with intensive field measurements and two global models. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 20(17). 10379–10400. 18 indexed citations

Negron, Alan M. Gorchov, E. A. Kort, Stephen Conley, & M. L. Smith. (2020). Airborne Assessment of Methane Emissions from Offshore Platforms in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. Environmental Science & Technology. 54(8). 5112–5120. 37 indexed citations

Daube, Conner, Stephen Conley, I. C. Faloona, et al.. (2019). Using the tracer flux ratio method with flight measurements to estimate dairy farm CH ₄ emissions in central California. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 12(4). 2085–2095. 13 indexed citations

Yu, Xueying, Dylan B. Millet, Kelley C. Wells, et al.. (2019). Top‐Down Constraints on Methane Point Source Emissions From Animal Agriculture and Waste Based on New Airborne Measurements in the U.S. Upper Midwest. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 125(1). 10 indexed citations

Langford, A. O., R. J. Alvarez, Guillaume Kirgis, et al.. (2019). Intercomparison of lidar, aircraft, and surface ozone measurements in the San Joaquin Valley during the California Baseline Ozone Transport Study (CABOTS). Atmospheric measurement techniques. 12(3). 1889–1904. 15 indexed citations

Conley, Stephen, et al.. (2019). Photochemical production of ozone and emissions of NO _x and CH ₄ in the San Joaquin Valley. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 19(16). 10697–10716. 18 indexed citations

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Faloona, I. C., et al.. (2019). Residual layer ozone, mixing, and the nocturnal jet in California's San Joaquin Valley. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 19(7). 4721–4740. 35 indexed citations

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Englander, Jacob, Adam R. Brandt, Stephen Conley, David Lyon, & Robert B. Jackson. (2018). Aerial Interyear Comparison and Quantification of Methane Emissions Persistence in the Bakken Formation of North Dakota, USA. Environmental Science & Technology. 52(15). 8947–8953. 30 indexed citations

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Almaraz, Maya, Edith Bai, Chao Wang, et al.. (2018). Agriculture is a major source of NO _x pollution in California. Science Advances. 4(1). eaao3477–eaao3477. 165 indexed citations

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Almaraz, Maya, Edith Bai, Chao Wang, et al.. (2018). Extrapolation of point measurements and fertilizer-only emission factors cannot capture statewide soil NO _x emissions. Science Advances. 4(9). eaau7373–eaau7373. 5 indexed citations

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Gvakharia, Alexander, E. A. Kort, M. L. Smith, & Stephen Conley. (2018). Testing and evaluation of a new airborne system for continuous N ₂ O, CO ₂ , CO, and H ₂ O measurements: the Frequent Calibration High-performance Airborne Observation System (FCHAOS). Atmospheric measurement techniques. 11(11). 6059–6074. 8 indexed citations

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Vaughn, Timothy, Clay Bell, Tara I. Yacovitch, et al.. (2017). Comparing facility-level methane emission rate estimates at natural gas gathering and boosting stations. Elementa Science of the Anthropocene. 5. 33 indexed citations

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Schwietzke, Stefan, Gabrielle Pétron, Stephen Conley, et al.. (2017). Improved Mechanistic Understanding of Natural Gas Methane Emissions from Spatially Resolved Aircraft Measurements. Environmental Science & Technology. 51(12). 7286–7294. 69 indexed citations

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Thorpe, Andrew K., Christian Frankenberg, David R. Thompson, et al.. (2017). Airborne DOAS retrievals of methane, carbon dioxide, and water vapor concentrations at high spatial resolution: application to AVIRIS-NG. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 10(10). 3833–3850. 77 indexed citations

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Conley, Stephen, I. C. Faloona, Donald H. Lenschow, et al.. (2017). Application of Gauss's theorem to quantify localized surface emissions from airborne measurements of wind and trace gases. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 10(9). 3345–3358. 87 indexed citations

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Conley, Stephen, et al.. (2016). Observing entrainment mixing, photochemical ozone production, and regional methane emissions by aircraft using a simple mixed-layer framework. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 16(24). 15433–15450. 30 indexed citations

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Conley, Stephen, I. C. Faloona, Gregory H. Miller, et al.. (2009). Closing the dimethyl sulfide budget in the tropical marine boundary layer during the Pacific Atmospheric Sulfur Experiment. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 9(22). 8745–8756. 30 indexed citations

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