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D-Index
103
Citations
30275
World Ranking
1514
National Ranking
795

David Crisp publication distribution in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Physics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David Crisp sits on this spectrum.

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103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 487 publications — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,469 publications or more.

David Crisp D-index placement in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Physics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David Crisp sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 103 D-Index — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 185 D-Index or more.

Overview

David Crisp is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their body of work spans several subfields, including atmospheric science, global and planetary change, astronomy and astrophysics, aerospace engineering, and spectroscopy.

The scientist's research focuses primarily on atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, atmospheric ozone and climate, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, calibration and measurement techniques, spectroscopy and laser applications, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, and planetary science and exploration.

Recent significant publications reflect a focus on carbon cycle monitoring, atmospheric measurements, and planetary exploration. Notable papers include:

  • "OCO-3 early mission operations and initial (vEarly) XCO2 and SIF retrievals" (2020), published in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Toward an Operational Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions Monitoring and Verification Support Capacity" (2020), published in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Advances in quantifying power plant CO2 emissions with OCO-2" (2021), published in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Revealing the Mysteries of Venus: The DAVINCI Mission" (2022), published in The Planetary Science Journal
  • "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" (2022), published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, Remote Sensing of Environment, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, arXiv (Cornell University), and the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

David Crisp collaborates regularly with a group of co-authors who have contributed to their research with multiple joint publications. Frequent collaborators include:

  • C. O'Dell
  • A. Eldering
  • Abhishek Chatterjee
  • Aronne Merrelli
  • Tomohiro Oda

Best Publications

  • The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) mission

    D Crisp;RM Atlas;FM Breon;LR Brown

  • Voyager 2 at neptune: imaging science results.

    B. A. Smith;L. A. Soderblom;D. Banfield;c. Barnet

  • Hubble Space Telescope Observations of the Disk and Jet of HH 30

    Christopher J. Burrows;Christopher J. Burrows;Karl R. Stapelfeldt;Alan M. Watson;John E. Krist

  • THE CORRELATED-k METHOD FOR RADIATION CALCULATIONS IN NONHOMOGENEOUS ATMOSPHERES

    Richard Goody;Robert West;Luke Chen;David Crisp

  • THE PERFORMANCE AND CALIBRATION OF WFPC2 ON THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE

    Jon A. Holtzman;J. Jeff Hester;Stefano Casertano;John T. Trauger

  • Biosignatures from Earth-like planets around M dwarfs

    Antígona Segura;Antígona Segura;James F. Kasting;Victoria Meadows;Martin Cohen

  • The Mars Pathfinder atmospheric structure investigation/meteorology (ASI/MET) experiment

    J.T. Schofield;J.R. Barnes;D. Crisp;R.M. Haberle

  • Precision Requirements for Space-based XCO2 Data

    C. E. Miller;D. Crisp;P. L. DeCola;S. C. Olsen

  • The on-orbit performance of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) instrument and its radiometrically calibrated products

    David Crisp;Harold R. Pollock;Robert Rosenberg;Lars Chapsky

  • Comparisons of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) X CO 2 measurements with TCCON

    Debra Wunch;Debra Wunch;Paul O. Wennberg;Gregory Osterman;Gregory Osterman;Brendan Fisher;Brendan Fisher

  • Contrasting carbon cycle responses of the tropical continents to the 2015–2016 El Niño

    Junjie Liu;Kevin W. Bowman;David S. Schimel;Nicolas C. Parazoo

  • Ozone concentrations and ultraviolet fluxes on Earth-like planets around other stars.

    Antígona Segura;Kara Krelove;Kara Krelove;James F. Kasting;Darrell Sommerlatt

  • Ground-based near-infrared observations of the Venus nightside: The thermal structure and water abundance near the surface

    V. S. Meadows;D. Crisp

  • Orbiting Carbon Observatory: Inverse method and prospective error analysis

    Brian J. Connor;Hartmut Boesch;Geoffrey Toon;Bhaswar Sen

  • Improved retrievals of carbon dioxide from Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 with the version 8 ACOS algorithm

    Christopher W. O'Dell;Annmarie Eldering;Paul O. Wennberg;David Crisp

  • WFPC2 studies of the Crab nebula. I. HST and ROSAT imaging of the synchrotron nebula

    J. Jeff Hester;Paul A. Scowen;Ravi Sankrit;Christopher J. Burrows

  • The ACOS CO 2 retrieval algorithm – Part II: Global X CO 2 data characterization

    D. Crisp;B. M. Fisher;C. O'Dell;C. Frankenberg

  • Near-infrared light from Venus' nightside - A spectroscopic analysis

    James B. Pollack;J.Brad Dalton;David Grinspoon;Richard B. Wattson

  • A method for evaluating bias in global measurements of CO 2 total columns from space

    D. Wunch;P. O. Wennberg;G. C. Toon;B. J. Connor

  • The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) mission

    D. Crisp;P. Ciais;S. Pawson;P. Rayner

Frequent Co-Authors

Gilda E. Ballester
Gilda E. Ballester University of Arizona
John Clarke
John Clarke University of California, Berkeley
Christopher W. O'Dell
Christopher W. O'Dell Colorado State University
Jeremy Mould
Jeremy Mould Swinburne University of Technology
Karl R. Stapelfeldt
Karl R. Stapelfeldt Jet Propulsion Lab
Richard E. Griffiths
Richard E. Griffiths Carnegie Mellon University
Annmarie Eldering
Annmarie Eldering California Institute of Technology
Jon A. Holtzman
Jon A. Holtzman New Mexico State University
Paul O. Wennberg
Paul O. Wennberg California Institute of Technology
Debra Wunch
Debra Wunch University of Toronto

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