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Overview

David E. Siskind is affiliated with the United States Naval Research Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Earth and Planetary Sciences. Within these domains, their work extensively covers subfields such as Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Oceanography.

The main topics addressed in their research include Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Ionosphere and Magnetosphere Dynamics, Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics, Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols, Astro and Planetary Science, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations.

David E. Siskind has contributed to multiple publications, with frequent appearances in various scientific venues. Notable publication venues where their work has appeared include:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics
  • Earth and Space Science
  • Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics
  • Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

Some of their recent papers are:

  • NRLMSIS 2.0: A Whole-Atmosphere Empirical Model of Temperature and Neutral Species Densities (2020), Earth and Space Science
  • NRLMSIS 2.1: An Empirical Model of Nitric Oxide Incorporated Into MSIS (2022), Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics
  • Trends in the Polar Summer Mesosphere Temperature and Pressure Altitude from Satellite Observations (2021), Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics
  • Coupling From the Middle Atmosphere to the Exobase: Dynamical Disturbance Effects on Light Chemical Species (2020), Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics
  • The Role of Vertically and Obliquely Propagating Gravity Waves in Influencing the Polar Summer Mesosphere (2020), Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

David E. Siskind has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • S. M. Bailey
  • C. E. Randall
  • McArthur Jones
  • Mark E. Hervig
  • D. P. Drob

Best Publications

  • NRLMSIS 2.0: A Whole-Atmosphere Empirical Model of Temperature and Neutral Species Densities

    J. T. Emmert;D. P. Drob;J. M. Picone;D. E. Siskind

  • Loss of the Martian atmosphere to space: Present-day loss rates determined from MAVEN observations and integrated loss through time

    Bruce Jakosky;David Brain;Michael Chaffin;Shannon M. Curry

  • The Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) mission: Overview and early science results

    James M. Russell;Scott M. Bailey;Larry L. Gordley;David W. Rusch

  • NOx descent in the Arctic middle atmosphere in early 2009

    C. E. Randall;V. L. Harvey;D. E. Siskind

  • Case studies of the mesospheric response to recent minor, major, and extended stratospheric warmings

    David. E. Siskind;Stephen. D. Eckermann;John P. McCormack;Larry Coy

  • Ground-based microwave observations of ozone in the upper stratosphere and mesosphere

    Brian J. Connor;David E. Siskind;J. J. Tsou;Alan Parrish

  • Implications of Satellite OH Observations for Middle Atmospheric H2O and Ozone

    M. E. Summers;R. R. Conway;D. E. Siskind;M. H. Stevens

  • High-altitude data assimilation system experiments for the northern summer mesosphere season of 2007

    Stephen D. Eckermann;Karl W. Hoppel;Lawrence Coy;John P. McCormack

  • On Recent Interannual Variability of the Arctic Winter Mesosphere: Implications for Tracer Descent

    David E. Siskind;Stephen D. Eckermann;Lawrence Coy;John P. McCormack

  • Increases in middle atmospheric water vapor as observed by the Halogen Occultation Experiment and the ground-based Water Vapor Millimeter-Wave Spectrometer from 1991 to 1997

    Gerald E. Nedoluha;Richard M. Bevilacqua;R. Michael Gomez;David E. Siskind

  • Solar‐terrestrial coupling: Low‐latitude thermospheric nitric oxide

    Charles A. Barth;W. Kent Tobiska;David E. Siskind;David D. Cleary

  • The response of thermospheric nitric oxide to an auroral storm 1. Low and middle latitudes

    D. E. Siskind;C. A. Barth;R. G. Roble

  • Observations of stratospheric warmings and mesospheric coolings by the TIMED SABER instrument

    D. E. Siskind;L. Coy;P. Espy

  • Global and temporal distribution of meteoric smoke : a two-dimensional simulation study

    Linda Megner;D. E. Siskind;M. Rapp;J. Gumbel

  • Atomic oxygen in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere derived from SABER: Algorithm theoretical basis and measurement uncertainty

    Martin G. Mlynczak;Linda A. Hunt;Jeffrey C. Mast;B. Thomas Marshall

  • Decadal and inter-hemispheric variability in polar mesospheric clouds, water vapor, and temperature

    Mark Hervig;Dave Siskind

  • The possible effect of solar soft X rays on thermospheric nitric oxide

    D. E. Siskind;C. A. Barth;D. D. Cleary

  • First Satellite Observations of Meteoric Smoke in the Middle Atmosphere

    Mark E. Hervig;Larry L. Gordley;Lance E. Deaver;David E. Siskind

  • A new calculation of nitric oxide photolysis in the stratosphere, mesosphere, and lower thermosphere

    K. Minschwaner;D. E. Siskind

  • An assessment of southern hemisphere stratospheric NOx enhancements due to transport from the upper atmosphere

    D. E. Siskind;G. E. Nedoluha;C. E. Randall;M. Fromm

Frequent Co-Authors

James M. Russell
James M. Russell Brown University
Mark E. Hervig
Mark E. Hervig University of Wyoming
Cora E. Randall
Cora E. Randall University of Colorado Boulder
Scott M. Bailey
Scott M. Bailey Virginia Tech
Larry L. Gordley
Larry L. Gordley Langley Research Center
Stephen D. Eckermann
Stephen D. Eckermann United States Naval Research Laboratory
Michael E. Summers
Michael E. Summers George Mason University
Karl W. Hoppel
Karl W. Hoppel United States Naval Research Laboratory
Lawrence Coy
Lawrence Coy Goddard Space Flight Center
Fabrizio Sassi
Fabrizio Sassi United States Naval Research Laboratory

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