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54
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2621
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1085

Overview

Sean Swenson is affiliated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the United States. Their research spans multiple aspects of environmental and earth sciences, focusing extensively on atmospheric and hydrological processes.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these broad fields, their subfields of specialization consist of:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Soil Science
  • Environmental Engineering

Sean Swenson's research addresses numerous key topics such as:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Irrigation Practices and Water Management
  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements

Their recent published works illustrate the diversity of their research interests and include the following papers:

  • Scientific and Human Errors in a Snow Model Intercomparison, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Representation of Plant Hydraulics in the Noah-MP Land Surface Model: Model Development and Multiscale Evaluation, 2021, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Continuity of the Mass Loss of the World's Glaciers and Ice Caps From the GRACE and GRACE Follow-On Missions, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Comparison of Groundwater Storage Changes From GRACE Satellites With Monitoring and Modeling of Major U.S. Aquifers, 2020, Water Resources Research
  • Simulating Agriculture in the Community Land Model Version 5, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Water Resources Research
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)

Collaboration plays an important role in Sean Swenson's work. Frequent coauthors include:

  • David M. Lawrence
  • Daniel Kennedy
  • Hongxiang Yan
  • Hisham Eldardiry
  • Travis Thurber

Best Publications

  • Post‐processing removal of correlated errors in GRACE data

    Sean Swenson;John Wahr

  • The Community Land Model version 5 : description of new features, benchmarking, and impact of forcing uncertainty

    David M. Lawrence;Rosie A. Fisher;Charles D. Koven;Keith W. Oleson

  • Parameterization improvements and functional and structural advances in version 4 of the Community Land Model

    David M Lawrence;Keith W Oleson;Mark G Flanner;Peter E Thornton

  • Accuracy of scaled GRACE terrestrial water storage estimates

    F. W. Landerer;S. C. Swenson

  • Recent contributions of glaciers and ice caps to sea level rise

    Thomas Jacob;John Wahr;W. Tad Pfeffer;W. Tad Pfeffer;Sean Swenson

  • Estimating Geocenter Variations from a Combination of GRACE and Ocean Model Output

    Sean Swenson;Don Chambers;John Wahr

  • Satellites measure recent rates of groundwater depletion in California's Central Valley

    J. S. Famiglietti;M. Lo;S. L. Ho;S. L. Ho;J. Bethune

  • Time-variable gravity from GRACE: First results

    John Wahr;Sean Swenson;Victor Zlotnicki;Isabella Velicogna

  • Dwindling groundwater resources in northern India, from satellite gravity observations.

    V. M. Tiwari;V. M. Tiwari;J. Wahr;S. Swenson

  • Contributions of GRACE to understanding climate change.

    Byron D. Tapley;Michael M. Watkins;Frank Flechtner;Christoph Reigber

  • Quantifying renewable groundwater stress with GRACE

    Alexandra S. Richey;Brian F. Thomas;Min‐Hui Lo;John T. Reager

  • Groundwater depletion in the Middle East from GRACE with implications for transboundary water management in the Tigris-Euphrates-Western Iran region

    Katalyn A. Voss;Katalyn A. Voss;James S. Famiglietti;MinHui Lo;MinHui Lo;Caroline de Linage

  • Improving canopy processes in the Community Land Model version 4 (CLM4) using global flux fields empirically inferred from FLUXNET data

    Gordon B. Bonan;Peter J. Lawrence;Keith W. Oleson;Samuel Levis

  • Methods for inferring regional surface‐mass anomalies from Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) measurements of time‐variable gravity

    Sean Swenson;John Wahr

  • Improving the representation of hydrologic processes in Earth System Models

    Martyn P. Clark;Ying Fan;David M. Lawrence;Jennifer C. Adam

  • Accuracy of GRACE mass estimates

    John Wahr;Sean Swenson;Isabella Velicogna

  • Hillslope Hydrology in Global Change Research and Earth System Modeling

    Ying Fan;M. Clark;D. M. Lawrence;S. Swenson

  • Remote sensing of groundwater storage changes in Illinois using the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)

    Pat J.-F. Yeh;S. C. Swenson;J. S. Famiglietti;M. Rodell

  • Monitoring the water balance of Lake Victoria, East Africa, from space

    Sean Swenson;John Wahr

  • Barriers to predicting changes in global terrestrial methane fluxes: analyses using CLM4Me, a methane biogeochemistry model integrated in CESM

    W. J. Riley;Z. M. Subin;D. M. Lawrence;S. C. Swenson

  • Implementing plant hydraulics in the Community Land Model, Version 5

    Daniel Kennedy;Sean Swenson;Keith W. Oleson;David M. Lawrence

Frequent Co-Authors

David M. Lawrence
David M. Lawrence National Center for Atmospheric Research
John Wahr
John Wahr University of Colorado Boulder
James S. Famiglietti
James S. Famiglietti University of Saskatchewan
Matthew Rodell
Matthew Rodell Goddard Space Flight Center
Min-Hui Lo
Min-Hui Lo National Taiwan University
Andrew G. Slater
Andrew G. Slater Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Keith W. Oleson
Keith W. Oleson National Center for Atmospheric Research
Isabella Velicogna
Isabella Velicogna University of California, Irvine
William R. Wieder
William R. Wieder National Center for Atmospheric Research
Gordon B. Bonan
Gordon B. Bonan National Center for Atmospheric Research

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