2026 Steven Businger: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	37	8750	8394	3124	2903	127	11556

Overview

Steven Businger is affiliated with the University of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on fields within Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences.

The main areas of study covered by their work include:

Environmental Science
Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these fields, Businger's research spans several specialized subfields, such as:

Global and Planetary Change
Atmospheric Science
Environmental Engineering
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Aerospace Engineering

Topics featured in the scientist's publications reflect these subfields and include:

Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
Climate variability and models
Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing
Remote Sensing in Agriculture
Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols

Businger has frequently published in these venues:

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Weather and Forecasting
Global Environmental Change

Recent selected papers authored or co-authored by Businger include:

The Secrets of the Best Rainbows on Earth (2020), Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Forecasting seeing for the Maunakea Observatories (2020), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Forecasting seeing for the Maunakea observatories with machine learning (2021), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Two Ensemble Approaches for Forecasting Sulfur Dioxide Concentrations from Kīlauea Volcano (2020), Weather and Forecasting
Global rainbow distribution under current and future climates (2022), Global Environmental Change

Frequent co-authors working alongside Businger include:

T. Cherubini
Frederick Dauphin
Andreea Petric
Andrew W. Stephens
Michelle Ntampaka

Best Publications

GPS Meteorology: Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Water Vapor Using the Global Positioning System

Michael Bevis;Steven Businger;Thomas A. Herring;Christian Rocken

3447
Citations
GPS Meteorology: Mapping Zenith Wet Delays onto Precipitable Water

Michael Bevis;Steven Businger;Steven Chiswell;Thomas A. Herring

1705
Citations
GPS Sounding of the Atmosphere from Low Earth Orbit: Preliminary Results

R. Ware;C. Rocken;F. Solheim;M. Exner

826
Citations
GPS Meteorology: Direct Estimation of the Absolute Value of Precipitable Water

Jingping Duan;Michael Bevis;Peng Fang;Yehuda Bock

733
Citations
Sensing atmospheric water vapor with the global positioning system

Christian Rocken;Randolph Ware;Teresa Van Hove;Fredrick Solheim

537
Citations
GPS/STORM—GPS Sensing of Atmospheric Water Vapor for Meteorology

Christian Rocken;Teresa Van Hove;James Johnson;Fred Solheim

458
Citations
The Promise of GPS in Atmospheric Monitoring

Steven Businger;Steven R. Chiswell;Michael Bevis;Jingping Duan

370
Citations
An Observational Case for the Prevalence of Roll Vortices in the Hurricane Boundary Layer

Ian Morrison;Steven Businger;Frank Marks;Peter Dodge

204
Citations
Sensing Climate Change Using the Global Positioning System

Lester L. Yuan;Richard A. Anthes;Randolph H. Ware;Christian Rocken

203
Citations
Mitigating atmospheric noise for InSAR using a high resolution weather model

J. Foster;B. Brooks;T. Cherubini;C. Shacat

198
Citations
Cyclogenesis in Cold Air Masses

Steven Businger;Richard J. Reed

169
Citations
The synoptic climatology of polar low outbreaks

Steven Businger

141
Citations
Relationships among Lightning, Precipitation, and Hydrometeor Characteristics over the North Pacific Ocean*

Antti T. Pessi;Steven Businger

126
Citations
A Lightning Prediction Index that Utilizes GPS Integrated Precipitable Water Vapor

Robert A. Mazany;Steven Businger;Seth I. Gutman;William Roeder

109
Citations
Hydrological Aspects of Weather Prediction and Flood Warnings: Report of the Ninth Prospectus Development Team of the U.S. Weather Research Program.

Kelvin K. Droegemeier;J. D. Smith;S. Businger;C. Doswell

97
Citations
An overview of the Lagrangian experiments undertaken during the North Atlantic regional Aerosol Characterisation Experiment (ACE-2)

Doug W. Johnson;Simon Osborne;Robert Wood;Karsten Suhre

91
Citations
The Morphology of Eyewall Lightning Outbreaks in Two Category 5 Hurricanes

K. Squires;S. Businger

90
Citations
The Impact of Lightning Data Assimilation on a Winter Storm Simulation over the North Pacific Ocean

Antti T. Pessi;Steven Businger

86
Citations
The synoptic climatology of polar-low outbreaks over the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea

Steven Businger

85
Citations
Physico-chemical modeling of the First Aerosol Characterization Experiment (ACE 1) Lagrangian B: 1. A moving column approach

Karsten Suhre;Céline Mari;Timothy S. Bates;James E. Johnson

84
Citations
SENSING ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR WITH THE GLOBAL POSmONING SYSTEM

Mike Bevis;Steven Businger

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Bevis The Ohio State University

Christian Rocken University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Karsten Suhre Cornell University

Richard A. Anthes University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Thomas A. Herring MIT

Meinrat O. Andreae Max Planck Institute for Chemistry

Jochen Rudolph Keele University

Robert W. Talbot University of Houston

Robert Wood University of Washington

Tamar Elias United States Geological Survey

External Links

Personal website of Steven Businger

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