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Steven Businger publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Steven Businger sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 127 publications — 28th percentile

28% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Steven Businger D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

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

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 37 D-Index — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

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

  • GPS Meteorology: Mapping Zenith Wet Delays onto Precipitable Water

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

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

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

  • GPS Meteorology: Direct Estimation of the Absolute Value of Precipitable Water

    Jingping Duan;Michael Bevis;Peng Fang;Yehuda Bock

  • Sensing atmospheric water vapor with the global positioning system

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

  • GPS/STORM—GPS Sensing of Atmospheric Water Vapor for Meteorology

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

  • The Promise of GPS in Atmospheric Monitoring

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

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

    Ian Morrison;Steven Businger;Frank Marks;Peter Dodge

  • Sensing Climate Change Using the Global Positioning System

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

  • Mitigating atmospheric noise for InSAR using a high resolution weather model

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

  • Cyclogenesis in Cold Air Masses

    Steven Businger;Richard J. Reed

  • The synoptic climatology of polar low outbreaks

    Steven Businger

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

    Antti T. Pessi;Steven Businger

  • A Lightning Prediction Index that Utilizes GPS Integrated Precipitable Water Vapor

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Morphology of Eyewall Lightning Outbreaks in Two Category 5 Hurricanes

    K. Squires;S. Businger

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

    Antti T. Pessi;Steven Businger

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

    Steven Businger

  • 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

  • SENSING ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR WITH THE GLOBAL POSmONING SYSTEM

    Mike Bevis;Steven Businger

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Bevis
Michael Bevis The Ohio State University
Christian Rocken
Christian Rocken University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Karsten Suhre
Karsten Suhre Cornell University
Richard A. Anthes
Richard A. Anthes University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Meinrat O. Andreae
Meinrat O. Andreae Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Jochen Rudolph
Jochen Rudolph Keele University
Robert W. Talbot
Robert W. Talbot University of Houston
Robert Wood
Robert Wood University of Washington
Tamar Elias
Tamar Elias United States Geological Survey

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