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Steven Pawson is affiliated with the Goddard Space Flight Center in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within Earth and planetary sciences alongside environmental science, contributing to a total of 33 and 32 publications in these fields respectively. The main subfields of their work include atmospheric science, global and planetary change, astronomy and astrophysics, oceanography, and health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

The primary focus areas of Pawson's research encompass atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, atmospheric ozone and climate, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics, and solar and space plasma dynamics.

Their frequent publication venues are as follows:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Steven Pawson has contributed to several papers, including:

  • Description of the NASA GEOS Composition Forecast Modeling System GEOS-CF v1.0, 2021, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • GEOS-S2S Version 2: The GMAO High-Resolution Coupled Model and Assimilation System for Seasonal Prediction, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Regional impacts of COVID-19 on carbon dioxide detected worldwide from space, 2021, Science Advances
  • Mechanisms Linked to Recent Ozone Decreases in the Northern Hemisphere Lower Stratosphere, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Stratospheric Circulation Changes Associated With the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai Eruption, 2022, Geophysical Research Letters

The scientist collaborates frequently with several peers, including:

  • Lesley Ott
  • Lawrence Coy
  • Brad Weir
  • Christoph A. Keller
  • Tomohiro Oda

Best Publications

  • The Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2)

    Ronald Gelaro;Will McCarty;Max J. Suárez;Max J. Suárez;Ricardo Todling

  • MERRA: NASA’s Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications

    Michele M. Rienecker;Max J. Suarez;Ronald Gelaro;Ricardo Todling

  • The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) mission

    D Crisp;RM Atlas;FM Breon;LR Brown

  • Assessment of temperature, trace species, and ozone in chemistry-climate model simulations of the recent past

    V. Eyring;N. Butchart;D. W. Waugh;H. Akiyoshi

  • Validation of the Aura Microwave Limb Sounder temperature and geopotential height measurements

    M. Schwartz;A. Lambert;G.L. Manney;G.L. Manney;W.G. Read

  • Precision Requirements for Space-based XCO2 Data

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

  • Aura Microwave Limb Sounder Observations of Dynamics and Transport During the Record-Breaking 2009 Arctic Stratospheric Major Warming

    Gloria L. Manney;Gloria L. Manney;Michael J. Schwartz;Kirstin Krüger;Michelle L. Santee

  • The impact of stratospheric ozone recovery on the Southern Hemisphere westerly jet.

    S.-W. Son;L. M. Polvani;D. W. Waugh;H. Akiyoshi

  • Multimodel projections of stratospheric ozone in the 21st century

    V. Eyring;D. W. Waugh;G. E. Bodeker;Eugene C. Cordero

  • Plantation forests, climate change and biodiversity

    S. M. Pawson;A. Brin;E. G. Brockerhoff;D. Lamb

  • Introduction to the SPARC Reanalysis Intercomparison Project (S-RIP) and overview of the reanalysis systems

    Masatomo Fujiwara;Jonathon S. Wright;Gloria L. Manney;Lesley J. Gray

  • Uncertainties and assessments of chemistry-climate models of the stratosphere

    J. Austin;D. Shindell;S. R. Beagley;C. Bruhl

  • Chemistry-Climate Model Simulations of Twenty- First Century Stratospheric Climate and Circulation Changes

    Neal Butchart;I. Cionni;V. Eyring;T. G. Shepherd

  • The remarkable 2003–2004 winter and other recent warm winters in the Arctic stratosphere since the late 1990s

    Gloria L. Manney;Gloria L. Manney;Kirstin Krüger;Kirstin Krüger;Joseph L. Sabutis;Sara Amina Sena

  • Documentation and Validation of the Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) Data Assimilation System, Version 4

    Max J. Suarez;Arlindo daSilva;Dick Dee;Stephen Bloom

  • The SPARC Intercomparison of Middle-Atmosphere Climatologies.

    William Randel;Petra Udelhofen;Eric Fleming;Marvin Geller

  • Persistence of the lower stratospheric polar vortices

    Darryn W. Waugh;William J. Randel;Steven Pawson;Paul A. Newman

  • Satellite Data of Atmospheric Pollution for U.S. Air Quality Applications: Examples of Applications, Summary of Data End-User Resources, Answers to FAQs, and Common Mistakes to Avoid

    Bryan Neal Duncan;Ana Prados;Ana Prados;Lok N. Lamsal;Lok N. Lamsal;Yang Liu

  • HEMCO v1.0: A Versatile, ESMF-Compliant Component for Calculating Emissions in Atmospheric Models

    Christoph Andrea Keller;Michael Smither Long;Robert M. Yantosca;A. M. Da Silva

  • The evolution of the stratopause during the 2006 major warming: Satellite data and assimilated meteorological analyses

    Gloria L. Manney;Gloria L. Manney;Kirstin Krüger;Steven Pawson;Ken Minschwaner

  • Impact of stratospheric ozone hole recovery on Antarctic climate

    Judith Perlwitz;Judith Perlwitz;Steven Pawson;Ryan L. Fogt;J. Eric Nielsen

  • The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) mission

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Newman
Paul Newman Goddard Space Flight Center
Richard S. Stolarski
Richard S. Stolarski Johns Hopkins University
Darryn W. Waugh
Darryn W. Waugh Johns Hopkins University
Anne R. Douglass
Anne R. Douglass Goddard Space Flight Center
Gloria L. Manney
Gloria L. Manney Northwest Research Associates
Luke D. Oman
Luke D. Oman Goddard Space Flight Center
Theodore G. Shepherd
Theodore G. Shepherd University of Reading
Andrea Molod
Andrea Molod Goddard Space Flight Center
Martyn P. Chipperfield
Martyn P. Chipperfield University of Leeds
Eugene Rozanov
Eugene Rozanov Saint Petersburg State University

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