Britton B. Stephens

10.3k citations
83 papers · 4.5k · 1 hit paper · h-index 34

Impact in

  • Atmospheric Science top 0.5%
    • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
    • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
    • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
    • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Global and Planetary Change top 0.5%
    • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
    • Climate variability and models
    • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Papers in

  • Global and Planetary Change 66
    • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 64
    • Climate variability and models 21
    • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 5
  • Atmospheric Science 59
    • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols 38
    • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate 26
    • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations 7
Co-authors
Ralph F. Keeling (25 shared papers)David Schimel (8 shared papers)Joshua B. Fisher (1 shared paper)Steven C. Wofsy (14 shared papers)Bruce C. Daube (8 shared papers)A. E. Andrews (5 shared papers)John C. Lin (5 shared papers)Christoph Gerbig (6 shared papers)
Journals
Atmospheric chemistry and physics (10 papers)Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (7 papers)Global Biogeochemical Cycles (5 papers)Atmospheric measurement techniques (4 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (4 papers)
Partner nations
United StatesGermanyJapan

In The Last Decade

Britton B. Stephens

80 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Britton B. Stephens's Hit Papers

Effect of increasing CO 2 on the terrestrial carbon cycle 2014 · 481 citations
4810+4+8Years since publication100200300400
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

  • it has ≥500 total citations;
  • it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
  • it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.
  1. 2014 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Britton B. Stephens
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  • Atmospheric Science 3.0k
  • Global and Planetary Change 3.3k
  • Oceanography 710
  • Environmental Chemistry 425
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 469
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Effect of increasing CO 2 on the terrestrial carbon cycle
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·David Schimel, Britton B. Stephens, Joshua B. Fisher
Hit paper breakdown →		2014481
2
The influence of Antarctic sea ice on glacial–interglacial CO2 variations
Nature ·Britton B. Stephens, Ralph F. Keeling
2000388
3
Enhanced Seasonal Exchange of CO 2 by Northern Ecosystems Since 1960
Science ·Heather Graven, Ralph F. Keeling, Stephen C. Piper, Prabir K. Patra, Britton B. Stephens, Steven C. Wofsy, L. R. Welp, Colm Sweeney, Pieter P. Tans, John J. Kelley, Bruce C. Daube, E. A. Kort, G. W. Santoni, J. D. Bent
2013296
4
Global CO 2 fluxes estimated from GOSAT retrievals of total column CO 2
Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Sourish Basu, Sandrine Guerlet, A. Butz, Sander Houweling, Otto Hasekamp, Ilse Aben, Paul B. Krummel, P. Steele, R. L. Langenfelds, Margaret Torn, Sébastien Biraud, Britton B. Stephens, A. E. Andrews, D. E. J. Worthy
2013201
5
Toward constraining regional‐scale fluxes of CO2 with atmospheric observations over a continent: 2. Analysis of COBRA data using a receptor‐oriented framework
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Christoph Gerbig, John C. Lin, Steven C. Wofsy, Bruce C. Daube, A. E. Andrews, Britton B. Stephens, Peter S. Bakwin, C. A. Grainger
2003201
6
Assessment of ground-based atmospheric observations for verification of greenhouse gas emissions from an urban region
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Kathryn McKain, Steven C. Wofsy, Thomas Nehrkorn, J. Eluszkiewicz, James R. Ehleringer, Britton B. Stephens
2012188
7
Toward constraining regional‐scale fluxes of CO2 with atmospheric observations over a continent: 1. Observed spatial variability from airborne platforms
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Christoph Gerbig, John C. Lin, Steven C. Wofsy, Bruce C. Daube, A. E. Andrews, Britton B. Stephens, Peter S. Bakwin, C. A. Grainger
2003149
8
Long-term urban carbon dioxide observations reveal spatial and temporal dynamics related to urban characteristics and growth
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·L. Mitchell, John C. Lin, D. R. Bowling, Diane E. Pataki, Courtenay Strong, Andrew J. Schauer, Ryan Bares, S. E. Bush, Britton B. Stephens, Daniel Mendoza, Derek V. Mallia, Lacey Holland, K. R. Gurney, James R. Ehleringer
2018142
9
Winter CO2 fluxes in a boreal forest
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·G. Winston, Eric T. Sundquist, Britton B. Stephens, Susan Trumbore
1997135
10
Testing global ocean carbon cycle models using measurements of atmospheric O2 and CO2 concentration
Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Britton B. Stephens, Ralph F. Keeling, Martin Heimann, Katharina Six, Richard J. Murnane, Ken Caldeira
1998134
11
Antarctic sea ice and the control of Pleistocene climate instability
Paleoceanography ·Ralph F. Keeling, Britton B. Stephens
2001125
12
Black carbon over Mexico: the effect of atmospheric transport on mixing state, mass absorption cross-section, and BC/CO ratios
Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·R. Subramanian, Gregory L. Kok, Darrel Baumgardner, A. D. Clarke, Y. Shinozuka, T. Campos, C. G. Heizer, Britton B. Stephens, B. de Foy, P. B. Voss, R. A. Zaveri
2010122
13
Emissions of CH4 and N2O over the United States and Canada based on a receptor‐oriented modeling framework and COBRA‐NA atmospheric observations
Geophysical Research Letters ·E. A. Kort, J. Eluszkiewicz, Britton B. Stephens, J. B. Miller, Christoph Gerbig, Thomas Nehrkorn, Bruce C. Daube, Jed O. Kaplan, Sander Houweling, Steven C. Wofsy
2008110
14
Seasonal variations in the atmospheric O2/N2 ratio in relation to the kinetics of air‐sea gas exchange
Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Ralph F. Keeling, Britton B. Stephens, Raymond G. Najjar, Scott C. Doney, David Archer, Martin Heimann
1998110
15
Influence of El Niño on atmospheric CO 2 over the tropical Pacific Ocean: Findings from NASA’s OCO-2 mission
Science ·Abhishek Chatterjee, Michelle M. Gierach, Adrienne J. Sutton, Richard A. Feely, David Crisp, A. Eldering, M. R. Gunson, C. O’Dell, Britton B. Stephens, David Schimel
2017108
16
Atmospheric mercury concentrations at Storm Peak Laboratory in the Rocky Mountains: Evidence for long-range transport from Asia, boundary layer contributions, and plant mercury uptake
Atmospheric Environment ·Daniel Obrist, A. Gannet Hallar, Ian B. McCubbin, Britton B. Stephens, T. Rahn
200888
17
CO2 transport over complex terrain
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·Jielun Sun, Sean P. Burns, A. C. Delany, Steven Oncley, Andrew A. Turnipseed, Britton B. Stephens, Donald H. Lenschow, Margaret A. LeMone, Russell K. Monson, Dean E. Anderson
200782
18
Revision of global carbon fluxes based on a reassessment of oceanic and riverine carbon transport
Nature Geoscience ·Laure Resplandy, Ralph F. Keeling, Christian Rödenbeck, Britton B. Stephens, Samar Khatiwala, Keith B. Rodgers, Matthew C. Long, Laurent Bopp, Pieter P. Tans
201880
19
The imprint of surface fluxes and transport on variations in total column carbon dioxide
Biogeosciences ·G. Keppel‐Aleks, P. O. Wennberg, R. A. Washenfelder, Debra Wunch, Tapio Schneider, G. C. Toon, R. J. Andres, J.-F. Blavier, B. J. Connor, K. J. Davis, Ankur R. Desai, J. Messerschmidt, Justus Notholt, Coleen M. Roehl, V. Sherlock, Britton B. Stephens, S. A. Vay, Steven C. Wofsy
201278
20
Global atmospheric CO 2 inverse models converging on neutral tropical land exchange, but disagreeing on fossil fuel and atmospheric growth rate
Biogeosciences ·Benjamin Gaubert, Britton B. Stephens, Sourish Basu, Frédéric Chevallier, Feng Deng, E. A. Kort, Prabir K. Patra, Wouter Peters, Christian Rödenbeck, Tazu Saeki, David Schimel, Ingrid T. Luijkx, Steven C. Wofsy, Yi Yin
201971

About Britton B. Stephens

Britton B. Stephens is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Environmental Chemistry, having authored 83 papers that have together received 4.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (64 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (38 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (26 papers), Climate variability and models (21 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (12 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (7 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (7 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Atmospheric Science (3.0k citations), Global and Planetary Change (3.3k citations), Oceanography (710 citations), Environmental Chemistry (425 citations) and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (469 citations). Britton B. Stephens has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and Japan. Frequent co-authors include Ralph F. Keeling, David Schimel, Joshua B. Fisher, Steven C. Wofsy, Bruce C. Daube, A. E. Andrews, John C. Lin, Christoph Gerbig, Peter S. Bakwin and Colm Sweeney. Their work appears in journals such as Atmospheric chemistry and physics, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Atmospheric measurement techniques and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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