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W. D. Pesnell

Goddard Space Flight Center ORCID

293

Works

6,213

Citations

31

h-index

49

i10-index

Research Topics

Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics Astro and Planetary Science Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies

Affiliations

New Mexico State University1989–1989

Goddard Space Flight Center1990–2024

National Institute of Standards and Technology1985–1987

Los Alamos National Laboratory1988–1988

Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics1985–1987

Top Works

The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)

W. D. Pesnell,B. J. Thompson,et al.

20113,275 citations

Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics

Atmospheric Ozone and Climate

SABER observations of mesospheric temperatures and comparisons with falling sphere measurements taken during the 2002 summer MaCWAVE campaign

Christopher J. Mertens,Francis J. Schmidlin,et al.

2004216 citations

Predictions of Solar Cycle 24

2008190 citations

The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)

W. D. Pesnell,B. J. Thompson,et al.

2011140 citations

Solar Cycle Predictions (Invited Review)

2012134 citations

An Early Prediction of the Amplitude of Solar Cycle 25

W. D. Pesnell,Kenneth H. Schatten

2018109 citations

An Early Solar Dynamo Prediction: Cycle 23 ∼ Cycle 22

Kenneth H. Schatten,W. D. Pesnell

1993109 citations

DECIPHERING SOLAR MAGNETIC ACTIVITY. I. ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SUNSPOT CYCLE AND THE EVOLUTION OF SMALL MAGNETIC FEATURES

Scott W. McIntosh,Xin Wang,et al.

2014101 citations

Thermospheric gravity waves: Observations and interpretation using the transfer function model (TFM)

H. G. Mayr,I. Harris,et al.

1990100 citations