First-authored, refereed papers of Mathew Owens

A list of first-authored, refereed publications of Mathew Owens, derived from the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS). The number in brackets after each title indicates the number of citations that the paper has received.

Orcid ID: 0000-0003-2061-2453

List of publications ordered by citations
Number of papers: 60
No. of citations: 2595

2026

  1. Driving Dynamical Inner-Heliosphere Models With In Situ Solar Wind Observations [0]
    Owens, M. J., Barnard, L. A., Turner, H., Gyeltshen, D., Edward-Inatimi, N., O'Donoghue, J., Lockwood, M., Watson, S., Rutala, M., Jackman, C. M. & Riley, P., Space Weather, 24, e2025SW004675

2025

  1. Implications of Using Spheroidal "Cone Model" CMEs in Solar-Wind Models [2]
    Owens, M. J., Barnard, L. A., Verbeke, C., McGinness, B. P. S., Turner, H., Chi, Y., Gyeltshen, D. & Lockwood, M., Space Weather, 23, e2025SW004397

2024

  1. A Geomagnetic Estimate of Heliospheric Modulation Potential over the Last 175 Years [3]
    Owens, Mathew J., Barnard, Luke A., Muscheler, Raimund, Herbst, Konstantin, Lockwood, Mike, Usoskin, Ilya & Asvestari, Eleanna, Solar Physics, 299, 84

2023

  1. Annual Variations in the Near-Earth Solar Wind [2]
    Owens, Mathew J., Lockwood, Mike, Barnard, Luke A., Yardley, Stephanie L., Hietala, Heli, LaMoury, Adrian T. & Vuorinen, Laura, Solar Physics, 298, 111

2022

  1. Solar Energetic-Particle Ground-Level Enhancements and the Solar Cycle [7]
    Owens, Mathew J., Barnard, Luke A., Pope, Benjamin J. S., Lockwood, Mike, Usoskin, Ilya & Asvestari, Eleanna, Solar Physics, 297, 105
  2. Rate of Change of Large-Scale Solar-Wind Structure [9]
    Owens, Mathew J., Chakraborty, Nachiketa, Turner, Harriet, Lang, Matthew, Riley, Pete, Lockwood, Mike, Barnard, Luke A. & Chi, Yutian, Solar Physics, 297, 83

2021

  1. Extreme Space-Weather Events and the Solar Cycle [48]
    Owens, Mathew J., Lockwood, Mike, Barnard, Luke A., Scott, Chris J., Haines, Carl & Macneil, Allan, Solar Physics, 296, 82
  2. Using in situ solar-wind observations to generate inner-boundary conditions to outer-heliosphere simulations - I. Dynamic time warping applied to synthetic observations [7]
    Owens, Mathew J. & Nichols, Jonathan D., MNRAS, 508, 2575

2020

  1. The Value of CME Arrival Time Forecasts for Space Weather Mitigation [17]
    Owens, M. J., Lockwood, M. & Barnard, L. A., Space Weather, 18, e02507
  2. A Computationally Efficient, Time-Dependent Model of the Solar Wind for Use as a Surrogate to Three-Dimensional Numerical Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations [59]
    Owens, Mathew, Lang, Matthew, Barnard, Luke, Riley, Pete, Ben-Nun, Michal, Scott, Chris J., Lockwood, Mike, Reiss, Martin A., Arge, Charles N. & Gonzi, Siegfried, Solar Physics, 295, 43
  3. Signatures of Coronal Loop Opening via Interchange Reconnection in the Slow Solar Wind at 1 AU [22]
    Owens, Mathew, Lockwood, Mike, Macneil, Allan & Stansby, David, Solar Physics, 295, 37
  4. Coherence of Coronal Mass Ejections in Near-Earth Space [18]
    Owens, Mathew J., Solar Physics, 295, 148
  5. Quantifying the latitudinal representivity of in situ solar wind observations [18]
    Owens, Mathew J., Lang, Matthew, Riley, Pete, Lockwood, Mike & Lawless, Amos S., Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate, 10, 8

2019

  1. Near-Earth Solar Wind Forecasting Using Corotation From L5: The Error Introduced By Heliographic Latitude Offset [20]
    Owens, M. J., Riley, P., Lang, M. & Lockwood, M., Space Weather, 17, 1105
  2. Towards Construction of a Solar Wind "Reanalysis" Dataset: Application to the First Perihelion Pass of Parker Solar Probe [5]
    Owens, Mathew J., Lang, Matthew, Riley, Pete & Stansby, David, Solar Physics, 294, 83

2018

  1. Ion Charge States and Potential Geoeffectiveness: The Role of Coronal Spectroscopy for Space-Weather Forecasting [8]
    Owens, M. J., Lockwood, M. & Barnard, L. A., Space Weather, 16, 694
  2. Solar Wind and Heavy Ion Properties of Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections [31]
    Owens, M. J., Solar Physics, 293, 122
  3. Time-Window Approaches to Space-Weather Forecast Metrics: A Solar Wind Case Study [28]
    Owens, Mathew J., Space Weather, 16, 1847
  4. Generation of Inverted Heliospheric Magnetic Flux by Coronal Loop Opening and Slow Solar Wind Release [22]
    Owens, Mathew J., Lockwood, Mike, Barnard, Luke A. & MacNeil, Allan R., ApJ, 868, L14

2017

  1. Probabilistic Solar Wind and Geomagnetic Forecasting Using an Analogue Ensemble or "Similar Day" Approach [34]
    Owens, M. J., Riley, P. & Horbury, T. S., Solar Physics, 292, 69
  2. Global solar wind variations over the last four centuries [63]
    Owens, M. J., Lockwood, M. & Riley, P., Scientific Reports, 7, 41548
  3. Coronal mass ejections are not coherent magnetohydrodynamic structures [80]
    Owens, M. J., Lockwood, M. & Barnard, L. A., Scientific Reports, 7, 4152
  4. Sunward Strahl: A Method to Unambiguously Determine Open Solar Flux from In Situ Spacecraft Measurements Using Suprathermal Electron Data [36]
    Owens, M. J., Lockwood, M., Riley, P. & Linker, J., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 122, 10,980
  5. Probabilistic Solar Wind Forecasting Using Large Ensembles of Near-Sun Conditions With a Simple One-Dimensional "Upwind" Scheme [40]
    Owens, Mathew J. & Riley, Pete, Space Weather, 15, 1461
  6. The Maunder minimum and the Little Ice Age: an update from recent reconstructions and climate simulations [72]
    Owens, Mathew J., Lockwood, Mike, Hawkins, Ed, Usoskin, Ilya, Jones, Gareth S., Barnard, Luke, Schurer, Andrew & Fasullo, John, Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate, 7, A33

2016

  1. Near-Earth heliospheric magnetic field intensity since 1750: 2. Cosmogenic radionuclide reconstructions [22]
    Owens, M. J., Cliver, E., McCracken, K. G., Beer, J., Barnard, L., Lockwood, M., Rouillard, A., Passos, D., Riley, P., Usoskin, I. & Wang, Y.-M., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 121, 6064
  2. Near-Earth heliospheric magnetic field intensity since 1750: 1. Sunspot and geomagnetic reconstructions [31]
    Owens, M. J., Cliver, E., McCracken, K. G., Beer, J., Barnard, L., Lockwood, M., Rouillard, A., Passos, D., Riley, P., Usoskin, I. & Wang, Y.-M., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 121, 6048
  3. Do the Legs of Magnetic Clouds Contain Twisted Flux-rope Magnetic Fields? [34]
    Owens, M. J., ApJ, 818, 197

2015

  1. Lightning as a space-weather hazard: UK thunderstorm activity modulated by the passage of the heliospheric current sheet [21]
    Owens, M. J., Scott, C. J., Bennett, A. J., Thomas, S. R., Lockwood, M., Harrison, R. G. & Lam, M. M., Geophysical Research Letters, 42, 9624
  2. The heliospheric Hale cycle over the last 300 years and its implications for a "lost" late 18th century solar cycle [20]
    Owens, Mathew J., McCracken, Ken G., Lockwood, Mike & Barnard, Luke, Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate, 5, A30

2014

  1. Ensemble downscaling in coupled solar wind-magnetosphere modeling for space weather forecasting [28]
    Owens, M. J., Horbury, T. S., Wicks, R. T., McGregor, S. L., Savani, N. P. & Xiong, M., Space Weather, 12, 395
  2. Solar cycle evolution of dipolar and pseudostreamer belts and their relation to the slow solar wind [45]
    Owens, M. J., Crooker, N. U. & Lockwood, M., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 119, 36
  3. Modulation of UK lightning by heliospheric magnetic field polarity [26]
    Owens, M. J., Scott, C. J., Lockwood, M., Barnard, L., Harrison, R. G., Nicoll, K., Watt, C. & Bennett, A. J., Environmental Research Letters, 9, 115009

2013

  1. A 27 day persistence model of near-Earth solar wind conditions: A long lead-time forecast and a benchmark for dynamical models [81]
    Owens, M. J., Challen, R., Methven, J., Henley, E. & Jackson, D. R., Space Weather, 11, 225
  2. Solar origin of heliospheric magnetic field inversions: Evidence for coronal loop opening within pseudostreamers [70]
    Owens, M. J., Crooker, N. U. & Lockwood, M., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 118, 1868
  3. The Heliospheric Magnetic Field [243]
    Owens, Mathew J. & Forsyth, Robert J., Living Reviews in Solar Physics, 10, 5

2012

  1. Implications of Non-cylindrical Flux Ropes for Magnetic Cloud Reconstruction Techniques and the Interpretation of Double Flux Rope Events [33]
    Owens, M. J., Démoulin, P., Savani, N. P., Lavraud, B. & Ruffenach, A., Solar Physics, 278, 435
  2. Cyclic loss of open solar flux since 1868: The link to heliospheric current sheet tilt and implications for the Maunder Minimum [64]
    Owens, M. J. & Lockwood, M., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 117, A04102
  3. Heliospheric modulation of galactic cosmic rays during grand solar minima: Past and future variations [66]
    Owens, M. J., Usoskin, I. & Lockwood, M., Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L19102

2011

  1. Magnetic Discontinuities in the Near-Earth Solar Wind: Evidence of In-Transit Turbulence or Remnants of Coronal Structure? [44]
    Owens, M. J., Wicks, R. T. & Horbury, T. S., Solar Physics, 269, 411
  2. How is open solar magnetic flux lost over the solar cycle? [60]
    Owens, M. J., Crooker, N. U. & Lockwood, M., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 116, A04111
  3. Solar cycle 24: Implications for energetic particles and long-term space climate change [45]
    Owens, M. J., Lockwood, M., Barnard, L. & Davis, C. J., Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L19106

2010

  1. Probing the Large-scale Topology of the Heliospheric Magnetic Field using Jovian Electrons [7]
    Owens, M. J., Horbury, T. S. & Arge, C. N., ApJ, 714, 1617

2009

  1. The Formation of Large-Scale Current Sheets within Magnetic Clouds [29]
    Owens, M. J., Solar Physics, 260, 207
  2. The expected imprint of flux rope geometry on suprathermal electrons in magnetic clouds [4]
    Owens, M. J., Crooker, N. U. & Horbury, T. S., Annales Geophysicae, 27, 4057

2008

  1. Metrics for solar wind prediction models: Comparison of empirical, hybrid, and physics-based schemes with 8 years of L1 observations [122]
    Owens, M. J., Spence, H. E., McGregor, S., Hughes, W. J., Quinn, J. M., Arge, C. N., Riley, P., Linker, J. & Odstrcil, D., Space Weather, 6, S08001
  2. Estimating total heliospheric magnetic flux from single-point in situ measurements [68]
    Owens, M. J., Arge, C. N., Crooker, N. U., Schwadron, N. A. & Horbury, T. S., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 113, A12103
  3. Combining remote and in situ observations of coronal mass ejections to better constrain magnetic cloud reconstruction [29]
    Owens, M. J., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 113, A12102
  4. Suprathermal electron evolution in a Parker spiral magnetic field [38]
    Owens, M. J., Crooker, N. U. & Schwadron, N. A., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 113, A11104
  5. Conservation of open solar magnetic flux and the floor in the heliospheric magnetic field [63]
    Owens, M. J., Crooker, N. U., Schwadron, N. A., Horbury, T. S., Yashiro, S., Xie, H., St. Cyr, O. C. & Gopalswamy, N., Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L20108

2007

  1. Reconciling the electron counterstreaming and dropout occurrence rates with the heliospheric flux budget [43]
    Owens, M. J. & Crooker, N. U., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 112, A06106
  2. Role of coronal mass ejections in the heliospheric Hale cycle [45]
    Owens, M. J., Schwadron, N. A., Crooker, N. U., Hughes, W. J. & Spence, H. E., Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L06104

2006

  1. Magnetic cloud distortion resulting from propagation through a structured solar wind: Models and observations [49]
    Owens, M. J., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 111, A12109
  2. Coronal mass ejections and magnetic flux buildup in the heliosphere [115]
    Owens, M. J. & Crooker, N. U., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 111, A10104
  3. A kinematically distorted flux rope model for magnetic clouds [80]
    Owens, M. J., Merkin, V. G. & Riley, P., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 111, A03104

2005

  1. An event-based approach to validating solar wind speed predictions: High-speed enhancements in the Wang-Sheeley-Arge model [93]
    Owens, M. J., Arge, C. N., Spence, H. E. & Pembroke, A., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 110, A12105
  2. Characteristic magnetic field and speed properties of interplanetary coronal mass ejections and their sheath regions [95]
    Owens, M. J., Cargill, P. J., Pagel, C., Siscoe, G. L. & Crooker, N. U., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 110, A01105

2004

  1. Non-radial solar wind flows induced by the motion of interplanetary coronal mass ejections [48]
    Owens, M. & Cargill, P., Annales Geophysicae, 22, 4397
  2. Predictions of the arrival time of Coronal Mass Ejections at 1AU: an analysis of the causes of errors [70]
    Owens, M. & Cargill, P., Annales Geophysicae, 22, 661

2002

  1. Correlation of magnetic field intensities and solar wind speeds of events observed by ACE [13]
    Owens, Mathew J. & Cargill, Peter J., Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 107, 1050

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