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Overview

Galen A. McKinley is affiliated with the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on several key subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, and Atmospheric Science.

Their body of work covers diverse topics related to atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, marine and coastal ecosystems, and climate variability and models. Further areas of study include oceanographic and atmospheric processes, ocean acidification effects and responses, COVID-19 impact on air quality, and atmospheric ozone and climate.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the academic literature, with recent publications including:

  • Global Carbon Budget 2023 (2023), Earth system science data
  • Trends and variability in the ocean carbon sink (2023), Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Quantifying Errors in Observationally Based Estimates of Ocean Carbon Sink Variability (2021), Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • The COVID-19 lockdowns: a window into the Earth System (2020), Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • External Forcing Explains Recent Decadal Variability of the Ocean Carbon Sink (2020), AGU Advances

Frequent co-authors collaborating with this scientist include:

  • Amanda R. Fay
  • Nicole S. Lovenduski
  • Val Bennington
  • Lucas Gloege
  • Peter Landschützer

Galen A. McKinley regularly publishes in several venues with multiple contributions, such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Earth system science data
  • Environmental Research Letters

Best Publications

  • Global Carbon Budget 2023

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  • Global ocean storage of anthropogenic carbon

    S. Khatiwala;T. Tanhua;S. Mikaloff Fletcher;Michael Gerber

  • Constraining global air-sea gas exchange for CO2 with recent bomb 14C measurements

    Colm Sweeney;Emanuel Gloor;Andrew R. Jacobson;Robert M. Key

  • Global ocean carbon uptake: magnitude, variability and trends

    R. Wanninkhof;G. H. Park;G. H. Park;G. H. Park;T. Takahashi;C. Sweeney;C. Sweeney

  • Trends and variability in the ocean carbon sink

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  • Towards real-time verification of CO2 emissions

    Glen P. Peters;Corinne Le Quéré;Robbie M. Andrew;Josep G. Canadell

  • Biogeochemical protocols and diagnostics for the CMIP6 Ocean Model Intercomparison Project (OMIP)

    James C. Orr;Raymond G. Najjar;Olivier Aumont;Laurent Bopp

  • Multiple constraints on regional CO2 flux variations over land and oceans

    Philippe Peylin;Philippe Bousquet;Philippe Bousquet;Corinne Le Quéré;Stephen Sitch

  • Global open-ocean biomes: mean and temporal variability

    A. R. Fay;G. A. McKinley

  • The COVID-19 lockdowns: a window into the Earth System

    Noah S. Diffenbaugh;Christopher B. Field;Eric A. Appel;Ines L. Azevedo

  • Challenges of modeling depth-integrated marine primary productivity over multiple decades: A case study at BATS and HOT

    Vincent S. Saba;Vincent S. Saba;Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs;Mary-Elena Carr;David Antoine

  • Stronger winds over a large lake in response to weakening air-to-lake temperature gradient

    Ankur R. Desai;Jay A. Austin;Val Bennington;Galen A. McKinley

  • Mechanisms of air‐sea CO2 flux variability in the equatorial Pacific and the North Atlantic

    Galen A. McKinley;Galen A. McKinley;Galen A. McKinley;Michael J. Follows;John Marshall

  • Convergence of atmospheric and North Atlantic carbon dioxide trends on multidecadal timescales

    Galen A. McKinley;Amanda R. Fay;Taro Takahashi;Nicolas Metzl

  • Quantifying Errors in Observationally Based Estimates of Ocean Carbon Sink Variability

    Lucas Gloege;Galen A. McKinley;Peter Landschützer;Amanda R. Fay

  • Global trends in surface ocean pCO2 from in situ data

    A. R. Fay;G. A. McKinley

  • An assessment of the Atlantic and Arctic sea–air CO2 fluxes, 1990–2009

    Ute Schuster;Galen A. McKinley;Nicholas R. Bates;Frédéric Chevallier

  • Natural Variability and Anthropogenic Trends in the Ocean Carbon Sink

    Galen A. McKinley;Amanda R. Fay;Nicole S. Lovenduski;Darren J. Pilcher

  • Timescales for detection of trends in the ocean carbon sink

    Galen A. McKinley;Darren J. Pilcher;Darren J. Pilcher;Amanda R. Fay;Keith Lindsay

  • Satellite sensor requirements for monitoring essential biodiversity variables of coastal ecosystems

    Frank E. Muller‐Karger;Erin Hestir;Christiana Ade;Kevin Turpie

  • External Forcing Explains Recent Decadal Variability of the Ocean Carbon Sink

    Galen A. McKinley;Amanda R. Fay;Yassir A. Eddebbar;Lucas Gloege

  • General circulation of Lake Superior: Mean, variability, and trends from 1979 to 2006

    Val Bennington;Galen A. McKinley;Nobuaki Kimura;Chin H. Wu

  • The potential for CO2-induced acidification in freshwater: A great lakes case study

    Jennifer C. Phillips;Galen A. McKinley;Val Bennington;Harvey A. Bootsma

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicole S. Lovenduski
Nicole S. Lovenduski University of Colorado Boulder
Scott C. Doney
Scott C. Doney University of Virginia
Raymond G. Najjar
Raymond G. Najjar Pennsylvania State University
Taro Takahashi
Taro Takahashi Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Christopher L. Sabine
Christopher L. Sabine University of Hawaii at Manoa
Nicolas Gruber
Nicolas Gruber ETH Zurich
Peter Landschützer
Peter Landschützer Max Planck Society
Ankur R. Desai
Ankur R. Desai University of Wisconsin–Madison
Rik Wanninkhof
Rik Wanninkhof Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Christian Rödenbeck
Christian Rödenbeck Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

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