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3708
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1417

Overview

Jens Mühle is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their academic contributions primarily focus on atmospheric sciences and environmental studies, with an emphasis on Earth and planetary sciences. The scientist's research spans significant subfields, including atmospheric science, global and planetary change, oceanography, spectroscopy, and inorganic chemistry.

Their scholarly output extends across multiple topics related to atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, atmospheric ozone and climate, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, climate variability and models, spectroscopy and laser applications, inorganic fluorides and related compounds, as well as marine and coastal ecosystems.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Nature Communications
  • Earth system science data
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Jens Mühle has co-authored extensively with several researchers, including:

  • Paul B. Krummel
  • Simon O'Doherty
  • Ray F. Weiss
  • Matthew Rigby
  • Dickon Young

Among recent publications, notable papers include:

  • "Indicators of Global Climate Change 2023: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence" (2024) published in Earth system science data
  • "The increasing atmospheric burden of the greenhouse gas sulfur hexafluoride (SF 6 )" (2020) published in Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • "A decline in emissions of CFC-11 and related chemicals from eastern China" (2021) published in Nature
  • "Global nitrous oxide budget (1980-2020)" (2024) published in Earth system science data
  • "A decline in global CFC-11 emissions during 2018−2019" (2021) published in Nature

Best Publications

  • Renewed growth of atmospheric methane

    Matthew Rigby;R.G Prinn;P.J Fraser;P.G Simmonds

  • Role of atmospheric oxidation in recent methane growth

    Matthew Rigby;Stephen A. Montzka;Ronald G. Prinn;James W. C. White

  • STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2017

    R. Abernethy;Steven A. Ackerman;R. Adler;Adelina Albanil Encarnación

  • Medusa: A Sample Preconcentration and GC/MS Detector System for in Situ Measurements of Atmospheric Trace Halocarbons, Hydrocarbons, and Sulfur Compounds

    Benjamin R Miller;Ray F Weiss;Peter K Salameh;Toste Tanhua

  • State of the Climate in 2014

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • History of chemically and radiatively important atmospheric gases from the Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE)

    Ronald G. Prinn;Ray F. Weiss;Jgor Arduini;Tim Arnold

  • An analytical inversion method for determining regional and global emissions of greenhouse gases: Sensitivity studies and application to halocarbons

    A. Stohl;P. Seibert;J. Arduini;S. Eckhardt

  • Increase in CFC-11 emissions from eastern China based on atmospheric observations.

    M. Rigby;S. Park;T. Saito;L. M. Western

  • Perfluorocarbons in the global atmosphere: tetrafluoromethane, hexafluoroethane, and octafluoropropane

    Jens Muhle;Anita Lakshmi Ganesan;Benjamin R. Miller;Benjamin R. Miller;P. K. Salameh

  • State of the Climate in 2018

    M. Ades;R. Adler;Laura S. Aldeco;G. Alejandra

  • History of atmospheric SF 6 from 1973 to 2008

    M. Rigby;J. Mühle;B. R. Miller;R. G. Prinn

  • Rapid increase in ozone-depleting chloroform emissions from China

    Xuekun Fang;Sunyoung Park;Takuya Saito;Rachel Tunnicliffe

  • Observational evidence for interhemispheric hydroxyl-radical parity

    P. K. Patra;P. K. Patra;M. C. Krol;S. A. Montzka;T. Arnold

  • Re-evaluation of the lifetimes of the major CFCs and CH 3 CCl 3 using atmospheric trends

    M. Rigby;M. Rigby;R. G. Prinn;S. O'Doherty;S. A. Montzka

  • State of the Climate in 2016

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • Characterization of uncertainties in atmospheric trace gas inversions using hierarchical Bayesian methods

    A. L. Ganesan;A. L. Ganesan;M. Rigby;A. Zammit-Mangion;A. J. Manning

  • Recent and future trends in synthetic greenhouse gas radiative forcing

    M. Rigby;M. Rigby;R. G. Prinn;S. O'Doherty;B. R. Miller

  • Hydrochlorofluorocarbon and hydrofluorocarbon emissions in East Asia determined by inverse modeling

    Andreas Stohl;Jooil Kim;Shanlan Li;Simon O'Doherty

  • Emissions of halogenated compounds in East Asia determined from measurements at Jeju Island, Korea

    Shanlan Li;Jooil Kim;Kyung-Ryul Kim;Jens Mühle

  • The increasing atmospheric burden of the greenhouse gas sulfur hexafluoride (SF 6 )

    Peter G. Simmonds;Matthew Rigby;Alistair J. Manning;Sunyoung Park

  • Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2010

    S. A. Montzka;S. Reimann;A. Engel;K. Kruger

  • [Regional Climates] Central South America 2016

    J. A. Marengo;Jhan Carlo Espinoza;L. M. Alves;J. Ronchail

Frequent Co-Authors

Ray F. Weiss
Ray F. Weiss University of California, San Diego
Paul B. Krummel
Paul B. Krummel Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Simon O'Doherty
Simon O'Doherty University of Bristol
Peter K. Salameh
Peter K. Salameh University of California, San Diego
Matthew Rigby
Matthew Rigby University of Bristol
Paul J. Fraser
Paul J. Fraser Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Peter Simmonds
Peter Simmonds University of Oxford
Stefan Reimann
Stefan Reimann Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Martin K. Vollmer
Martin K. Vollmer Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology

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