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6569
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2343

Overview

Lori Bruhwiler is affiliated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. The subfields they work in also include Environmental Chemistry, Mechanics of Materials, and Ecology.

Their scientific contributions cover a range of topics related to atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, and the interaction of atmospheric ozone with climate systems. Other subjects of their research include climate change and permafrost, methane hydrates and related phenomena, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, as well as peatlands and wetlands ecology.

Bruhwiler has published in several notable venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Nature Climate Change
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Current Climate Change Reports
  • Climatic Change

Some of their recent published papers are:

  • The Arctic Carbon Cycle and Its Response to Changing Climate, 2021, Current Climate Change Reports
  • Observations of greenhouse gases as climate indicators, 2021, Climatic Change
  • Reduced net methane emissions due to microbial methane oxidation in a warmer Arctic, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • The Global Methane Budget 2000-2017, 2020, NOAA Institutional Repository
  • Estimating emissions of methane consistent with atmospheric measurements of methane and δ 13 C of methane, 2022, Atmospheric chemistry and physics

The scientist collaborates frequently with several other researchers in their field. These frequent coauthors include:

  • Youmi Oh
  • Edward J. Dlugokencky
  • Xin Lan
  • Sylvia Michel
  • J. B. Miller

Best Publications

  • The global methane budget 2000–2017

    Marielle Saunois;Ann R. Stavert;Ben Poulter;Philippe Bousquet

  • Three decades of global methane sources and sinks

    Stefanie Kirschke;Philippe Bousquet;Philippe Ciais;Marielle Saunois

  • Towards robust regional estimates of CO2 sources and sinks using atmospheric transport models.

    K. R. Gurney;R. M. Law;A. S. Denning;P. J. Rayner

  • An atmospheric perspective on North American carbon dioxide exchange: CarbonTracker

    Wouter Peters;A. R. Jacobson;C. Sweeney;A. E. Andrews

  • The global methane budget 2000–2012

    Marielle Saunois;Philippe Bousquet;Ben Poulter;Anna Peregon

  • Weak northern and strong tropical land carbon uptake from vertical profiles of atmospheric CO2

    Britton B. Stephens;Kevin R. Gurney;Pieter P. Tans;Colm Sweeney

  • Observational constraints on recent increases in the atmospheric CH4 burden

    E. J. Dlugokencky;L. Bruhwiler;J. W. C. White;L. K. Emmons

  • The terrestrial biosphere as a net source of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere

    Hanqin Tian;Chaoqun Lu;Chaoqun Lu;Philippe Ciais;Anna M. Michalak

  • Upward revision of global fossil fuel methane emissions based on isotope database

    Stefan Schwietzke;Owen A. Sherwood;Lori M. P. Bruhwiler;John B. Miller;John B. Miller

  • TransCom 3 inversion intercomparison: Impact of transport model errors on the interannual variability of regional CO2 fluxes, 1988–2003

    D. F. Baker;D. F. Baker;Rachel M. Law;Kevin R. Gurney;Kevin R. Gurney;Peter Rayner

  • Amount and timing of permafrost carbon release in response to climate warming

    Kevin Schaefer;Tingjun Zhang;Lori Bruhwiler;Andrew P. Barrett

  • Chemistry and the Linkages between Air Quality and Climate Change.

    Erika von Schneidemesser;Paul S. Monks;James D. Allan;Lori Bruhwiler

  • TransCom 3 CO2 inversion intercomparison: 1. Annual mean control results and sensitivity to transport and prior flux information

    Kevin Robert Gurney;Rachel M. Law;A. Scott Denning;Peter J. Rayner

  • CH4 sources estimated from atmospheric observations of CH4 and its 13C/12C isotopic ratios : 1. Inverse modeling of source processes

    Sara E. Mikaloff Fletcher;Sara E. Mikaloff Fletcher;Pieter P. Tans;Lori M. Bruhwiler;John B. Miller

  • TransCom model simulations of hourly atmospheric CO2 : Analysis of synoptic-scale variations for the period 2002-2003

    P. K. Patra;R. M. Law;Wouter Peters;Wouter Peters;C. RöDenbeck

  • An ensemble data assimilation system to estimate CO2 surface fluxes from atmospheric trace gas observations

    Wouter Peters;Wouter Peters;J. B. Miller;J. B. Miller;J. Whitaker;J. Whitaker;A. S. Denning

  • Influences of boreal fire emissions on Northern Hemisphere atmospheric carbon and carbon monoxide

    Eric S. Kasischke;Edward J. Hyer;Paul C. Novelli;Lori P. Bruhwiler

  • Global methane and nitrous oxide emissions from terrestrial ecosystems due to multiple environmental changes

    Hanqin Tian;Guangsheng Chen;Guangsheng Chen;Chaoqun Lu;Xiaofeng Xu

  • Emissions of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and methane from boreal forest fires in 1998

    Eric S. Kasischke;Lori P. Bruhwiler

  • China's coal mine methane regulations have not curbed growing emissions.

    Scot M. Miller;Scot M. Miller;Anna M. Michalak;Robert G. Detmers;Otto P. Hasekamp

  • Global Methane Budget 2000-2012

    M. Saunois;P. Bousquet;B. Poulter;A. Peregon

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward J. Dlugokencky
Edward J. Dlugokencky National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
John B. Miller
John B. Miller National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Philippe Bousquet
Philippe Bousquet University of Paris-Saclay
Colm Sweeney
Colm Sweeney National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Shamil Maksyutov
Shamil Maksyutov National Institute for Environmental Studies
Sander Houweling
Sander Houweling Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Giuseppe Etiope
Giuseppe Etiope National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Wouter Peters
Wouter Peters Wageningen University & Research
Isobel J. Simpson
Isobel J. Simpson University of California, Irvine
Prabir K. Patra
Prabir K. Patra Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

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