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2023

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Environmental Sciences

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52
Citations
18021
World Ranking
4369
National Ranking
183

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Michael Eby is affiliated with the University of Victoria in Canada and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Atmospheric Science, and Ecology.

The scientist's research covers various topics, with a particular focus on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Climate variability and models, Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Climate change and permafrost, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena.

Michael Eby has contributed to multiple publications, including these recent papers:

  • Evaluation of the University of Victoria Earth System Climate Model version 2.10 (UVic ESCM 2.10), 2020, Geoscientific model development
  • WETMETH 1.0: a new wetland methane model for implementation in Earth system models, 2021, Geoscientific model development
  • Impact of plastic pollution on atmospheric carbon dioxide, 2023, FACETS
  • Mitigating anthropogenic climate change with aqueous green energy, 2025, Scientific Reports
  • An assessment of ocean thermal energy conversion resources and climate change mitigation potential, 2025, Climatic Change

The frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Michael Eby include Sophia T Olim, Anna G Nickoloff, Andrew H. MacDougall, Kirsten Zickfeld, and Andrew J. Weaver.

Their work is often published in venues such as Geoscientific model development, Climatic Change, FACETS, and Scientific Reports.

Best Publications

  • Climate–Carbon Cycle Feedback Analysis: Results from the C4MIP Model Intercomparison

    Pierre Friedlingstein;P. Cox;Richard A. Betts;Laurent Bopp

  • Investigating the Causes of the Response of the Thermohaline Circulation to Past and Future Climate Changes

    Ronald J. Stouffer;J. Yin;J. M. Gregory;J. M. Gregory;K. W. Dixon

  • Atmospheric Lifetime of Fossil Fuel Carbon Dioxide

    David Archer;Michael Eby;Victor Brovkin;Andy Ridgwell

  • The UVic earth system climate model: Model description, climatology, and applications to past, present and future climates

    Andrew J. Weaver;Michael Eby;Edward C. Wiebe;Cecilia M. Bitz

  • Carbon dioxide and climate impulse response functions for the computation of greenhouse gas metrics:a multi-model analysis

    Fortunat Joos;Fortunat Joos;Raphael Roth;Raphael Roth;J. S. Fuglestvedt;G. P. Peters

  • Carbon–Concentration and Carbon–Climate Feedbacks in CMIP5 Earth System Models

    Vivek K. Arora;George J. Boer;Pierre Friedlingstein;Michael Eby

  • A model intercomparison of changes in the Atlantic thermohaline circulation in response to increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration

    J. M. Gregory;J. M. Gregory;K. W. Dixon;R. J. Stouffer;A. J. Weaver

  • Consequences of twenty-first-century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea-level change

    Peter U. Clark;Jeremy D. Shakun;Shaun A. Marcott;Alan C. Mix

  • Simulating the ice‐thickness distribution in a coupled climate model

    C. M. Bitz;M. M. Holland;A. J. Weaver;M. Eby

  • Lifetime of Anthropogenic Climate Change: Millennial Time Scales of Potential CO2 and Surface Temperature Perturbations

    M. Eby;K. Zickfeld;A. Montenegro;D. Archer

  • Setting cumulative emissions targets to reduce the risk of dangerous climate change

    Kirsten Zickfeld;Michael Eby;H. Damon Matthews;Andrew J. Weaver

  • Long-Term climate change commitment and reversibility: An EMIC intercomparison

    Kirsten Zickfeld;Michael Eby;Andrew J. Weaver;Kaitlin Alexander

  • Simulated influence of carbon dioxide, orbital forcing and ice sheets on the climate of the Last Glacial Maximum

    Andrew J. Weaver;Michael Eby;Augustus F. Fanning;Edward C. Wiebe

  • Natural and anthropogenic climate change: incorporating historical land cover change, vegetation dynamics and the global carbon cycle

    H. D. Matthews;A. J. Weaver;K. J. Meissner;N. P. Gillett

  • The modern and glacial overturning circulation in the Atlantic ocean in PMIP coupled model simulations

    S.L. Weber;S.S. Drijfhout;Ayako Abe-Ouchi;Michel Crucifix

  • Long-term climate commitments projected with climate-carbon cycle models

    G.-K. Plattner;R. Knutti;F. Joos;T.F. Stocker

  • Historical and idealized climate model experiments: an intercomparison of Earth system models of intermediate complexity

    Michael Eby;Andrew J. Weaver;K. Alexander;K. Zickfeld

  • Stability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation: A model intercomparison

    Andrew J. Weaver;Jan Sedláček;Michael Eby;Kaitlin Alexander

  • Simulating the global distribution of nitrogen isotopes in the ocean

    Christopher J. Somes;Andreas Schmittner;Eric D. Galbraith;Moritz F. Lehmann

  • IPCC Fifth Assessment Synthesis Report-Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report

    Myles R. Allen;Vicente R. Barros;John Broome;Wolfgang Cramer

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew J. Weaver
Andrew J. Weaver University of Victoria
Kirsten Zickfeld
Kirsten Zickfeld Simon Fraser University
Katrin J. Meissner
Katrin J. Meissner University of New South Wales
Fortunat Joos
Fortunat Joos University of Bern
H. Damon Matthews
H. Damon Matthews Concordia University
Gary Shaffer
Gary Shaffer University of Magallanes
Andreas Schmittner
Andreas Schmittner Oregon State University
Victor Brovkin
Victor Brovkin Max Planck Society
Thierry Fichefet
Thierry Fichefet Université Catholique de Louvain

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