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Overview

Michael J. Mills is affiliated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the fields of Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and even Ophthalmology. Their main topics of work include Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Climate variability and models, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, and Climate Change and Geoengineering.

Recent publications by Michael J. Mills demonstrate their involvement in atmospheric and climate modeling, chemistry, and environmental research. Key papers include:

  • "The Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2)" (2020), published in Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • "The Chemistry Mechanism in the Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2)" (2020), published in Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • "An Evaluation of the Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation and Its Variability in CESM2 and Other CMIP Models" (2020), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "Effective radiative forcing from emissions of reactive gases and aerosols - a multi-model comparison" (2021), published in Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • "Evaluating stratospheric ozone and water vapour changes in CMIP6 models from 1850 to 2100" (2021), published in Atmospheric chemistry and physics

Collaboration plays a significant role in their research. Frequent co-authors include Alan Robock, Anja Schmidt, Brian Zambri, Simone Tilmes, and Douglas E. Kinnison.

Michael J. Mills has published numerous works across multiple venues. Their publications appear most often in Harvard Dataverse, followed by Atmospheric chemistry and physics, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

Best Publications

  • The Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2)

    G. Danabasoglu;J. F. Lamarque;J. Bacmeister;D. A. Bailey

  • Climate Change from 1850 to 2005 Simulated in CESM1(WACCM)

    Daniel R. Marsh;Michael J. Mills;Douglas E. Kinnison;Jean-Francois Lamarque

  • Emergence of healing in the Antarctic ozone layer

    Susan Solomon;Diane J. Ivy;Doug Kinnison;Michael J. Mills

  • The Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model Version 6 (WACCM6)

    A. Gettelman;M. J. Mills;D. E. Kinnison;R. R. Garcia

  • The Chemistry Mechanism in the Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2)

    Louisa K. Emmons;Rebecca H. Schwantes;Rebecca H. Schwantes;Rebecca H. Schwantes;John J. Orlando;Geoff Tyndall

  • High Climate Sensitivity in the Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2)

    Andrew Gettelman;Cecile E. Hannay;Julio T. Bacmeister;Richard B. Neale

  • Do Hydrofluorocarbons Destroy Stratospheric Ozone

    A. R. Ravishankara;Andrew A. Turnipseed;Niels R. Jensen;Stephen Barone

  • The hydrological impact of geoengineering in the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP)

    Simone Tilmes;John Fasullo;Jean-Francois Lamarque;Daniel R. Marsh

  • Global volcanic aerosol properties derived from emissions, 1990-2014, using CESM1(WACCM)

    Michael J. Mills;Anja Schmidt;Richard Easter;Susan Solomon

  • First Simulations of Designing Stratospheric Sulfate Aerosol Geoengineering to Meet Multiple Simultaneous Climate Objectives

    Ben Kravitz;Douglas G. MacMartin;Douglas G. MacMartin;Michael J. Mills;Jadwiga H. Richter

  • CESM1(WACCM) Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering Large Ensemble Project

    Simone Tilmes;Jadwiga H. Richter;Ben Kravitz;Douglas G. MacMartin

  • Radiative and Chemical Response to Interactive Stratospheric Sulfate Aerosols in Fully Coupled CESM1(WACCM)

    Michael J. Mills;Jadwiga H. Richter;Simone Tilmes;Ben Kravitz

  • Climate Forcing and Trends of Organic Aerosols in the Community Earth System Model (CESM2)

    Simone Tilmes;Alma Hodzic;Louisa K. Emmons;Michael J. Mills

  • The Model Intercomparison Project on the climatic response to Volcanic forcing (VolMIP) : experimental design and forcing input data for CMIP6

    Davide Zanchettin;Myriam Khodri;Claudia Timmreck;Matthew Toohey;Matthew Toohey

  • On the evaluation of ozone depletion potentials

    S. Solomon;M. Mills;L. E. Heidt;W. H. Pollock

  • Volcanic radiative forcing from 1979 to 2015

    Anja Schmidt;Michael J. Mills;Steven Ghan;Jonathan M. Gregory

  • The Regional Hydroclimate Response to Stratospheric Sulfate Geoengineering and the Role of Stratospheric Heating

    Isla Simpson;Simone Tilmes;Jadwiga Richter;B. Kravitz;B. Kravitz

  • The climate response to stratospheric aerosol geoengineering can be tailored using multiple injection locations

    Douglas G. MacMartin;Douglas G. MacMartin;Ben Kravitz;Simone Tilmes;Jadwiga H. Richter

  • An Evaluation of the Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation and Its Variability in CESM2 and Other CMIP Models

    Isla R. Simpson;Julio Bacmeister;Richard B. Neale;Cecile Hannay

  • Perturbations in stratospheric aerosol evolution due to the water-rich plume of the 2022 Hunga-Tonga eruption

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  • Sensitivity of Aerosol Distribution and Climate Response to Stratospheric SO2 Injection Locations

    Simone Tilmes;Jadwiga H. Richter;Michael J. Mills;Ben Kravitz

  • Atmospheric lifetimes and ozone depletion potentials of methyl bromide (CH3Br) and dibromomethane (CH2Br2)

    A. Mellouki;Ranajit K. Talukdar;Anne-Marie Schmoltner;Tomasz Gierczak

Frequent Co-Authors

Simone Tilmes
Simone Tilmes National Center for Atmospheric Research
Ben Kravitz
Ben Kravitz Indiana University
Owen B. Toon
Owen B. Toon University of Colorado Boulder
Anja Schmidt
Anja Schmidt University of Cambridge
Jadwiga H. Richter
Jadwiga H. Richter National Center for Atmospheric Research
Jean-Francois Lamarque
Jean-Francois Lamarque National Center for Atmospheric Research
Alan Robock
Alan Robock Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Douglas E. Kinnison
Douglas E. Kinnison National Center for Atmospheric Research
Daniel R. Marsh
Daniel R. Marsh National Center for Atmospheric Research

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