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Environmental Sciences
Norway
2026

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Environmental Sciences

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122
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81024
World Ranking
116
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Norway Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Norway Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Norway Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Norway Leader Award
  • 2003 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Michael Schulz is affiliated with the Norwegian Meteorological Institute in Norway. Their primary field of study is Earth and Planetary Sciences, with 31 publications in this area. Schulz's work notably intersects several subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Paleontology, Global and Planetary Change, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad range of areas such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Marine and Environmental Studies, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, and Climate Variability and Models.

Michael Schulz has authored several recent papers spanning various journals and research topics. These include:

  • Numerical Simulation of Deep-Sea Sediment Transport Induced by a Dredge Experiment in the Northeastern Pacific Ocean, 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Impacts of Variations in Caspian Sea Surface Area on Catchment-Scale and Large-Scale Climate, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Evidence of Eddy-Related Deep-Ocean Current Variability in the Northeast Tropical Pacific Ocean Induced by Remote Gap Winds, 2020, Biogeosciences
  • Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Variations Across the Middle Miocene Climate Transition, 2021, Climate of the Past
  • A Dynamic Ocean Driven by Changes in CO2 and Antarctic Ice-Sheet in the Middle Miocene, 2021, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology

The scientist frequently collaborates with several coauthors including Matthias Prange, Pepijn Bakker, Ute Merkel, André Paul, and Lukas Jonkers. Schulz's work often appears in journals such as Climate of the Past, Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Frontiers in Marine Science, and the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

Michael Schulz was recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2003. This distinction places Schulz among scientists with notable contributions to geophysical research.

Best Publications

  • Changes in Atmospheric Constituents and in Radiative Forcing. Chapter 2

    P. Forster;V. Ramaswamy;P. Artaxo;T. Berntsen

  • Bounding the role of black carbon in the climate system: A scientific assessment

    Tami C. Bond;Sarah J. Doherty;D. W. Fahey;Piers Forster

  • Changes in Atmospheric Constituents and in Radiative Forcing

    Piers Forster;Venkatachalam Ramaswamy;Paulo Artaxo;Terje Berntsen

  • Climate change projections using the IPSL-CM5 Earth System Model: From CMIP3 to CMIP5

    Jean-Louis Dufresne;M. A. Foujols;S. Denvil;A. Caubel

  • Analysis and quantification of the diversities of aerosol life cycles within AeroCom

    C. Textor;M. Schulz;S. Guibert;S. Kinne

  • REDFIT: estimating red-noise spectra directly from unevenly spaced paleoclimatic time series

    Michael Schulz;Manfred Mudelsee

  • The CAMS reanalysis of atmospheric composition

    Antje Inness;Melanie Ades;Anna Agustí-Panareda;Jérôme Barré

  • The aerosol-climate model ECHAM5-HAM

    P. Stier;J. Feichter;S. Kinne;S. Kloster

  • Global dust model intercomparison in AeroCom phase I

    N. Huneeus;M. Schulz;Y. Balkanski;J. Griesfeller

  • Radiative forcing of the direct aerosol effect from AeroCom Phase II simulations

    Gunnar Myhre;Bjørn Hallvard Samset;M. Schulz;Y. Balkanski

  • A review of measurement-based assessments of the aerosol direct radiative effect and forcing

    H. Yu;H. Yu;Y. J. Kaufman;M. Chin;G. Feingold

  • Emissions of primary aerosol and precursor gases in the years 2000 and 1750 prescribed data-sets for AeroCom

    F. Dentener;S. Kinne;T. Bond;O. Boucher

  • Electroweak measurements in electron positron collisions at W-boson-pair energies at LEP

    S. Schael;R. Barate;R. Brunelière;D. Buskulic

  • Frequency of extreme precipitation increases extensively with event rareness under global warming.

    Gunnar Myhre;Kari Alterskjær;Camilla Weum Stjern;Øivind Hodnebrog

  • Bounding global aerosol radiative forcing of climate change

    Nicolas Bellouin;Johannes Quaas;Edward Gryspeerdt;Stefan Kinne

  • Information from paleoclimate archives

    Valerie Masson-Delmotte;Michael Schulz;A Abe-Ouchi;J Beer

  • An AeroCom Initial Assessment - Optical Properties in Aerosol Component Modules of Global Models

    S. Kinne;M. Schulz;C. Textor;S. Guibert

  • Single‐particle measurements of midlatitude black carbon and light‐scattering aerosols from the boundary layer to the lower stratosphere

    J. P. Schwarz;J. P. Schwarz;R. S. Gao;D. W. Fahey;D. W. Fahey;D. S. Thomson;D. S. Thomson

  • Dust sources and deposition during the last glacial maximum and current climate: A comparison of model results with paleodata from ice cores and marine sediments

    Natalie Mahowald;Karen Kohfeld;Margaret Hansson;Yves Balkanski

  • Alternative global Cretaceous paleogeography

    William W. Hay;Robert M. DeConto;Christopher N. Wold;Kevin M. Wilson

  • High-resolution palaeoclimatology of the last millennium: a review of current status and future prospects:

    P.D. Jones;K.R. Briffa;T.J. Osborn;J.M. Lough

  • Overview of the Norwegian Earth System Model (NorESM2) and key climate response of CMIP6 DECK, historical, and scenario simulations

    Øyvind Seland;Mats Bentsen;Dirk Jan Leo Oliviè;Thomas Toniazzo;Thomas Toniazzo

  • Radiative forcing by aerosols as derived from the AeroCom present-day and pre-industrial simulations

    M. Schulz;C. Textor;S. Kinne;Yves Balkanski

Frequent Co-Authors

Misao Sasaki
Misao Sasaki University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
J. E. Pilcher
J. E. Pilcher University of Chicago
Andris Skuja
Andris Skuja University of Maryland, College Park
Matthias Prange
Matthias Prange University of Bremen
F. S. Merritt
F. S. Merritt University of Chicago

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