Publications

[ Group members are in bold below.]

  1. Landman, M.S., J. Chung, J. Jiang, S.M. Miller, A.K. Saibaba. “A joint reconstruction and model selection approach for large scale inverse modeling.” Submitted to Geoscientific Model Development. Preprint: doi:10.5194/gmd-2024-90.
  2. Baker, I.T., A.E. Schuh, C. O’Dell, J.B. Miller, S. Crowell, S. gallup, A.S. Denning, D. Baker, S. Basu, M. Bertlloacci, F. Chevallier, N. Cressie, F. Deng, K. Haynes, A. Jacobson, M.S. Johnson, J. Liu, Z. Liu, S. Maksyutov, A.Z. Magnion, S.M. Miller, H. Peiro, S. Philip, B. Weir, N. Zeng. “New insights into seasonal carbon exchanges in the Amazon rainforest.” In revision for Global Biogeochemical Cycles.
  3. Reum, F., J. Marshall, L. Bretschneider, G. Brostrom, A. Dissanayake, T. Glauch, K.D. Gottschaldt, J. Gros, H. Huntrieser, A. Lampert, M. Lichtenstern, S.M. Miller, M. Mohrmann, F. Paetzold, M. Puehl, G. Rehder, A. Roiger. “Diffusive methane emissions around the Nord Stream leak sites captured by airborne measurements.” In revision for Nature Communications.
  4. Hall-Hooper, K.A., A.K Saibaba, J. Chung, S.M Miller. “Efficient methods for hyperparameter estimation in large-scale linear inverse problems.” In revision for Advances in Computational Mathematics. Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.15827.
  5. Zhang, M., I.J. Vimont, S.M. Jordaan, L. Hu, K. McKain, M. Crotwell, D.C. Gaeta, S.M. Miller. “U.S. ethane emissions and trends estimated from atmospheric observations.” Environmental Science & Technology, doi:10.1021/acs.est.4c00380, 2024.
  6. Lei, R., J. Poe, D. Huntzinger, J. Liu, S. Stich, D.F. Baker, L. Feng, D.C. Gaeta, Z. Huang, S.M. Miller. “The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) and in situ CO2 data suggest a larger seasonal amplitude of the terrestrial carbon cycle compared to many dynamic global vegetation models.” Remote Sensing of Environment, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2024.114326, 2024.
  7. Liu, J., D. Baker, S. Basu, K. Bowman, B. Byrne, F. Chevallier, W. He, F. Jiang, M.S. Johnson, T.L. Kubar, X. Li, Z. Liu, S.M. Miller, S. Philip, J. Xiao, J. Yun, N. Zeng. “The reduced net carbon uptake over northern hemisphere land causes the close-to-normal CO2 growth rate in 2021 La Niña.” Science Advances, doi:10.1126/sciadv.adl2201, 2024.
  8. Chen, H., W. He, J. Liu, N.T. Nguyen, F. Chevallier, H. Yang, Y. Lv, C. Huang, C. Roedenbeck, S.M. Miller, F. Jiang, J. Liu, M.S. Johnson, S. Philip, Z. Liu, N. Zeng, S. Basu, D.F. Baker. “Satellite-detected large CO2 release in southwestern North America during the 2020–2021 drought and associated wildfires.” Environmental Research Letters, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ad3cf7, 2024.
  9. Karion, A., P. Shepson, T. Butcher, R. Commane, J. Fernandez, T. Ferrara, K. Hajny, R.B. Jackson, B. Lamb, I. Lopez-Coto, Z. Magavi, B. McDonald, Z. Merrin, S.M. Miller, K. Mueller, L. Murray, J. Pitt, R. Trieste, R. Trojanowski, J. von Fischer. “Workshop on Quantifying Methane Emissions Across Natural Gas Infrastructure in Urban Environments” NIST Special Publication 1500-22, doi:10.6028/NIST.SP.1500-22, 2024.
  10. Gaeta, D., J. Mühle, I.J. Vimont, M. Crotwell, L. Hu, J.B. Miller, K. McKain, B.C. Baier, M. Zhang, J. Bao, B.R. Miller, S.M. Miller. “California dominates US emissions of the pesticide and potent greenhouse gas sulfuryl fluoride.” Communications Earth & Environment, doi:10.1038/s43247-024-01294-x, 2024.
  11. Zhang, M., J. Berry, Y. Shiga, R. Doughty, X. Li, J. Xiao, J. Wen, Y. Sun, S.M. Miller. “Solar-induced fluorescence helps constrain global patterns in net biosphere exchange, as estimated using atmospheric CO2 observations.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, doi:10.1029/2023JG007703, 2023.
  12. Chung, J., J. Jiang, S.M. Miller, A. Saibaba. “Hybrid projection methods with solution decomposition for large-scale inverse problems.” SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, doi:10.1137/22M150219, 2023.
  13. Feng, L., S. Tavakoli, S. Jordaan, M. Zhang, D. Gaeta, J. Benmergui, A. Andrews, D. Waugh, S.M. Miller. “Inter-annual variability in atmospheric transport complicates estimation of US methane emissions trends.” Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2022GL100366, 2023.
  14. Wang, J., N. Zeng, M. Wang, F. Jiang, F. Chevallier, S. Crowell, W. He, M.S. Johnson, J. Liu, Z. Liu, S.M. Miller, S. Philip, H. Wang, M. Wu, W. Ju, S. Feng, M. Jia. Anomalous Net Biome Exchange Over Amazonian Rainforests Induced by the 2015/16 El Niño: Soil Dryness-Shaped Spatial Pattern but Temperature-dominated Total Flux. Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2023GL103379, 2023.
  15. Byrne, B., D. Baker, S. Basu, M. Bertolacci, K.W. Bowman, D. Carroll, A. Chatterjee, F. Chevallier, P. Ciais, N. Cressie, D. Crisp, S. Crowell, F. Deng, Z. Deng, N.M. Deutscher, M.K. Dubey, S. Feng, O.E. Garcia, D.W.T. Griffith, B. Herkommer, L. Hu, A.R. Jacobson, R. Janardanan, S. Jeong, M.S. Johnson, D.B.A. Jones, R. Kivi, J. Liu, Z. Lliu, S. Maksyutov, J.B. Miller, S.M. Miller, I. Morino, J. Notholt, T. Oda, C.W. O’Dell, Y.-S. Oh, H. Ohhyama, P.K. Patra, H. Peiro, C. Petri, S. Philip, D.F. Pollard, B. Poulter, M. Remaud, A. Schuh, M.K. Sha, K. Shiomi, K. Strong, C. Sweeney, Y. Te, H. Tian, V.A. Velazco, M. Vrekoussis, T. Warneke, J.R. Worden, D. Wunch, Y. Yao, J. Yun, A. Zammit-Mangion, N. Zeng. “National CO2 budgets (2015–2020) inferred from atmospheric CO2 observations in support of the Global Stocktake.” Earth System Science Data, doi:10.5194/essd-15-963-2023, 2023.
  16. Jordaan, S.M., A.W. Ruttinger, K. Surana, D. Nock, S.M. Miller, A. Ravikumar. “Global Mitigation Opportunities for the Life Cycle of Global Natural Gas-Fired Power.” Nature Climate Change, doi:10.1038/s41558-022-01503-5, 2022.
  17. Fu, J., W. Wang, B. Zaitchik, W. Nie. E. Fei, S.M. Miller, C.J. Harman. “Critical role of irrigation efficiency for cropland expansion in western China arid agroecosystems.” Earth’s Future, doi:10.1029/2022EF002955, 2022.
  18. Cho, T., J. Chung, S.M. Miller, A. Saibaba. “Computationally efficient methods for large-scale atmospheric inverse modeling.” Geoscientific Model Development, doi:10.5194/gmd-15-5547-2022, 2022.
  19. Zhang, X., D.W. Waugh, G.H. Kerr, S.M. Miller. “Surface ozone-temperature relationship: The meridional gradient ratio approximation.” Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2022GL098680, 2022.
  20. Stinecipher, J.R., P. Cameron-Smith, L. Kuai, N. Glatthor, M. Hoepfner, I. Baker, C. Beer, K. Bowman, M. Lee, S.M. Miller, N. Parazoo, J.E. Campbell. “Remotely-Sensed carbonyl sulfide constrains model estimates of Amazon primary productivity.” Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2021GL096802, 2022.
  21. Nahm, J., S.M. Miller, J. Urpelainen. “Trillion-dollar COVID-19 stimulus builds back the same: emissions analysis of G20 economic recovery packages reveals governments breaking green promises.” Nature, doi:10.1038/d41586-022-00540-6, 2022.
  22. Tavakkoli, S., L. Feng, S.M. Miller, S.M. Jordaan. “The implications of uncertain methane leaks for life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from natural gas-fired electricity in the United States.” Environmental Science & Technology, doi:10.1021/acs.est.1c05246, 2022.
  23. Randazzo, N., A. Michalak, C. Miller, S. M. Miller, Y. Shiga, Y. Fang. “Higher autumn temperatures lead to contrasting responses in boreal forests and tundra.” Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2021GL093843, 2021.
  24. Liu, X., A. Weinbren, H. Chang, J. Tadic, M. Mountain, M. Trudeau, A. Andrews, Z. Chen, and S.M. Miller. “Data reduction for inverse modeling: an adaptive approach.” Geoscientific Model Development, doi:10.5194/gmd-14-4683-2021, 2021.
  25. Barkley, Z., K. Davis, S. Feng, Y.Y. Cui, A. Fried, P. Weibring, D. Richter, J.G. Walega, S.M. Miller, M. Eckl, A. Roiger, A. Fiehn, J. Kostinek. “Analysis of oil and gas ethane and methane emissions in the southcentral and eastern United States using four seasons of continuous aircraft ethane measurements.” Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1029/2020JD034194, 2021.
  26. Hayek, M.N. and S.M. Miller. “Atmospheric observations of methane from intensively-farmed animals have implications for sustainable development.” Environmental Research Letters, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ac02ef, 2021.
  27. Chen, Z., D. Huntzinger, J. Liu, S. Piao, X. Wang, S. Sitch, P. Friedlingstein, P. Anthoni, A. Arneth, V. Bastrikov, D.S. Goll, V. Haverd, A.K. Jain, E. Joetzjer, E. Kato, S. Lienert, D.L. Lombardozzi, P.C. McGuire, J.R. Melton, J. E.M.S. Nabel, J. Pongratz, B. Poulter, H. Tian, A.J. Wiltshire, S. Zaehle, S.M. Miller. “Five years of variability in the global carbon cycle: inferences from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 and terrestrial biosphere models.” Environmental Research Letters, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/abfac1, 2021.
  28. Chen, Z., J. Liu, D.K. Henze, D.N. Huntzinger, K.C. Wells, S. Sitch, P. Friedlingstein, E. Joetzjer, V. Bastrikov, D.S. Goll, V. Haverd, A.K. Jian, E. Kato, S. Lienert, D.L. Lombardozzi, P.C. McGuire, J.R. Melton, J. E.M.S. Nabel, B. Poulter, H. Tian, A.J. Wiltshire, S. Zaehle, S.M. Miller. “Linking global terrestrial CO2 fluxes and environmental drivers: inferences from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 and terrestrial biospheric models.” Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, doi:10.5194/acp-21-6663-2021, 2021.
  29. Tadic, J., S.M. Miller, V. Yadav, and S. Biraud. “Greenhouse gas fluxes from Alaska’s North Slope estimated from the Airborne Carbon Measurements (ACME-V).” Atmospheric Environment, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2021.118239, 2021.
  30. Kerr, G.H., D. Waugh, S.M. Miller. “Jet Stream-surface tracer relationships: Mechanism and sensitivity to source region.” Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2020GL090714, 2020.
  31. Roest, G.S., K.R. Gurney, J. Liang, S.M. Miller. “Informing urban climate planning with high resolution data: the Hestia fossil fuel CO2 emissions for Baltimore, Maryland.” Carbon Balance and Management, doi:10.18434/T4/1503342, 2020.
  32. Zhang, M., S.M Jordaan, W. Peng, Q. Zhang, S.M. Miller. “Potential uses of coal methane in China and associated benefits for air quality, health, and climate.” Environmental Science & Technology, doi:10.1021/acs.est.0c01207, 2020.
  33. Miller, S.M., A.K. Saibaba, M.E. Trudeau, M.E. Mountain, and A.E. Andrews,. “Geostatistical inverse modeling with very large datasets: an example from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 (OCO-2) satellite.” Geoscientific Model Development, doi:10.5194/gmd-13-1771-2020, 2020.
  34. Miller, S.M. and A.M. Michalak. “The impact of improved satellite retrievals on estimates of biospheric carbon balance.” Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, doi:10.5194/acp-20-323-2020, 2020.
  35. Miller, S.M., A.M. Michalak, R.G. Detmers, O.P. Hasekamp, L.M.P. Bruhwiler, S. Schwietzke. “China’s coal mine methane regulations have not curbed growing emissions.” Nature Communications, doi:10.1038/s41467-018-07891-7, 2019.
  36. Miller, S.M., A.M. Michalak, V. Yadav, J. Tadic. “Characterizing biospheric carbon balance using CO2 observations from the OCO-2 satellite.” Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, doi:10.5194/acp-18-6785-2018, 2018.
  37. Miller, S.M., M.A. Taylor, and J.D. Watts (co-lead authors). “Understanding high latitude methane in a warming climate.” EOS, 19. https://eos.org/project-updates/understanding-high-latitude-methane-in-a-warming-climate, 2018.
  38. Nevison, C., A. Andrews, K. Thoning, E. Dlugokencky, C. Sweeney, E. Saikawa, J. Benmergui, S.M. Miller, M. Fischer. “Nitrous oxide emissions estimated with the Carbon Tracker Lagrange North America regional inversion framework.” Global Biogeochemical Cycles, doi:10.1002/2017GB005759, 2018.
  39. Hase, N., S.M. Miller, P. Maaß, J. Notholt, M. Palm, T. Warneke. “Atmospheric inverse modeling via sparse reconstruction.” Geoscientific Model Development, doi:10.5194/gmd-10-3695-2017, 2017.
  40. Commane, R., J. Lindaas, J. Benmergui, K.A. Luus, R.Y.W. Chang, B.C. Daube, E.S. Euskirchen, J.M. Henderson, A. Karion, J.B. Miller, S.M. Miller, N.C. Parazoo, J.T. Randerson, C. Sweeney, P. Tans, K. Thoning, S. Veraverbeke, C.E. Miller, S.C. Wofsy. “Carbon dioxide sources from Alaska driven by increasing early winter respiration from Arctic tundra.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), doi:10.1073/pnas.1618567114, 2017.
  41. Miller, S.M. and A.M. Michalak. “Constraining sector-specific CO2 and CH4 emissions in the United States.” Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, doi:10.5194/acp-17-3963-2017, 2017.
  42. Tadic, J., X. Qui, S.M. Miller, A.M. Michalak. “Spatio-temporal approach to moving window block kriging of satellite data.” Geoscientific Model Development, doi:10.5194/gmd-10-709-2017, 2017.
  43. Miller, S.M., C.E. Miller, R. Commane, R.Y.-W. Chang, S.J. Dinardo, J.M. Henderson,A. Karion, J. Lindaas, J.R. Melton, J.B. Miller, C. Sweeney, S.C. Wofsy, A.M. Michalak. “A multi-year estimate of methane fluxes in Alaska from CARVE atmospheric observations.” Global Biogeochemical Cycles, doi:10.1002/2016GB005419, 2016.
  44. Miller, S.M., R. Commane, A.E. Andrews, J. Benmergui, G. Janssens-Maenhout, J.R. Melton, A.M. Michalak, C. Sweeney, D.E.J. Worthy. “Evaluation of wetland methane emissions across North America using atmospheric data and inverse modeling.” Biogeosciences, doi:10.5194/bg-13-1329-2016, 2016.
  45. Hu, L., S.A. Montzka, B.R. Miller, A.E. Andrews, J.B. Miller, S. Lehman, C. Sweeney, S.M. Miller, K. Thoning, C. Siso, E.L. Atlas, D.R. Blake, J. de Gouw, G. Dutton, J.W. Elkins, B. Hall, H. Chen, M.L. Fischer, M.E. Mountain, T. Nehrkorn, S.C. Biraud, F.L. Moore, P. Tans. “Continued emissions of carbon tetrachloride from the U.S. nearly two decades after its phase-out for dispersive uses.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), doi:10.1073/pnas.1522284113, 2016.
  46. Miller, S.M., M.N. Hayek, A.E. Andrews, I. Fung, J. Liu. “Biases in atmospheric CO2 estimates from correlated meteorology modeling errors.” Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, doi:10.5194/acp-15-2903-2015, 2015.
  47. Hu, L., S. Montzka, J. Miller, A. Andrews, S. Lehman, B. Miller, K. Thoning, C. Sweeney, H. Chen, D. Godwin, K. Masarie, L. Bruwiler, M. Fischer, S. Biraud, M. Torn, M. Mountain, T. Nehrkorn, J. Eluszkiewicz, S.M. Miller, R. Draxler, A. Stein, B. Hall, J. Elkins, P. Tans. “U.S. emissions of HFC-134a derived for 2008-2012 from an extensive flask-air sampling network.” Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, doi:10.1002/2014JD022617, 2015.
  48. Xiang, B., P.K. Patra, S.A. Montzka, S.M. Miller, J.W. Elkins, F.L. Moore, E.L. Atlas, B.R. Miller, R.F. Weiss, R.G. Prinn, S.C. Wofsy. “Global Emissions of Refrigerants HCFC-22 and HFC-134a: Unforeseen Seasonal Contributions.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), doi:10.1073/pnas.1417372111, 2014.
  49. Miller, S.M., A.M. Michalak, S.C. Wofsy. “Linking methane emissions inventories with atmospheric observations.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), doi:10.1073/pnas.1401703111, 2014.
  50. Miller, S.M., D.E.J. Worthy, A.M. Michalak, S.C. Wofsy, E.A. Kort, T.C. Havice, A.E. Andrews, E.J. Dlugokencky, J.O. Kaplan, P.J. Levi, H. Tian, B. Zhang. “Observational constraints on the distribution, seasonality, and environmental predictors of North American boreal methane emissions.” Global Biogeochemical Cycles, doi:10.1002/2013GB004580, 2014.
  51. Miller, S.M., A.M. Michalak, P.J. Levi. “Atmospheric inverse modeling with known physical bounds: an example from trace gas emissions.” Geoscientific Model Development, doi: 10.5194/gmd-7-303-2014, 2014.
  52. Miller, S.M., S.C. Wofsy, A.M. Michalak, E.A. Kort, A.E. Andrews, S.C. Biraud, E.J. Dlugokencky, J. Eluszkiewicz, M.L. Fischer, G. Janssens-Maenhout, B.R. Miller, J.B. Miller, S.A. Montzka, T. Nehrkorn, C. Sweeney. “Anthropogenic emissions of methane in the US.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), doi:10.1073/pnas.1314392110, 2013.
  53. Kim, S.Y., D.B. Millet, L. Hu, M.J. Mohr, T.J. Griffis, D. Wen, J.C. Lin, S.M. Miller, M. Longo. “Constraints on carbon monoxide emissions in the United States based on tall tower measurements.” Environmental Science & Technology, doi:10.1021/es4009486, 2013.
  54. Simonin, K.A., P. Link, D. Rempe, S.M. Miller, J. Oshun, C. Bode, W.E. Dietrich, I. Fung, T.E. Dawson. “Vegetation induced changes in the stable isotope composition of near surface humidity.” Ecohydrology, doi:10.1002/eco.1420, 2013.
  55. Xiang, B., S.M. Miller, E.A. Kort, G.W. Santoni, B.C. Daube, R. Commane, W.M. Angevine, T.B. Ryerson, M.K. Trainer, A.E. Andrews, T. Nehrkorn, H. Tian, S.C. Wofsy. “Nitrous Oxide (N2O) Emissions from California based on 2010 CalNex Airborne Measurements.” Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50189, 2013.
  56. Miller, S.M., Kort, E.A., A.I. Hirsch, E.J. Dlugokencky, A.E. Andrews, X. Xu, H. Tian, T. Nehrkorn, J. Eluszkiewicz, A. M. Michalak, S.C. Wofsy. “Regional sources of nitrous oxide over the United States: Seasonal variation and spatial distribution.” Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1029/2011JD016951, 2012.
  57. Miller, S.M., D.M. Matross, A.E. Andrews, D.B. Millet, M. Longo, E.W. Gottlieb, A.I. Hirsch, C. Gerbig, J.C. Lin, B.C. Daube, R.C. Hudman, P.L.S. Dias, V.Y. Chow, S.C. Wofsy. “Sources of carbon monoxide and formaldehyde in North America determined from high-resolution atmospheric data.” Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, doi:10.5194/acp-8-7673-2008, 2008.

Header photo caption: Mixed hardwood forest near a NOAA long term greenhouse gas monitoring site in Argyle, Maine. Credit: Scot Miller.