Michael J Prather

About

Professor Michael J Prather is associated with the UCI Research Group, where his research interests include tracer environment and related scientific investigations. The group has a history dating back to 1969 and is involved in various research activities and publications. The group also includes members and collaborators from diverse institutions, reflecting a broad engagement in environmental and atmospheric sciences. Specific details about his educational background, career milestones, or individual research projects are not provided in the page text.

Research topics

• Atmospheric sciences
• Climatology
• Environmental science
• Meteorology
• Geography
• Geology
• Chemistry
• Oceanography
• Ecology
• Physics

Selected publications

• A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks

  Nature · 2020 · 1843 citations

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• The contribution of global aviation to anthropogenic climate forcing for 2000 to 2018

  Atmospheric Environment · 2020 · 1532 citations

  aviation emissions and cloud effects remain a continued focus of anthropogenic climate change research and policy discussions.

  DOI

• The DOE E3SM Model Version 2: Overview of the Physical Model and Initial Model Evaluation

  Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · 2022 · 266 citations

  Abstract This work documents version two of the Department of Energy's Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM). E3SMv2 is a significant evolution from its predecessor E3SMv1, resulting in a model that is nearly twice as fast and with a simulated climate that is improved in many metrics. We describe the physical climate model in its lower horizontal resolution configuration consisting of 110 km atmosphere, 165 km land, 0.5° river routing model, and an ocean and sea ice with mesh spacing varying…

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• The NASA Atmospheric Tomography (ATom) Mission: Imaging the Chemistry of the Global Atmosphere

  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 2021 · 139 citations

  Abstract This article provides an overview of the NASA Atmospheric Tomography (ATom) mission and a summary of selected scientific findings to date. ATom was an airborne measurements and modeling campaign aimed at characterizing the composition and chemistry of the troposphere over the most remote regions of the Pacific, Southern, Atlantic, and Arctic Oceans, and examining the impact of anthropogenic and natural emissions on a global scale. These remote regions dominate global chemical reactivity…

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• Trade-offs in aviation impacts on climate favour non-CO2 mitigation

  Nature · 2025-07-02 · 12 citations

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Recent grants

• Relational Metrics to Evaluate Chemistry-Transport and Chemistry-Climate Models

  NSF · $616k · 2022–2027

• Global Atmospheric Chemistry: Uncertainties and Errors; Modes and Parametric Models

  NSF · $666k · 2006–2010

Frequent coauthors

• Philip J. Rasch

  Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

  87 shared

• Peter S. Connell

  87 shared

• A. R. Douglass

  Goddard Space Flight Center

  87 shared

• D. Rotman

  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  86 shared

• Arlene M. Fiore

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  86 shared

• J. M. Rodríguez

  Goddard Space Flight Center

  84 shared

• Darryn W. Waugh

  Planetary Science Institute

  83 shared

• D. E. Kinnison

  NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research

  83 shared

Labs

• Prather GroupPI

  Not provided

Education

• B.A., Mathematics

  Yale

  1969

• B.S., Physics

  Merton College, Oxford

  1971

• Ph.D., Astronomy and Astrophysics

  Yale

  1976

Awards & honors

• UCI Lauds & Laurels Faculty Award 2008
• Fellow of the AGU (1997)
• Fellow of AAAS (2004)
• Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal (EGU, 2020)
• Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

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