Michael Eby

Michael Eby

Tel: (250) 853-3786
Fax: (250) 472-4004

School of Earth and Ocean Sciences
Bob Wright Centre, Room A321
University of Victoria
PO Box 3055 STN CSC
Victoria, BC, V8W 3P6
Canada

University of Victoria
Climate Modelling Group
UVic ESCM

Publications 2011:

Montenegro, A., Spence, P., Meissner, K.J., Eby, M., Melchin, M.J. and S.T. Johnston, 2011: Climate simulations of the Permian-Triassic boundary: Ocean acidification and the extinction event, Paleoceanography, 26, PA3207doi:10.1029/2010PA002058.
Zickfeld, K., M. Eby, H.D. Matthews, A. Schmittner and A.J. Weaver, 2011: Nonlinearity of carbon cycle feedbacks. Journal of Climate, 24, 4254-4274.
Fyke, J., A.J. Weaver, D. Pollard, M. Eby, L. Carter, and A. Mackintosh, 2011: A new coupled ice sheet/climate model: description and sensitivity to model physics under Eemian, Last Glacial Maximum, late Holocene and modern climate conditions. Geoscientific Model Development, 4, 117-136.

2010:

Fyke, J.G., A.J. Weaver, D. Pollard, M. Eby, L. Carter, and A. Mackintosh, 2010: A new coupled ice sheet-climate model: description and sensitivity to model physics under Eemian, Last Glacial Maximum, late Holocene and modern climate conditions, Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss., 3, 1223-1269, doi:10.5194/gmdd-3-1223-2010
Somes, C., A. Schmittner, A. Mix, R. Letelier, E. Galbraith, M. Lehmann, M. Altabet, J. Montoya, A. Bourbonnais, and M. Eby, 2010: Simulating the global distribution of nitrogen isotopes in the ocean. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 24, GB4019. doi:10.1029/2009GB003767
Turley C., M. Eby, A.J. Ridgwell, D.N. Schmidt, H.S. Findlay, C. Brownlee, U. Riebesel, V.J. Fabry, R. A. Feely and J.-P. Gattuso, 2010: The societal challenge of ocean acidification. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 60, 787-792. doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2010.05.006

2009:

Montenegro, A., M. Eby, E.C. Wiebe and A.J. Weaver, 2009: The net carbon drawdown of small scale afforestation from satellite observations. Global and Planetary Change, 69, 195-204.
Skvortsov, A., M. Eby and A.J. Weaver, 2009: Snow cover validation and sensitivity to CO2 in the UVic ESCM. Atmosphere-Ocean, 47, 224-237.
Zickfeld, K., M. Eby, H.D. Matthews and A.J. Weaver, 2009: Setting cumulative emissions targets to reduce the risk of dangerous climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 38, 16129-16134.
Archer, D., M. Eby, V. Brovkin, A. Ridgwell, L. Cao, U. Mikolajewicz, K. Caldeira, K. Matsumoto, G. Munhoven, A. Montenegro and K. Tokos. 2009: Atmospheric lifetime of fossil-fuel carbon dioxide. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 37, 117-134, doi:10.1146/annurev.earth.031208.100206
Spence, P., O.A. Saenko, M. Eby and A.J. Weaver, 2009: The Southen Ocean overturning: Parametrized versus permitted eddies. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 39, 1634-1651.
Eby, M., K. Zickfeld, A. Montenegro, D. Archer, K.J. Meissner, and A.J. Weaver, 2009: Lifetime of Anthropogenic Climate Change: Millennial Time-scales of Potential CO2 and Surface Temperature Perturbations. Journal of Climate, 22, 2501-2511.
Cao C., M. Eby, A. Ridgwell, K. Caldeira, D. Archer, A. Ishida, F. Joos, K. Matsumoto, U. Mikolajewicz, A. Mouchet, and Ocean carbon cycle modeling team, 2008: The role of ocean transport in the uptake of anthropogenic CO2. Biogeosciences, 6, 375-390.

2008:

Zickfeld, K., J.C. Fyfe, M. Eby, A.J. Weaver, 2008: Comment on "Saturation of the Southern Ocean CO2 Sink Due to Recent Climate Change" Science, 319 (5863), 570b, doi: 10.1126/science.1146886.
Zickfeld, K., M. Eby and A.J. Weaver, 2008: Carbon-cycle feedbacks of changes in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation under future atmospheric CO2. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 22, GB3024, doi:10.1029/2007GB003118.
Hetherington, R., E. Wiebe, A.J. Weaver, S. Carto, M. Eby and R. MacLeod, 2008: Climate, African and Beringian subaerial continental shelves and migration of early peoples. Quaternary International, 183, 83-101.
Plattner, G.-K, R. Knutti, F. Joos, T. F. Stocker, W. von Bloh, V. Brovkin, D. Cameron, E. Driesschaert, S. Dutkiewicz, M. Eby, N. R. Edwards, T. Fichefet, J. C. Hargreaves, C. D. Jones, M. F. Loutre, H. D. Matthews, A. Mouchet, S. A. Mueller, S. Nawrath, A. Price, A. Sokolov, K. M. Strassmann, and A. J. Weaver, 2008: Long-term climate commitments projected with climate - carbon cycle models, Journal of Climate, 21, 2721-2751.
Spence, J.P., M. Eby and A.J. Weaver, 2008: The sensitivity of of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation to freshwater forcing at eddy-permitting resolutions. Journal of Climate, 21, 2697-2710.
Meissner, K.J., M. Eby, A.J. Weaver and O.A. Saenko, 2008: CO2 threshold for millennial scale oscillations in the climate system: implications for the carbon cycle and global warming scenarios. Climate Dynamics, 30, 161-174.

2007:

Rennermalm, A.K., E.F. Wood, A.J. Weaver, M. Eby, and S.J. Dery, 2007: Relative sensitivity of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation to river discharge into Hudson Bay and the Arctic Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, G04S48, doi:10.1029/2006JG000330.
Lewis, J.P., A.J. Weaver and M. Eby, 2007: Snowball versus slushball Earth: Dynamic versus nondynamic sea ice? Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, C11014, doi:10.1029/2006JC004037.
Fyfe, J.C., O.A. Saenko, K. Zickfeld, M. Eby and A.J. Weaver, 2007: The role of poleward intensifying winds on Southern Ocean warming. Journal of Climate, 20, 5391-5400.
Montenegro, A., M. Eby, A.J. Weaver and S.R. Jayne, 2007: Response of a climate model to tidal mixing parameterization under present day and Last Glacial Maximum conditions. Ocean Modelling, 19, 125-137.
Weaver, A.J., K. Zickfeld, A. Montenegro and M. Eby, 2007: Long term climate implications of 2050 emission reduction targets. Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L19703, doi:10.1029/2007GL031018.
Montenegro, A., V. Brovkin, M. Eby, D.E. Archer and A.J. Weaver, 2007: Long term fate of anthropogenic carbon. Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L19707, doi:10.1029/2007GL030905.
Zickfeld, K., J.C. Fyfe, O.A. Saenko, M. Eby and A.J. Weaver, 2007: Response of the global carbon cycle to human-induced changes in Southern Hemisphere winds. Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L12712, doi:10.1029/2006GL028797.
Weber, S., S. Drijfhout, A. Abe-Ouchi, M. Crucifix, M. Eby, A. Ganopolski, S. Murakami, B. Otto-Bliesner, and W. Peltier. 2007: The modern and glacial overturning circulation in the Atlantic ocean in PMIP coupled model simulations. Climate of the Past, Vol. 3, pp 51-64, 1-2-2007
Matthews, H.D., M. Eby, T, Ewen, P. Friedlingstein and B.J. Hawkins 2007: What determines the magnitude of carbon cycle-climate feedbacks? Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 21, GB2012, doi:10.1029/2006GB002733.
Weaver, A.J., M. Eby, M. Kienast and O.A. Saenko, 2007: Response of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation to increasing atmospheric CO2: Sensitivity to mean climate state. Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L05708, doi:10.1029/2006GL028756.

2006:

Lewis, J.P., A.J. Weaver and M. Eby, 2006: Deglaciating the Snowball Earth: sensitivity to surface albedo. Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L23604, doi:10.1029/2006GL027774.
Friedlingstein, P., P. Cox, R. Betts, L. Bopp, W. von Bloh, V. Brovkin, P. Cadule, S. Doney, M. Eby, I. Fung, G. Bala, J. John, C. Jones, F. Joos, T. Kato, M. Kawamiya, W. Knorr, K. Lindsay, H. D. Matthews, T. Raddatz, P. Rayner, C. Reick, E. Roeckner, K.-G. Schnitzler, R. Schnur, K. Strassmann, A.J. Weaver, C. Yoshikawa, and N. Zeng, 2006: Climate-carbon cycle feedback analysis, results from the C4MIP model intercomparison, Journal of Climate, 19, 3337-3353.
Montenegro, A., R. Hetherington, M. Eby and A.J. Weaver, 2006: Modelling pre-historic transoceanic crossings into the Americas. Quaternary Science Reviews, 25, 1323-1338.
Rennermalm, A.K., E.F. Wood, S.J. Dery, A.J. Weaver and M. Eby, 2006: Sensitivity of the thermohaline circulation to Arctic Ocean runoff. Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L12703, doi:10.1029/2006GL026124.
Montenegro, A., M. Eby, J.O. Kaplan, K.J. Meissner, and A.J. Weaver, 2006: Carbon storage on exposed continental shelves during the glacial-interglacial transition, Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L08703, doi:10.1029/2005GL025480.
Stouffer, R.J., J. Yin, J.M. Gregory, K.W. Dixon, M.J. Spelman, W. Hurlin, A.J. Weaver, M. Eby, G.M. Flato, H. Hasumi, A. Hu, J.H. Jungclause, I.V. Kamenkovich, A. Levermann, M. Montoya, S. Murakami, S. Nawrath, A. Oka, W.R. Peltier, D.Y. Robitaille, A. Sokolov, G. Vettoretti, S.L. Weber, 2006: Investigating the causes of the response of the thermohaline circulation to past and future climate changes. Journal of Climate, 19, 1365-1387.
Montenegro, A., A. Araujo, M. Eby, L.F. Ferreira, R. Hetherington and A.J. Weaver, 2006: Parasites, paleoclimate and the peopling of the Americas: Using the hookworm to time the Clovis migration. Current Anthropology, 46(1), 193-200.

2005:

Petoukhov, V., M. Claussen, A. Berger, M. Crucifix, M. Eby, A.V. Eliseev, T. Fichefet, A. Ganopolski, H. Goosse, I. Kamenkovich, I.I. Mokhov, M. Montoya, L.A. Mysak, A. Sokolov, P. Stone, Z. Wang and A.J. Weaver, 2005: EMIC Intercomparison Project (EMIP-CO2): Comparative analysis of EMIC simulations of climate, and of equilibrium and transient responses to atmospheric CO2 doubling. Climate Dynamics, 25, 363-385.
Matthews, H.D. , M. Eby, A.J. Weaver and B.J. Hawkins, 2005: Primary productivity control of simulated carbon cycle-climate feedbacks. Geophysical Research Letters, 32(14), L14708.
Schmittner A, Oschlies A, Giraud X, Eby M, Simmons HL, 2005: A global model of the marine ecosystem for long-term simulations: Sensitivity to ocean mixing, buoyancy forcing, particle sinking, and dissolved organic matter cycling Global Biogeochemical Cycles 19(3)
Gregory, J.M., K.W. Dixon, R.J. Stouffer, A.J. Weaver, E. Driesschaert, M. Eby, T. Fichefet, H. Hasumi, A. Hu, J. H. Jungclaus, I.V. Kamenkovich, A. Levermann, M. Montoya, S. Murakami, S. Nawrath, A. Oka, A. P. Sokolov, R. B. Thorpe, 2005: A model intercomparison of changes in the Atlantic thermohaline circulation in response to increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration. Geophysical Research Letters, 32(12), L12703.
Mysak LA, Wright KM, Sedlacek J, Eby M: 2005: Simulation of sea ice and ocean variability in the Arctic during 1955-2002 with an intermediate complexity model Atmosphere-Ocean 43(1), 101-118.

2004:

Weaver, A.J., and M. Eby, 2004: Comment on "A parametrization of solar energy disposition in the climate system" (Wang et al., 2004), Atmosphere-Ocean, 42, 293-294.
Stouffer, R.J., A.J. Weaver, and M. Eby, 2004: A method for obtaining pre-twentieth century initial conditions for use in climate change studies. Climate Dynamics, 23, 327-339.
Saenko, O.A., M. Eby and A.J. Weaver, 2004: The effect of sea-ice extent in the North Atlantic on the stability of the thermohaline circulation in global warming experiments. Climate Dynamics, 22, 689-699.
Matthews, H.D., A.J. Weaver, K.J. Meissner, N.P. Gillett and M. Eby, 2004: Natural and anthropogenic climate change: Incorporating historical land cover change, vegetation dynamics and the global carbon cycle. Climate Dynamics, 22, 461-479.
Lewis, J.P., M. Eby, A.J. Weaver and R.L. Jacob, 2004: Global glaciation in the Neoproterozoic: Reconciling previous modelling results. Geophysical Research Letters, 31(8), L08201.
Ewen, T.L., A.J. Weaver and M. Eby, 2004: Sensitivity of the inorganic carbon cycle to future climate warming in the UVic coupled model. Atmosphere-Ocean, 42, 23-42.
Cottet-Puinel, M., A.J. Weaver, C. Hillaire-Marcel, A. de Vernal, P.U. Clark and M. Eby, 2004: Variation of Labrador Sea water formation over the last glacial cycle in a climate model of intermediate complexity. Quaternary Science Reviews, 23, 449-465.

2003:

Lewis, J.P., A.J. Weaver, S.T. Johnston and M. Eby, 2003: The Neoproterozoic 'Snowball Earth': Dynamic ice over a quiescent ocean. Paleoceanography, 18(4), 1092.
Matthews, H.D., A.J. Weaver, M. Eby and K.J. Meissner, 2003: Radiative forcing of climate by historical land cover change. Geophysical Research Letters, 30(2), 27:1-27:4, 1055.

2002:

Saenko, O.A., J.M. Gregory, A.J. Weaver and M. Eby, 2002: Distinguishing the influences of heat, freshwater and momentum fluxes on ocean circulation and climate. Journal of Climate, 15, 15, 3686-3697.
Schmittner, A., K.J. Meissner, M. Eby and A.J. Weaver, 2002: Forcing of the deep circulation in simulations of the Last Glacial Maximum. Paleoceanography , 17(2), 5:1-5:15, 1015.

2001:

Weaver, A.J., M. Eby, E. C. Wiebe, C. M. Bitz, P. B. Duffy, T. L. Ewen, A. F. Fanning, M. M. Holland, A. MacFadyen, O. Saenko, A. Schmittner, H. Wang and M.Yoshimori, 2001: The UVic Earth System Climate Model: Model description, climatology and application to past, present and future climates. Atmosphere-Ocean, 39, 361-428.
Duffy, P.B., M. Eby and A. J. Weaver, 2001: Climate model simulations of effects of increased atmospheric CO2 and loss of sea ice on ocean salinity and tracer uptake. Journal of Climate, 14, 520-532.
Holland, M.M., C.M. Bitz, M. Eby, and A.J. Weaver, 2001: The role of ice ocean interactions in the variability of the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation. Journal of Climate, 14, 656-675.
Bitz, C.M., M.M. Holland, A.J. Weaver, and M. Eby, 2001: Simulating the ice-thickness distribution in a coupled climate model. Journal of Geophysical Research, 106, 2441-2464.

2000:

Weaver, A.J., P.B. Duffy, M. Eby and E.C. Wiebe, 2000: Evaluation of ocean and climate models using present-day observations and forcing. Atmosphere-Ocean, 38, 271-301.

Last Century

Duffy, P.B., M. Eby and A. J. Weaver, 1999: Effects of sinking of salt rejected during formation of sea ice on results of a global ocean-atmosphere-sea ice climate model. Geophysical Research Letters , 26, 1739-1742.
Weaver, A. J., M. Eby, A. F. Fanning, and E. C. Wiebe, 1998: Simulated influence of carbon dioxide, orbital forcing and ice sheets on the climate of the last glacial maximum, Nature, 394, 847-853
Weaver, A. J., and M. Eby, 1997: On the numerical implementation of advection schemes for use in conjunction with various mixing parameterizations in the GFDL ocean model. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 27, 369-375
Sou, T., G. Holloway, and M. Eby, 1996: Effects of topographic stress on Caribbean Sea circulation. J. Geophys. Res., 101, 16449-16453.
Holloway, G., T. Sou, and M. Eby, 1995: Dynamics of circulation of the Japan Sea. J. Mar. Res., 53, 539-569.
Holloway, G., and M. Eby, 1994: Exercising a hybrid statistical mechanics - Ocean Circulation Model. Research Activities in Atmospheric and Oceanic Modelling, 19, G. J. Boer, Ed., WMO, Geneva.
Eby, M., and G. Holloway, 1994: Sensitivity of a large scale ocean model to a parameterization of topographic stress. J Phys Oceanogr, 24, 2577-2588.
Eby, M., and G. Holloway, 1994: Grid transform for incorporating the Arctic in a global ocean model. Climate Dyn., 10, 241-247.
Alvarez, A., J. Tintore, G. Holloway, M. Eby, and J. M. Beckers, 1994: Effect of topographic stress on the circulation in the western Mediterranean. J. Geophys. Res., 99, 16053-16064.
Livingstone, N. J., G. J. Davies, M. Eby, G. Filek, E. E. Fuchs, S. Pepin, R. E. Percy, 1994: A whole cuvette system to measure short-term responses of conifer seedlings to environmental change. Tree Phys., 14, 759-768.
Alvarez, A., J. Tintore, G. Holloway, M. Eby, and J. M. Beckers, 1993: Topographic influence on circulation in the Western Mediterranean. [in] The Seasonal and Interannual Variability of the Western Mediterranean, P. E. LaViolette, Ed., AGU/Springer Verlag.