Papers

(Last updated March 8, 2025)

Peer-reviewed publications

25. Lee, Walker, M. Diamond, P. Irvine, J. Reynolds, & D. Visioni (2024). What causes a risk? Informative analyses of radiative forcing geoengineering require proper counterfactuals. Communications Earth & Environment, 5, 748. doi:10.1038/s43247-024-01881-y

24. Diamond, Michael, J. Gristey, & G. Feingold (2024). Testing cloud adjustment hypotheses for the maintenance of Earth’s hemispheric albedo symmetry with natural experiments. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(20), e2024GL111733. doi:10.1029/2024GL111733

23. Gettelman, Andrew, M. Christensen, M. Diamond, E. Gryspeerdt, P. Manshausen, P. Stier, D. Watson-Parris, M. Yang, M. Yoshioka, & T. Yuan. (2024). Has reducing ship emissions brought forward global warming? Geophysical Research Letters, 51(15), e2024GL109077. doi:10.1029/2024GL109077

22. Tilmes, Simone, D. Visioni, E. Bednarz, T. Felgenhauer, W. Smith, C. Lennard, M. Diamond, M. Henry, C. Harrison, & C. Thompson. (2024). Research criteria towards an interdisciplinary Stratospheric Aerosol Intervention assessment. Oxford Open Climate Change, 4(1), kgae010. doi:10.1093/oxfclm/kgae010

21. Baró-Pérez, Alejandro, M. Diamond, et al. (2024). Comparing the simulated influence of biomass burning plumes on low-level clouds over the southeastern Atlantic under varying smoke conditions. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 24(8), 4591–4610. doi:10.5194/acp-24-4591-2024

20. Feingold, Graham, V. Ghate, L. Russell and others including M. Diamond (2024). Physical science research needed to evaluate the viability and risks of marine cloud brightening. Science Advances, 10(12), eadi8594. doi:10.1126/sciadv.adi8594

19. Diamond, Michael. (2023). Detection of large-scale cloud microphysical changes within a major shipping corridor due to the International Maritime Organization 2020 marine fuel sulfur regulations. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 23(14), 8259–8269. doi:10.5194/acp-23-8259-2023

18. Diamond, Michael, K. Wanser, & O. Boucher. (2023). “Cooling credits” are not a viable climate solution. Climatic Change, 176, 96. doi:10.1007/s10584-023-03561-w

17. Chang, Ian, and others including M. Diamond (2023). On the differences in the vertical apportionment of modeled aerosol optical depth over the southeastern Atlantic. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 23(7), 4283–4309. doi:10.5194/acp-23-4283-2023

16. Diamond, Michael, P. Saide, P. Zuidema, A. Ackerman, S. Doherty, A. Fridlind, H. Gordon, C. Howes, J. Kazil, T. Yamaguchi, J. Zhang, G. Feingold, & R. Wood (2022). Cloud adjustments from large-scale smoke-circulation interactions strongly modulate the southeast Atlantic stratocumulus-to-cumulus transition. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 22, 12113–12151. doi:10.5194/acp-22-12113-2022

15. Diamond, Michael, J. Gristey, J. Kay, & G. Feingold (2022). Anthropogenic aerosol and cryosphere changes drive Earth’s strong but transient clear-sky hemispheric albedo asymmetry. Communications Earth & Environment, 3(1), 206. doi:10.1038/s43247-022-00546-y

14. Diamond, Michael, A. Gettelman, M. Lebsock, A. McComiskey, L. Russell, R. Wood, & G. Feingold (2022). Physical science checkpoints and exit ramps for marine cloud brightening research. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(4), e2118379119. doi:10.1073/pnas.2118379119

13. Christensen, Matthew, A. Gettelman, and others including M. Diamond (2022). Opportunistic experiments to constrain aerosol effective radiative forcing. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 22(1), 641-674. doi:10.5194/acp-22-641-2022

12. Bates, Amanda, and others including M. Diamond (2021). Global COVID-19 lock- down highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment. Biological Conservation. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109175

11. Pistone, Kristina, R. Wood, P. Zuidema, M. Diamond, A. da Silva, G. Ferrada, P. Saide, R. Ueyama, J.-M. Ryoo, L. Pfister, J. Podolske, D. Noone, R. Bennett, E. Stith, G. Carmichael, J. Redemann, C. Flynn, S. LeBlanc, M. Segal-Rosenhaimer, & Y. Shinozuka (2021). Exploring the elevated water vapor signal associated with biomass burning aerosol over the southeast Atlantic Ocean. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21, 9643-9668. doi:10.5194/acp-21-9643-2021

10. Chang, Ian, and others including M. Diamond (2021). Spatiotemporal heterogeneity of aerosol and cloud properties over the southeast Atlantic: An observational analysis. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(7), e2020GL091469. doi:10.1029/2020GL091469

9. Redemann, Jens, and others including M. Diamond (2021). An overview of the ORACLES (ObseRvations of Aerosols above CLouds and their intEractionS) project: aerosol- cloud-radiation interactions in the Southeast Atlantic basin. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21, 1-56. doi:10.5194/acp-21-1507-2021

8. Diamond, Michael, & R. Wood (2020). Limited Regional Aerosol and Cloud Microphysical Changes Despite Unprecedented Decline in Nitrogen Oxide Pollution During the February 2020 COVID‐19 Shutdown in China. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL088913. doi:10.1029/2020GL088913

7. Diamond, Michael, H. Director, R. Eastman, A. Possner, & R. Wood (2020). Substantial Cloud Brightening from Shipping in Subtropical Low Clouds. AGU Advances, 1(1), e2019AV000111. doi:10.1029/2019av000111

6. Pennypacker, Samuel, M. Diamond, & R. Wood (2020). Ultra-clean and smoky marine boundary layers frequently occur in the same season over the southeast Atlantic. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 20, 2341–2351. doi:10.5194/acp-20-2341-2020

5. LeBlanc, Samuel, and others including M. Diamond (2020). Above Cloud Aerosol Optical Depth from airborne observations in the South-East Atlantic. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 20, 1565–1590. doi:10.5194/acp-2019-43

4. Diamond, Michael, A. Dobracki, S. Freitag, J. Griswold, A. Heikkila, S. Howell, M. Kacarab, J. Podolske, P. Saide, & R. Wood (2018). Time-Dependent Entrainment of Smoke Presents an Observational Challenge for Assessing Aerosol-Cloud Interactions over the Southeast Atlantic Ocean. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 18(19), 14623-14636. doi:10.5194/acp-18-14623-2018

3. Pickering, Jennifer, M. Diamond, S. Goodbred, C. Grall, J. Martin, L. Palamenghi, C. Paola, T. Schwenk, R. Sincavage, & V. Spieß (2018). Impact of glacial-lake paleofloods on valley development since glacial termination II: A conundrum of hydrology and scale for the lowstand Brahmaputra-Jamuna paleovalley system. The Geological Society of America Bulletin, 131(1-2), 58-70. doi:10.1130/B31941.1

2. Grosvenor, Daniel, and others including M. Diamond (2018). Remote sensing of droplet number concentration in warm clouds: A review of the current state of knowledge and perspectives. Reviews of Geophysics, 56, 409-453. doi:10.1029/2017RG000593

1. Diamond, Michael, & R. Bennartz (2015). Occurrence and trends of eastern and central Pacific El Niño in different reconstructed SST data sets. Geophysical Research Letters, 42(23), 10375-10381. doi:10.1002/2015gl066469

Papers in preparation and under review

Eastham, Sebastian, and others including M. Diamond (In review). Addressable gaps in scientific knowledge that can improve the accuracy of climate intervention assessments. Under consideration at JAMES. doi:10.22541/essoar.173884395.59264515/v1