Charles E Miller

Biographic Data

ID3939632
NAMECharles E Miller
GIVEN NAMESCharles E
FAMILY NAMEMiller
SIGNATUREMILLER C E
AFFILIATIONSJet Propulsion Laboratory
ORCID0000-0002-9380-4838
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS41
TOTAL CITATIONS91
AUTHOR COUNT41
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX5

  • Non-traditional data to inform modern climate science

    Open AccessKimberley Miner, Ethan Wong et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Communication2025

    The global climate is changing rapidly, with cascading impacts across the world. Even though the modern instrument-based record of Earth observations reflects decades of critical work, multi-century time series may be required to understand and forecast key elements of Earth system dynamics. Here, we review the potential uses of non-traditional climate data records—observations reported without using modern instruments or standardized measurement…

  • Who is responsible? Examining the way U.S. newspapers in rural agricultural and ranching states cover water quality

    Open AccessJessica Walsh, Serena Carpenter et al.ARTICLEJournal of Rural Studies2025Cited by: 1References: 74

  • Isotopic seasonality of fluvial-derived greenhouse gases implies active layer deepening

    Open AccessMelissa Schwab, Clayton D Elder et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Climate change in the northern circumpolar regions is rapidly thawing organic-rich permafrost soils, leading to the substantial release of dissolved CO 2 and CH 4 into river systems. This mobilization impacts local ecosystems and regional climate feedback loops, playing a crucial role in the Arctic carbon cycle. Here, we analyze the stable carbon ( δ 13 C) and radiocarbon (F 14 C) isotopic compositions of dissolved CO 2 and CH 4 in the Sagavanirk…

  • Climate change is enforcing physiological changes in Arctic Ecosystems

    Open AccessNima Madani, Nicholas C Parazoo et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    Remote sensing and site-level observations have shown unprecedented changes in Arctic ecosystems owing to climate warming. These observations include greening and browning trends in Arctic vegetation as well as changes in species composition both in the tundra and the boreal forests. Here, we leveraged solar induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) to study changes in ecosystem phenology across the pan-Arctic domain from 2000 to 2020. Ecoregions, a…

  • A declining trend of methane emissions in the Los Angeles basin from 2015 to 2020

    Open AccessVineet Yadav, K R Verhulst et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    The Los Angeles (LA) basin was responsible for approximately 20% of California’s methane emissions in 2016. Hence, curtailment of these emissions is required to meet California’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets. However, effective mitigation remains challenging in the presence of diverse methane sources like oil and gas production fields, refineries, landfills, wastewater treatment facilities, and natural gas infrastructure. In this st…

  • Do beaver ponds increase methane emissions along Arctic tundra streams

    Open AccessJason A Clark, Ken D Tape et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    Beaver engineering in the Arctic tundra induces hydrologic and geomorphic changes that are favorable to methane (CH 4 ) production. Beaver-mediated methane emissions are driven by inundation of existing vegetation, conversion from lotic to lentic systems, accumulation of organic rich sediments, elevated water tables, anaerobic conditions, and thawing permafrost. Ground-based measurements of CH 4 emissions from beaver ponds in permafrost landscape…

  • Patterns of regional site index across a North American boreal forest gradient

    Open AccessPaul Montesano, C S R Neigh et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    Forest structure—the height, cover, vertical complexity, and spatial patterns of trees—is a key indicator of productivity variation across forested extents. During the 2017 and 2019 growing seasons, NASA’s Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment collected full-waveform airborne LiDAR using the land, vegetation and imaging sensor, sampling boreal and tundra landscapes across a variety of ecological regions from central Canada westward through Alask…

  • Arctic-boreal lakes of interior Alaska dominated by contemporary carbon

    Open AccessFenix Garcia‐Tigreros, Clayton D Elder et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    Northern high-latitude lakes are critical sites for carbon processing and serve as potential conduits for the emission of permafrost-derived carbon and greenhouse gases. However, the fate and emission pathways of permafrost carbon in these systems remain uncertain. Here, we used the natural abundance of radiocarbon to identify and trace the predominant sources of methane, carbon dioxide, dissolved inorganic and organic carbon in nine lakes within…

  • Tundra fire increases the likelihood of methane hotspot formation in the Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska, USA

    Open AccessElizabeth Yoseph, Elizabeth Hoy et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    Rapid warming in Arctic tundra may lead to drier soils in summer and greater lightning ignition rates, likely culminating in enhanced wildfire risk. Increased wildfire frequency and intensity leads to greater conversion of permafrost carbon to greenhouse gas emissions. Here, we quantify the effect of recent tundra fires on the creation of methane (CH 4 ) emission hotspots, a fingerprint of the permafrost carbon feedback. We utilized high-resoluti…

  • Tipping point in North American Arctic-Boreal carbon sink persists in new generation Earth system models despite reduced uncertainty

    Open AccessRenato K Braghiere, Joshua B Fisher et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    Estimating the impacts of climate change on the global carbon cycle relies on projections from Earth system models (ESMs). While ESMs currently project large warming in the high northern latitudes, the magnitude and sign of the future carbon balance of Arctic-Boreal ecosystems are highly uncertain. The new generation of increased complexity ESMs in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report (IPCC AR6) is intended to imp…

  • Emergent biogeochemical risks from Arctic permafrost degradation

    Open AccessKimberley Miner, Juliana D’Andrilli et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2021

  • Geomorphological patterns of remotely sensed methane hot spots in the Mackenzie Delta, Canada

    Open AccessLatha Baskaran, Clayton D Elder et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    We studied geomorphological controls on methane (CH 4 ) hotspots in the Mackenzie Delta region in northern Canada using airborne imaging spectroscopy collected as part of the Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment. Methane emissions hotspots were retrieved at ∼25 m 2 spatial resolution from a ∼10 000 km 2 NASA’s Next Generation Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer survey of the Mackenzie Delta acquired 31 July–3 August 2017. Separating …

  • Using remote sensing to detect, validate, and quantify methane emissions from California solid waste operations

    Open AccessDaniel Cusworth, Riley Duren et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Solid waste management represents one of the largest anthropogenic methane emission sources. However, precise quantification of landfill and composting emissions remains difficult due to variety of site-specific factors that contribute to landfill gas generation and effective capture. Remote sensing is an avenue to quantify process-level emissions from waste management facilities. The California Methane Survey flew the Next Generation Airborne Vi…

  • Methane emissions from underground gas storage in California

    Open AccessAndrew K Thorpe, Riley Duren et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Accurate and timely detection, quantification, and attribution of methane emissions from Underground Gas Storage (UGS) facilities is essential for improving confidence in greenhouse gas inventories, enabling emission mitigation by facility operators, and supporting efforts to assess facility integrity and safety. We conducted multiple airborne surveys of the 12 active UGS facilities in California between January 2016 and November 2017 using advan…

  • Decadal-scale hotspot methane ebullition within lakes following abrupt permafrost thaw

    Open AccessKatey Walter Anthony, P Lindgren et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Thermokarst lakes accelerate deep permafrost thaw and the mobilization of previously frozen soil organic carbon. This leads to microbial decomposition and large releases of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and methane (CH 4 ) that enhance climate warming. However, the time scale of permafrost-carbon emissions following thaw is not well known but is important for understanding how abrupt permafrost thaw impacts climate feedback. We combined field measuremen…

  • Attribution of methane point source emissions using airborne imaging spectroscopy and the Vista-California methane infrastructure dataset

    Open AccessTalha Rafiq, Riley Duren et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Methane (CH _4 ), an important greenhouse gas and pollutant, has been targeted for mitigation. Our recent California airborne survey identified >500 CH _4 point source super-emitters, which accounted for 34%–46% of the statewide CH _4 emissions inventory for 2016 (Duren et al 2019 Nature 575 180–184). Individual plumes were observed in close proximity to expected methane emitting infrastructure, including gas storage facilities, hydrocarbon stora…

  • Exposure to cold temperature affects the spring phenology of Alaskan deciduous vegetation types

    Open AccessMingjie Shi, Nicholas C Parazoo et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    Temperature is a dominant factor driving arctic and boreal ecosystem phenology, including leaf budburst and gross primary production (GPP) onset in Alaskan spring. Previous studies hypothesized that both accumulated growing degree day (GDD) and cold temperature (chilling) exposure are important to leaf budburst. We test this hypothesis by combining both satellite and aircraft vegetation measurements with the Community Land Model Version 4.5 (CLM)…

  • An overview of ABoVE airborne campaign data acquisitions and science opportunities

    Open AccessCharles E Miller, Paul Griffith et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    The 2017 Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment Airborne Campaign (AAC) was one of the largest, most complex airborne science experiments conducted by NASA’s Earth Science Division. Between April and November, the AAC involved ten aircraft in more than 200 science flights that surveyed over 4 million km 2 in Alaska and northwestern Canada. Many flights were coordinated with same-day ground-based measurements to link process-level studies with geo…

  • Missing pieces to modeling the Arctic-Boreal puzzle

    Open AccessJoshua B Fisher, Daniel J Hayes et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2017

    NASA has launched the decade-long Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE). While the initial phases focus on field and airborne data collection, early integration with modeling activities is important to benefit future modeling syntheses. We compiled feedback from ecosystem modeling teams on key data needs, which encompass carbon biogeochemistry, vegetation, permafrost, hydrology, and disturbance dynamics. A suite of variables was identifi…

  • Can economic interests trump ethnic hostility? Trading ties versus outgroup hostility in Australian perceptions of China as a security threat

    Charles Miller, Charles E Miller et al.ARTICLEInternational Relations of the…2016Cited by: 7References: 21

    Will China’s rise be peaceful? One of the key reasons for an optimistic outlook is the extensive economic ties which exist between China and its neighbors. According to a venerable strand of thought among policymakers and scholars alike, trading ties ought to foster bonds of amity among nations and thus reduce the chances of war. Here, we test this proposition using spatial economic data and survey research on opinion toward China as a security t…

  • Quantification and source apportionment of the methane emission flux from the city of Indianapolis

    Open AccessMaria Obiminda L Cambaliza, P B Shepson et al.ARTICLEElementa Science of the…2015

    We report the CH4 emission flux from the city of Indianapolis, IN, the site of the Indianapolis Flux Experiment (INFLUX) project for developing, assessing, and improving top-down and bottom-up approaches for quantifying urban greenhouse gas emissions. Using an aircraft-based mass balance approach, we find that the average CH4 emission rate from five flight experiments in 2011 is 135 ± 58 (1σ) moles s-1 (7800 ± 3300 kg hr-1). The effective per cap…

  • Free Riders in spite of Themselves? Public Opinion, Elite Behavior, and Alliance Burden Sharing in Australia

    Charles Miller, Charles E MillerARTICLEInternational Journal of Public…2015Cited by: 2References: 18

    Rational choice theories have claimed that small states exploit their large allies’ defense spending. However, little work has been done on the foundations of free riding at the levels of elite and public opinion. If smaller states free ride, it is unclear whether they are following the expressed wishes of their constituents or something else. Using a novel method for measuring public support for free riding in the Australian candidate and electi…

  • Test of a Level of Aspiration model of group decision making

    Open AccessYohsuke Ohtsubo, Charles E MillerARTICLEJournal of Experimental Social…2007References: 14

  • Effects of group decision rules on decisions involving continuous alternatives

    Open AccessYohsuke Ohtsubo, Charles E Miller et al.ARTICLEJournal of Experimental Social…2003Cited by: 3References: 18

  • Reward allocation in task-performing groups

    Charles E Miller, Komorita et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…1995Cited by: 2

    Three situational variables were varied to assess the relative weight given to equity and equality principles in reward allocations in task-performing groups:(a) the functional relation between individual and group performance (additive, conjunctive, or disjunctive), (b) the amount of variation among performances of individual members, and (c) the purpose of the allocation. In 2 studies, participants were asked to allocate rewards among 3 perform…