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Michael Ghil

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FR
Area of research
Atmospheric Science · Global and Planetary Change
Research interest
Research interests include Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.
h-index
80
citations
29,450
works
723
NIH funding
primary concept
email

Recent publications

Introduction to Focus Issue: Nonautonomous dynamical systems: Theory, methods, and applications.
2026cited by 1position: contributordoi
Introduction to the Focus Issue: Nonautonomous dynamics in the climate sciences.
2026cited by 0position: contributordoi
Stochastic neural emulators for subpolar gyre variability and tipping-risk prediction in Earth system models
2026cited by 0position: contributordoi
Minimal modelling of non-equilibrium dynamics in coupled climate–economy systems
2026cited by 0position: contributordoi
Extracting persistent topological modes of variability in complex dynamics from data
2026cited by 0position: contributordoi
Intraseasonal atmospheric variability under climate trends.
2025cited by 1position: contributordoi
Topological modes of variability of the wind-driven ocean circulation.
2025cited by 1position: contributordoi
Forecast error growth: A dynamic-stochastic model.
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Exponential stability for a forecast-assimilation process with unstable dynamics.
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Temperature at 500hPa, energy budget and the 2003 summer heatwave over Western Europe: a triple-decomposition approach
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
A topological perspective on the wind-driven ocean circulation
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
A stable hothouse triggered by a tipping mechanism
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
The Wind-Driven Double-Gyre Circulation: A topological characterization of attractors across regimes
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Unraveling ocean-atmosphere coupled variability with Transfer Entropy and Information Flow  
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Topological fingerprinting of dynamical systems
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Comment on egusphere-2025-2030
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Intraseasonal atmospheric variability under climate trends
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Extreme events in a templex
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Some Thoughts on Causal Inference, the Scientific Method, and Data Assimilation
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Improved subseasonal prediction of South Asian monsoon rainfall using data-driven forecasts of oscillatory modes
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2024cited by 20position: lastdoi
Improved subseasonal prediction of South Asian monsoon rainfall using data-driven forecasts of oscillatory modes.
2024cited by 2position: contributordoi
Crossing planetary boundaries could lead to Hothouse Earth
2024cited by 2position: contributordoi
Crossing planetary boundaries could lead to Hothouse Earth
2024cited by 0position: contributordoi
A Multi‐Model Ensemble Kalman Filter for Data Assimilation and Forecasting
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 2023cited by 40position: lastdoi
Review article: Dynamical systems, algebraic topology and the climate sciences
Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics 2023cited by 20position: contributordoi
Review article: Dynamical systems, algebraic topology and the climate sciences
Nonlinear processes in geophysics 2023cited by 19position: firstdoi
Random templex encodes topological tipping points in noise-driven chaotic dynamics.
2023cited by 2position: contributordoi
Review Article: Dynamical Systems, Algebraic Topology, and the Climate Sciences
2023cited by 2position: contributordoi
Climate, zoonosis, and interdisciplinarity.
2023cited by 1position: contributordoi
Asymptotic behavior of the forecast-assimilation process with unstable dynamics.
2023cited by 1position: contributordoi

Grants

Collaborative Research, Type 1, L02170206: Climate Sensitivity, Stochastic Models and GCM-EaSM Optimization
NSF1049253$540,3772011–2014PIRePORTER
CMG Collaborative Research: Envirodynamics on River Networks
NSF0934426$151,3222009–2013PIRePORTER
Collaborative Research: Mid-Latitude Modes of Climate Variability
NSF0221066$429,4342002–2006PIRePORTER
Climate System Dynamics on Long Time Scales
NSF0082131$1,438,8502000–2007PIRePORTER
Internal and External Causes of Climatic Changes
NSF9523787$1,016,1991995–2001PIRePORTER
Travel Support for the International Symposium on Assimilation of Observations in Meteorology and Oceanography; Tokyo, Japan; March 13-17, 1995
NSF9509864$33,0001995–1995PIRePORTER
Travel Support for U.S. Participation in the Summer School on Assimilation of Meteorological and Oceanographical Observations; Toulon, France; August 2-27, 1993
NSF9313930$24,0001993–1994PIRePORTER
Internal and External Causes of Climatic Changes
NSF9013217$813,0001990–1996PIRePORTER
Data Assimilation in Strongly Nonlinear Current Systems
NSF8919439$68,6001990–1992PIRePORTER
Internal and External Causes of Climatic Change
NSF8615424$433,3181986–1990PIRePORTER
Internal and External Causes of Glaciation Cycles
NSF8514731$129,9001985–1987PIRePORTER
Internal and External Causes of Glaciation Cycles
NSF8416351$88,0001984–1986PIRePORTER
Internal and External Causes of Glaciation Cycles (Climate Dynamics)
NSF8214754$180,8001982–1985PIRePORTER
Internal and External Causes of Glaciation Cycles
NSF8018671$78,9001980–1983PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

· 61 papers (2019–2026)Denisse Sciamarella · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique11 papers (2021–2026)Denis-Didier Rousseau · Columbia University7 papers (2019–2022)Denis‐Didier Rousseau · Columbia University5 papers (2017–2022)Valerio Lucarini · Massachusetts Institute of Technology5 papers (2020–2022)Eviatar Bach · California Institute of Technology5 papers (2022–2025)Dan Crisan · Springer Nature5 papers (2022–2026)Niklas Boers · University of Exeter5 papers (2017–2022)Gisela Daniela Charó · Universidad de Buenos Aires Facultad de Ingeneria4 papers (2021–2026)Mickaël D. Chekroun · University of California, Los Angeles4 papers (2014–2018)Stefano Pierini · Parthenope University of Naples3 papers (2016–2021)Dmitri Kondrashov · University of California, Los Angeles3 papers (2014–2017)Davide Faranda · American Meteorological Society3 papers (2025–2026)Pierre‐Antoine Gourraud · Institut de physique du globe de Paris3 papers (2019–2020) · 3 papers (2020–2021)C Hatté · Silesian University of Technology3 papers (2019–2020) · 3 papers (2021–2026)Maxime Debret · Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique3 papers (2019–2020)Neli Jordanova · American Geophysical Union3 papers (2019–2020)France Lagroix · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique3 papers (2019–2020)