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REFEREED PUBLICATIONS - 2015

Barahona, D., 2015. Thermodynamic Derivation of the Energy of Activation for Ice Nucleation. Atmos. Chem. Phys , 15, 13819-13831. doi: 10.5194/acp-15-13819-2015  Link to Published Version

Barre, J., D. Edwards, H. Worden, A. da Silva, and W. A. Lahoz, 2015. On the feasibility of monitoring Carbon Monxide in the lower troposphere from a constellation of Northern Hemisphere geostationary satellites. (Part 1). Atmos. Environ , 113, 63-77. doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.04.069  Link to Published Version

Blakey, T., A. M. Melesse, and C. S. Rousseaux, 2015. Toward connecting subtropical algal blooms to freshwater nutrient sources using a long-term, spatially distributed, in situ chlorophyll-a record. Catena , 133, 119-127. doi: 10.1016/j.catena.2015.05.001  Link to Published Version

Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, E., R. Cullather, W. Wang, J. Zhang, and C. Bitz, 2015. Model forecast skill and sensitivity to initial conditions in the seasonal Sea Ice Outlook. Geophys. Res. Lett , 42, 8042-8048. doi: 10.1002/2015GL065860  Link to Published Version

Bosilovich, M. G., J. Chern, D. Mocko, F. R. Robertson, and A. da Silva, 2015. Evaluating observation influence on regional water budgets in reanalyses. J. Climate , 28, 3631-3649. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00623.1  Link to Published Version

Brassington, G. B., M. J Martin, H. L Tolman, S. Akella, M. Balmeseda, C. R. S. Chambers, J. A. Cummings, Y. Drillet, P. A. E. M. Jansen, P. Laloyaux, D. Lea, M. Suarez, and R. Todling, 2015. Progress and challenges in short- to medium-range coupled prediction. J. Oper. Oceanogr , 8, s239-s258. doi: 10.1080/1755876X.2015.1049875  Link to Published Version

Buchard, V., A. da Silva, P. R. Colarco, A. Darmenov, C. A. Randles, R. Govindaraju, O. Torres, J. Campbell, and R. Spurr, 2015. Using the OMI aerosol index and absorption aerosol optical depth to evaluate the NASA MERRA aerosol reanalysis. Atmos. Chem. Phys , 15, 5743-5760. doi: 10.5194/acp-15-5743-2015  Link to Published Version

Chao, W. C., 2015. Correction of excessive precipitation over steep and high mountains in a GCM: A simple method of parameterizing the thermal effects of subgrid topographic variation. J. Atmos. Sci , 72, 2366-2378. doi: 10.1175/JAS-D-14-0336.1  Link to Published Version

Daloz, A. S., S. J. Camargo, J. P. Kossin, K. Emanuel, M. Horn, J.A. Jones, D. Kim, T. E. LaRow, Y.-K. Lim, M. Roberts, P. L. Vidale, C.M. Patricola, E. Scoccimarro, D. Shaevitz, H. Wang, M. Wehner and M. Zhao, 2015. Cluster analysis of downscaled and explicitly simulated North Atlantic tropical cyclone tracks. J. Climate , 28, 1331-1361. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00646.1  Link to Published Version

De Lannoy, G. J. M., R. H. Reichle, J. Peng, Y. Kerr, R. Castro, E. Kim, and Q. Liu, 2015. Converting Between SMOS and SMAP Level-1 Brightness Temperature Observations Over Nonfrozen Land. IEEE Geosci. Remote Sens. Lett , 12, 1908-1912. doi: 10.1109/LGRS.2015.2437612  Link to Published Version

Draper, C., R. H. Reichle, G. J. DeLannoy, and B. Scarino, 2015. A dynamic approach to addressing observation-minus-forecast mean differences in a land surface skin temperature data assimilation system. J. Hydrometeorol. , 16, 449-464. doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-14-0087.1  Link to Published Version

Draper, C. S., and R. H. Reichle, 2015. The impact of near-surface soil moisture assimilation at subseasonal, seasonal, and inter-annual time scales. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sc , 19, 4831-4844. doi: 10.5194/hess-19-4831-2015  Link to Published Version

Dutkiewicz, S., A. E. Hickman, O. Jahn, W. W. Gregg, C. B. Mouw, and M. J. Follows, 2015. Capturing optically important constituents and properties in a marine biogeochemical and ecosystem model. Biogeosciences , 12, 4447-4481. DOI: 10.5194/bg-12-4447-2015  Link to Published Version

Errico, R. M., N. Privé, and W. Gu, 2015. Use of an OSSE to evaluate background error covariances estimated by the "NMC method". Q. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc , 141, 611-618. doi: 10.1002/qj.2384  Link to Published Version

Farhadi, L., R. H. Reichle, G. J. M. De Lannoy, and J. S. Kimball, 2015. Assimilation of freeze/thaw observations into the NASA catchment land surface model. J. Hydrometeorol. , 16, 730-743. doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-14-0065.1  Link to Published Version

Forman, B. A., and R. H. Reichle, 2015. Using a support vector machine and a land surface model to estimate large-scale passive microwave brightness temperatures over snow-covered land in North America. IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl , 8, 4431-4441. doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2325780  Link to Published Version

Holdaway, D., and J. Kent, 2015. Assessing the tangent linear behavior of common tracer transport schemes and their use in a linearized atmospheric general circulation model. Tellus A , 67, 27895. doi: 10.3402/tellusa.v67.27895  Link to Published Version

Holdaway, D., R. Errico, R. Gelaro, J. G. Kim, and R. Mahajan, 2015. A linearized prognostic cloud scheme in NASA's Goddard Earth Observing system data assimilation tools. Mon. Wea. Rev , 143, 4198-4219. doi: 10.1175/MWR-D-15-0037.1  Link to Published Version

Houweling, S., D. Baker, S. Basu, H. Boesch, A. Butz, F. Chevallier, F. Deng, E. J. Dlugokencky, L. Feng, A. Ganshin, O. Hasekamp, D. Jones, S. Maksyutov, J. Marshall, T. Oda, C. W. O'Dell, S. Oshchepkov, P. I. Palmer, P. Peylin, Z. Poussi, F. Reum, H. Takagi, Y. Yoshida, and R. Zhuravlev, 2015. An intercomparison of inverse models for estimating sources and sinks of CO₂ using GOSAT measurements. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. , 120 (10), 5253-5266. DOI: 10.1002/2014JD022962  Link to Published Version

Huang, M., K.W. Bowman, G.R. Carmichael, M. Lee, T. Chai, S.N. Spak, D.K. Henze, A.S. Darmenov, and A.M. da Silva, 2015. Improved western U.S. background ozone estimates via constraining nonlocal and local source contributions using Aura TES and OMI observations. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. , 120 (8), 3572-3592. doi: 10.1002/2014JD022993  Link to Published Version

Kischa, P., A. da Silva, B. Starobinets, C. Long, O. Kalashnikova, and P. Alpert, 2015. Saharan dust as a causal factor of hemispheric asymmetry in aerosols and cloud cover over the tropical Atlantic Ocean. Int. J. Remote Sens , 36, 3423-3445. doi: 10.1080/01431161.2015.1060646  Link to Published Version

Klingaman, N. P., S. J. Woolnough, X. Jiang, D. Waliser, P. K. Xavier, J. Petch, M. Caian, C. Hannay, D. Kim, H.-Y. Ma, W. J. Merryfield, T. Miyakawa, M. Pritchard, J. A. Ridout, R. Roehrig, E. Shindo, F. Vitart, H. Wang, N. R. Cavanaugh, B. E. Mapes, A. Shelly, and G. J. Zhang, 2015. Vertical structure and physical processes of the Madden-Julian oscillation: Linking hindcast fidelity to simulated diabatic heating and moistening. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmos , 120, 4690-4717. doi: 10.1002/2014JD022374  Link to Published Version

Koster, R. D., G. Salvucci, A. Rigden, M. Jung, G. J. Collatz, and S. D. Schubert, 2015. The pattern across the continental United States of evapotranspiration variability associated with water availability. Front. Earth Sci , 3, 35. doi: 10.3389/feart.2015.00035  Link to Published Version

Koster, R. D., 2015. Efficiency space - A framework for evaluating joint evaporation and runoff behavior. B. Am. Meteor. Soc , 96, 393-396. doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00056.1  Link to Published Version

Koster, R. D., G. Walker, 2015. Interactive Vegetation Phenology, Soil Moisture, and Monthly Temperature Forecasts. J. Hydrometeorol. , 16, 1456-1465. doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-14-0205.1  Link to Published Version

Kumar, S. V., C. D. Peters-Lidard, J. A. Santanello, R. H. Reichle, C. S. Draper, R. D. Koster, G. Nearing, and M. F. Jasinski, 2015. Evaluating the utility of satellite soil moisture retrievals over irrigated areas and the ability of land data assimilation methods to correct for unmodeled processes. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sc , 19, 4463-4478. doi: 10.5194/hess-19-4463-2015  Link to Published Version

Lievens, H., N. E. C. Verhoest, B. Martens, M. J. van den Berg, A. Al Bitar, S. Kumar Tomer, O. Merlin, F. Cabot, Y. Kerr, G. J. M. De Lannoy, M. Drusch, H.-J. Hendricks-Franssen, H. Vereecken, M. Pan, E. F. Wood, G. Dumedah, J. P. Walker, and V. R. N. Pauwels, 2015. Optimization of a radiative transfer forward operator for simulating SMOS brightness temperatures over the Upper Mississippi Basin, USA. J. Hydrometeorol. , 16, 1109-1134. doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-14-0052.1  Link to Published Version

Lievens, H., S. K. Tomer, A. Al Bitar, G. J. De Lannoy, M. Drusch, G. Dumedah, H.-J. Hendricks Franssen, Y. Kerr, M. Pan, J. Roundy, H. Vereecken, J. Walker, E. Wood, N. Verhoest, and V. Pauwels, 2015. SMOS soil moisture assimilation for improved stream flow simulation in the Murray Darling Basin, Australia. Remote Sens. Environ , 16, 1109-1134. doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-14-0052.1  Link to Published Version

Lim, Y.-K., S. D. Schubert, O. Reale, M.-Y. Lee, A. M. Molod, and M. J. Suarez, 2015. Sensitivity of tropical cyclones to parameterized convection in the NASA GEOS5 model. J. Climate , 28, 551-573. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00104.1  Link to Published Version

Lim, Y.-K., 2015. The East Atlantic West Russia teleconnection in the North Atlantic: Climate impact and relation to Rossby wave propagation. Clim. Dynam , 44, 3211-3222. doi: 10.1007/s00382-014-2381-4  Link to Published Version

Long, M. S., R. Yantosca, J. E. Nielsen, C. A. Keller, A. da Silva, M. P. Sulprizio, S. Pawson, and D. J. Jacob, 2015. Development of a grid-independent GEOS-Chem chemical transport model (v9-02) as an atmospheric chemistry module for Earth system models. Geosci. Model Dev. , 8 (3), 595-602. doi:10.5194/gmd-8-595-2015  Link to Published Version

Margulis, S. A., M. Girotto, G. Coretes, and M. Durand, 2015. A Particle Batch Smoother Approach to Snow Water Equivalent Estimation. J. Hydrometeor , 16, 1752-1772. doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-14-0177.1  Link to Published Version

McGrath-Spangler, E., A. M. Molod, L. E. Ott, and S. Pawson, 2015. Impact of planetary boundary layer turbulence on model climate and tracer transport. Atmos. Chem. Phys , 15, 7269-7286. doi: 10.5194/acp-15-7269-2015  Link to Published Version

Molod, A. M., L. L. Takacs, M. Suarez, and J. Bacmeister, 2015. Development of the GEOS-5 atmospheric general circulation model: evolution from MERRA to MERRA2. Geosci. Model Dev , 8, 1339-1356. doi: 10.5194/gmd-8-1339-2015  Link to Published Version

Molod, A. M., H. Salmun, and M. Dempsey, 2015. Estimating planetary boundary layer heights from NOAA profiler network wind profiler data. J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech , 32, 1545-1561. doi: 10.1175/JTECH-D-14-00155.1  Link to Published Version

Nowottnick, E. P., P. R. Colarco, E. J. Welton, and A. da Silva, 2015. Use of the CALIOP vertical feature mask for evaluating global aerosol models . Atmos. Meas. Tech , 8, 3647-3669. doi: 10.5194/amt-8-3647-2015  Link to Published Version

Ott, L., S. Pawson, J. Collatz, W. Gregg, D. Menemenlis, H. Brix, C. Rousseaux, K. Bowman, J. Liu, A. Eldering, M. Gunson, and S. R. Kawa, 2015. Assessing the magnitude of CO₂ flux uncertainty in atmospheric CO₂ records using products from NASA's Carbon Monitoring Flux Pilot Project. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmos , 120, 734-665. doi: 10.1002/2014JD022411  Link to Published Version

Pauwels, V. R., G. J. De Lannoy, 2015. Error covariance calculation for forecast bias estimation in hydrologic data assimilation. Adv. Water Res , 86, 284-296. doi: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2015.05.013  Link to Published Version

Privé, N., R. Errico, 2015. Spectral analysis of forecast error investigated with an observing system simulation experiment. Tellus , 67, 25977. doi: 10.3402/tellusa.v67.25977  Link to Published Version

Rousseaux, C. S., and W. Gregg, 2015. Recent decadal trends in global phytoplankton composition. Global Biogeochem. Cy , 29, 1674-1688. doi: 10.1002/2015GB005139  Link to Published Version

Saide, P. E., S. N. Spak, R. B. Pierce, J. A. Otkin, T. K. Schaack, A. K. Heidinger, A. M. da Silva, M. Kacenelenbogen, J. Redemann, and G. R. Carmichael, 2015. Central American biomass burning smoke can increase tornado severity in the U.S.. Geophys. Res. Lett , 42, 956-965. doi: 10.1002/2014GL062826  Link to Published Version

Saide, P., D. A. Peterson, A. da Silva, B. Anderson, L. D. Ziemba, G. Diskin, G. Sachse, J. Hair, C. Butler, M. Fenn, J. L. Jimenez, P. Campuzano-Jost, A. E. Perring, J. P. Schwarz, M. Z Markovic, P. Russell, J. Redemann, Y. Shinozuka, D. G. Streets, F. Yan, J. Dibb, R. Yokelson, O. B. Toon, E. Hyer, and G. R. Carmichael, 2015. Revealing important nocturnal and day-to-day variations in fire smoke emissions through a multiplatform inversion. Geophys. Res. Lett , 42, 3609-3618. doi: 10.1002/2015GL063737  Link to Published Version

Seager, R., M. Hoerling, S. D. Schubert, H. Wang, B. Lyon, A. Kumar, J. Nakamura, and N. Henderson, 2015. Causes of the 2011–14 California Drought. J. Clim , 28, 6997-7024. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00860.1  Link to Published Version

Sessions, W., J. S. Reid, A. Benedetti, P. Colarco, A. da Silva, S. Lu, T. Sekiyama, T. Y. Tanaka, J. M. Baldasano, S. Basart, M. Brooks, T. F. Eck, M. Iredell, J. A. Hansen, O. Jorba, H.-M. Juang, P. Lynch, J.-J. Morcrette, S. Moorthi, J. Mulcahy, Y. Pradhan, M. Razinger, C. B. Sampson, J. Wang, and D. L. Westphal, 2015. Development towards a global operational aerosol consensus: Basic climatological characteristics of the International Cooperative for Aerosol Prediction Multi-Model Ensemble (ICAP-MME). Atmos. Chem. Phys , 15, 335-362. doi: 10.5194/acp-15-335-2015  Link to Published Version

Sheyko, B. A., S. C. Sullivan, R. Morales, S. L. Capps, D. Barahona, X. Shi, X. Liu, and A. Nenes, 2015. Quantifying sensitivities of ice crystal number and sources of ice crystal number variability in CAM 5.1 using the adjoint of a physically based cirrus formation parameterization. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmos , 120, 2834-2854. doi: 10.1002/2014JD022457  Link to Published Version

Thompson, P. A., P. Bonham, P. Thomson, W. Rochester, M. A. Doblin, A. M. Waite, A. Richardson, and C. S. Rousseaux, 2015. Climate variability drives plankton community composition changes: the 2010-2011 El Nino to La Nina transition around Australia. J. Plankton Res. , 37 (5), 966-984. DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbv069  Link to Published Version

Todling, R., 2015. A complementary note to a lag-1 smoother approach to system error estimation and its implications to residual diagnostics. Q. J. Royal Meteor. Soc , 141, 2917-2922. doi: 10.1002/qj2546  Link to Published Version

Todling, R., 2015. A lag-1 smoother approach to system error estimation: Sequential method. Q. J. Royal Meteor. Soc , 141, 1502-1513. doi: 10.1002/qj.2460  Link to Published Version

Walsh, K. J. E., S. J. Camargo, G. A. Vecchi, A. S. Daloz, J. Elsner, K. Emanuel, M. Horn, Y.-K. Lim, M. Roberts, C. Patricola, E. Scoccimarro, A. H. Sobel, S. Strazzo, G. Villarini, M. Wehner, M. Zhao, J. Kossin, T. LaRow, K. Oouchi, S. Schubert, H. Wang, J. Bacmeister, P. Chang, F. Chauvin, C. Jablonowski, H. Murakami, T. Ose, K. A. Reed, R. Saravanan, Y. Yamada, C. M. Zarzycki, P. L. Vidale, J. A. Jonas and N. Henderson, 2015. Hurricanes and climate: the U.S. CLIVAR working group on hurricanes. B. Am. Meteorol. Soc , 96, 997-1017. doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00242.1  Link to Published Version

Wang, S.-Y., J. Santanello, H. Wang, D. Barandiaran, R. Pinker, S. Schubert, R. R. Gillies, R. Oglesby, K. Hilburn, A. Kilic, and P. Houser, 2015. An intensified seasonal transition in the Central U.S. that enhances summer drought. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmos , 120, 8804-8816. doi: 10.1002/2014JD023013  Link to Published Version

Wargan, K., S. Pawson, M. A. Olsen, J. C. Witte, A. R. Douglass, J. R. Ziemke, S. E. Strahan, and J. E. Nielsen, 2015. The Global Structure of Upper Troposphere-Lower Stratosphere Ozone in GEOS-5: A Multi-Year Assimilation of EOS Aura Data. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmos , 120, 2013-2036. doi: 10.1002/2014JD022493  Link to Published Version

Wood, E. F., S. D. Schubert, A. W. Wood, C. D. Peters-Lidard, K. C. Mo, A. Mariotti, and R. S. Pulwarty, 2015. Prospects for Advancing Drought Understanding, Monitoring and Prediction. J. Hydrometeorol. , 16, 1636-1657. doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-14-0164.1  Link to Published Version

Xavier, P. K., J. C. Petch, N. P. Klingaman, S. J. Woolnough, X. Jiang, D. E. Waliser, M. Caian, J. Cole, S. M. Hagos, C. Hannay, D. Kim, T. Miyakawa, M. S. Pritchard, R. Roehrig, E. Shingdo, F. Vitart, and H. Wang, 2015. Vertical structure and physical processes of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Biases and uncertainties at short range. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmos , 120, 4749-4763. doi: 10.1002/2014JD022718  Link to Published Version

Xue, Y., F. D. Sales, W. K.-M. Lau, A. Boone, K.-M. Kim, G. Wang, F. Kucharski, K. Schiro, M. Hosaka, S. Li, C. R. Mechoso, L. M. Druyan, I. S. Sanda, W. Thiaw, N. Zeng, R. E. Comer, Y.-K. Lim, S. Mahanama, G. Song, Y. Gu, M. Chin, P. Dirmeyer, S. M. Hagos, E. Kalnay, A. Kitoh, L. R. Leung, C.-H. Lu, N. M. Mahowald, S. D. Schubert, and Z. Zhang, 2015. West African monsoon decadal variability and drought and surface-related forcings: Second West African monsoon modeling and evaluation project experiment (WAMME II). Clim. Dyn , 47 (11), 3517-3545. doi:10.1007/s00382-016-3224-2  Link to Published Version

Yasunari, T. J., R. D. Koster, W. K. M. Lau, and K.-M. Ki, 2015. Impact of snow darkening via dust, black carbon, and organic carbon on boreal spring climate in the Earth system. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. , 120 (11), 5485-5503. doi: 10.1002/2014JD022977  Link to Published Version

Yoshida, Y., J. Joiner, C. J. Tucker, J. Berry, J.-E. Lee, G. K. Walker, R. H. Reichle, R. D. Koster, A. I. Lyapustin, and Y. Wang, 2015. The 2010 Russian drought impact on satellite measurements of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence: Insights from modeling and comparisons with parameters derived from satellite reflectances. Remote Sens. Environ , 166, 163-177. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.06.008  Link to Published Version

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Endsley, K.Arthur, John S. Kimball, Tobias Kundig, Rolf H. Reichle, Joseph V. Ardizzone, 2023. Validation Assessment for the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Level 4 Carbon (L4_C) Data Product Version 7. NASA/TM-2023-104606, Vol. 65, 56 pp. Document (7224 kB).

Reichle, Rolf H., Qing Liu, Joseph V. Ardizzone, Michel Bechtold, Wade T. Crow, Gabrielle J. M. De Lannoy, John S. Kimball and Randal D. Koster, 2023. Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Project Assessment Report for Version 7 of the L4_SM Data Product. NASA/TM-2023-104606, Vol. 64, 91 pp. Document (17397 kB).

Kemppinen, Osku, Peter R. Colarco and Patricia Castellanos, 2022. GEOS aerosol optical table calculation package GEOSmie. NASA/TM-2023-104606, Vol. 63, 81 pp. Document (3209 kB).

Chang, Yehui, Siegfried Schubert, Randal Koster, Andrea Molod, and Yong-Kwon Lim, 2022. Climate Characteristics of the Atmospheric Analysis Increments from the GEOS S2S V3 AOGCM Replayed to MERRA-2. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA/TM-2021-104606, Vol. 62, 147 pp. Document (46192 kB).

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Reichle, Rolf, Qing Liu, Randal D. Koster, Joseph V. Ardizzone, Andreas Colliander, Wade T. Crow, Gabrielle J. M. De Lannoy and John S. Kimball, 2022. Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Project Assessment Report for Version 6 of the L4_SM Data Product. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA/TM-2021-104606, Vol. 60, 72 pp. Document (8595 kB).

Reichle, Rolf, and Qing Liu, 2021. Observation-Corrected Precipitation for the SMAP Level 4 Soil Moisture (Version 6) Product and the GEOS R21C Reanalysis. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA/TM-2021-104606, Vol. 59, 32 pp. Document (404 kB).

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Chang, Yehui, Siegfried Schubert, Randal Koster and Andrea Molod, 2021. Tendency Bias Correction in the GEOS AGCM. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA/TM-2021-104606, Vol. 57, 78 pp. Document (5255 kB).

Kimball, John, K. Arthur Endsley, Tobias Kundig, Joseph Glassy, Rolf H. Reichle and Joseph V. Ardizzone, 2021. Validation Assessment for the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Level 4 Carbon (L4_C) Data Product Version 5. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA/TM-2021-104606, Vol. 56, 31 pp. Document (2610 kB).

Schubert, Siegfreid, Young-Kwon Lim, Andrea Molod, and Allison Marquardt Collow, 2021. A Phenomenon-Based Decomposition of Model-Based Estimates of Boreal Winter ENSO Variability. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA/TM-2021-104606, Vol. 55, 88 pp. Document (7722 kB).

Carvalho, David, and Will McCarty, 2020. Position Estimation of Atmospheric Motion Vectors for Observation System Simulation Experiments. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA/TM-2019-104606, Vol. 54, 44 pp. Document (2175 kB).

Schubert, Siegfried, Anna Borovikov, Young-Kwon Lim, and Andrea Molod, 2019. Ensemble Generation Strategies Employed in the GMAO GEOS-S2S Forecast System. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA/TM-2019-104606, Vol. 53, 75 pp. Document (5002 kB).

Reichle, Rolf H., Qing Liu, Randal D. Koster, Joseph V. Ardizzone, Andreas Colliander, Wade T. Crow, Gabrielle J. M. De Lannoy, and John S. Kimball, 2018. Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Project Assessment Report for Version 4 of the L4_SM Data Product. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA/TM-2018-104606, Vol. 52, 72 pp. Document (11805 kB).

Akella, Santha, and Max Suarez, 2018. The Atmosphere-Ocean Interface Layer of NASA’s Goddard Earth Observing System Model and Data Assimilation System. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA/TM-2018-104606, Vol. 51, 42 pp. Document (4892 kB).

Todling, Ricardo, and Amal El Akkraoui, 2018. The GMAO Hybrid Ensemble-Variational Atmospheric Data Assimilation System: Version 2.0. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA/TM-2018-104606, Vol. 50, 184 pp. Document (5543 kB).

Kim, Jong, Santha Akella, Arlindo M. da Silva, Ricardo Todling, and William McCarty, 2018. Preliminary evaluation of influence of aerosols on the simulation of brightness temperature in the NASA’s Goddard Earth Observing System Atmospheric Data Assimilation System. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA/TM-2018-104606, Vol. 49, 44 pp. Document (5922 kB).

Errico, Ronald M., Nikki C. Privé, David Carvalho, Meta Sienkiewicz, Amal El Akkraoui, Jing Guo, Ricardo Todling, Will McCarty, William M. Putman, Arlindo da Silva, Ronald Gelaro, Isaac Moradi, 2017. Description of the GMAO OSSE for Weather Analysis Software Package: Version 3. NASA/TM-2017-104606, Vol. 48, 156 pp. Document (2473 kB).

Collow, Allison B. Marquardt, Sarith P. Mahanama, Michael G. Bosilovich, Randal D. Koster, and Siegfried D. Schubert, 2017. An Evaluation of Teleconnections Over the United States in an Ensemble of AMIP Simulations with the MERRA-2 Configuration of the GEOS Atmospheric Model. NASA/TM-2017-104606, Vol. 47, 68 pp. Document (5623 kB).

McCarty, Will, Lawrence Coy, Ronald Gelaro, Albert Huang, Dagmar Merkova, Edmond B. Smith, Meta Seinkiewicz, and Krzysztof Wargan, 2016. MERRA-2 Input Observations: Summary and Assessment. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA/TM-2016-104606, Vol. 46, 61 pp. Document (3553 kB).

Randles, C. A., A. M. da Silva, V. Buchard, A. Darmenov, P. R. Colarco, V. Aquila, H. Bian, E. P. Nowottnick, X. Pan, A. Smirnov, H. Yu, and R. Govindaraju, 2016. The MERRA-2 Aerosol Assimilation. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA/TM-2016-104606, Vol. 45, 143 pp. Document (91522 kB).

Akella, Santha, Ricardo Todling and Max Suarez, 2016. Estimation of the Ocean Skin Temperature using the NASA GEOS Atmospheric Data Assimilation System. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA/TM-2016-104606, Vol. 44, 88 pp. Document (12742 kB).

Bosilovich, Michael G., Santha Akella, Lawrence Coy, Richard Cullather, Clara Draper, Ronald Gelaro, Robin Kovach, Qing Liu, Andrea Molod, Peter Norris, Krzysztof Wargan, Winston Chao, Rolf Reichle, Lawrence Takacs, Yury Vikhliaev, Steve Bloom, Allison Collow, Stacey Firth, Gordon Labow, Gary Partyka, Steven Pawson, Oreste Reale, Siegfried D. Schubert, and Max Suarez, 2015. MERRA-2: Initial Evaluation of the Climate. NASA/TM–2015–104606, Vol. 43, 139 pp. Document (20707 kB).

Kimball, John S., Lucas A. Jones,Joseph Glassy, E. Natasha Stavros, Nima Madani, Rolf H. Reichle, Thomas Jackson, and Andreas Colliander, 2015. Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Project Calibration and Validation for the L4_C Beta-Release Data Product. NASA/TM–2015-104606, Vol. 42, 37 pp. Document (13765 kB).

Schubert, Siegfried, Will Pozzi, Kingtse Mo, Eric F. Wood, Kerstin Stahl, Mike Hayes, Juergen Vogt, Sonia Seneviratne, Ron Stewart, Roger Pulwarty, and Robert Stefanski, 2015. GDIS Workshop Report. NASA/TM–2015-104606, Vol. 41, 40 pp. Document (623 kB).

Reichle, Rolf H., Gabrielle J. M. De Lannoy, Qing Liu, Andreas Colliander, Austin Conaty, Thomas Jackson, John Kimball, and Randal D. Koster, 2015. Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Project Assessment Report for the Beta-Release L4_SM Data Product. NASA/TM-2015-104606, Vol. 40. Document (5812 kB).

Mahanama, Sarith P., Randal D. Koster, Gregory K. Walker, Lawrence L. Takacs, Rolf H. Reichle, Gabrielle De Lannoy, Qing Liu, Bin Zhao, and Max J. Suarez, 2015. Land Boundary Conditions for the Goddard Earth Observing System Model Version 5 (GEOS-5) Climate Modeling System - Recent Updates and Data File Descriptions. NASA/TM–2015-104606, Vol. 39, 55 pp. Document (4608 kB).

Darmenov, Anton, and Arlindo da Silva, 2015. The Quick Fire Emissions Dataset (QFED): Documentation of versions 2.1, 2.2 and 2.4. NASA/TM–2015–104606, Vol. 38. Document (68725 kB).

Takacs, Lawrence L., Max Suarez, and Ricardo Todling, 2015. Maintaining Atmospheric Mass and Water Balance Within Reanalysis. NASA/TM–2014-104606, Vol. 37. Document (3732 kB).

Gelaro, Ronald, William M. Putman, Steven Pawson, Clara Draper, Andrea Molod, Peter M. Norris, Lesley Ott, Nikki Privé, Oreste Reale, Deepthi Achuthavarier, Michael Bosilovich, Virginie Buchard, Winston Chao, Lawrence Coy, Richard Cullather, Arlindo da Silva, Anton Darmenov, Ronald M. Errico, Marangelly Fuentes, Min-Jeong Kim, Randal Koster, Will McCarty, Jyothi Nattala, Gary Partyka, Siegfried Schubert, Guillaume Vernieres, Yuri Vikhliaev, and Krzysztof Wargan, 2015. Evaluation of the 7-km GEOS-5 Nature Run. NASA/TM–2014-104606, Vol. 36. Document (88612 kB).

Reichle, R. H., and Q. Liu, 2014. Observation-Corrected Precipitation Estimates in GEOS-5. NASA/TM–2014-104606, Vol. 35. Document (495 kB).

Keppenne, C. L., M. M. Rienecker, R. M. Kovach, and G. Vernieres, 2014. Background error covariance estimation using information from a single model trajectory with application to ocean data assimilation into the GEOS-5 coupled model. NASA/TM-2014-104606, Vol. 34. Document (1941 kB).

Rousseaux, C. S., and W. W. Gregg, 2014. The effects of chlorophyll assimilation on carbon fluxes in a global biogeochemical model. NASA/TM-2014-104696, Vol. 33. Document (942 kB).

Provencal, S., P. Kishcha, E. Elhacham, A. M. da Silva, and P. Alpert, 2014. Estimates of AOD Trends (2002 – 2012) over the World’s Major Cities based on the MERRA Aerosol Reanalysis. NASA/TM-2014-104606, Vol. 32, 40 pp. Document (3247 kB).

Gregg, W. W., N. W. Casey, and C. S. Rousseaux, 2013. Global surface ocean carbon estimates in a model forced by MERRA. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA TM-2013-104606, Vol. 31, 39 pp. Document (1170 kB).

Vernieres, G., M. Rienecker, R. Kovach, and C. Keppenne, 2012. The GEOS-iODAS: Description and Evaluation. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA TM—2012-104606, Vol. 30, 61 pp. Document (13707 kB).

Rienecker, M.M., D. Dee, J. Woollen, G. P. Compo, K. Onogi, R. Gelaro, M. G. Bosilovich, A. da Silva, S. Pawson, S. Schubert, M. Suarez, D. Barker, H. Kamahori, R. Kistler, and S. Saha, 2012. Atmospheric Reanalyses—Recent Progress and Prospects for the Future. A Report from a Technical Workshop, April 2010. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA TM—2012-104606, Vol. 29, 56 pp. Document (9410 kB).

Molod, A., L. Takacs, M. Suarez, J. Bacmeister, I.-S. Song, and A. Eichmann, 2012. The GEOS-5 Atmospheric General Circulation Model: Mean Climate and Development from MERRA to Fortuna. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA TM—2012-104606, Vol. 28, 117 pp. Document (11776 kB).

Rienecker, M.M., M. J. Suarez, R. Todling, J. Bacmeister, L. Takacs, H.-C. Liu, W. Gu, M. Sienkiewicz, R. D. Koster, R. Gelaro, I. Stajner, and J. E. Nielsen, 2008. The GEOS-5 Data Assimilation System - Documentation of Versions 5.0.1, 5.1.0, and 5.2.0. Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, Vol. 27, 1-118 pp. Document (11978 kB).

Bloom, S., A. da Silva, D. Dee, M. Bosilovich, J.-D. Chern, S. Pawson, S. Schubert, M. Sienkiewicz, I. Stajner, W.-W. Tan, M.-L. Wu, 2005. Documentation and Validation of the Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) Data Assimilation System - Version 4. Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 104606, Vol. 26, 1-187 pp. Document (18124 kB).

Waliser, D., S. Schubert, A. Kumar, K. Weickmann, and R. Dole, 2003. Modeling, Simulation, and Forecasting of Subseasonal Variability. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA/TM-2016-104606, Vol. 25, 70 pp. Document (12998 kB).

Rienecker, M., A. Troccoli, C. Keppenne, G. Johnson, 2003. Temperature Data Assimilation with Salinity Corrections: Validation for the NSIPP Ocean Data Assimilation System in the Tropical Pacific Ocean, 1993-1998. Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 104606, Vol. 24, 1-39 pp. Document (3077 kB).

Schubert, S., R. Dole, H. van den Dool, M. Suarez, D. Waliser, 2002. Prospects for Improved Forecasts of Weather and Short-Term Climate Variability on Subseasonal (2-Week to 2-Month) Time Scales. Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 104606, Vol. 23, 1-163 pp. Document (11999 kB).

Gregg, W.W., 2002. A Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Radiative Model for Global Ocean Biogeochemical Models. Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 104606, Vol. 22, 1-31 pp. Document (2513 kB).

Keppene, C. L., and M. Rienecker, 2001. Design and Implementation of a Parallel Multivariate Ensemble Kalman Filter for the Poseidon Ocean General Circulation Model. NASA Technical Memorandum 104606, Vol. 21. Document (2725 kB).

Chang, Y., S. D. Schubert, S. J. Lin, S. Nebuda, B.-W. Shen, 2001. The Climate of the FVCCM-3 Model. Technical Report Series on Global and Data Assimilation, Vol. 20. Document (8273 kB).

Chou, M.-D., M. Suarez, X.-Z. Liang, M. M.-H. Yan, 2001. A Thermal Infrared Radiation Parameterization for Atmospheric Studies. Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 104606, Vol. 19. Document (1954 kB).

Pegion, P. J., S. D. Schubert, M. Suarez, 2000. An Assessment of the Predictability of Northern Winter Seasonal Means with the NSIPP 1 AGCM. Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 104606, Vol. 18. Document (8353 kB).

Bacmeister, J., S. D. Schubert, M. Suarez, P. J. Pegion, 2000. Atlas of Seasonal Means Simulated by the NSIPP 1 Atmospheric GCM. Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 104606, Vol. 17. Document (8943 kB).

Takacs, L., W. Sawyer, M. J. Suarez, and M. S. Fox-Rabinowitz, 1999. Filtering Techniques on a Stretched Grid General Circulation Model. NASA Technical Memorandum 104606, Vol. 16. Document (3192 kB).

Chou, M.-D., and M. Suarez, 1999. A Solar Radiation Parameterization for Atmospheric Studies. Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 104606, Vol. 15. Document (1880 kB).

Bosilovich, M. G., and S. D. Schubert, 1998. A Comparison of GEOS Assimilated Data with FIFE Observations. Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 104606, Vol. 14. Document (2969 kB).

Min, W., and S. Schubert, 1997. Interannual Variability and Potential Predictability in Reanalysis Products. Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 104606, Vol. 13. Document (16062 kB).

Chang, A., and L. Chiu, 1997. Comparison of Satellite Global Rainfall Algorithms. Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 104606, Vol. 12. Document (305 kB).

Yang, W., I. M. Navon, R. Todling, 1997. Documentation of the Tangent and Adjoint Models of the Relaxed Arakawa-Schubert Moisture Parameterization Package of the NASA GEOS-1 GCM. Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 104606, Vol. 11. Document (331 kB).

Takacs, L., and M. Suarez, 1996. Dynamical Aspects of Climate Simulations Using the GEOS General Circulation Model. NASA Technical Memorandum 104606, Vol. 10. Document (3578 kB).

Koster, R. D., and M. J. Suarez, 1996. Energy and Water Balance Calculations in the Mosaic LSM. Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 104606, Vol. 9. Document (2528 kB).

Yang, W., and I. M. Navon, 1995. Documentation of the Tangent Linear Model and Its Adjoint of the Adiabatic Version of the NASA GEOS-1 C-Grid GCM (Version 5.2). Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 104606, Vol. 8. Document (363 kB).

Schubert, S. D., and R. Rood, 1995. Proceedings of the Workshop on the GEOS-1 Five-Year Assimilation. NASA Technical Memorandum 104606, Vol. 7. Document (24028 kB).

Schubert, S. D., C. K. Park, C. Y. Wu, W. Higgins, Y. Kondratyeva, A. Molod, L. L. Takacs, M. Seablom, R. B. Rood, 1995. A Multiyear Assimilation with the GEOS-1 System: Overview and Results. NASA Technical Memorandum 104606, Vol. 6. Document (14369 kB).

Suarez, M., and L. L. Takacs, 1995. Documentation of the Aries-GEOS Dynamical Core: Version 2. NASA Technical Memorandum 104606, Vol. 5. Document (1667 kB).

Pfaendtner, J., S. Bloom, D. Lamich, M. Seablom, M. Sienkiewicz, J. Stobie, A. da Silva, 1995. Documentation of the Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) Data Assimilation System: Version 1. NASA Technical Memorandum 104606, Vol. 4. Document (2674 kB).

Chou, M.-D., M. J. Suarez, X.-Z. Liang, M. Yan, 1994. An Efficient Thermal Infrared Radiation Parameterization for Use in General Circulation Models. Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 104606, Vol. 3. Document (2587 kB).

Li, Y., S. Moorthi, J. R. Bates, 1994. Direct Solution of the Implicit Formulation of Fourth Order Horizontal Diffusion for Gridpoint Models on the Sphere. Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 104606, Vol. 2. Document (1876 kB).

Takacs, L., A. Molod, T. Wang, 1994. Documentation of the Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) General Circulation Model: Version 1. Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 104606, Vol. 1. Document (4320 kB).

GMAO OFFICE NOTES

GMAO Office Note No. 22 (Version 1.1): Collow, A., V. Buchard, M. Chin, P. Colarco, A. Darmenov, and A. da Silva, 2023. Supplemental Documentation for GEOS Aerosol Products  Document [PDF]. See also Version 1.0 (2023).

GMAO Office Note No. 21 (Version 1.0): Wargan, K., B. Weir, 2022. File Specification for MERRA-2 Stratospheric Composition Reanalysis of Aura MLS (M2-SCREAM)  Document [PDF].

GMAO Office Note No. 20 (Version 1.1): Keller, C., H. Amos, V. Buchard, A. Darmenov, S. Shen, M. Deloria Knoll, F. Villavicencio, M. Bosilovich, 2021. File Specification for MERRA-2 Country-Level Surface PM2.5 Monthly Mean Product  Document [PDF]. See also Version 1.0 (2021). See also Version 1.0 (2021). See also Version 1.0 (2021). See also Version 1.0 (2021).

GMAO Office Note No. 19 (Version 1.3): Collow, Allison, M. Bosilovich, A. Dezfuli, and R. Lucchesi, 2023. File Specification for MERRA-2 Climate Statistics Products  Document [PDF]. See also Version 1.2 (2021). See also Version 1.2 (2021). See also Version 1.1 (2021). See also Version 1.0 (2020).

GMAO Office Note No. 18 (Version 1.0): Collow, Allison, R. Lucchesi, and A. Da Silva, 2020. File Specification for GEOS Products Sampled Along Aircraft Trajectories  Document [PDF].

GMAO Office Note No. 17 (Version 1.3): Knowland, K. Emma, C.A. Keller, and R. Lucchesi, 2020. File Specification for GEOS-CF Products  Document [PDF]. See also Version 1.2 (2022). See also Version 1.1 (2020). See also Version 1.0 (2019).

GMAO Office Note No. 16 (Version 1.0): Nakada, K., R. Kovach, J. Marshak, and A. Molod, 2018. S2S-2_1: File Specification  Document [PDF].

GMAO Office Note No. 15 (Version 1.0): Collow, A., M. Bosilovich, and R. Lucchesi, 2018. File Specification for M2AMIP Products  Document [PDF].

GMAO Office Note No. 14 (Version 1.0): Putman, W., and M. J. Suarez, 2017. Overview of the GEOS Atmospheric Model and the Challenges of Using it at Exascale  Document [PDF].

GMAO Office Note No. 13 (Version 1.0): Kimball, J.S., L. A. Jones, J. Glassy, E. N. Stavros, N. Madani, R. H. Reichle, T. Jackson, and A. Colliander, 2016. Soil Moisture Active Passive Mission L4_C Data Product Assessment (Version 2 Validated Release)  Document [PDF].

GMAO Office Note No. 12 (Version 1.0): Reichle, R., G. J. M. De Lannoy, Q. Liu, J. V. Ardizzone, F. Chen, A. Colliander, A. Conaty, W. Crow, T. Jackson, J. Kimball, R. D. Koster, and E. Brent Smith, 2016. Soil Moisture Active Passive Mission L4_SM Data Product Assessment (Version 2 Validated Release)  Document [PDF].

GMAO Office Note No. 11 (Version 2.1): Endsley, K.A., J. Glassy, J. S. Kimball, L. A. Jones, R. H., Reichle, J. V. Ardizzone, G.-K. Kim, R. A. Lucchesi, E. B. Smith, and B. H. Weiss, 2021. Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission Level 4 Carbon (L4_C) Product Specification Document | GMAO Office Note No. 11 (Version 2.2)  Document [PDF]. See also Version 2.1 (2021). See also Version 2.0 (2016). See also Version 1.9 (2015).

GMAO Office Note No. 10 (Version 1.6): Reichle, R.H., R. A. Lucchesi, J. V. Ardizzone, G.-K. Kim, E. B. Smith, and B. H. Weiss, 2018. Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission Level 4 Surface and Root Zone Soil Moisture (L4_SM) Product Specification Document  Document [PDF]. See also Version 1.5 (2018). See also Version 1.4 (2015).

GMAO Office Note No. 9 (Version 1.1): Bosilovich, M. G., R. Lucchesi, and M. Suarez, 2015. MERRA-2: File Specification  Document [PDF].

GMAO Office Note No. 8 (Version 1.0): Kouatchou, J., A. Molod, J. E. Nielsen, B. Auer, W. Putman and T. Clune, 2015. GEOS-5 Chemistry Transport Model User's Guide  Document [PDF].

GMAO Office Note No. 7 (Version 1.0): da Silva, A. M., C. A. Randles, V. Buchard, A. Darmenov, P. R. Colarco, and R. Govindaraju, 2015. File Specification for the MERRA Aerosol Reanalysis (MERRAero)  Document [PDF].

GMAO Office Note No. 6: da Silva, A.M., W. Putman, and J. Natalla, 2015. File Specification for the 7-km GEOS-5 Nature Run, Ganymed Release (Non-hydrostatic 7-km Global Mesoscale Simulation)  Document [PDF].

GMAO Office Note No. 5 (Version 1.0): Putman, W., A. M. da Silva, L. E. Ott, and A. Darmenov, 2014. Model Configuration for the 7-km GEOS-5 Nature Run, Ganymed Release (Non-hydrostatic 7-km Global Mesoscale Simulation)  Document [PDF].

GMAO Office Note No. 4 (Version 1.2): Lucchesi, R., 2018. File Specification for GEOS-5 FP (Forward Processing)  Document [PDF]. See also Version 1.1 (2017). See also Version 1.0 (2013).

GMAO Office Note No. 3: Reichle, R. H., 2012. The MERRA-Land Data Product (Version 1.2)  Document [PDF].

GMAO Office Note No. 2 (Version 1.4): Lucchesi, R., 2015. File Specification for GEOS-5 FP-IT (Forward Processing for Instrument Teams)  Document [PDF]. See also Version 1.2 (2013).

GMAO Office Note No. 1: Lucchesi, R., 2012. File Specification for MERRA Products (Version 2.3)  Document [PDF].

This is a repository of presentations from scientific conferences and workshops which list GMAO staff members as lead or co-authors. They summarize research in poster form and were displayed to share results with the conference participants. Please note that this collection is not comprehensive.

2024 POSTERS

NASA TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS

da Silva, Arlindo, Hal Maring, Felix Seidel, Michael Behrenfeld, Richard Ferrare, and Gerald Mace, 2020. Aerosol, Cloud, Ecosystems (ACE) Final Study Report. NASA/TP-20205007337. Document (6669 kb)

SELECTED TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS

Montzka, Carsten, M. Cosh, B. Bayat, A. Al Bitar, A. Berg, R. Bindlish, H. R. Bogena, J. D. Bolten, F. Cabot, T. Caldwell, S. Chan, A. Colliander, W. Crow, N. Das, G. De Lannoy, W. Dorigo, S. R. Evett, A. Gruber, S. Hahn, T. Jagdhuber, S. Jones, Y. Kerr, S. Kim, C. Koyama, M. Kurum, E. Lopez-Baeza, F. Mattia, K. McColl, S. Mecklenburg, B. Mohanty, P. O'Neill, D. Or, T. Pellarin, G. P. Petropoulos, M. Piles, R. H. Reichle, N. Rodriguez-Fernandez, C. Rüdiger, T. Scanlon, R. C. Schwartz, D. Spengler, P. Srivastava, S. Suman, R. van der Schalie, W. Wagner, U. Wegmüller, J.-P. Wigneron, F. Camacho, and J. Nickeson, 2020. Soil Moisture Product Validation Good Practices Protocol. Land Product Validation Subgroup (WGCV/CEOS).

BOOKS

Wang, H., S. D. Schubert, and R. D. Koster 2017. North American Drought and Links to Northern Eurasia: The Role of Stationary Rossby Waves. In Patterns of Climate Extremes: Trends and Mechanisms. S. Wang, J. Yoon, C. Funk, R. Gillies, Eds. Wiley, 195-221. DOI: 10.1002/9781119068020.ch12.

De Lannoy, G. J. M., P. de Rosnay, and R. H. Reichle (2016), Soil Moisture Data Assimilation, in Handbook of Hydrometeorological Ensemble Forecasting, edited by Q. Duan, F. Pappenberger, J. Thielen, A. Wood, H. L. Cloke, and J. C. Schaake, Springer Verlag, 1-43, Springer Verlag, New York, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-40457-3_32-1.

Bosilovich, M. G., J. Kennedy, D. Dee, R. Allan and A. O.Neill, 2013. On the Reprocessing and Reanalysis of Observations for Climate in Climate Science for Serving Society: Research, Model and Prediction Priorities. G. Asrar and J. Hurrell, Eds. Springer, 51-71. ISBN 978-94-007-6691-4.

Schubert, S. D., Y-K. Lim, 2013. Climate variability and weather extremes: model-simulated and historical data Chapter 9 in Extremes in a changing climate — detection, analysys & uncertainty. Eds. A. AghaKouchak, D. Easterling, K. Hsu, S. Schubert, S. Sorooshian, Springer. ISBN 978-94-007-4478-3

Cohn, S.E., 2010. The Principle of Energetic Consistency in Data Assimilation. Chapter 7 in Data Assimilation: Making Sense of Observations, Eds. W. Lahoz, B. Khattatov and R. Menard, Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74703-1

Rood, R.B., M. G. Bosilovich, 2010. Reanalysis: Data Assimilation for Scientific Investigation of Climate, in Data Assimilation: Making sense of observations, Eds. W. A. Lahoz, B. Khattotov and R. Menard, Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74703-1

Reichle, R. H., M. G. Bosilovich, W. T. Crow, R. D. Koster, S. V. Kumar, S. P. P. Mahanama, and B. F. Zaitchik, 2009. Recent Advances in Land Data Assimilation at the NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Chapter 21 of Data Assimilation for Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Hydrologic Applications,ed. S.-K. Park, Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-71056-1, Chapter 21

Cohn, S.E., 2008. Energetic Consistency and Coupling of the Mean and Covariance Dynamics. Chapter 16 in Handbook of Numerical Analysis, Vol. XIV, Ed. P.G. Ciarlet, Special Volume: Computational Methods for the Atmosphere and the Oceans, Guest Eds. R. Temam and J. Tribbia, Elsevier. ISBN: 978-0-444-51893-4

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS

Reichle, R., G. De Lannoy, Q. Liu, and J. Ardizzone, 2016. SMAP Data Assimilation at the GMAO. Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA) Quarterly, 53.  Link to Published Version

Zeng, X., S. Acherman, R.D. Ferraro, J.J. Murray, S. Pawson, C. Reynolds, and J. Teixiera, 2015. Workshop Report on Scientific Challenges and Opportunities in the NASA Weather Focus Area. NASA Weather Focus Area Workshop, April 2015.  Link to Published Version

Bosilovich, M. G., M. Rixen, P. van Oevelen, G. Asrar, G. Compo, K. Onogi, A. Simmons, K. Trenberth, D. Behringer, T. Hossain Bhuiyan, S. Capps, A. Chaudhuri, J. Chen, L. Chen, N. Colasacco-Thumm, M. G. Escobar, C. R. Ferguson, T. Ishibashi, M. L. R. Liberato, J. Meng, A. Molod, and co-authors, 2012. Report of the 4th World Climate Research Programme International Conference on Reanalyses. 4th World Climate Research Programme International Conference on Reanalyses, Silver Spring, Maryland, 7-11 May 2012.  Link to Published Version

Schubert, S.D., I.-S. Kang, F. Kucharski, and J. Shukla, 2009. Summary Report of the Workshop on High-Resolution Climate Modeling.. Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy, 10-14 August 2009. Document (161 kb)

Schubert, S., D. Dee, S. Uppala, J. Woollen, J. Bates, and S. Worley, 2006. Report of the Workshop on "The Development of Improved Observational Data Sets for Reanalysis: Lessons Learned and Future Directions". University of Maryland Conference Center, College Park, MD, 28-29 September 2005. Document (236 kb)

Schubert, S., 2005. Summary Report of the Workshop on: Observational and Modeling Requirements for Predicting Drought on Seasonal to Decadal Time Scales. University of Maryland Inn and Conference Center, Adelphi, MD, 17-19 May 2005. Document (229 kb)