National Aeronautics and Space Administration

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS - 2016

Achuthavarier, D., S. D. Schubert, and Y. V. Vikhliaev, 2016. North Pacific Decadal Variability: Insights from a Biennial ENSO Environment. Clim. Dynam , 49, 1379-1397. doi:10.1007/s00382-016-3391-1  Link to Published Version

Achuthavarier, D., H. Wang, S. D. Schubert, and M. E. Sienkiewicz, 2016. Impact of DYNAMO Observations on NASA GEOS-5 Reanalyses and the Representation of MJO Initiation. J. Geophys Res-Atmos , 122 (1), 179-201. doi:10.1002/2016JD025363  Link to Published Version

Aquila, V., W. H. Swartz, D. W. Waugh, P. R. Colarco, S. Pawson, L. M. Polvani, and R. S. Stolarski, 2016. Isolating the roles of different forcing agents in global stratospheric temperature changes using model integrations with incrementally added single forcings. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. , 121 (13), 8067-8082. DOI: 10.1002/2015JD023841  Link to Published Version

Ashouri, H., S. Sorooshian, K.-L. Hsu, M. G. Bosilovich, J. Lee, M. F. Wehner, and A. Collow, 2016. Evaluation of NASA's MERRA Precipitation Product in Reproducing the Observed Trend and Distribution of Extreme Precipitation Events in the United States. J. Hydrometeor , 17, 693-711. doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-15-0097.1  Link to Published Version

Baghadadi, N., M. Choker, M. Zribi, M. El Hajj, S. Paloscia, N.E. C. Verhoest, H. Lievens, F. Baup, and F. Mattia, 2016. A New Empirical Model for Radar Scattering from Bare Soil Surfaces. Remote Sensing , 8 (11), 920. doi:10.3390/rs8110920  Link to Published Version

Barnes, E., N.C. Parazoo, C. Orbe, and A. S. Denning, 2016. Isentropic transport and the seasonal sycle amplitude of CO₂. J Geophys Res-Atmos , 121, 8106-8124. DOI: 10.1002/2016JD025109  Link to Published Version

Barre, J., D. Edwards, H. Worden,A. Arellano, B. Gaubert, A. da Silva, W. A. Lahoz, and J. Anderson, 2016. On the feasibility of monitoring carbon monoxide in the lower troposphere from a constellation of northern hemisphere geostationary satellites: Global scale assimilation experiments (Part II). Atmos. Environ , 140, 188-201. DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2016.06.001  Link to Published Version

Boullot, N., F. Rabier, R. Langland, R. Gelaro, C. Cardinali, V. Guidard, P. Bauer, and A. Derenbecher, 2016. Observation impact over the southern polar area during the Concordiasi field campaign. Q. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc , 142 (695), 597-610. DOI: 10.1002/qj.2470  Link to Published Version

Buchard, V., A. M. da Silva, C. A. Randles, P. Colarco, R. Ferrare, J. Hair, C. Hostetler, J.Tackett, and D. Winker, 2016. Evaluation of the surface PM_2.5 in Version 1 of the NASA MERRA Aerosol Reanalysis over the United States. Atmos. Env. , 125 (Part A), 100-111. doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.11.004  Link to Published Version

Collow, A., M. Miller, and L. Trabachino, 2016. Cloudiness over the Amazon Rainforest: Meteorology and Thermodynamics. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmos , 121, 7990–8005. doi: 10.1002/2016JD024848  Link to Published Version

Collow, A., and M. Miller, 2016. The Seasonal Cycle of the Radiation Budget and Cloud Radiative Effect in the Amazon Rainforest of Brazil. J. Clim , 29 (21), 7703-7722. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0089.1  Link to Published Version

Collow, A., M. G. Bosilovich, and R. D. Koster, 2016. Large Scale Influences on Summertime Extreme Precipitation in the Northeastern United States. J. Hydrometeor , 17, 3045-3061. doi:10.1175/JHM-D-16-0091.1  Link to Published Version

Cortes, G., M. Girotto, and S. A. Margulis, 2016. Snow process estimation over the extratropical Andes using a data assimilation framework integrating MERRA data and Landsat imagery. Water Resour. Res , 52 (4), 2582-2600. DOI: 10.1002/2015WR018376  Link to Published Version

Coy, L., K. Wargan, A. M. Molod, W. R. McCarty, and S. Pawson, 2016. Structure and Dynamics of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in MERRA-2. J. Clim , 29, 5339-5354. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0809.1  Link to Published Version

Cullather, R., S. Nowicki, B. Zhao, and L. S. Koenig, 2016. A basin-scale characterization of Greenland Ice Sheet surface melt and runoff in contemporary reanalyses and regional climate models. Front. Earth Sci , 4, 10. doi: 10.3389/feart.2016.00010  Link to Published Version

Cullather, R. I., Y.-K. Lim, L. N. Boisvert, L. Brucker, J. N. Lee, and S. M.J. Nowicki, 2016. Analysis of the warmest Arctic winter, 2015–2016. Geophys Res Lett , 43, 10808–10816. doi:10.1002/2016GL071228  Link to Published Version

De Lannoy, G. J. M., and R. H. Reichle, 2016. Global Assimilation of Multi-Angular SMOS Brightness Temperature Observations into the GEOS-5 Catchment Land Surface Model for Soil Moisture Estimation. J. Hydrometeorol , 17, 669-691. doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-15-0037.1  Link to Published Version

De Lannoy, G. J. M., and R. H. Reichle, 2016. Assimilation of SMOS Brightness temperatures or Soil Moisture Retrievals into a Land Surface Model. Hydrol Earth Syst Sc , 20, 4895-4911. doi:10.5194/hess-20-4895-2016  Link to Published Version

Dirmeyer, P. A., J. Wu, H. E. Norton, W. A. Dorigo, S. M. Quiring, T. W. Ford, J. A. Santanello Jr., M. G. Bosilovich, M. B. Ek, R. D. Koster, G. Balsamo, and D. M. Lawrence, 2016. Confronting weather and climate models with observational data from soil moisture networks over the United States. J. Hydrometeor , 17, 1049-1067. doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-15-0196.1  Link to Published Version

Girotto, M., G. De Lannoy, R. H. Reichle, and M. Rodell, 2016. Assimilation of Gridded Terrestrial Water Storage Observations from GRACE into a Land Surface Model. Water Resour. Res , 52 (5), 4164-4183. doi: 10.1002/2015WR018417  Link to Published Version

Gregg, W. W., and C. S. Rousseaux, 2016. Directional and Spectral Irradiance in Ocean Models: Effects on Simulated Global Phytoplankton, Nutrients, and Primary Production. Front Marine Sci , 3 (240), 1-19. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2016.00240  Link to Published Version

Grotjahn, R., R. Black, R. Leung, M. F. Wehner, M. Barlow, M. Bosilovich, A. Gershunov, W. J. Gutowski, J. R. Gyakum, R. W. Katz, Y.-Y. Lee, Y.-K. Lim, and Prabhat, 2016. North American extreme temperature events and related large scale meteorological patterns: A review of statistical methods, dynamics, modeling, and trends. Clim. Dynam , 46, 1151-1184. doi: 10.1007/s00382-015-2638-6  Link to Published Version

Hammer, M. S., R. V. Martin, A. van Donkelaar, V. Buchard, O. Torres, D. A. Ridley, and R. J. D. Spurr, 2016. Interpreting the Ultraviolet Aerosol Index observed with the OMI satellite instrument to understand absorption by organic aerosols: implications for atmospheric oxidation and direct radiative effects. Atmos. Chem. Phys , 16, 2507-2523. doi: 10.5194/acpd-15-27405-2015  Link to Published Version

Han, R., H. Wang, Z.-Z. Hu, A. Kumar, W. Li, L. N. Long, J.-K. E. Schemm, P. Peng, W. Wang, D. Si, X. Jia, M. Zhao, G. A. Vecchi, T. E. LaRow, Y.-K. Lim, S. D. Schubert, S. J. Camargo, N. Henderson, J. A. Jonas, and K. J. E. Walsh, 2016. An assessment of multi-model simulations on the variability of western North Pacific tropical cyclones and its association with ENSO. J. Clim , 29, 6401-6423. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0720  Link to Published Version

Holdaway, D., and Y. Yang, 2016. Study of the Effect of Temporal Sampling Frequency on DSCOVR Observations Using the GEOS-5 Nature Run Results (Part I): Earth's Radiation Budget. Remote Sens , 8, 98. doi: 10.3390/rs8020098  Link to Published Version

Holdaway, D., and Y. Yang, 2016. Study of the Effect of Temporal Sampling Frequency on DSCOVR Observations Using the GEOS-5 Nature Run Results (Part II): Cloud Coverage. Remote Sensing , 8 (5)doi:10.3390/rs8050431  Link to Published Version

Holt, L. A., M. J. Alexander, L. Coy, A. Molod, W. Putman, and S. Pawson, 2016. Tropical waves and the quasi-biennial oscillation in a 7-km global climate simulation. J. Atmos. Sci. , 73, 3771–3783. DOI:10.1175/jas-d-15-0350.1  Link to Published Version

Janardanan, R., S. Maksyutov, T. Oda, M. Saito, J. W. Kaiser, A. Ganshin, A. Stohl, T. Matsunaga, Y. Yoshida, and T. Yokota, 2016. Comparing GOSAT observations of localized CO₂ enhancements by large emitters with inventory-based estimates. Geophys. Res. Lett , 43 (7), 3486-3493. DOI: 10.1002/2016GL067843  Link to Published Version

Koster, R., Y. Chang, H. Wang, and S. Schubert, 2016. Impacts of Local Soil Moisture Anomalies on the Atmospheric Circulation and on Remote Surface Meteorological Fields: A Comprehensive Analysis over North America. J. Clim , 29 (20), 7345-7364. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0192.1  Link to Published Version

Koster, R., L. Brocca, W. T. Crow, M. S. Burgin, and G. J. De Lannoy, 2016. Precipitation Estimation Using L-Band and C-Band Soil Moisture Retrievals. Water Resour. Res , 52, 7213-7225. doi:10.1002/2016WR019024  Link to Published Version

Kulawik, S., D. Wunch, C. O'Dell, C. Frankenberg, M. Reuter, T. Oda, F. Chevallier, V. Sherlock, M. Buchwitz, G. Osterman, C. E. Miller, P. O. Wennberg, D. Griffith, I. Morino, M. Dubey, N. M. Deutscher, J. Notholt, F. Hase, T. Warneke, R. Sussmann, J. Robinson, K. Strong, M. Schneider, M. De Maziere, K. Shiomi, D. G. Feist, L. T. Iracil, and J. Wolf, 2016. Consistent evaluation of ACOS-GOSAT, BESD-SCIAMACHY, CarbonTracker, and MACC through comparisons to TCCON. Atmos. Meas. Tech , 9, 683-709. doi: 10.5194/amt-9-683-2016  Link to Published Version

Kumar, S. V., B. F. Zaitchik, C. D. Peters-Lidard, M. Rodell, R. H. Reichle, B. Li, M. Jasinski, D. Mocko, A. Getirana, G. De Lannoy, M. Cosh, C. R. Hain, and M. Anderson, 2016. Assimilation of gridded GRACE terrestrial water storage estimates in the North American Land Data Assimilation System. J. Hydrometeor , 17 (7), 1951-1972. 10.1175/JHM-D-15-0157.1  Link to Published Version

Lauvaux, T., N. L. Miles, A. Deng, S. J. Richardson, M. O. Cambaliza, K. J. Davis, B. Gaudet, K. R. Gurney, J. Huang, D. O'Keefe, Y. Song, A. Karion, T. Oda, R. Patarasuk, I. Razlivanov, D. Sarmiento, P. Shepson, C. Sweeney, J. Turnbull, and K. Wu, 2016. High resolution atmospheric inversion of urban CO₂ emissions during the dormant season of the Indianapolis Flux Experiment (INFLUX). J. Geophys. Res , 121 (10), 3771–3783. doi:10.1002/2015JD02447  Link to Published Version

Li, F., Y. Vikhliaev, P. A. Newman, S. Pawson, J. Perlwitz, D. W. Waugh, and A. R. Douglass, 2016. Impacts of Interactive Stratospheric Chemistry on Antarctic and Southern Ocean Climate Change in the Goddard Earth Observing System, Version 5 (GEOS-5) . J. Clim , 29, 3199-3218. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0572.1  Link to Published Version

Lievens, H., G.J.M. De Lannoy, A. Al Bitar, M. Drusch, G. Dumedah, H.-J. Hendricks Franssen, Y.H. Kerr, S.K. Tomer, B. Martena, O. Merlin, M. Pan, J.K. Roundy, H. Vereecken, J.P. Walker, E.F. Wood, N.E.C. Verhoest, and V.R.N. Pauwels, 2016. Assimilation of SMOS soil moisture and brightness temperature products into a land surface model. Remote Sensing of Environment , 180, 292-304. DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.10.033  Link to Published Version

Lim, Y.-K., and H.-D. Kim, 2016. Comparison of the impact of the Arctic Oscillation and East Atlantic West Russia teleconnection on interannual variation in East Asian winter temperatures and monsoon. Theor. Appl. Climatol , 124, 267-279. doi: 10.1007/s00704-015-1418-x  Link to Published Version

Lim, Y.-K., S. D. Schubert, S. M. J. Nowicki, J. N. Lee, A. M. Molod, R. I. Cullather, B. Zhao, and I. Velicogna, 2016. Atmospheric summer teleconnections and Greenland ice sheet mass variations in the last four decades. Environ. Res. Lett , 11, 024002. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/2/024002  Link to Published Version

Lim, Y.-K., S. D. Schubert, O. Reale, A. M. Molod, M. J. Suarez, and B. M. Auer, 2016. Large-scale controls on Atlantic tropical cyclone activity on seasonal time scales. J. Clim , 29 (18), 6727-6749. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0098.1  Link to Published Version

Liu, J., J. M. Rodriguez, S. D. Steenrod, A. R. Douglass, J. A. Logan, M. Olsen, K. Wargan, and J. Ziemke, 2016. Causes of interannual variability of tropospheric ozone over the Southern Ocean. Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss. , 17, 3279-3299. doi:10.5194/acp-17-3279-2017  Link to Published Version

Lu, C.-H., A. da Silva, J. Wang, S. Moorthi, M. Chin, P. Colarco, Y. Tang, P. S. Bhattacharjee, S.-P. Chen, H.-Y. Chuang, H.-M. H. Juang, J. McQueen, and M. Iredell, 2016. The implementation of NEMS GFS Aerosol Component (NGAC) Version 1.0 for global dust forecasting at NOAA NCEP. Geosci. Model Dev , 9 (5), 1905-1919. doi:10.5194/gmd-9-1905-2016  Link to Published Version

Margulis, S. A., G. Cortes, M. Girotto, L. S. Huning, D. Li, and M. Durand, 2016. Characterizing the Extreme 2015 Snowpack Deficit in the Sierra Nevada (USA) Range and the Implications for Drought Recover. Geophys. Res. Lett , 43 (19), 6341-6349. doi: 10.1002/2016GL068520  Link to Published Version

Margulis, S. A., G. Cortes, M. Girotto, and M. Durand, 2016. A Landsat-era Sierra Nevada (USA) Snow Reanalysis (1985-2015). J. Hydrometeor , 17 (4), 120-3-1221. doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-15-0177.1  Link to Published Version

Nearing, G. S., D. M. Mocko, C. D. Peters-Lidard, S. V. Kumar, and Y. Xia, 2016. Benchmarking NLDAS-2 soil moisture and evapotranspiration to separate uncertainty contributions. J. Hydrometeor. , 17 (3), 745-759. doi:10.1175/jhm-d-15-0063.1  Link to Published Version

Nelson, R. R., D. Crisp, L. E. Ott, and C. W. O'Dell, 2016. High-accuracy measurements of total column water vapor from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2. Geophys. Res. Lett , 43 (12), 12261–12269. doi:10.1002/2016GL071200  Link to Published Version

Newman, P. A., L. Coy, S. Pawson, and L. R. Lait, 2016. The anomalous change in the QBO in 2015-16. Geophys. Res. Lett. , 43 (16), 8791–8797. DOI: 10.1002/2016GL070373  Link to Published Version

Norris, P. M., and A. M. daSilva, 2016. Monte Carlo Bayesian inference on a statistical model of sub-gridcolumn moisture variability using high-resolution cloud observations. Part I: Method . Q. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc , 142, 2505-2527. doi:10.1002/qj.2843  Link to Published Version

Norris, P. M., and A. M. da Silva, 2016. Monte Carlo Bayesian inference on a statistical model of sub-gridcolumn moisture variability using high-resolution cloud observations. Part II: Sensitivity tests and results. Q. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc , 142, 2528-2540. doi:10.1002/qj.2844  Link to Published Version

Olsen, M. A., K. Wargan, and S. Pawson, 2016. Tropospheric column ozone response to ENSO in GEOS-5 assimilation of OMI and MLS ozone data. Atmos. Chem. Phys. , 16 (11), 7091-7103. doi:10.5194/acp-16-7091-2016  Link to Published Version

Orbe, C., D. W. Waugh, P. Newman, and S. D. Steenrod, 2016. The Transit-Time Distribution from the Northern Hemisphere Midlatitude Surface. J. Atmos. Sci , 73 (10), 3785-3802. doi: 10.1175/JAS-D-15-0289.1  Link to Published Version

Orbe, C., D. W. Waugh, H. Yang, J.-F. Lamarque, S. Times, and D. E. Kinnison, 2016. Tropospheric Transport Differences Between Models Using the Same Large-Scale Meteorological Fields. Geophys Res Lett , 44doi: 10.1002/2016gl071339  Link to Published Version

Ott, L., B. N. Duncan, A. M. Thompson, G. S. Diskin, Z. Fasnacht, A. O. Langford, M. Lin, A. M. Molod, J. E. Nielsen, S. E. Pusede, A. J. Weinheimer, and Y. Yoshida, 2016. Frequency and Impact of Summertime Stratospheric Intrusions over Maryland during DISCOVER-AQ (2011): New Evidence from NASA's GEOS-5 Simulations. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos , 121, 3687-3706. doi: 10.1002/2015JD024052  Link to Published Version

Palter, J. B., C.-A. Caron, K. L. Law, J. K. Willis, D. S. Trossman, I. M. Yashayaev, and D. Gilbert , 2016. Variability of the directly observed, middepth subpolar North Atlantic circulation. Geophys. Res. Lett , 43, 2700-2708. doi: 10.1002/2015GL067235  Link to Published Version

Patra, P. K., D. Crisp, J. W. Kaiser, D. Wunch, T. Saeki, K. Ichii, T. Sekiya, P. O. Wennberg, D. G. Feist, D. Pollard, D. W. T. Griffith, V. A. Velazco, M. De Maziere, M. K. Sha, C. Roehl, and A. Chatterjee, 2016. Orbiting carbon observatory (OCO-2) tracks 2-3 peta-grams increase of carbon release to the atmosphere during the 2014-2016 El Niño. Scientific Reports , 7 (13567), 1-12. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-13459-0  Link to Published Version

Philip, S., R. V. Martin and C. A. Keller, 2016. Sensitivity of chemistry-transport model simulations to the duration of chemical and transport operators: a case study with GEOS-Chem v10-01. Geosci. Model. Dev. , 9 (5), 1683-1695. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-9-1683-2016  Link to Published Version

Privé, N. C., and R. M. Errico, 2016. Temporal and spatial interpolation errors of high-resolution modeled atmospheric fields. J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech , 33, 303-311. doi: 10.1175/JTECH-D-15-0132.1  Link to Published Version

Putman, W., L. E. Ott, A. S. Darmenov, and A. da Silva, 2016. A Global Perspective of Atmospheric CO₂ Concentrations. Parallel Comput. Sys. & Appl , 55, 2-8. doi: 10.1016/j.parco.2016.03.001  Link to Published Version

Rilee, M. L., K.-S. Kuo, T. L. Clune, A. O. Oloso, P. Brown, and H. Yu, 2016. Addressing the Big-Earth-Data Variety Challenge with the Hierarchical Triangular Mesh. IEEE Int Con Big Data , 1006-1011. doi: 10.1109/BigData.2016.7840700  Link to Published Version

Robertson, F. R., M. G. Bosilovich and J. B. Roberts, 2016. Reconciling Land-Ocean Moisture Transport Variability in Reanalyses with P-ET in Observationally Driven Land Surface Model. J. Cli , 29 (23), 8625-8646. DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0379.1  Link to Published Version

Saide, P. E., G. Thompson, T. Eidhammer, A. M. da Silva, R. B. Pierce, and G. R. Carmichael, 2016. Assessment of biomass burning smoke influence on environmental conditions for multi-year tornado outbreaks by combining aerosol-aware microphysics and fire emission constraints. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos , 121 (17), 10,294-10,311. DOI: 10.1002/2016JD025056  Link to Published Version

Schubert, S. D., R. Stewart, H. Wang, M. Barlow, H. Berbery, W. Cai, M. Hoerling, K. Kanikicharla, R. Koster, B. Lyon, A. Mariotti, C. R. Mechoso, O. Müller, B. Rodriguez-Fonseca, R. Seager, S. Senevitatne, L. Zhang, and T. Zhou, 2016. Global Meteorological Drought: A Synthesis of Current Understanding with a Focus on SST Drivers of Precipitation Deficits. J. Climate - GDIS Special Collection , 29 (11), 3989-4019. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0452.1  Link to Published Version

Schubert, S. D., Y. Chang, H. Wang, R. D. Koster, and M. Suarez, 2016. A Modeling Study of the Causes and Predictability of the Spring 2011 Extreme U.S. Weather Activity. J. Clim , 29 (21), 7869-7887. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0673.1  Link to Published Version

Shirai, T., M. Ishizawa, R. Zhuravlev, A. Ganshin, D. Belikov, M. Saito, T. Oda, V. Valsala, A. J. Gomez-Pelaez, R. Langenfelds, and S. Maksyutov, 2016. A decadal inversion of CO₂ using the Global Eulerian-Lagrangian Coupled Atmospheric model (GELCA): sensitivity to the ground-based observation network. Tellus B , 69 (1), 1-25. DOI :10.1080/16000889.2017.1291158  Link to Published Version

Stillman, S., X. Zeng, and M. G. Bosilovich, 2016. Evaluation of 22 precipitation and 23 soil moisture products over a semiarid area in southeastern Arizona. J. Hydrometeor , 17, 211-230. doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-15-0007.1  Link to Published Version

Su, C-H., D. Ryu, W. Dorigo, S. Zwieback, A. Gruber, C. Albergel, R. H. Reichle, and W. Wagner, 2016. Homogeneity of a global multi-satellite soil moisture climate data record. Geophys Res Lett , 43, 11,245 - 11,252. doi:10.1002/2016GL070458  Link to Published Version

Sullivan, S. C., R. Betancourt, D. O. Barahona, and A. Nenes, 2016. Understanding cirrus ice crystal number variability for different heterogeneous ice nucleation spectra. Atmos. Chem. Phys , 16, 2611-2629. doi:10.5194/acp-16-2611-2016  Link to Published Version

Sung, M.-K., B.-M.Kim, E.-H. Baik, Y.-K. Lim, and S.-J. Kim, 2016. Arctic-North Pacific coupled impacts on the late autumn cold in North America. Environ Res Lett , 11 (8), 1-8. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/8/084016  Link to Published Version

Takacs, L., M. J. Suarez, and R. Todling, 2016. Maintaining Atmospheric Mass and Water Balance within Reanalysis. Q. J. Royal Meteor. Soc , 142 (697), 1565-1573. doi: 10.1002/qj.2763  Link to Published Version

Theurich, G., C. Deluca, T. Campbell, F. Liu, K. Saint, M. Vertenstein, J. Chen, R. Oehmke, J. Doyle, T. Whitcomb, A. Wallcraft, M. Iredell, T. Black, A. da Silva, T. Clune, R. Ferraro, P. Li, M. Kelley, I. Aleinov, V. Balaji, N. Zadeh, R. Jacob, B. Kirtman, F. Giraldo, D. McCarren, S. Sandgathe, S. Peckham, and R. Dunlap IV, 2016. The Earth system Prediction Suite: Towards a Coordinated U.S. Modeling Capability. B. Am. Meteorol. Soc , 97 (7), 1229-1247. doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00164.1  Link to Published Version

Trossman, D. S., J. B. Palter, T. M. Merlis, Y. Huang, and Y. Xia, 2016. Large-scale ocean circulation-cloud interactions reduce the pace of transient climate change. Geophys. Res. Lett , 43 (8), 3935-3943. doi:10.1002/2016GL067931  Link to Published Version

Wargan, K., and L. Coy, 2016. Strengthening of the Tropopause Inversion Layer During the 2009 Sudden Stratospheric Warming: A MERRA-2 Study. J. Amtos. Sci , 73, 1871-1887. doi: 10.1175/JAS-D-15-0333.1  Link to Published Version

Wong, K. W., T. J. Pongetti, T. Oda, P. Rao, K. R. Gurney, S. Newman, R. Duren, C. E. Miller, Y. L. Yung, and S. P. Sander, 2016. Monthly trends of methane emissions in Los Angeles from 2011 to 2015 inferred by CLARS-FTS observations. Atmos. Chem. Phy , 16, 13121-13130. doi: 10.5194/acp-16-13121-2016  Link to Published Version

Xia, Y., Cosgrove, K. E. Mitchell, C. D. Peters-Lidard, M. B. Ek, S. V. Kumar, D. M. Mocko, and H. Wei, 2016. Basin-scale assessment of the land surface energy budget in the National Centers for Environmental Prediction operational and research NLDAS-2 systems. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. , 121 (1), 196-220. doi:10.1002/2015jd023889  Link to Published Version

Xia, Y., Cosgrove, K. E. Mitchell, C. D. Peters-Lidard, M. B. Ek, M. Brewer, D. M. Mocko, S. V. Kumar, H. Wei, J. Meng, and L. Luo, 2016. Basin-scale assessment of the land surface water budget in the NCEP operational and research NLDAS-2 systems. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. , 121 (6), 2750-2779. doi:10.1002/2015jd023733  Link to Published Version

Xia, Y., D. M. Mocko, M. Huang, B. Li, M. Rodell, K. E. Mitchell, X. Cai, and M. B. Ek, 2016. Comparison and assessment of three advanced land surface modelsin simulating terrestrial water storage components over the United States. J. Hydrometeor , 18 (3), 625-649. doi:10.1175/jhm-d-16-0112.1  Link to Published Version

Yu, P., O. B. Toon, C. G.Bardeen, A. Bucholtz, K. H. Rosenlof, P. E. Saide, A. da Silva, L. D. Ziemba, K. L. Thornhill, J.-L. Jimenez, P. Campuzano-Jost, J. P. Schwarz, A. E. Perring, K. D. Froyd, N. L. Wagner, M. J. Mills, and J. S. Reid, 2016. Surface dimming by the 2013 Rim Fire simulated by a sectional aerosol model. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmos , 121 (12), 7079-7087. DOI: 10.1002/2015JD024702  Link to Published Version

Zeng, X., S. Ackerman, R. Ferraro, T. Lee, J. Murray, S. Pawson, R. Reynolds, and J. Teixeira, 2016. Challenges and Opportunities in NASA Weather Research. B. Am. Meteorol. Soc , 97 (7), ES137–ES140. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00195.1  Link to Published Version

Zhu, X., J.-H. Yee, M. Cai, W. H. Swartz, L. Coy, V. Aquila, R. Garcia, and E. R. Talaat, 2016. Diagnosis of Middle-Atmosphere Climate Sensitivity by the Climate Feedback-Response Analysis Method. J. Atmos. Sci , 73, 3-23. doi: 10.1175/JAS-D-15-0013.1  Link to Published Version

TECHNICAL MEMORANDA

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).

Kimball, John, K. Arthur Endsley, Tobias Kundig, Joseph Glassy, Rolf H. Reichle and Joseph V. Ardizzone, 2022. Validation Assessment for the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Level 4 Carbon (L4_C) Data Product Version 6. ASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA/TM-2022-104606, Vol. 61, 45 pp. Document (6285 kB).

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).

Reichle, Rolf, Qing Liu, Randal D. Koster, Joseph V. Ardizzone, Andreas Colliander, Wade T. Crow, Gabrielle J. M. De Lannoy and John S. Kimball, 2021. Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Project Assessment Report for Version 5 of the L4_SM Data Product. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA/TM-2021-104606, Vol. 58, 60 pp. Document (3713 kB).

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)