Brad Weir, Ph.D.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
+1 (520) 248-8214 |
Employment
2013 – present |
Scientist (Senior Scientist, 2021–present)
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2010 – 2013 |
Post-doctoral Research Associate
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Education
2003 – 2010 |
Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Arizona |
1999 – 2003 |
B.A., Cum Laude, Mathematics, New York University |
Professional Service
2024 – 2028 |
AGU Eos Science Adviser, Nonlinear Geophysics |
2023 – 2026 |
AGU Secretary, Nonlinear Geophysics |
2024 – present |
WMO Global Greenhouse Gase Watch (G3W) Modeling Team |
Selected Publications
Duncan et al. (2024). "Opinion: Beyond global means – novel space-based approaches to indirectly constrain the concentrations of and trends and variations in the tropospheric hydroxyl radical (OH)." Atmos. Chem. Phys. 24, 13001–13023. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-13001-2024
Pandey et al. (2024). "Toward Low‐Latency Estimation of Atmospheric CO2 Growth Rates Using Satellite Observations: Evaluating Sampling Errors of Satellite and In Situ Observing Approaches." AGU Adv. 5, e2023AV001145. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023av001145
Souri et al. (2024). "Enhancing long-term trend simulation of the global tropospheric hydroxyl (TOH) and its drivers from 2005 to 2019: a synergistic integration of model simulations and satellite observations." Atmos. Chem. Phys. 24, 8677–8701. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-8677-2024
Gaubert et al. (2023). "Neutral tropical African CO2 exchange estimated from aircraft and satellite observations." Glob. Biogeochem. Cy. 37, e2023GB007804. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023gb007804
Balashov et al. (2023). "Flood impacts on net ecosystem exchange in the Midwestern and Southern United States in 2019." J. Geophys. Res.: Atmos. 128, e2022JD037697. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022jd037697
Taylor et al. (2023). "Evaluating the consistency between OCO-2 and OCO-3 XCO2 estimates derived from the NASA ACOS version 10 retrieval algorithm." Atmos. Meas. Tech. 16, 3173–3209. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-3173-2023
Wargan et al. (2023). "M2-SCREAM: A stratospheric composition reanalysis of Aura MLS data with MERRA-2 transport." Earth Space Sci. 10, e2022EA002632. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022ea002632
Weir et al. (2022). "Assessing progress toward the Paris Climate Agreement from space." Environ. Res. Lett. 11, 111002. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac998c
Walley et al. (2022). "Airborne lidar measurements of XCO2 in synoptically active environment and associated comparisons with numerical simulations." J. Geophys. Res.: Atmos. 127, e2021JD035664. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021jd035664
Sweeney et al. (2022). "Using atmospheric trace gas vertical profiles to evaluate model fluxes: a case study of Arctic-CAP observations and GEOS simulations for the ABoVE domain." Atmos. Chem. Phys. 22, 6347–6364. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-6347-2022
Schuh et al. (2022). "On the role of atmospheric model transport uncertainty in estimating the Chinese land carbon sink." Nature 603, E13–E14. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04258-9
Peiro et al. (2022). "Four years of global carbon cycle observed from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 (OCO-2) version 9 and in situ data and comparison to OCO-2 version 7." Atmos. Chem. Phys. 22, 1097–1130. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-1097-2022
Zhang et al. (2022). "Multi‐Season Evaluation of CO2 Weather in OCO‐2 MIP Models." J. Geophys. Res.: Atmos. 127, e2021JD035457. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021jd035457
Weir et al. (2021b). "Regional impacts of COVID-19 on carbon dioxide detected worldwide from space." Science Adv. 7, eabf9415. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abf9415
Davis et al. (2021). "The Atmospheric Carbon and Transport (ACT)-America Mission." Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 102, E1714–E1734. https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-20-0300.1
Weir et al. (2021a). "Bias-correcting carbon fluxes derived from land-surface satellite data for retrospective and near-real-time assimilation systems." Atmos. Chem. Phys. 21, 9609–9628. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-9609-2021
Campbell et al. (2020). "Field Evaluation of Column CO2 Retrievals from Intensity‐Modulated Continuous‐Wave Differential Absorption Lidar Measurements during the ACT‐America Campaign." Earth Space Sci 7, e2019EA000847. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019ea000847
Wargan et al. (2020). "The Anomalous 2019 Antarctic Ozone Hole in the GEOS Constituent Data Assimilation System with MLS Observations." J. Geophys. Res.: Atmos. 125, e2020JD033335. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD033335
Lee et al. (2020). "Impact of a Regional US Drought on Land and Atmospheric Carbon." J. Geophys. Res.: Biogeosci. 125, e2019JG00559. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019jg005599
Bell et al. (2020). "Evaluation of OCO‐2 XCO2 Variability at Local and Synoptic Scales using Lidar and In Situ Observations from the ACT‐America Campaigns." J. Geophys. Res.: Atmos. 125, e2019JD031400. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019jd031400
Wargan et al. (2020). "Toward a Reanalysis of Stratospheric Ozone for Trend Studies: Assimilation of the Aura Microwave Limb Sounder and Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite Limb Profiler Data." J. Geophys. Res.: Atmos. 125, e2019JD031892. ttps://doi.org/10.1029/2019jd031892
Schuh et al. (2019). "Quantifying the impact of atmospheric transport uncertainty on CO2 surface flux estimates." Global Biogeochem. Cycles 33, 484–500. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GB006086
Lee et al. (2018). "The impact of spatiotemporal variability in atmospheric CO2 concentration on global terrestrial carbon fluxes." Biogeosci. 15, 5635–5652. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-5635-2018
Eldering et al. (2017). "The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 early science investigations of regional carbon dioxide fluxes." Science 358, eaam5745. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aam5745
Weir et al. (2013b). "A potential implicit particle smoother for high-dimensional systems." Nonlin. Processes Geophys. 20, 1047–1060. https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-20-1047-2013
Weir et al. (2013a). "Implicit estimation of ecological model parameters." Bull. Math. Biol. 75, 223–257. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11538-012-9801-6
Weir et al. (2011). "A vortex force analysis of the interaction of rip currents and surface gravity waves." J. Geophys. Res.: Oceans 116, C05001. https://doi.org/10.1029/2010JC006232