Publications

Office Notes

• GMAO Office Note No. 24 Bosilovich M. G. R. Lucchesi, and W. J. Davis (2026). MERRA-2 Gridded Innovations and Observations: File Specification.

  • Version 1.0 (16 pp)

• GMAO Office Note No. 23 Collow, A., V. Buchard, P. Castellanos, R. Lucchesi, and A. da Silva (2026). The implementation of GOCART-2G in GEOS Forward Processing.

  • Version 1.0 (23 pp)

• GMAO Office Note No. 22 Collow A. V. Buchard, M. Chin, P. Colarco, A. Darmenov, and A. da Silva (2023). Supplemental Documentation for GEOS Aerosol Products.

  • Version 1.1 (8 pp)
  • Version 1.0 (8 pp)

• GMAO Office Note No. 21 Wargan K. B. Weir (2022). File Specification for MERRA-2 Stratospheric Composition Reanalysis of Aura MLS (M2-SCREAM).

  • Version 1.0 (15 pp)

• GMAO Office Note No. 20 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.

  • Version 1.1 (10 pp)
  • Version 1.0 (10 pp)

• GMAO Office Note No. 19 Collow Allison M. Bosilovich, A. Dezfuli, and R. Lucchesi (2020). File Specification for MERRA-2 Climate Statistics Products.

  • Version 1.3 (17 pp)
  • Version 1.2 (15 pp)
  • Version 1.1 (15 pp)
  • Version 1.0 (15 pp)

• GMAO Office Note No. 18 Collow Allison R. Lucchesi, and A. Da Silva (2020). File Specification for GEOS Products Sampled Along Aircraft Trajectories.

  • Version 1.0 (36 pp)

• GMAO Office Note No. 17 Knowland K. Emma C.A. Keller, and R. Lucchesi (2019). File Specification for GEOS-CF Products.

  • Version 1.3 (54 pp)
  • Version 1.2 (53 pp)
  • Version 1.1 (37 pp)
  • Version 1.0 (32 pp)

• GMAO Office Note No. 16 Nakada K. R. Kovach, J. Marshak, and A. Molod (2018). S2S-2_1: File Specification.

  • Version 1.0 (78 pp)

• GMAO Office Note No. 15 Collow A. M. Bosilovich, and R. Lucchesi (2018). File Specification for M2AMIP Products.

  • Version 1.0 (45 pp)

• GMAO Office Note No. 14 Putman W. and M. J. Suarez (2017). Overview of the GEOS Atmospheric Model and the Challenges of Using it at Exascale.

  • Version 1.0 (10 pp)

• GMAO Office Note No. 13 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).

  • Version 1.0 (37 pp)

• GMAO Office Note No. 12 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).

  • Version 1.0 (55 pp)

• GMAO Office Note No. 11 Glassy J. J.S. Kimball, L. Jones, R. H., Reichle, R. A. Lucchesi, J. V. Ardizzone, G.-K. Kim, E. B. Smith, and B. H. Weiss (2015). Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission Level 4 Carbon (L4_C) Product Specification Document.

  • Version 2.2 (71 pp)
  • Version 2.1 (69 pp)
  • Version 2.0 (69 pp)
  • Version 1.9 (65 pp)

• GMAO Office Note No. 10 Reichle R. H. R. A. Lucchesi, J. V. Ardizzone, G.-K. Kim, E. B. Smith, and B. H. Weiss (2015). Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission Level 4 Surface and Root Zone Soil Moisture (L4_SM) Product Specification Document.

  • Version 1.7 (84 pp)
  • Version 1.4 (82 pp)
  • Version 1.5 (83 pp)
  • Version 1.6 (84 pp)

• GMAO Office Note No. 9 Bosilovich M. G. R. Lucchesi, and M. Suarez (2015). MERRA-2: File Specification.

  • Version 1.1 (73 pp)

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

  • Version 1.0 (26 pp)

• GMAO Office Note No. 7 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).

  • Version 1.0 (30 pp)

• 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).

  • Version 1.0 (176 pp)

• GMAO Office Note No. 5 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).

  • Version 1.0 (18 pp)

• GMAO Office Note No. 4 Lucchesi R. , A. El Akkraoui (2013). File Specification for GEOS-5 FP (Forward Processing).

  • Version 2.0 (64 pp)
  • Version 1.2 (61 pp)
  • Version 1.1 (61 pp)
  • Version 1.0 (63 pp)

• GMAO Office Note No. 3 Reichle R. H. (2012). The MERRA-Land Data Product (Version 1.2).

  • Document (38 pp)

• GMAO Office Note No. 2 Lucchesi R. (2013). File Specification for GEOS-5 FP-IT (Forward Processing for Instrument Teams).

  • Version 1.4 (60 pp)
  • Version 1.2 (60 pp)

• GMAO Office Note No. 1 Lucchesi R. (2012). File Specification for MERRA Products (Version 2.3).

  • Document (82 pp)