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REFEREED PUBLICATIONS - 2013

Albergel, C., W. Dorigo, R. H. Reichle, G. Balsamo, P. de Rosnay, J. Munoz-Sabater, L. Isaksen, R. de Jeu, and W. Wagner, 2013. Skill and global trend analysis of soil moisture from reanalyses and microwave remote sensing. J. Hydrometeorol. , 14, 1259-1277. doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-12-0161.1  Link to Published Version

Arsenault, K. R., P. R. Houser, G. J. M. De Lannoy, and P. A. Dirmeyer, 2013. Impacts of snow cover fraction data assimilation on modeled energy and moisture budgets. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. , 118 (14), 7489-7504. doi: 10.1002/jgrd.50542  Link to Published Version

Bian, H., P. R. Colarco, M. Chin, G. Chen, J. M. Rodriguez, Q. Liang, D. Blake, D. A. Chu, A. da Silva, A. S. Darmenov, G. Diskin, H. E. Fuelberg, G. Huey, Y. Kondo, J. E. Nielsen, X. Pan, and A. Wisthaler, 2013. Source attributions of pollution to the Western Arctic during the NASA ARCTAS field campaign. Atmos. Chem. Phys , 13, 4707-4721. doi: 10.5194/acp-13-4707-2013  Link to Published Version

Blackburn, M., D. L. Williamson, K. Nakajim, W. Ohfuchi, Y. O. Takahashi, Y.-Y. Hayashi, H. Nakamura, M. Ishiwatari, J. L. McGregor, H. Borth, V. Wirth, H. Frank, P. Bechtold, N. P Wedi, H. Tomita, M. Satoh, M. Zhao, I. M. Held, M. J. Suarez, M.-I. Lee, M. Watanabe, M. Kimoto, Y. Liu, Z. Wang, A. Molod, K. Rajendran, A. Kitoh, and R. Stratton, 2013. The Aqua-Planet Experiment (APE): CONTROL SST simulation. J. Meteorol. Soc. Japan , 91A, 17-56. doi: 10.2151/JMSJ.2013-AO2  Link to Published Version

Bosilovich, M., A. Chauduri, and M. Rixen, 2013. Earth system reanalysis: Progress, challenges and opportunities. B. Am. Meteorol. Soc. , 94, ES110 - ES113. doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00191.1  Link to Published Version

Bosilovich, M., 2013. Regional climate and variability of NASA MERRA and recent reanalyses: US summertime precipitation and temperature. J. Appl. Meteorol. Clim , 52, 1939-1951. doi: 10.1175/JAMC-D-12-00191.1  Link to Published Version

Chao, W. C., 2013. Catastrophe concept-based cumulus parameterization: Correction of systematic errors in the precipitation diurnal cycle over land in a GCM. J. Atmos. Sci. , 70, 3599-3614. doi:10.1175/JAS-D-13-022.1  Link to Published Version

De Lannoy, G. J. M., R. H. Reichle, and V. R. N. Pauwels, 2013. Global Calibration of the GEOS-5 L-band Microwave Radiative Transfer Model over Land Using SMOS Observations. J. Hydrometeorol. , 14, 765-785. doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-12-092.1  Link to Published Version

Draper, C., R. Reichle, R. de Jeu, V. Naeimi, R. Parinussa, and W. Wagner, 2013. Estimating root mean square errors in remotely sensed soil moisture over continental scale domains. Remote Sens. Environ. , 137, 288-298. DOI:10.1016/j.rse.2013.06.013  Link to Published Version

El Akkraoui, A., Y. Tremolet, and R. Todling, 2013. Preconditioning of variational data assimilation and the use of a bi-conjugate gradient method. Q. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc. , 139 (672), 731-741. doi: 10.1002/qj.1997  Link to Published Version

Errico, R. M., R. Yang, N. Privé, K.-S. Tai, R. Todling, M. Sienkiewicz, and J. Guo, 2013. Development and validation of observing-system simulation experiments at NASA's Global Modeling and Assimilation Office. Q. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc , 139, 1162-1178. doi: 10.1002/qj2027  Link to Published Version

Feng, X., M. Bosilovich, P. Houser, and J.-D. Chern, 2013. Impact of Land Surface Conditions on 2004 North American Monsoon in GCM experiments. J. Geophys Res. , 118, 293-305. doi: 10.1029/2012JD018805  Link to Published Version

Forman, B. A., and R. H. Reichle, 2013. The spatial scale of model errors and assimilated retrievals in a terrestrial water storage assimilation system. Water Resour. Res. , 49, 7457-7468. doi: 10.1002/2012WR012885  Link to Published Version

Garfinkel, C. I., L. D. Oman, E. A. Barnes, D. W. Waugh, M. H. Hurwitz, and A. Molod, 2013. Connection between the Southern Hemisphere polar vortex spring breakup, stationary waves and air-sea drag. J. Atmos. Sci , 70, 2137-2151. DOI:10.1175/JAS-D-12-0242.1  Link to Published Version

Gorkavyi, N., D. Rault, P. Newman, A. da Silva, and A. E. Dudorov, 2013. New stratospheric dust belt due to Chelyabinsk bolide. Geophys. Res. Lett , 40, 4728-4733. doi: 10.1002/grl.50788  Link to Published Version

Guan, B., D. E. Waliser, J.-L. F. Li, and A. da Silva, 2013. Evaluating the impact of orbital sampling on satellite—climate model comparisons. J. Geophys. Res. , 118, 355-369. doi:10.1029/2012JD018590  Link to Published Version

Gupta, P., M. Khan, A. da Silva, and F. Patadia, 2013. MODIS Aerosol Optical Depth Observations over Urban Areas in Pakistan: Quantity and Quality of the data for Air Quality Monitoring. Atmos. Pol. Res. , 4 (1), 43-52. doi: 10.5094/APR.2013.005  Link to Published Version

Ham, Y.-G., J.-S. Kug, and J.-Y. Park, 2013. Sea surface temperature in the north tropical Atlantic as a trigger for El-Niño — Southern oscillation events. Nat. Geosci. , 6, 112-116. doi:10.1038/NGEO1686  Link to Published Version

Ham, Y.-G., J.-S. Kug, D. Kim, Y.-H. Kim, and D.-H. Kim, 2013. What controls phase-locking of ENSO to boreal winter in coupled GCMs?. Clim. Dynam. , 40, 1551-1568. doi:10.1007/s00382-012-1420-2  Link to Published Version

Ham, Y.-G., J.-S. Kug, and J.-Y. Park, 2013. Two distinct roles of Atlantic SSTs in ENSO variability: North Tropical Atlantic SST and Atlantic Niño. Geophys. Res. Lett , 40, 4012-4017. doi: 10.1002/grl.50729  Link to Published Version

Ham, Y.-G., M. Lim and J.-S. Kung, 2013. Importance of mean state in simulating different types of El Niño revealed by SNU coupled GCMs. Prog. Oceanogr. , 116, 130-141. DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2013.07.005  Link to Published Version

Hong, S.-J., I.-S. Kang, and Y.-G. Ham, 2013. Climate response in the tropical pacific associated with Atlantic warming in recent decades. Asia-Pac. J. Atmos. Sci. , 49, 209-217. doi:10.1007/s13143-013-0022-1  Link to Published Version

Lewis, J. R., E. J. Welton, A. Molod and E. Joseph, 2013. Improved boundary layer depth retrievals from MPLNET. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmos , 118, 9870-9879. doi:10.1002/jgrd.50570  Link to Published Version

Lim, Y.-K., and H.-D. Kim, 2013. Impact of the dominant large-scale teleconnections on winter temperature variability over East Asia. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmos. , 118, 7835-7848. doi: 10.1002/jgrd.50462  Link to Published Version

Maggioni, V., R. H. Reichle, and E. N. Anagnostou, 2013. The efficiency of assimilating satellite soil moisture retrievals in a land data assimilation system using different rainfall error models. J. Hydrometeorol. , 14, 368-374. doi:10.1175/JHM-D-12-0105.1  Link to Published Version

Mariotti, A., S. Schubert, K. Mo, C. Peter-Lidard, A. Wood, R. Pulwarty, J. Huang, and D. Barrie, 2013. Advancing drought understanding, monitoring and prediction. B. Am. Meteorol. Soc , 94, ES186-ES188. doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00248.1  Link to Published Version

McGrath-Spangler, E. L., and A. S. Denning, 2013. Global seasonal variations of midday planetary boundary layer depth from CALIPSO space-borne LIDAR. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmos. , 118, 1226-1233. doi: 10.1002/jgrd.50198  Link to Published Version

Molod, A. M., M. J. Suarez, and G. Partyka, 2013. The impact of limiting ocean roughness on GEOS-5 AGCM tropical cyclone forecasts. Geophys. Res. Lett. , 40, 411-416. doi:10.1029/2012GL053979  Link to Published Version

Nieto Ferreira, R., and W. C. Chao, 2013. Aqua-planet simulations of the formation of the South Atlantic convergence zone. Int. J. Climatol , 33, 615-628. doi: 10.1002/joc.3457  Link to Published Version

Ochsner, T. E., M. H. Cosh, R. H. Cuenca, W. Dorigo, C. Draper, Y. Hagimoto, Y. H. Kerr, K. M. Larson, E. G. Njoku, E. E. Small, and M. G. Zreda, 2013. State of the art in large-scale soil moisture monitoring. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. , 77, 1888-1919. doi: 10.2136/sssaj2013.03.0092  Link to Published Version

Orth, R., R. Koster, and S. Seneviratne, 2013. Inferring soil mositure memory from streamflow observations using a simple water balance model. J. Hydrometeorol. , 14, 1773-1790. doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-12-099.1  Link to Published Version

Palacz, A. P., M. A. St. John, R. J. W. Brewin, T. Hirata, and W. W. Gregg, 2013. Distribution of phytoplankton functional types in high-nitrate, low-chlorophyll waters in a new diagnostic ecological indicator model. Biogeosciences , 10, 7553-7574. DOI: 10.5194/bg-10-7553-2013  Link to Published Version

Palmer, P., M. Parrington, J. Lee, S. Pawson, and A. da Silva, 2013. Quantifying the impact of BOReal forest fires on tropospheric oxidants over the Atlantic using aircraft and satellites (BORTAS) experiment: Design, execution, and science overview. Atmos. Chem. Phys. , 13, 4127-4181. 10.5194/acpd-13-4127-2013  Link to Published Version

Pauwels, V. R. N., G. J. De Lannoy, H.-J. Hendricks Franssen, and H. Vereecken, 2013. Simultaneous Estimation of Model State Variables and Observation and Forecast Biases using a Two-Stage Hybrid Kalman Filter. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci , 17, 3499-3521. doi: 10.5194/hess-17-3499-2013  Link to Published Version

Peterson, T. C., R. R. Heim Jr., R. Hirsch, D. P. Kaiser, H. Brooks, N. S. Diffenbaugh, R. M. Dole, J. P. Giovannettone, K. Guirguis, T. R. Karl, R. W. Katz, K. Kunkel, D. Lettenmaier, G. J. McCabe, C. J. Paciorek, K. R. Rybery, S. Schubert, V. B. S. Silva, B. C. Stewart, A. V. Vecchia, G. Villarini, R. S. Vose, J. Walsh, M. Wehner, D. Wolock, K. Wolter, C. A. Woodhouse, and D. Wuebbles, 2013. Monitoring and understanding changes in heat waves, cold waves, floods, and droughts in the United States. B. Am. Meteorol. Soc , 94, 821-834. doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00066.1  Link to Published Version

Pozzi, W., J. Sheffield, R. Stefanski, D. Cripe, R. Pulwarty, J. V. Vogt, R. R. Heim Jr., M. J. Brewer, M. Svoboda, R. Westerhoff, A. I. J. M. van Dijk, S. D. Schubert, K. Mo, M. Nicholson, L. Bettio, L. Nunez, R. van Beek, M. Bierkens, L. G. Goncalves de Goncalves, J. G. Z. de Mattos, and R. Lawford, 2013. Toward global drought early warning capability: Expanding international cooperation for the development of a framework for monitoring and forecasting. B. Amer. Meteor. Soc , 94, 776-785. doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00176.1  Link to Published Version

Privé, N., R. M. Errico, and K.-S. Tai, 2013. Validation of forecast skill of the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office observing system simulation experiment. Q. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc. , 139, 1354-1363. doi: 10.1002/qj.2029  Link to Published Version

Privé, N. C., R. M. Errico, and K.-S. Tai, 2013. The influence of observation errors on analysis error and forecast skill investigated with an observing system simulation experiment. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmos , 118, 5332-5346. doi: 10.1002/jgrd.50452  Link to Published Version

Privé, N., and R. M. Errico, 2013. The role of model and initial condition error in numerical weather forecasting investigated with an observing system simulation experiment. Tellus-A , 65, 21740. doi: 10.3402/tellusa.v65i0.21740  Link to Published Version

Puma, M. J., R. D. Koster, and B. I. Cook, 2013. Phenological versus meteorological controls on land‐atmosphere water and carbon fluxes. J. Geophys. Res. Biogeosci. , 37 (7), 1117-1134. doi: 10.1175/waf-d-21-0068.1  Link to Published Version

Rabier, F., S. Cohn, P. Cocquerez, A. Hertzog, L. Avallone, T. Deshler, J. Haase, T. Hock, A. Doerenbecher, J. Wang, V. Guidard, J.-N. Thepaut, R. Langland, A. Tangborn, G. Balsamo, E. Brun, D. Parsons, J. Bordereau, C. Cardinali, F. Danis, J.-P. Escarnot, N. Fourrie, R. Gelaro, C. Genthon, K. Ide, L. Kalnajs, C. Martin, L.-F. Meunier, J.-M. Nicot, T. Perttula, N. Potts, P. Ragazzo, D. Richardson, S. Sosa-Sesma, and A. Vargas, 2013. The Concordiasi field experiment over Antarctica: First results from innovative atmospheric measurements. B. Am. Meteorol. Soc. , 94 (3), ES17-ES20. doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00005.1  Link to Published Version

Randles, C. A., P. R. Colarco, and A. da Silva, 2013. Direct and semi-direct aerosol effects in the NASA GEOS-5 AGCM: aerosol-climate interactions due to prognostic versus prescribed aerosols. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos , 118, 149-169. doi:10.1029/2012JD018388  Link to Published Version

Remsberg, E., M. Natarajan, T. D. Fairlie, K. Wargan, S. Pawson, L. Coy, G. Lingenfelser, and G. Kim, 2013. On the inclusion of Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere (LIMS) ozone in a data assimilation system. J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos. , 118, 7982-8000. doi: 10.1002/jgrd.50566  Link to Published Version

Rousseaux, C. S., T. Hirata, and W. W. Gregg, 2013. Satellite views of global phytoplankton community distributions using an empirical algorithm and a numerical model. Biogeosciences Discuss. , 10, 1083-1109. doi:10.5194/bgd-10-1083-2013  Link to Published Version

Sahoo, A. K., G. J. M. De Lannoy, R. H. Reichle, and P. R. Houser, 2013. Assimilation and Downscaling of Satellite Observed Soil Moisture over the Little River Experimental Watershed in Georgia, USA. Adv. Water Resour. , 52, 19-33. doi: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2012.08.007  Link to Published Version

Saide, P. E., G. R. Carmichael, Z. Liu, C. S. Schwartz, H.C. Lin, A. M. da Silva, and E. Hyer, 2013. Aerosol optical depth assimilation for a size-resolved sectional model: impacts of observationally constrained, multi-wavelength and fine mode retrievals on regional scale analyses and forecasts. Atmos. Chem. Phys. , 13, 10425-10444. DOI: 10.5194/acp-13-10425-2013  Link to Published Version

Scarino, B., P. Minnis, R. Palikonda, R. Reichle, D. Morstad, C. Yost, B. Shan, and Q. Liu, 2013. Retrieving Clear-Sky Surface Skin Temperature for Numerical Weather Prediction Applications from Geostationary Satellite Data. Remote Sensing , 5 (1), 342-366. doi:10.3390/rs5010342  Link to Published Version

Storelvmo, T., J. Kristjannsson, H. Muri, M. Pfeffer, D. Barahona, and A. Nenes, 2013. Cirrus cloud seeding has potential to cool climate. Geophys. Res. Lett. , 40, 178-182. 10.1029/2012GL054201  Link to Published Version

Strode, S., and S. Pawson, 2013. Detection of carbon monoxide trends in the presence of interannual variability. J. Geophys. Res. , 118, 257-273. doi: 10.1002/2013JD020258  Link to Published Version

Sud, Y., D.-M. Lee, L. Oreopoulos, D. Barahona, A. Nenes, and M. Suarez, 2013. Performance of McRAS-AC in the GEOS-5 AGCM: aerosol-cloud-microphysics, precipitation, cloud radiative effects, and circulation. Geosci. Model Dev. , 6, 57-79. doi:10.5194/gmd-6-57-2013  Link to Published Version

Tangborn, A., L. L. Strow, B. Imbiriba, L. Ott, and S. Pawson, 2013. Evaluation of a new middle-lower tropospheric CO₂ product using data assimilation. 13 , 12, 4487-4500. doi: 10.5194/acp-13-4487-2013  Link to Published Version

Teng, H., G. Branstator, H. Wang, G. A. Meehl, and W. M. Washington, 2013. Probability of US heat waves affected by a subseasonal planetary wave pattern. Nat. Geosci , 6, 1056-1061. doi: 10.1038/ngeo1988  Link to Published Version

Todling, R., 2013. Comparing two approaches for assessing observation impact. Mon. Weather Rev. , 141, 1484-1505. doi: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00100.1  Link to Published Version

Wei, J., P. A. Dirmeyer, D. Wisser, M. G. Bosilovich, and D. M. Mocko, 2013. Where does the irrigation water go? An estimate of the contribution of irrigation to precipitation using MERRA. J. Hydrometeorol. , 14, 275-289. doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-12-079.1  Link to Published Version

Wernberg, T., D. A. Smale, F. Tuya, M. S. Thomsen, T. J. Langlois, T. de Bettignies, S. Bennett, and C. S. Rousseaux, 2013. An extreme climatic event alters marine ecosystem structure in a global biodiversity hotspot. Nature Climate Change , 3, 78-82. doi:10.1038/nclimate1627  Link to Published Version

Williamson, D. L., M. Blackburn, K. Nakajima, W. Ohfuchi, Y. O. Takahashi, Y.-Y. Hayashi, H. Nakamura, M. Ishiwatari, J. L. McGregor, H. Borth, V. Wirth, H. Frank, P. Bechtold, N. P. Wedi, H. Tomita, M. Satoh, M. Zhao, I. M. Held, M. J. Suarez, M.-I. Lee, M. Watanabe, M. Kimoto, Y. Liu, Z. Wang, A. Molod, K. Rajendran, A. Kitoh, and R. Stratton, 2013. The Aqua-Planet Experiment (APE): Response to changed meridional SST profile. J. Meteorol. Soc. Japan , 91A, 57-89. doi: 10.2151/JMSJ.2013-AO3  Link to Published Version

Wind, G., A. daSilva, P. M. Norris, and S. Platnick, 2013. Multi-sensor cloud retrieval simulator and remote sensing from model parameters — Part 1: Synthetic sensor radiance formulation. Geosci. Model Dev , 6, 2049-2062. doi: 10.5194/GMD-6-2049-2013  Link to Published Version

Wu, M.-L., O. Reale, and S. Schubert, 2013. A characterization of African Easterly Waves on 2.5-6 day and 6-9 day time scales. J. Climate , 26, 6750-6774. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00336.1  Link to Published Version

Yamada, T.J., S. Kanae, T. Oki, and R. D. Koster, 2013. Seasonal variation of land-atmosphere coupling strength over the West African monsoon region in an atmospheric general circulation model. Hydro. Sci.J. , 58 (6), 1276-1286. DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2013.814914  Link to Published Version

Yi, Y., J. S. Kimball, L. A. Jones, R. H. Reichle, R. R. Nemani, and H. A. Margolis, 2013. Recent climate and fire disturbance impacts on boreal and arctic ecosystem productivity estimated using a satellite-based terrestrial carbon flux model. J. Geophys. Res.-Biogeo. , 118, 1-17. doi: 10.1002/jgrg.20053  Link to Published Version

Zhang, M., C. S. Bretherton, P. N. Blossey, P. H. Austin, J. T. Bacmeister, S. Bony, F. Brient, S. K. Cheedela, A. Cheng, A. D. Del Genio, S. R. De Roode, S. Endo, C. N. Franklin, J.-C. Golaz, C. Hannay, T. Heus, F. Alessandro Isotta, J.-L. Dufresne, I.-S. Kang, H. Kawai, M. Köhler, V. E. Larson, y. Liu, A. P. Lock, U. Lohmann, M. F. Khairoutdinov, A. Molod, R. A. J. Neggers, P. Rasch, I. Sandu, R. Senkbeil, A. P. Siebesma, C. Siegenthaler-Le Drian, B. Stevens, M. J. Suarez, K.-Man Xu, K. von Salzen, M. J. Webb, A. Wolf, and M. Zhao, 2013. CGILS: Results from the first phase of an international project to understand the physical mechanisms of low cloud feedbacks in single column models. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst , 4, 826-842. doi: 10.1002/2013MS000246  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).

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)