National Aeronautics and Space Administration

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS - 2014

Alyaari, A., J.-P. Wigneron, A. Ducharne, Y. Kerr, W. Wagner, G. De Lannoy, R. Reichle, A. Al Bitar, W. Dorigo, P. Richaume, and A. Mialon, 2014. Global-scale comparison of passive (SMOS) and active (ASCAT) satellite-based microwave soil moisture retrievals with soil moisture simulations (MERRA-Land). Remote Sens. Environ , 152, 614-626. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.07.013  Link to Published Version

Barahona, D., A. Molod, J. Bacmeister, A. Nenes, A. Gettelman, H. Morrison, V. Phillips, and A. Eichmann, 2014. Development of two-moment cloud microphysics for liquid and ice within the NASA Goddard Earth Observing System Model (GEOS-5). Geosci. Model Dev , 7, 1733-1766. doi: 10.5194/gmd-7-1733-2014  Link to Published Version

Barahona, D., 2014. Analysis of the effect of water activity on ice formation using a new theory of nucleation. Atmos. Chem. Phys , 14, 7665-7680. doi: 10.5194/acp-14-7665-2014  Link to Published Version

Buchard, V., A. M. daSilva, P. Colarco, N. A. Krotkov, R. R. Dickerson, J. W. Stehr, G. Mount, E. Spinei, H. L. Arkinson, and H. He, 2014. GEOS-5 sulfur dioxide simulations during the Frostburg, MD 2010 field campaign. Atmos. Chem. Phys. , 14, 1929-1941. doi: 10.5194/acp-14-1929-2014  Link to Published Version

Coy, L., and S. Pawson, 2014. The major stratospheric sudden warming of January 2013: Analyses and forcasts in the GEOS-5 data assimilation.. Mon. Wea. Rev , 143, 491-510. doi: 10.1175/MWR-D-14-00023.1  Link to Published Version

Cullather, R. L., S. M. J. Nowicki, B. Zhao, and M. J. Suarez, 2014. Evaluation of the surface representation of the Greenland ice sheet in a general circulation model. J. Climate , 27 (13), 4835-4856. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00635.1  Link to Published Version

De Lannoy, G. J. M., R. H. Reichle, and J. A. Vrugt, 2014. Uncertainty quantification of GEOS-5 L-Band radiative transfer model parameters using Bayesian inference and SMOS observations. Remote Sens. Environ , 148, 146-157. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.03.030  Link to Published Version

De Lannoy, G. J. M., R. Koster, R. H. Reichle, S. Mahanama, and Q. Liu, 2014. An updated treatment of soil texture and associated hydraulic properties in a global land modeling system. J. Adv. Model. Earth Sys , 6, 957-979. doi: 10.1002/2014MS000330  Link to Published Version

Dirmeyer, P. A., J. Wei, M. G. Bosilovich, and D. M. Mocko, 2014. Comparing evaporative sources of terrestrial precipitation and their extremes in MERRA using relative entropy. J. Hydrometeorol. , 15, 102-115. doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-13-053.1  Link to Published Version

Errico, R. M., and N. Privé, 2014. An estimate of some analysis error statistics using the GMAO observing system simulation framework. Q. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc , 140, 1005-1012. doi: 10.1002/qj.2180  Link to Published Version

Forman, B. A., R. H. Reichle, and C. Derksen, 2014. Estimating passive microwave brightness temperature over snow-covered land in North America using a land surface model and an artificial neural network. IEEE T. Geosci. Remote , 52, 235-248. 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2237913  Link to Published Version

Gregg, W. W., N. Casey, and C. S. Rousseaux, 2014. Sensitivity of simulated global ocean carbon flux estimates to forcing by reanalysis products. Ocean Model , 80, 24-35. doi: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2014.05.002  Link to Published Version

Gregg, W. W., and C. S. Rousseaux, 2014. Decadal trends in global pelagic ocean chlorophyll: A new assessment integrating multiple satellites, in situ data, and models. J. Geophys. Res , 119, 1-13. doi: 10.1002/2014JC010158  Link to Published Version

Ham, Y.-G., M. M. Rienecker, M. J. Suarez, Y. Vikhliaev, B. Zhao, J. Marshak, G. Vernieres, and S. D. Schubert, 2014. Decadal prediction skill in the GEOS-5 forecast system. Clim. Dynam , 42, 1-20. doi: 10.1007/s00382-013-1858-x  Link to Published Version

Ham, Y.-G., S. Schubert, Y. Vikhliaev, and M. Suarez, 2014. An assessment of the ENSO forecast skill of GEOS-5 system. Clim. Dynam , 43, 2415-2430. doi: 10.1007/s00382-014-2063-2  Link to Published Version

Ham, Y.-G., M.-K. Sung, S.-I. An, S. D Schubert, and J.-S. Kug, 2014. Role of Tropical Atlantic SST Variability as a Modulator of El Nino Teleconnections. Asia-Pacific J. Atmos. Sci , 50, 247-261. doi: 10.1007/s13143-014-0013-x  Link to Published Version

Hoerling, M., J. Eischeid, A. Kumar, R. Leung, A. Mariotti, K. Mo, S. Schubert, and R. Seager, 2014. Causes and predictability of the 2012 great plains drought. B. Am. Meteorol. Soc , 95, 269-282. doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00055.1  Link to Published Version

Hoerling, M., K. Wolter, J. Perlwitz, X. Quan, J. Eischeid, H. Wang, S. Schubert, H. Diaz, and R. Dole, 2014. Northeast Colorado extreme rains interpreted in a climate change context. B. Am. Meteorol. Soc , 95, S15-S18. doi: 10.1175/1520-0477-95.9.S1.1  Link to Published Version

Holdaway, D., and R. M. Errico, 2014. Using Jacobian sensitivities to assess a linearization of the relaxed Arakawa–Schubert convection scheme. Q. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc , 140 (681), 1319-1332. doi: 10.1002/qj.2210  Link to Published Version

Holdaway, D., R. M. Errico, R. Gelaro, and J. G. Kim, 2014. Inclusion of linearized moist physics in NASA's Goddard Earth Observing System Data Assimilation Tools. Mon. Weather Rev , 142, 414-433. doi: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00193.1  Link to Published Version

Janjic, T, D. McLaughlin, S. Cohn, and M. Verlaan, 2014. Conservation of mass and preservation of positivity with ensemble-type Kalman filter algorithms. Mon. Wea. Rev , 142, 755-773. doi: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00056.1  Link to Published Version

Kang, D., M.-I. Lee, J. Im, D. Kim, H.-M. Kim, H.-S. Kang, S. D. Schubert, A. Arribas, and C. MacLachlan, 2014. Prediction of the Arctic Oscillation in boreal winter by dynamical seasonal forecasting system. Geophys. Res. Lett. , 41 (10), 3577-3585. DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060011  Link to Published Version

Keller, C. A., M. S. Long, R. M. Yantosca, A. M. Da Silva, S. Pawson, and D. J. Jacob, 2014. HEMCO v1.0: a versatile, ESMF-compliant component for calculating emissions in atmospheric models. Geosci. Model Dev , 7, 1409-1417. doi: 10.5194/gmd-7-1409-2014  Link to Published Version

Keppenne, C. L., 2014. An ensemble recentering kalman filter with an application to Argo temperature data assimilation into the NASA GEOS-5 coupled model. Ocean Model , 77, 50-55. doi: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2014.03.001  Link to Published Version

Kim, D., M.-I. Lee, D. Kim, S. D. Schubert, D. E. Waliser, and B. Tian, 2014. Representation of tropical subseasonal variability of precipitation in global reanalyses. Clim. Dynam , 43 (1-2), 517-534. doi: 10.1007/S00382-013-1890-x  Link to Published Version

Kim, D., M.-I. Lee, H.-M. Kim, S. D. Schubert, and J. H. Yoo, 2014. The modulation of tropical storm activity in the Western North Pacific by the MaddenJulian Oscillation in GEOS-5 AGCM experiments. Atmos. Sci. Lett , 15, 335-341. doi: 10.1002/asl2.509  Link to Published Version

Kirtman, B. P., D. Min, J. M. Infanti, J. L. Kinter III, D. A. Paolino, Q. Zhang, H. van den Dool, S. Saha, M. P. Mendez, E. Becher, P. Peng, P. Tripp, J. Huang, D. G. DeWitt, M. K. Tippett, A. G. Barnston, S. Li, A. Rosati, S. D. Schubert, M. Reinecker, M. Suarez, Z. E. Li, J. Marshak, Y.-K. Lim, J. Tribbia, K. Pegion, W. J. Merryfield, B. Denis, and E. F. Wood, 2014. The North American Multimodel Ensemble: Phase-1 Seasonal-to-Interannual Prediction; Phase-2 toward Developing Intraseasonal Prediction. B. Am. Meteorol. Soc , 95 (4), 585-601. 10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00050.1  Link to Published Version

Kishcha, P., A. daSilva, B. Starobinets, and P. Alpert, 2014. Air pollution over north-west Bay of Bengal in the early post-monsoon season based on NASA MERRAero data. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmos , 119, 1555-1570. doi: 10.1002/2013JD020328  Link to Published Version

Kishcha, P., A. da Silva, B. Starobinets, and P. Alpert, 2014. Air pollution over the Ganges basin and northwest Bay of Bengal in the early postmonsoon season based on NASA MERRAero data. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos , 119, 1555-1570. doi: 10.1002/2013JD020328  Link to Published Version

Koster, R. D., G. K. Walker, S. P. P. Mahanama, and R. H. Reichle, 2014. Soil moisture initialization error and subgrid variability of precipitation in seasonal streamflow forecasting. J. Hydrometeorol. , 15, 69-88. doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-13-050.1  Link to Published Version

Koster, R. D., G. Walker, G. J. Collatz, and P. E. Thornton, 2014. Hydroclimatic controls on the means and variability of vegetation phenology and carbon uptake. J. Climate , 27, 5632-5652. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00477.1  Link to Published Version

Koster, R., Y. Chang, and S. D. Schubert, 2014. A mechanism for land-atmosphere feedback involving planetary wave structures. J. Climate , 27, 9290-9301. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00315.1  Link to Published Version

Kumar, S.V., C.D. Peters-Lidard, D. Mocko, R. Reichle, Y. Liu, K.R. Arsenault, Y. Xia, M. Ek, G. Riggs, B. Livneh, and M. Cosh, 2014. Assimilation of Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture and Snow Depth Retrievals for Drought Estimation. J. Hydrometeor. , 15 (6), 2446-2469. doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-13-0132.1  Link to Published Version

Lahoz, W. A., G. J. M. De Lannoy, 2014. Closing the gaps in our knowledge of the hydrological cycle of the Earth system: Conceptual problems. Surv. Geophys. , 35, 623-660. 10.1007/s10712-013-9221-7  Link to Published Version

Liu, J. J., D. Tarasick, V. Fioletov, C. McLinden, T. Zhao, S. Gong, C. Sioris, J. Jin, G. Liu, and O. M. Najafabadi, 2014. A global ozone climatology from ozone soundings via trajectory mapping: A stratospheric perspective. Atmos. Chem. Phys. , 13, 11441-11464. doi: 10.5194/acp-13-11441-2013  Link to Published Version

Liu, J., K. W. Bowman, M. Lee, D. K. Henze, N. Bousserez, H. Brix, G. J. Collatz, D. Menemenlis, L. Ott, S. Pawson, D. Jones, and R. Nassar, 2014. Carbon monitoring system flux estimation and attribution: impact of ACOS-GOSAT XCO₂ sampling on the inference of terrestrial biospheric sources and sinks. Tellus B , 66 (1), 22486. DOI: 10.3402/tellusb.v66.22486  Link to Published Version

Lyapustin, A., M. J. Alexander, L. Ott, A. Molod, B. Holben, J. Susskind, and Y. Wang, 2014. Observation of mountain lee waves with MODIS NIR column water vapor. Geophys. Res. Lett. , 41 (2), 710-716. doi: 10.1002/2013GL058770  Link to Published Version

Matsui, T., C. Ichoku, C. Randles, T. Yuan, A.M. da Silva, P. Colarco, D. Kim, R. Levy, A. Sayer, M. Chin, D. Giles, B. Holben, E. Welton, T. Eck, and L. Remer, 2014. Current and Future Perspectives of Aerosol Research at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. , 95 (10), ES203-ES207. DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00153.1  Link to Published Version

McCormack, J. P., L. Coy, and W. Singer, 2014. Intraseasonal and interannual variability of the quasi-two day wave in the Northern Hemisphere summer mesosphere. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmos , 119, 2928-2946. doi: 10.1002/2013JD020199  Link to Published Version

McGrath-Spangler, E. L., and A. M. Molod, 2014. Comparison of GEOS-5 AGCM planetary boundary layer depths computed with various definitions. Atmos. Chem. Phys , 14, 6717-6727. doi: 10.5194/acp-14-6717-2014  Link to Published Version

Meehl, G. A., L. Goddard, G. Boer, R. Burgman, G. Branstator, C. Cassou, S. Corti, G. Danabasoglu, F. Doblas-Reyes, E. Hawkins, A. Karspeck, M. Kimoto, A. Kumar, D. Matei, J. Mignot, R. Msadek, H. Pohlmann, M. Rienecker, T. Rosati, E. Schneider, D. Smith, R. Sutton, H. Teng, G. J. Van Oldenborgh, G. Vecchi, and S. Yeager, 2014. Decadal climate prediction: An update from the trenches. B. Am. Meteorol. Soc , 95, 243-267. doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00241.1  Link to Published Version

Miernecki, M., M., J.-P. Wigneron, E. Lopez-Baeza, Y. Kerr, R. De Jeu, G. J. M. De Lannoy, T. J. Jackson, P. E. O'Neill, M. Schwank, R. Fernandez Moran, S. Bircher, H. Laurence, A. Mialon, A. Al Bitar, and P. Richaume, 2014. Comparison of SMOS and SMAP soil moisture retrieval approaches using tower-based radiometer data over a vineyard field. Remote Sens. Environ , 154, 89-101. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.08.002  Link to Published Version

Privé, N., R. Errico, and K.-S. Tai, 2014. The impact of increased frequency of rawinsonde observations on forecast skill investigated with an observing system simulation experiment. Mon. Weather Rev. , 142, 1823-1834. doi: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00237.1  Link to Published Version

Reale, O., K. M. Lau, A. da Silva, and T. Matsui, 2014. Impact of assimilated and interactive aerosol on tropical cyclogenesis. Geophys. Res. Lett , 41, 3282-3288. doi: 10.1002/2014GL059918  Link to Published Version

Reichle, R. H., R. H., G. J. M. De Lannoy, B. A. Forman, C. S. Draper, and Q. Liu, 2014. Connecting Satellite Observations with Water Cycle Variables through Land Data Assimilation: Examples Using the NASA GEOS-5 LDAS. Surv. Geophys. , 35, 577-606. doi:10.1007/s10712-013-9220-8  Link to Published Version

Robertson, F. R., M. G. Bosilovich, J. B. Roberts, R. H. Reichle, R. Adler, L. Ricciardulli, W. Berg and G. J. Huffman, 2014. Consistency of estimated global water cycle variations over the satellite era. J. Climate , 27, 6135-6174. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00384.1  Link to Published Version

Romanou, A., J. Romanski and W. W. Gregg, 2014. Natural ocean carbon cycle sensitivity to parameterizations of the recycling in a climate model. Biogeosciences , 11, 1137-1154. DOI: 10.5194/bg-11-1137-2014  Link to Published Version

Rousseaux, C. S., and W. W. Gregg, 2014. Interannual variation in phytoplankton primary production at a global scale. Remote Sens , 6, 1-19. DOI: 10.3390/rs6010001  Link to Published Version

Schubert, S. D., H. Wang, R. Koster, M. Suarez, and P. Groisman, 2014. Northern Eurasian heat waves and droughts. J. Climate — Special Drought Edition , 27 (9), 3169-3207. 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00360.1  Link to Published Version

Shaevitz, D. A., S. J. Camargo, A. H. Sobel, J. A. Jonas, D. Kim, A. Kumar, T. E. LaRow, Y.-K. Lim, H. Murakami, K. Reed, M. J. Roberts, E. Scoccimarro, P. L. Vidale, H. Wang, M. F. Wehner, M. Zhao, and N. Henderson, 2014. Characteristics of tropical cyclones in high-resolution models in the present climate. J. Adv. Model. Earth Sys , 6, 1154-1172. doi: 10.1002/2014MS000372  Link to Published Version

Tao, W.-K., S. Lang, X. Zeng, X. Li, T. Matsui, K. Mohr, D. Posselt, J. Chern, C. Peters-Lidard, P. M. Norris, I.-S. Kang, I. Choi, A. Hou, K.-M. Lau, and Y.-M. Yang, 2014. The Goddard Cumulus Ensemble model (GCE): Improvements and applications for studying precipitation processes. Atmos. Res. , 143, 392-424. DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2014.03.005  Link to Published Version

Vernieres, G, R. Kovach, Ch. Keppenne, S. Akella, L. Brucker, and E. Dinnat, 2014. The Impact of the assimilation of Aquarius Sea surface salinity data in the GEOS ocean data assimilation system. J. Geophys. Res , 119, 6974-6987. doi: 10.1002/2014JC010006  Link to Published Version

Wagner, W., L. Brocca, V. Naeimi, R. Reichle, C. Draper, R. de Jeu, D. Ryu, C.-H. Su, A. Western, J.-C. Calvet, Y. Kerr, D. Leroux, M. Drusch, T. Jackson, S. Hahn, W. Dorigo, and C. Paulik, 2014. Clarifications on the "Comparison between SMOS, VUA, ASCAT, and ECMWF soil moisture products over four watersheds in U.S.". IEEE T. Geosci. Remote , 52, 1901-1906. doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2282172  Link to Published Version

Wang, H., S. Schubert, R. Koster, Y.-G. Ham, and M. Suarez, 2014. On the role of SST forcing in the 2011 and 2012 extreme U.S. heat and drought: A study in contrasts. J. Hydrometeorol. , 15, 1255-1273. doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-13-069.1  Link to Published Version

Wang, H., and S. Schubert, 2014. The precipitation response over the continental United States to cold tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures. J. Climate , 27, 5036-5055. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00453.1  Link to Published Version

Wang, A., M. Barlage, X. Zeng, and C. Draper, 2014. Comparison of land skin temperature from a land model, remote sensing, and in-situ measurement. J. Geophy. Res , 119, 3093-3106. doi: 10.1002/2013JD021026  Link to Published Version

Wang, H., L. Long, A. Kumar. W. Wang, J.-K. E. Schemm, M. Zhao, G. A. Vecchi, T. E. LaRow, Y.-K. Lim, S. D. Schubert, D. A. Shaevitz, S. J. Camargo, N. Henderson, D. Kim, J. A. Jonas, and K. J. E. Walsh, 2014. How well do global climate models simulate the variability of Atlantic tropical cyclones associated with ENSO?. J. Climate , 27, 5673-5692. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00625.1  Link to Published Version

Wang, S.-Y. S., D. Barandiaran, K. Hilburn, P. Houser, B. Oglesby, M. Pan, R. Pinker, J. Santanello, S. Schubert, H. Wang, and R. Gillies, 2014. Could the 2012 drought in central U.S. have been anticipated? A review of NASA working group research. J. Earth Sci. Eng , 4, 428-437.

Wang, H., and S. Schubert, 2014. Causes of the extreme dry conditions over California during early 2013. B. Am. Meteorol. Soc , 95, S7-S11. doi: 10.1175/1520-0477-95.9.S1.1  Link to Published Version

Wilson, E. L., M. L. McLinden, J. H. Miller, G. R. Allan, L. E. Ot, H. R. Melroy, and G. B. Clarke, 2014. Miniaturized laser heterodyne radiometer for measurements of CO₂ in the atmospheric column. Appl. Phys. B , 114 (3), 385-393. DOI: 10.1007/s00340-013-5531-1  Link to Published Version

Yasunari, T. J., K.-M. Lau, S. P. P. Mahanama, P. R. Colarco, A. M. da Silva, T. Aoki, K. Aoki, N. Murao, S. Yamagata., and Y. Kodama, 2014. The GOddard SnoW Impurity Module (GOSWIM) for the NASA GEOS-5 Earth System Model: Preliminary Comparisons with Observations in Sapporo, Japan. Sci. Online Lett. Atmos , 10, 50-56. doi: 10.2151/sola.2014-011  Link to Published Version

Yi, Y., J. Kimball, and R. H. Reichle, 2014. Spring hydrology determines summer net carbon uptake in northern ecosystems. Environ. Res. Lett , 9, 064003. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326-9-6-064003  Link to Published Version

Zhang, F., J. Wang, C. Ichoku, W. J. Hyer, Z. Yang, C. Ge, S. Su, X. Zhang, S. Kondragunta, J. W. Kaiser, C. Wiedinmyer, and A. M. da Silva, 2014. Sensitivity of mesoscale modeling of smoke direct radiative effect to the emission inventory: a case study in northern sub-Saharan African region. Environ. Res. Lett. , 9 (7), 075002. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/7/075002  Link to Published Version

Ziemke, J., M. Olsen, J. Witte, A. Douglass, S. Strahan, K. Wargan, X. Liu, M. Schoeberl, K. Yang, T. Kaplan, S. Pawson, B. Duncan, P. Newman, P. Bhartia, and M. Heney, 2014. Assessment and applications of NASA ozone data products derived from Aura OMI/MLS satellite measurements in context of the GMI chemical transport model. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmos , 119, 5671-5699. doi: 10.1002/2013JD020914  Link to Published Version

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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).

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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)