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REFEREED PUBLICATIONS - 2017

Akella, S., R. Todling, and M. J. Suarez, 2017. Assimilation for skin SST in the NASA GEOS atmospheric data assimilation system. Q J Roy Meteor Soc. , 143 (703), 1032-1046. DOI: 10.1002/qj.2988  Link to Published Version

Alemohammand, S. H., B. Fang, A. G. Konings, J. K. Green, J. Kolassa, C. Prigent, F. Aires, D. Miralles, and P. Gentine, 2017. Water, Energy, and Carbon with Artificial Neural Networks (WECANN): A statistically-based estimate of global surface turbulent fluxes using solar-induced fluorescence. Biogeosciences , 14, 4101-4124. doi:10.5194/bg-14-4101-2017  Link to Published Version

Barahona, D., A. Molod and H. Kalesse, 2017. Direct estimation of the global distribution of vertical velocity within cirrus clouds. Scientific Reports , 7 (6840), 1-11. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-07038-6  Link to Published Version

Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, E., A. Barthélemy, M. Chevallier, R. Cullather, N. Fuckar, F. Massonnet, P. Posey, W. Wang, J. Zhang, C. Ardilouze, C. M. Bitz, G. Vernieres, A. Wallcraft, and M. Wang, 2017. Multi-model seasonal forecast of Arctic sea-ice: forecast uncertainty at pan-Arctic and regional scales. Clim. Dyn. , 49 (4), 1399-1410. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-016-3388-9  Link to Published Version

Bosilovich, M. G., F. R. Robertson, L. Takacs, A. Molod, and D. Mocko, 2017. Atmospheric Water Balance and Variability in the MERRA-2 Reanalysis. J. Clim , 30 (4), 1177-1196. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0338.1  Link to Published Version

Buchard, V., C. A. Randles, A. da Silva,A. S. Darmenov, P. R. Colarco,R. C. Govindaraju, R. A. Ferrare, J. W. Hair, A. Beyersdorf, L. D. Ziemba, and H. Yu, 2017. The MERRA-2 Aerosol Reanalysis, 1980-onward, Part II: Evaluation and Case Studies. J. Clim , 30, 6851-6872. DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0613.1  Link to Published Version

Chatterjee, A., M. M. Gierach, A. J. Sutton, R. A. Feely, D. Crisp, A. Eldering, M. R. Gunson, C. W. O'Dell, B. B. Stephens, and D. S. Schimel, 2017. Influence of El Niño on atmospheric CO₂ over the tropical Pacific Ocean: findings from NASA's OCO-2 mission. Science , 358 (6360), 190. DOI: 10.1126/science.aam5776  Link to Published Version

Chen, F., W. T. Crow, A. Colliander, M. Cosh, T. J. Jackson, R. Bindlish, R. H. Reichle, S. K. Chan, D. D. Bosch, P. J. Starks, D. C. Goodrich, and M. Seyfried, 2017. Application of Triple Collocation in Ground-based Validation of Soil Moisture Active/Passive (SMAP) Level 2 Data Products. IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl , 10, 489-502. doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2569998  Link to Published Version

Chen, G., C. Orbe and D. Waugh, 2017. The Role of Monsoon-like Zonally Asymmetric Heating in Interhemispheric Transport. J. Geophys. Res.: Atmos. , 122 (6), 3282-3298. DOI: 10.1002/2016JD026427  Link to Published Version

Choker, M., N. Baghdadi, M. Zribi, M. El Hajj, S. Paloscia, N. E. C. Verhoest, H. M. P. Lievens, and F. Mattia, 2017. Evaluation of the Oh, Dubois and IEM Backscatter Models Using a Large Dataset of SAR Data and Experimental Soil Measurements. Water , 2017 (1), 38 . doi:10.3390/w9010038  Link to Published Version

Colarco, P. R., S. Gasso, C. Ahn, V. Buchard, A. M. da Silva, and O. Torres, 2017. Simulation of the Ozone Monitoring Instrument aerosol index using the NASA Goddard Earth Observing System aerosol reanalysis products. Atmos. Meas.Tech. , 10 (11), 4121-4134. DOI: 10.5194/amt-10-4121-2017  Link to Published Version

Coy, L., P. A. Newman, S. Pawson, and L. R. Lait, 2017. Dynamics of the Disrupted 2015-2016 Quasi-Biennial Oscillation. J Clim , 30, 5661–5674. DOI 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0663.1  Link to Published Version

Crow, W. T., F.Chen, R. H. Reichle, and Q. Liu, 2017. L-band microwave remote sensing and land data assimilation improve the representation of pre-storm soil moisture conditions for hydrologic forecasting. Geophys. Res. Lett. , 44 (11), 5495-5503. doi:10.1002/2017GL073642  Link to Published Version

Davis, S. M., M. I. Hegglin, M. Fujiwara, R. Dragani, Y. Harada, C. Kobayashi, C. Long, G. L. Manney, E. Nash, G. L. Potter, S. Tegtmeier, T. Wang, K. Wargan, and J. S. Wright, 2017. Assessment of upper tropospheric and stratospheric water vapour -> and ozone in reanalyses as part of S-RIP. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics , 17, 12743-12778. doi:10.5194/acp-2017-377  Link to Published Version

de Wit, R., D. Janches, D. C. Fritts, R. G. Stockwell, and L. Coy, 2017. Unexpected Climatological Behavior of MLT Gravity Wave Momentum Flux in the Lee of the Southern Andes Hotspot. Geophys. Res. Lett. , 44, 1182–1191. doi:10.1002/2016GL072311  Link to Published Version

Doherty, R. M., C. Orbe, G. Zeng, M. Prather, D. A. Plummer, M. Lin, D. Shindell, I. A. Mackenzie, and O. Wild, 2017. Multi-model Impacts of Climate Change on Pollution Transport from Global Emission Source Regions. Atmos. Chem. Phys. , 17 (23), 14219-14237. doi: 10.5194/acp-17-14219-2017  Link to Published Version

Dole, R. M., J. R. Spackman, M. Newman, G. P. Compo, C. A. Smith, L. M. Hartten, J. J. Barsugli, R. S. Webb, M. P. Hoerling, R. Cifelli, K. Wolter, C. D. Barnet, M. Gehne, R. Gelaro, et. al., 2017. Advancing science and services during the 2015-16 El Niño: The NOAA El Niño Rapid Response Field Campaign. B. Am. Meteorol. Soc. , 99, 975-1001. DOI:10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0219.1  Link to Published Version

Eldering, A., P.O. Wennberg, D. Crisp, D. Schimel, M.R. Gunson, A. Chatterjee, J. Liu, F. Schwandner, Y. Sun, C.W. O'Dell, C. Frankenberg, T. Taylor, B. Fisher, G.B. Osterman, D. Wunch, J. Hakkarainen, J. Tamminen, and B. Weir, 2017. The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 early science investigations of regional carbon dioxide fluxes. Science , 358 (6360), 1-8. DOI: 10.1126/science.aam5745  Link to Published Version

Freitas, S. R., J. Panetta, K. M. Longo, L. F. Rodrigues, D. S. Moreira, M. E. Rosario, P. L. Silva Dias, M. A. F. Silva Dias, E. P. Souza, E. D. Freitas, et al. , 2017. The Brazilian developments on the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (BRAMS 5.2): an integrated environmental model tuned for tropical areas. Geosci Model Develop J , 10, 189–222. doi:10.5194/gmd-10-189-2017  Link to Published Version

Fujiwara, M., J. S. Wright, G. L. Manney, L. J. Gray, J. Anstey, T. Birner, S. Davis, E. P. Gerber, V. L. Harvey, M. I. Hegglin, C. R. Homeyer, J. A. Knox, K. Krüger, A. Lambert, C. S. Long, P. Martineau, B. M. Monge-Sanz, M. L. Santee, S. Tegtmeier, S. Chabrillat, D. G. H. Tan, D. R. Jackson, S. Polavarapu, G. P. Compo, R. Dragani, W. Ebisuzaki, Y. Harada, C. Kobayashi, W. McCarty, K. Onogi, S. Pawson, A. Simmons, K. Wargan, J. S. Whitaker, and C.-Z. Zou, 2017. Introduction to the SPARC Reanalysis Intercomparison Project (S-RIP) and overview of the reanalysis systems. Atmos. Chem. Phys. , 17, 1417-1452. doi:10.5194/acp-17-1417-2017  Link to Published Version

Geer, A. J., K. Lonitz, P. Weston, M. Kazumori, K. Okamoto, Y. Zhu, E. H. Liu, A. Collard, W. Bell, S. Migliorini, P. Chambon, N. Fourrie, M.-J. Kim, C. Kopken-Watts, and C. Schraff, 2017. All-sky satellite data assimilation at operational weather forecasting centres. Q. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc. , 144, 1191-1217. doi: 10.1002/qj.3202  Link to Published Version

Gelaro, R., W. McCarty, M. J. Suarez, R. Todling, A. M. Molod, L. L. Takacs, C. Randles, A. Darmenov, M. G. Bosilovich, R. H. Reichle, K. Wargan, L. Coy, R. I. Cullather, S. R. Akella, V. Bachard, A. L. Conaty, A. da Silva, W. Gu, R. D. Koster, R. A. Lucchesi, D. Merkova, G. S. Partyka, S. Pawson, W. M. Putman, M. M Rienecker, S. D. Schubert, M. E. Sienkiewicz, and B. Zhao, 2017. The Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version-2 (MERRA-2). J. Climate , 30, 5419-5454. DOI 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0758.1  Link to Published Version

Getirana, A., S. Kumar, M. Girotto, and M. Rodell, 2017. Rivers and floodplains as key components of global terrestrial water storage variability. Geophys. Res. Lett , 44 (20), 10,359-10,368. DOI: 10.1002/2017GL074684  Link to Published Version

Girotto, M., G. J. M. De Lannoy, R. H. Reichle, M. Rodell, C. Draper, S. N. Bhanja, and A. Mukherjee, 2017. Benefits and Pitfalls of GRACE Data Assimilation: a Case Study of Terrestrial Water Storage Depletion in India. Geophys. Res. Lett , 44, 4107-4115. doi:10.1002/2017GL072994  Link to Published Version

Gobeyn, S., A. Van Wesemael, J. Neal, H. Lievens, K. Van Eerdenbrugh, N., De Vleeschouwer, H. Vernieuwe, G. J.-P. Schumann, G. Di Baldassarre, P. D. Bates, and N. E. C. Verhoest, 2017. Impact of the SAR acquisition timing on the calibration of an inundation model. Adv Water Resour , 100, 126-138. doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2016.12.005  Link to Published Version

Green, J., A. G. Konings, S. H. Alemohammad, J. Berry, D. Entekhabi, J. Kolassa, J.-E. Lee, and P. Gentine, 2017. Regionally strong feedbacks between the atmosphere and terrestrial biosphere. Nature Geoscience , 10, 410-414. DOI:10.1038/ngeo2957  Link to Published Version

Gregg, W. W., and C. S. Rousseaux, 2017. Simulating PACE Global Ocean Radiances. Frontiers in Marine Science , 4 (60), 1-19. DOI:10.3389/fmars.2017.00060  Link to Published Version

Gregg, W. W., C. S. Rousseaux and B. A. Franz, 2017. Global Trends in Ocean Phytoplankton: A New Assessment from Revised Ocean Color Data. Remote Sens. Lett. , 8 (12), 1102-1111. doi: 10.1080/2150704X.2017.1354263  Link to Published Version

Ham, Y.-G., YJ. Hwang, Y.-K. Lim, and M. Kwon, 2017. Inter-decadal variation of the tropical Atlantic-Korea (TA-K) teleconnection pattern during boreal summer season. Clim. Dyn. , 51, 2609-2621. DOI:10.1007/s00382-017-4031-0  Link to Published Version

Holt, L. A., M. J. Alexander, L. Coy, C. Liu, A. Molod, W. Putman, and S. Pawson, 2017. An evaluation of gravity waves and their sources in the Southern Hemisphere in a 7-km global climate simulation. Q J Roy Meteor Soc , 143 (707), 2481-2495. doi:10.1002/qj.3101  Link to Published Version

Jaegle, L., R. Wood, and K. Wargan, 2017. Multi-year composite view of ozone enhancements and stratosphere-to-troposphere transport in dry intrusions of northern hemisphere extratropical cyclones. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos , 122 (24), 13,436-13,457. DOI: 10.1002/2017JD027656  Link to Published Version

Janjić, T., N. Bormann, M. Bocquet, J. A. Carton, S. E. Cohn, S. L. Dance, S. N. Losa, N. K. Nichols, R. Potthast, J. A. Waller, and P. Weston, 2017. On the Representation Error in Data Assimilation. Q. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc , 122DOI: 10.1002/qj.3130  Link to Published Version

Jones, L. A., J. S. Kimball, R. H. Reichle, N.Madani, J. Glassy, J. V. Ardizzone, A. Colliander, J. Cleverly, D. Eamus, E. Euskirchen, L. Hutley, C. Macfarlane, and R. Scott, 2017. The SMAP Level 4 Carbon Product for Monitoring Ecosystem Land-Atmosphere CO₂ Exchange | IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing , 55 (11), 6517-6532. doi:10.1109/TGRS.2017.2729343  Link to Published Version

Kent, J., and D. Holdaway, 2017. An Idealised Test Case For Assessing The Linearization of Tracer Transport Schemes in NWP Models. Q J Roy Meteor Soc , 143, 1746-1755. DOI: 10.1002/qj.3027  Link to Published Version

Knowland, K. E., L. E. Ott, B. N. Duncan, and K. Wargan, 2017. Stratospheric intrusion-infuenced ozone air quality exceedances investigated in the NASA MERRA-2 Reanalysis. Geophys. Res. Lett , 44, 10691–10701. DOI: 10.1002/2017GL074532  Link to Published Version

Knowland, K. E., R. M. Doherty, K. I. Hodges, and L. E. Ott, 2017. The influence of mid-latitude cyclones on European background surface ozone. Atmos. Chem. Phys. , 17, 12421-12447. DOI: 10.5194/acp-17-12421-2017  Link to Published Version

Kolassa, J., R. H. Reichle, and C. S. Draper, 2017. Merging active and passive microwave observations in soil moisture data assimilation. Remote Sens Environ , 191, 117-130. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2017.01.015  Link to Published Version

Kolassa, J., R. H. Reichle, Q. Liu, M. Cosh, D. D. Bosch, T. G. Caldwel, A. Colliander, C. H. Colins, S. J. Livingston, M. Moghaddam, and P. J. Starks, 2017. Data Assimilation to extract Soil Moisture Information from SMAP Observations. Remote Sensing , 9 (11), 1179. DOI: 10.3390/rs9111179  Link to Published Version

Koster, R. D., R. H. Reichle, and S. P. Mahanama, 2017. A Data-Driven Approach for Daily Real-Time Estimates and Forecasts of Near-Surface Soil Moisture. Journal of Hydrometeorology , 18, 837-843. doi:10.1175/JHM-D-16-0285.1  Link to Published Version

Koster, R. D., A. K. Betts, P. A. Dirmeyer, M. Bierkens, K. E. Bennett, S. J. Dery, J. P. Evans, R. Fu, R. Hernandez, L. R. Leung, X. Liang, M. Masood, H. Savenije, G. Wang, and X. Yuan, 2017. Hydroclimatic Variability and Predictability: a Survey of Recent Research. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sc , 21, 3777-3798. doi: 10.5194/hess-21-3777-2017  Link to Published Version

Lievens, H., B. Martens, N. Verhoest, S. Hahn, R. H. Reichle, and D. Miralles, 2017. Assimilation of global radar backscatter and radiometer brightness temperature observations to improve soil moisture and land evaporation estimates. Remote Sens Environ , 189, 194-210. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2016.11.022  Link to Published Version

Lievens, H., R. H. Reichle, Q. Liu, G. J. M. De Lannoy, R. S. Dunbar, S. B. Kim, N. N. Das, M. Cosh, J. P. Walker, and W. Wagner, 2017. Joint Sentinel-1 and SMAP data assimilation to improve soil moisture estimates. Geophys. Res. Lett , 44 (12), 6145–6153. DOI: 10.1002/2017GL073904  Link to Published Version

Lim, Y.-K., R. M. Kovach, S. Pawson, and G. Vernieres, 2017. The 2015/2016 El Nino Event in Context of the MERRA-2 Reanalysis: A Comparison of the Tropical Pacific with 1982/1983 and 1997/1998. Journal of Climate , 30, 4819-4842. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0800.1  Link to Published Version

Luecke, C. A., B. K. Arbic, S. L. Bassette, J. G. Richman, J. F. Shriver, M. H. Alford, O. M. Smedstad, P. G. Timko, D. S. Trossman, and A. J. Wallcraft, 2017. The Global Mesoscale Eddy Available Potential Energy Field in Models and Observations. J. Geophy. Res. - Oceans , 122 (11), 9126-9143. doi:10.1002/2017JC013136  Link to Published Version

Mackinnon, J., M.H. Alford, J. K. Asong, B. K. Arbic, A. Barna, B. P. Briegleb, F. O. Bryan, M. C. Buijsman, E. P. Chassignet, G. Danabasoglu, S. Diggs, P. Gent, S. M. Giffies, R. W. Hallberg, S. R. Jayne, M. Jochum, J. M. Klymak, E. Kunze, W. G. Large, S. Legg, B. Mater, A. V. Melet, L. M. Merchant, R. Musgrave, J. D. Nash, N. J. Norton, A. Pickering, R. Pinkel, K. Polzin, H. L. Simmons, L. B. St. Laurent, O. M. Sun, D. S. Trossman, A. F. Waterhouse, C. B. Whalen, and Z. Zhao, 2017. Climate Process Team on Internal-Wave Driven Ocean Mixing. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society , 98 (11), 2429-2454. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0030.1  Link to Published Version

Manney, G. L., M.I. Hegglin, Z. D. Lawrence, K. Wargan, L. F. Millán, M. J. Schwart, M. L. Santee, A. Lambert, S. Pawson, B. W. Knosp, R. A. Fuller, and W. H. Daffer, 2017. Reanalysis comparisons of upper tropospheric/lower stratospheric jets and multiple tropopauses. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics , 17, 11541-11566. doi:10.5194/acp-17-11541-2017  Link to Published Version

Martens, B., D. G. Miralles, H. M. P. Lievens, R. van der Schalie, R. A. M. de Jeu, D. Fernandez-Prieto, H. beck, W. Dorigo, and N. Verhoest, 2017. GLEAM v3: satellite-based land evaporation and root-zone soil moisture. Geoscie. Model Develop. , 10, 1903-1925. doi: 10.5194/gmd-10-1903-2017  Link to Published Version

Martinez-Agirre, A., J. Alvarez-Mozos, H. Lievens, and N. E. C. Verhoest, 2017. Influence of surface roughness measurement scale on radar backscattering in different agricultural soils. IEEE T. Geosci. Remote , 55 (10), 5925-5936. DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2017.2717043  Link to Published Version

Moreira, D. S., K. M. Longo, S. R. Freitas, M. A. Yamasoe, L. M. Mercado, N. E. Rosario, E. Gloor, R. S. M. Viana, J. B. Miller, L. V. Gatti, K. T. Wiedemann, L. K. G. Domingues, and C. C. S. Corria, 2017. Modelling the radiative effects of biomass burning aerosols on carbon fluxes in the Amazon region. Atmos. Chem. Phys. , 17 (23), 14785-14810. doi: 10.5194/acp-17-14785-2017  Link to Published Version

Mueller, K. J., J. Liu, W. McCarty, and R. Gelaro, 2017. An adjoint based forecast impact from assimilating MISR winds into the GEOS-5 data assimilation and forecasting system. Monthly Weather Review , 145, 4937-4947. doi: 10.1175/MWR-D-17-0047.1  Link to Published Version

Nielsen, J. E., S. Pawson, A. Molod, B. Auer, A. M. da Silva, A. R. Douglass, B. N. Duncan, Q. Liang, M. E. Manyin, L. D. Oman, W. M. Putman, S. E. Strahan, and K. Wargan, 2017. Chemical Mechanisms and their Applications in the Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) Earth System Model. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst. , 9, 3019-3044. DOI: 10.1002/2017MS001011  Link to Published Version

Oda, T., T. Lauvaux, D. Lu, J. Tang, P. Rao, N. L. Miles, S. J. Richardson, K. R. Gurney, and K. J. Davis, 2017. On the impact of granularity of space-based urban CO₂ emissions in urban atmospheric inversions: A case study for Indianapolis, IN. Elementa - INFLUX , 5, 1-12. DOI: 10.1525/elementa.146  Link to Published Version

Ok, J., M.-K. Sung, K. Sato, Y.-K. Lim, S.-J. Kim, E.-H. Baek, and B.-M. Kim, 2017. How does the SST variability over the western North Atlantic Ocean control Arctic warming over the Barents/Kara seas?. Enviro. Res. Lett , 12, 034021. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa5f3b  Link to Published Version

Orbe, C., L. D. Oman, S. E. Strahan, D. W. Waugh, L. L. Takacs, S. Pawson, and A. M. Molod, 2017. Large-Scale Atmospheric Transport in GEOS Replay Simulations. J. Adv. Model. Earth Sy , 9 (7), 2545-2560. DOI: 10.1002/2017MS001053  Link to Published Version

Palter, J. B, and D. S. Trossman, 2017. The sensitivity of future ocean oxygen to changes in ocean circulation. Global Biogeochem. Cy. , 32, 738-751. doi: 10.1002/2017GB005777  Link to Published Version

Provencal, S., V. Buchard, A. da Silva, R. Leduc, and N. Barrette, 2017. Evaluation of PM surface concentration simulated by Version 1 of the NASA MERRA Aerosol Reanalysis over Europe. Atmos. Pollut. Res , 8 (2), 374-382. DOI: 10.1016/j.apr.2016.10.009  Link to Published Version

Provencal, S., V. Buchard, A. M. da Silva, R. Leduc, and N. Barrette, 2017. Evaluation of PM2.5 surface concentration simulated by Version 1 of the NASAs MERRA Aerosol Reanalysis over Israel and Taiwan. Aerosol Air Qual. Res , 17 (1), 253-261. doi: 10.4209/aaqr.2016.04.0145  Link to Published Version

Provencal, S., P. Kishcha, A. M. da Silva, E. Elhacham, and P. Alpert, 2017. AOD distributions and trends of major aerosol species over a section of the worlds most populated cities based on the 1st Version of NASA's MERRA Aerosol Reanalysis. Urban Clim , 20, 168-191. doi: 10.1016/j.uclim.2017.04.001  Link to Published Version

Randles, C. A., A. da Silva, V. Buchard, P. R. Colarco, A. S. Darmenov, R. C. Govindaraju, A. Smirnov, R. A. Ferrare, J. W. Hair, Y.Shinozuka, and C. Flynn, 2017. The MERRA-2 Aerosol Reanalysis, 1980-onward, Part I: System Description and Data Assimilation Evaluation. J. Clim , 30, 6823-6850. DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0609.1  Link to Published Version

Reale, O., D. Achuthavarier, M. Cordero-Fuentes, W. M. Putman, and G. S. Partyka, 2017. Tropical Cyclones in the 7km NASA Global Nature Run for use in the Observing System Simulation Experiments. J. Atmos Ocean Tech , 34, 73-100. doi:10.1175/JTECH-D-16-0094.1  Link to Published Version

Reichle, R., Q. Liu, R. Koster, C. Draper, S. Mahanama, and G. Partyka, 2017. Land Surface Precipitation in MERRA-2. J. Clim , 30 (5), 1643-1664. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0570.1  Link to Published Version

Reichle, R. H., C. S. Draper, Q. Liu, M. Girotto, S. P. Mahanama, R. D. Koster, and G. De Lannoy, 2017. Assessment of MERRA-2 land surface hydrology estimates. J. Clim , 30 (8), 2937-2960. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0720.1  Link to Published Version

Reichle, R. H., G. De Lannoy, Q. Liu, J. V. Ardizzone, A. Colliander, A. L. Conaty, W. Crow, T. Jackson, L. Jones, J. Kimball, R. D. Koster, S. P. Mahanama, E. B. Smith, A. Berg, S. Bircher, D. Bosch, T. Caldwell, M. Cosh, A. Gonzáez-Zamora, C. Holifield Collins, K. Jensen, S. Livingston, E. Lopez-Baeza, J. Martínez-Fernández, H. McNairn, M. Moghaddam, A. Pacheco, T. Pellarin, J. Prueger, T. Rowlandson, M. Seyfried, P. Starks, Z. Su, M. Thibeault, R. van der Velde, X. Wu, and Y. Zeng, 2017. Assessment of the SMAP Level-4 Surface and Root-Zone Soil Moisture Product Using In Situ Measurements. J. Hydrometeorl , 18, 2621-2645. doi:10.1175/JHM-D-17-0063.1  Link to Published Version

Reichle, R. H., G. J. M. De Lannoy, Q. Liu, R. D. Koster, J. S. Kimball, W. T. Crow, J. V. Ardizzone, P. Chakraborty, D. W. Collins, A. L. Conaty, M. Girotto, L. A. Jones, J. Kolassa, H. Lievens, R. A. Lucchesi, and E. B. Smith, 2017. Global Assessment of the SMAP Level-4 Surface and Root-Zone Soil Moisture Product Using Assimilation Diagnostics. J. Hydrometeorol , 18, 3217-3237. doi:10.1175/JHM-D-17-0130.1  Link to Published Version

Rousseaux, C. S., and W. Gregg, 2017. Forecasting ocean chlorophyll in the Equatorial Pacific. Front. Marine Sci , 4, 236. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00236  Link to Published Version

Salmon, O. E., P. B. Shepson, X. Ren, A. Collow, M. A. Miller, A. G. Carlton, M. O. Cambaliza, A. Heimburger, J. D. Fuentes, B. H. Stirm, R. Grundman II, R. R. Dickerson, J. A. Thorton, and J. Whetstone, 2017. Urban Emissions of Water Vapor in Winter. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos , 122 (17), 9467-9484. doi: 10.1002/2016JD026074  Link to Published Version

Schoeberl, M. R., E. Jensen, A. Podglajen, L. Coy, C. Lodha, S. Candido, and R. Carver, 2017. Gravity Wave Spectra in the Lower Stratosphere Diagnosed from Project Loon Balloon Trajectories. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos , 122, 1-8. doi:10.1002/2017JD026471  Link to Published Version

Smith, L. C., K. Yang, L. Pitcher, B. Overstreet, V. Chu, A. Rennermalm, J. Ryan, M. Cooper, C. Gleason, M. Tedesco, J. Jeyaratnam, D. van As, M. van den Broke, W. J. van de Berg, B. Noel, P. Langen, R. Cullather, B. Zhao, M. Willis, A. Hubbard, J. Box, B. Jenner, and A. Behar, 2017. Direct measurements of meltwater runoff on the Greenland Ice Sheet surface. P Natl. Acad. Sci. USA , 114 (50), E10622-E10631. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1707743114  Link to Published Version

Sullivan, R. C., R. C. Levy, A. M. da Silva, and S. C. Pryor, 2017. Developing and diagnosing climate change indicators of regional aerosol optical properties. Scientific Reports , 7, 18093. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-18402-x  Link to Published Version

Tao, J., R. H. Reichle, R. D. Koster, B. A. Forman, and Y. Xue, 2017. Evaluation and enhancement of permafrost modeling with the NASA Catchment Land Surface. J. Adv. Model. Earth Sy , 9, 2771-2795. doi:10.1002/2017MS001019  Link to Published Version

Trossman, D. S., B. K. Arbic, D. N. Straub, J. G. Richman, E. P. Chassignet, A. J. Wallcraft, and X. Xu, 2017. The Role of Rough Topography in Mediating Impacts of Bottom Drag in Eddying Ocean Circulation Models. J Phys Oceanogr , 47 (8), 1941-1959. doi: 10.1175/JPO-D-16-0229.1  Link to Published Version

Tweedy, O. V., N. A. Kramarova, S. E. Strahan, P. A. Newman, L. Coy, W. J. Randel, M. Park, D. W. Waugh, and S. M. Frith, 2017. Response of Trace Gases to the Disrupted 2015-2016 Quasi-Biennial Oscillation. Atmos. Chem. Phys , 17, 6813-6823. DOI 10.5194/acp-17-6813-2017  Link to Published Version

Wang, H., W. Su, N. G. Loeb, D. Achuthavarier, and S. D. Schubert, 2017. The Role of DYNAMO In-situ Observations in Improving NASA CERES-like Daily Surface and Atmospheric Radiative Flux Estimates. Earth and Space Science , 4, 164-183. DOI: 10.1002/2016EA000248  Link to Published Version

Wang, G., D. Wang, K. E. Trenberth, A. Erfanian, M. Yu, M. G. Bosilovich, and D. T. Parr, 2017. The peak structure and future changes of the relationships between extreme precipitation and temperature. Nat. Clim. Ch , 7, 268-274. DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE3239  Link to Published Version

Wargan, K., G. J. Labow, S. M. Frith, S. Pawson, N. J. Livesey, and G. S. Partyka, 2017. Evaluation of the Ozone Fields in NASA's MERRA-2 Reanalysis. J. Clim , 30, 2961–2988. DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0699.1  Link to Published Version

Yasunari, T., M. Niwasno,Y. Fujiyoshi, M. Hayasaki, T. Aoki, A. M. da Silva, B. N. Holben, S. Matoba, N. Murao, S. Yamagata, and K.-M. Kim, 2017. An unreported Asian dust (Kosa) event in Hokkaido, Japan: A case study of March 2016. SOLA , 13, 96-101. doi: 10.2151/sola.2017-018  Link to Published Version

TECHNICAL MEMORANDA

Endsley, K.Arthur, John S. Kimball, Tobias Kundig, Rolf H. Reichle, Joseph V. Ardizzone, 2023. Validation Assessment for the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Level 4 Carbon (L4_C) Data Product Version 7. NASA/TM-2023-104606, Vol. 65, 56 pp. Document (7224 kB).

Reichle, Rolf H., Qing Liu, Joseph V. Ardizzone, Michel Bechtold, Wade T. Crow, Gabrielle J. M. De Lannoy, John S. Kimball and Randal D. Koster, 2023. Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Project Assessment Report for Version 7 of the L4_SM Data Product. NASA/TM-2023-104606, Vol. 64, 91 pp. Document (17397 kB).

Kemppinen, Osku, Peter R. Colarco and Patricia Castellanos, 2022. GEOS aerosol optical table calculation package GEOSmie. NASA/TM-2023-104606, Vol. 63, 81 pp. Document (3209 kB).

Chang, Yehui, Siegfried Schubert, Randal Koster, Andrea Molod, and Yong-Kwon Lim, 2022. Climate Characteristics of the Atmospheric Analysis Increments from the GEOS S2S V3 AOGCM Replayed to MERRA-2. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA/TM-2021-104606, Vol. 62, 147 pp. Document (46192 kB).

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

Reichle, Rolf, Qing Liu, Randal D. Koster, Joseph V. Ardizzone, Andreas Colliander, Wade T. Crow, Gabrielle J. M. De Lannoy and John S. Kimball, 2022. Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Project Assessment Report for Version 6 of the L4_SM Data Product. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA/TM-2021-104606, Vol. 60, 72 pp. Document (8595 kB).

Reichle, Rolf, and Qing Liu, 2021. Observation-Corrected Precipitation for the SMAP Level 4 Soil Moisture (Version 6) Product and the GEOS R21C Reanalysis. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA/TM-2021-104606, Vol. 59, 32 pp. Document (404 kB).

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

Chang, Yehui, Siegfried Schubert, Randal Koster and Andrea Molod, 2021. Tendency Bias Correction in the GEOS AGCM. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA/TM-2021-104606, Vol. 57, 78 pp. Document (5255 kB).

Kimball, John, K. Arthur Endsley, Tobias Kundig, Joseph Glassy, Rolf H. Reichle and Joseph V. Ardizzone, 2021. Validation Assessment for the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Level 4 Carbon (L4_C) Data Product Version 5. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA/TM-2021-104606, Vol. 56, 31 pp. Document (2610 kB).

Schubert, Siegfreid, Young-Kwon Lim, Andrea Molod, and Allison Marquardt Collow, 2021. A Phenomenon-Based Decomposition of Model-Based Estimates of Boreal Winter ENSO Variability. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA/TM-2021-104606, Vol. 55, 88 pp. Document (7722 kB).

Carvalho, David, and Will McCarty, 2020. Position Estimation of Atmospheric Motion Vectors for Observation System Simulation Experiments. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA/TM-2019-104606, Vol. 54, 44 pp. Document (2175 kB).

Schubert, Siegfried, Anna Borovikov, Young-Kwon Lim, and Andrea Molod, 2019. Ensemble Generation Strategies Employed in the GMAO GEOS-S2S Forecast System. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA/TM-2019-104606, Vol. 53, 75 pp. Document (5002 kB).

Reichle, Rolf H., Qing Liu, Randal D. Koster, Joseph V. Ardizzone, Andreas Colliander, Wade T. Crow, Gabrielle J. M. De Lannoy, and John S. Kimball, 2018. Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Project Assessment Report for Version 4 of the L4_SM Data Product. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA/TM-2018-104606, Vol. 52, 72 pp. Document (11805 kB).

Akella, Santha, and Max Suarez, 2018. The Atmosphere-Ocean Interface Layer of NASA’s Goddard Earth Observing System Model and Data Assimilation System. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA/TM-2018-104606, Vol. 51, 42 pp. Document (4892 kB).

Todling, Ricardo, and Amal El Akkraoui, 2018. The GMAO Hybrid Ensemble-Variational Atmospheric Data Assimilation System: Version 2.0. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA/TM-2018-104606, Vol. 50, 184 pp. Document (5543 kB).

Kim, Jong, Santha Akella, Arlindo M. da Silva, Ricardo Todling, and William McCarty, 2018. Preliminary evaluation of influence of aerosols on the simulation of brightness temperature in the NASA’s Goddard Earth Observing System Atmospheric Data Assimilation System. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA/TM-2018-104606, Vol. 49, 44 pp. Document (5922 kB).

Errico, Ronald M., Nikki C. Privé, David Carvalho, Meta Sienkiewicz, Amal El Akkraoui, Jing Guo, Ricardo Todling, Will McCarty, William M. Putman, Arlindo da Silva, Ronald Gelaro, Isaac Moradi, 2017. Description of the GMAO OSSE for Weather Analysis Software Package: Version 3. NASA/TM-2017-104606, Vol. 48, 156 pp. Document (2473 kB).

Collow, Allison B. Marquardt, Sarith P. Mahanama, Michael G. Bosilovich, Randal D. Koster, and Siegfried D. Schubert, 2017. An Evaluation of Teleconnections Over the United States in an Ensemble of AMIP Simulations with the MERRA-2 Configuration of the GEOS Atmospheric Model. NASA/TM-2017-104606, Vol. 47, 68 pp. Document (5623 kB).

McCarty, Will, Lawrence Coy, Ronald Gelaro, Albert Huang, Dagmar Merkova, Edmond B. Smith, Meta Seinkiewicz, and Krzysztof Wargan, 2016. MERRA-2 Input Observations: Summary and Assessment. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA/TM-2016-104606, Vol. 46, 61 pp. Document (3553 kB).

Randles, C. A., A. M. da Silva, V. Buchard, A. Darmenov, P. R. Colarco, V. Aquila, H. Bian, E. P. Nowottnick, X. Pan, A. Smirnov, H. Yu, and R. Govindaraju, 2016. The MERRA-2 Aerosol Assimilation. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA/TM-2016-104606, Vol. 45, 143 pp. Document (91522 kB).

Akella, Santha, Ricardo Todling and Max Suarez, 2016. Estimation of the Ocean Skin Temperature using the NASA GEOS Atmospheric Data Assimilation System. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA/TM-2016-104606, Vol. 44, 88 pp. Document (12742 kB).

Bosilovich, Michael G., Santha Akella, Lawrence Coy, Richard Cullather, Clara Draper, Ronald Gelaro, Robin Kovach, Qing Liu, Andrea Molod, Peter Norris, Krzysztof Wargan, Winston Chao, Rolf Reichle, Lawrence Takacs, Yury Vikhliaev, Steve Bloom, Allison Collow, Stacey Firth, Gordon Labow, Gary Partyka, Steven Pawson, Oreste Reale, Siegfried D. Schubert, and Max Suarez, 2015. MERRA-2: Initial Evaluation of the Climate. NASA/TM–2015–104606, Vol. 43, 139 pp. Document (20707 kB).

Kimball, John S., Lucas A. Jones,Joseph Glassy, E. Natasha Stavros, Nima Madani, Rolf H. Reichle, Thomas Jackson, and Andreas Colliander, 2015. Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Project Calibration and Validation for the L4_C Beta-Release Data Product. NASA/TM–2015-104606, Vol. 42, 37 pp. Document (13765 kB).

Schubert, Siegfried, Will Pozzi, Kingtse Mo, Eric F. Wood, Kerstin Stahl, Mike Hayes, Juergen Vogt, Sonia Seneviratne, Ron Stewart, Roger Pulwarty, and Robert Stefanski, 2015. GDIS Workshop Report. NASA/TM–2015-104606, Vol. 41, 40 pp. Document (623 kB).

Reichle, Rolf H., Gabrielle J. M. De Lannoy, Qing Liu, Andreas Colliander, Austin Conaty, Thomas Jackson, John Kimball, and Randal D. Koster, 2015. Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Project Assessment Report for the Beta-Release L4_SM Data Product. NASA/TM-2015-104606, Vol. 40. Document (5812 kB).

Mahanama, Sarith P., Randal D. Koster, Gregory K. Walker, Lawrence L. Takacs, Rolf H. Reichle, Gabrielle De Lannoy, Qing Liu, Bin Zhao, and Max J. Suarez, 2015. Land Boundary Conditions for the Goddard Earth Observing System Model Version 5 (GEOS-5) Climate Modeling System - Recent Updates and Data File Descriptions. NASA/TM–2015-104606, Vol. 39, 55 pp. Document (4608 kB).

Darmenov, Anton, and Arlindo da Silva, 2015. The Quick Fire Emissions Dataset (QFED): Documentation of versions 2.1, 2.2 and 2.4. NASA/TM–2015–104606, Vol. 38. Document (68725 kB).

Takacs, Lawrence L., Max Suarez, and Ricardo Todling, 2015. Maintaining Atmospheric Mass and Water Balance Within Reanalysis. NASA/TM–2014-104606, Vol. 37. Document (3732 kB).

Gelaro, Ronald, William M. Putman, Steven Pawson, Clara Draper, Andrea Molod, Peter M. Norris, Lesley Ott, Nikki Privé, Oreste Reale, Deepthi Achuthavarier, Michael Bosilovich, Virginie Buchard, Winston Chao, Lawrence Coy, Richard Cullather, Arlindo da Silva, Anton Darmenov, Ronald M. Errico, Marangelly Fuentes, Min-Jeong Kim, Randal Koster, Will McCarty, Jyothi Nattala, Gary Partyka, Siegfried Schubert, Guillaume Vernieres, Yuri Vikhliaev, and Krzysztof Wargan, 2015. Evaluation of the 7-km GEOS-5 Nature Run. NASA/TM–2014-104606, Vol. 36. Document (88612 kB).

Reichle, R. H., and Q. Liu, 2014. Observation-Corrected Precipitation Estimates in GEOS-5. NASA/TM–2014-104606, Vol. 35. Document (495 kB).

Keppenne, C. L., M. M. Rienecker, R. M. Kovach, and G. Vernieres, 2014. Background error covariance estimation using information from a single model trajectory with application to ocean data assimilation into the GEOS-5 coupled model. NASA/TM-2014-104606, Vol. 34. Document (1941 kB).

Rousseaux, C. S., and W. W. Gregg, 2014. The effects of chlorophyll assimilation on carbon fluxes in a global biogeochemical model. NASA/TM-2014-104696, Vol. 33. Document (942 kB).

Provencal, S., P. Kishcha, E. Elhacham, A. M. da Silva, and P. Alpert, 2014. Estimates of AOD Trends (2002 – 2012) over the World’s Major Cities based on the MERRA Aerosol Reanalysis. NASA/TM-2014-104606, Vol. 32, 40 pp. Document (3247 kB).

Gregg, W. W., N. W. Casey, and C. S. Rousseaux, 2013. Global surface ocean carbon estimates in a model forced by MERRA. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA TM-2013-104606, Vol. 31, 39 pp. Document (1170 kB).

Vernieres, G., M. Rienecker, R. Kovach, and C. Keppenne, 2012. The GEOS-iODAS: Description and Evaluation. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA TM—2012-104606, Vol. 30, 61 pp. Document (13707 kB).

Rienecker, M.M., D. Dee, J. Woollen, G. P. Compo, K. Onogi, R. Gelaro, M. G. Bosilovich, A. da Silva, S. Pawson, S. Schubert, M. Suarez, D. Barker, H. Kamahori, R. Kistler, and S. Saha, 2012. Atmospheric Reanalyses—Recent Progress and Prospects for the Future. A Report from a Technical Workshop, April 2010. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA TM—2012-104606, Vol. 29, 56 pp. Document (9410 kB).

Molod, A., L. Takacs, M. Suarez, J. Bacmeister, I.-S. Song, and A. Eichmann, 2012. The GEOS-5 Atmospheric General Circulation Model: Mean Climate and Development from MERRA to Fortuna. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA TM—2012-104606, Vol. 28, 117 pp. Document (11776 kB).

Rienecker, M.M., M. J. Suarez, R. Todling, J. Bacmeister, L. Takacs, H.-C. Liu, W. Gu, M. Sienkiewicz, R. D. Koster, R. Gelaro, I. Stajner, and J. E. Nielsen, 2008. The GEOS-5 Data Assimilation System - Documentation of Versions 5.0.1, 5.1.0, and 5.2.0. Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, Vol. 27, 1-118 pp. Document (11978 kB).

Bloom, S., A. da Silva, D. Dee, M. Bosilovich, J.-D. Chern, S. Pawson, S. Schubert, M. Sienkiewicz, I. Stajner, W.-W. Tan, M.-L. Wu, 2005. Documentation and Validation of the Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) Data Assimilation System - Version 4. Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 104606, Vol. 26, 1-187 pp. Document (18124 kB).

Waliser, D., S. Schubert, A. Kumar, K. Weickmann, and R. Dole, 2003. Modeling, Simulation, and Forecasting of Subseasonal Variability. NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA/TM-2016-104606, Vol. 25, 70 pp. Document (12998 kB).

Rienecker, M., A. Troccoli, C. Keppenne, G. Johnson, 2003. Temperature Data Assimilation with Salinity Corrections: Validation for the NSIPP Ocean Data Assimilation System in the Tropical Pacific Ocean, 1993-1998. Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 104606, Vol. 24, 1-39 pp. Document (3077 kB).

Schubert, S., R. Dole, H. van den Dool, M. Suarez, D. Waliser, 2002. Prospects for Improved Forecasts of Weather and Short-Term Climate Variability on Subseasonal (2-Week to 2-Month) Time Scales. Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 104606, Vol. 23, 1-163 pp. Document (11999 kB).

Gregg, W.W., 2002. A Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Radiative Model for Global Ocean Biogeochemical Models. Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 104606, Vol. 22, 1-31 pp. Document (2513 kB).

Keppene, C. L., and M. Rienecker, 2001. Design and Implementation of a Parallel Multivariate Ensemble Kalman Filter for the Poseidon Ocean General Circulation Model. NASA Technical Memorandum 104606, Vol. 21. Document (2725 kB).

Chang, Y., S. D. Schubert, S. J. Lin, S. Nebuda, B.-W. Shen, 2001. The Climate of the FVCCM-3 Model. Technical Report Series on Global and Data Assimilation, Vol. 20. Document (8273 kB).

Chou, M.-D., M. Suarez, X.-Z. Liang, M. M.-H. Yan, 2001. A Thermal Infrared Radiation Parameterization for Atmospheric Studies. Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 104606, Vol. 19. Document (1954 kB).

Pegion, P. J., S. D. Schubert, M. Suarez, 2000. An Assessment of the Predictability of Northern Winter Seasonal Means with the NSIPP 1 AGCM. Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 104606, Vol. 18. Document (8353 kB).

Bacmeister, J., S. D. Schubert, M. Suarez, P. J. Pegion, 2000. Atlas of Seasonal Means Simulated by the NSIPP 1 Atmospheric GCM. Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 104606, Vol. 17. Document (8943 kB).

Takacs, L., W. Sawyer, M. J. Suarez, and M. S. Fox-Rabinowitz, 1999. Filtering Techniques on a Stretched Grid General Circulation Model. NASA Technical Memorandum 104606, Vol. 16. Document (3192 kB).

Chou, M.-D., and M. Suarez, 1999. A Solar Radiation Parameterization for Atmospheric Studies. Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 104606, Vol. 15. Document (1880 kB).

Bosilovich, M. G., and S. D. Schubert, 1998. A Comparison of GEOS Assimilated Data with FIFE Observations. Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 104606, Vol. 14. Document (2969 kB).

Min, W., and S. Schubert, 1997. Interannual Variability and Potential Predictability in Reanalysis Products. Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 104606, Vol. 13. Document (16062 kB).

Chang, A., and L. Chiu, 1997. Comparison of Satellite Global Rainfall Algorithms. Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 104606, Vol. 12. Document (305 kB).

Yang, W., I. M. Navon, R. Todling, 1997. Documentation of the Tangent and Adjoint Models of the Relaxed Arakawa-Schubert Moisture Parameterization Package of the NASA GEOS-1 GCM. Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 104606, Vol. 11. Document (331 kB).

Takacs, L., and M. Suarez, 1996. Dynamical Aspects of Climate Simulations Using the GEOS General Circulation Model. NASA Technical Memorandum 104606, Vol. 10. Document (3578 kB).

Koster, R. D., and M. J. Suarez, 1996. Energy and Water Balance Calculations in the Mosaic LSM. Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 104606, Vol. 9. Document (2528 kB).

Yang, W., and I. M. Navon, 1995. Documentation of the Tangent Linear Model and Its Adjoint of the Adiabatic Version of the NASA GEOS-1 C-Grid GCM (Version 5.2). Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 104606, Vol. 8. Document (363 kB).

Schubert, S. D., and R. Rood, 1995. Proceedings of the Workshop on the GEOS-1 Five-Year Assimilation. NASA Technical Memorandum 104606, Vol. 7. Document (24028 kB).

Schubert, S. D., C. K. Park, C. Y. Wu, W. Higgins, Y. Kondratyeva, A. Molod, L. L. Takacs, M. Seablom, R. B. Rood, 1995. A Multiyear Assimilation with the GEOS-1 System: Overview and Results. NASA Technical Memorandum 104606, Vol. 6. Document (14369 kB).

Suarez, M., and L. L. Takacs, 1995. Documentation of the Aries-GEOS Dynamical Core: Version 2. NASA Technical Memorandum 104606, Vol. 5. Document (1667 kB).

Pfaendtner, J., S. Bloom, D. Lamich, M. Seablom, M. Sienkiewicz, J. Stobie, A. da Silva, 1995. Documentation of the Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) Data Assimilation System: Version 1. NASA Technical Memorandum 104606, Vol. 4. Document (2674 kB).

Chou, M.-D., M. J. Suarez, X.-Z. Liang, M. Yan, 1994. An Efficient Thermal Infrared Radiation Parameterization for Use in General Circulation Models. Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 104606, Vol. 3. Document (2587 kB).

Li, Y., S. Moorthi, J. R. Bates, 1994. Direct Solution of the Implicit Formulation of Fourth Order Horizontal Diffusion for Gridpoint Models on the Sphere. Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 104606, Vol. 2. Document (1876 kB).

Takacs, L., A. Molod, T. Wang, 1994. Documentation of the Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) General Circulation Model: Version 1. Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 104606, Vol. 1. Document (4320 kB).

GMAO OFFICE NOTES

GMAO Office Note No. 22 (Version 1.1): Collow, A., V. Buchard, M. Chin, P. Colarco, A. Darmenov, and A. da Silva, 2023. Supplemental Documentation for GEOS Aerosol Products  Document [PDF]. See also Version 1.0 (2023).

GMAO Office Note No. 21 (Version 1.0): Wargan, K., B. Weir, 2022. File Specification for MERRA-2 Stratospheric Composition Reanalysis of Aura MLS (M2-SCREAM)  Document [PDF].

GMAO Office Note No. 20 (Version 1.1): Keller, C., H. Amos, V. Buchard, A. Darmenov, S. Shen, M. Deloria Knoll, F. Villavicencio, M. Bosilovich, 2021. File Specification for MERRA-2 Country-Level Surface PM2.5 Monthly Mean Product  Document [PDF]. See also Version 1.0 (2021). See also Version 1.0 (2021). See also Version 1.0 (2021). See also Version 1.0 (2021).

GMAO Office Note No. 19 (Version 1.3): Collow, Allison, M. Bosilovich, A. Dezfuli, and R. Lucchesi, 2023. File Specification for MERRA-2 Climate Statistics Products  Document [PDF]. See also Version 1.2 (2021). See also Version 1.2 (2021). See also Version 1.1 (2021). See also Version 1.0 (2020).

GMAO Office Note No. 18 (Version 1.0): Collow, Allison, R. Lucchesi, and A. Da Silva, 2020. File Specification for GEOS Products Sampled Along Aircraft Trajectories  Document [PDF].

GMAO Office Note No. 17 (Version 1.3): Knowland, K. Emma, C.A. Keller, and R. Lucchesi, 2020. File Specification for GEOS-CF Products  Document [PDF]. See also Version 1.2 (2022). See also Version 1.1 (2020). See also Version 1.0 (2019).

GMAO Office Note No. 16 (Version 1.0): Nakada, K., R. Kovach, J. Marshak, and A. Molod, 2018. S2S-2_1: File Specification  Document [PDF].

GMAO Office Note No. 15 (Version 1.0): Collow, A., M. Bosilovich, and R. Lucchesi, 2018. File Specification for M2AMIP Products  Document [PDF].

GMAO Office Note No. 14 (Version 1.0): Putman, W., and M. J. Suarez, 2017. Overview of the GEOS Atmospheric Model and the Challenges of Using it at Exascale  Document [PDF].

GMAO Office Note No. 13 (Version 1.0): Kimball, J.S., L. A. Jones, J. Glassy, E. N. Stavros, N. Madani, R. H. Reichle, T. Jackson, and A. Colliander, 2016. Soil Moisture Active Passive Mission L4_C Data Product Assessment (Version 2 Validated Release)  Document [PDF].

GMAO Office Note No. 12 (Version 1.0): Reichle, R., G. J. M. De Lannoy, Q. Liu, J. V. Ardizzone, F. Chen, A. Colliander, A. Conaty, W. Crow, T. Jackson, J. Kimball, R. D. Koster, and E. Brent Smith, 2016. Soil Moisture Active Passive Mission L4_SM Data Product Assessment (Version 2 Validated Release)  Document [PDF].

GMAO Office Note No. 11 (Version 2.1): Endsley, K.A., J. Glassy, J. S. Kimball, L. A. Jones, R. H., Reichle, J. V. Ardizzone, G.-K. Kim, R. A. Lucchesi, E. B. Smith, and B. H. Weiss, 2021. Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission Level 4 Carbon (L4_C) Product Specification Document | GMAO Office Note No. 11 (Version 2.2)  Document [PDF]. See also Version 2.1 (2021). See also Version 2.0 (2016). See also Version 1.9 (2015).

GMAO Office Note No. 10 (Version 1.6): Reichle, R.H., R. A. Lucchesi, J. V. Ardizzone, G.-K. Kim, E. B. Smith, and B. H. Weiss, 2018. Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission Level 4 Surface and Root Zone Soil Moisture (L4_SM) Product Specification Document  Document [PDF]. See also Version 1.5 (2018). See also Version 1.4 (2015).

GMAO Office Note No. 9 (Version 1.1): Bosilovich, M. G., R. Lucchesi, and M. Suarez, 2015. MERRA-2: File Specification  Document [PDF].

GMAO Office Note No. 8 (Version 1.0): Kouatchou, J., A. Molod, J. E. Nielsen, B. Auer, W. Putman and T. Clune, 2015. GEOS-5 Chemistry Transport Model User's Guide  Document [PDF].

GMAO Office Note No. 7 (Version 1.0): da Silva, A. M., C. A. Randles, V. Buchard, A. Darmenov, P. R. Colarco, and R. Govindaraju, 2015. File Specification for the MERRA Aerosol Reanalysis (MERRAero)  Document [PDF].

GMAO Office Note No. 6: da Silva, A.M., W. Putman, and J. Natalla, 2015. File Specification for the 7-km GEOS-5 Nature Run, Ganymed Release (Non-hydrostatic 7-km Global Mesoscale Simulation)  Document [PDF].

GMAO Office Note No. 5 (Version 1.0): Putman, W., A. M. da Silva, L. E. Ott, and A. Darmenov, 2014. Model Configuration for the 7-km GEOS-5 Nature Run, Ganymed Release (Non-hydrostatic 7-km Global Mesoscale Simulation)  Document [PDF].

GMAO Office Note No. 4 (Version 1.2): Lucchesi, R., 2018. File Specification for GEOS-5 FP (Forward Processing)  Document [PDF]. See also Version 1.1 (2017). See also Version 1.0 (2013).

GMAO Office Note No. 3: Reichle, R. H., 2012. The MERRA-Land Data Product (Version 1.2)  Document [PDF].

GMAO Office Note No. 2 (Version 1.4): Lucchesi, R., 2015. File Specification for GEOS-5 FP-IT (Forward Processing for Instrument Teams)  Document [PDF]. See also Version 1.2 (2013).

GMAO Office Note No. 1: Lucchesi, R., 2012. File Specification for MERRA Products (Version 2.3)  Document [PDF].

This is a repository of presentations from scientific conferences and workshops which list GMAO staff members as lead or co-authors. They summarize research in poster form and were displayed to share results with the conference participants. Please note that this collection is not comprehensive.

2024 POSTERS

NASA TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS

da Silva, Arlindo, Hal Maring, Felix Seidel, Michael Behrenfeld, Richard Ferrare, and Gerald Mace, 2020. Aerosol, Cloud, Ecosystems (ACE) Final Study Report. NASA/TP-20205007337. Document (6669 kb)

SELECTED TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS

Montzka, Carsten, M. Cosh, B. Bayat, A. Al Bitar, A. Berg, R. Bindlish, H. R. Bogena, J. D. Bolten, F. Cabot, T. Caldwell, S. Chan, A. Colliander, W. Crow, N. Das, G. De Lannoy, W. Dorigo, S. R. Evett, A. Gruber, S. Hahn, T. Jagdhuber, S. Jones, Y. Kerr, S. Kim, C. Koyama, M. Kurum, E. Lopez-Baeza, F. Mattia, K. McColl, S. Mecklenburg, B. Mohanty, P. O'Neill, D. Or, T. Pellarin, G. P. Petropoulos, M. Piles, R. H. Reichle, N. Rodriguez-Fernandez, C. Rüdiger, T. Scanlon, R. C. Schwartz, D. Spengler, P. Srivastava, S. Suman, R. van der Schalie, W. Wagner, U. Wegmüller, J.-P. Wigneron, F. Camacho, and J. Nickeson, 2020. Soil Moisture Product Validation Good Practices Protocol. Land Product Validation Subgroup (WGCV/CEOS).

BOOKS

Wang, H., S. D. Schubert, and R. D. Koster 2017. North American Drought and Links to Northern Eurasia: The Role of Stationary Rossby Waves. In Patterns of Climate Extremes: Trends and Mechanisms. S. Wang, J. Yoon, C. Funk, R. Gillies, Eds. Wiley, 195-221. DOI: 10.1002/9781119068020.ch12.

De Lannoy, G. J. M., P. de Rosnay, and R. H. Reichle (2016), Soil Moisture Data Assimilation, in Handbook of Hydrometeorological Ensemble Forecasting, edited by Q. Duan, F. Pappenberger, J. Thielen, A. Wood, H. L. Cloke, and J. C. Schaake, Springer Verlag, 1-43, Springer Verlag, New York, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-40457-3_32-1.

Bosilovich, M. G., J. Kennedy, D. Dee, R. Allan and A. O.Neill, 2013. On the Reprocessing and Reanalysis of Observations for Climate in Climate Science for Serving Society: Research, Model and Prediction Priorities. G. Asrar and J. Hurrell, Eds. Springer, 51-71. ISBN 978-94-007-6691-4.

Schubert, S. D., Y-K. Lim, 2013. Climate variability and weather extremes: model-simulated and historical data Chapter 9 in Extremes in a changing climate — detection, analysys & uncertainty. Eds. A. AghaKouchak, D. Easterling, K. Hsu, S. Schubert, S. Sorooshian, Springer. ISBN 978-94-007-4478-3

Cohn, S.E., 2010. The Principle of Energetic Consistency in Data Assimilation. Chapter 7 in Data Assimilation: Making Sense of Observations, Eds. W. Lahoz, B. Khattatov and R. Menard, Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74703-1

Rood, R.B., M. G. Bosilovich, 2010. Reanalysis: Data Assimilation for Scientific Investigation of Climate, in Data Assimilation: Making sense of observations, Eds. W. A. Lahoz, B. Khattotov and R. Menard, Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74703-1

Reichle, R. H., M. G. Bosilovich, W. T. Crow, R. D. Koster, S. V. Kumar, S. P. P. Mahanama, and B. F. Zaitchik, 2009. Recent Advances in Land Data Assimilation at the NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Chapter 21 of Data Assimilation for Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Hydrologic Applications,ed. S.-K. Park, Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-71056-1, Chapter 21

Cohn, S.E., 2008. Energetic Consistency and Coupling of the Mean and Covariance Dynamics. Chapter 16 in Handbook of Numerical Analysis, Vol. XIV, Ed. P.G. Ciarlet, Special Volume: Computational Methods for the Atmosphere and the Oceans, Guest Eds. R. Temam and J. Tribbia, Elsevier. ISBN: 978-0-444-51893-4

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS

Reichle, R., G. De Lannoy, Q. Liu, and J. Ardizzone, 2016. SMAP Data Assimilation at the GMAO. Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA) Quarterly, 53.  Link to Published Version

Zeng, X., S. Acherman, R.D. Ferraro, J.J. Murray, S. Pawson, C. Reynolds, and J. Teixiera, 2015. Workshop Report on Scientific Challenges and Opportunities in the NASA Weather Focus Area. NASA Weather Focus Area Workshop, April 2015.  Link to Published Version

Bosilovich, M. G., M. Rixen, P. van Oevelen, G. Asrar, G. Compo, K. Onogi, A. Simmons, K. Trenberth, D. Behringer, T. Hossain Bhuiyan, S. Capps, A. Chaudhuri, J. Chen, L. Chen, N. Colasacco-Thumm, M. G. Escobar, C. R. Ferguson, T. Ishibashi, M. L. R. Liberato, J. Meng, A. Molod, and co-authors, 2012. Report of the 4th World Climate Research Programme International Conference on Reanalyses. 4th World Climate Research Programme International Conference on Reanalyses, Silver Spring, Maryland, 7-11 May 2012.  Link to Published Version

Schubert, S.D., I.-S. Kang, F. Kucharski, and J. Shukla, 2009. Summary Report of the Workshop on High-Resolution Climate Modeling.. Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy, 10-14 August 2009. Document (161 kb)

Schubert, S., D. Dee, S. Uppala, J. Woollen, J. Bates, and S. Worley, 2006. Report of the Workshop on "The Development of Improved Observational Data Sets for Reanalysis: Lessons Learned and Future Directions". University of Maryland Conference Center, College Park, MD, 28-29 September 2005. Document (236 kb)

Schubert, S., 2005. Summary Report of the Workshop on: Observational and Modeling Requirements for Predicting Drought on Seasonal to Decadal Time Scales. University of Maryland Inn and Conference Center, Adelphi, MD, 17-19 May 2005. Document (229 kb)