(Rsch AST, Climate and Radiation Std)
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PhD Johns Hopkins University, 2003. Dept of Earth and Planetary Sciences.Dissertation: Interactions Between the Heterogeneous Land Surface and the Atmosphere in Global Models
M. Sc. University of Maryland, 1982. Department of Meteorology. Thesis: Collision Efficiencies of Charged Ice Crystals of Different Densities with Charged Droplets
B. A. Clark University, 1979. Physics and Science, Technology and Society.
NASA - Greenbelt, MD
October 2016 - Present
NASA/Goddard Global Modeling and Assimilation Office. Lead of Seasonal/Decadal prediction group, managing the development of the next generation atmosphere-ocean coupled seasonal prediction system. Development of GEOS-5 General Circulation Model physical parameterizations. GMAO lead of the Coupled Chemistry Model Development effort, with members of the Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Branch.
University of Maryland - Greenbelt, MD
September 2007 - October 2016
Univ. of Maryland, College Park, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, and previously, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, Goddard Earth Sciences and Tech. Center. Work with NASA/Goddard Global Modeling and Assimilation Office. Development of GEOS-5 General Circulation Model physical parameterizations. Collaboration with scientists from the Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Branch related to boundary layer transport of chemical species.
Massachussetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge, MA
August 2003 - June 2007
Dept of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachussetts Institute of Technology. Development of MITgcm atmospheric model, physical parameterizations and new gridding technique.
Science Applications International Corporation - Laurel, MD
February 1985 - June 2003
Formerly, Senior Scientific Programmer/Analyst. Contract with the NASA/Goddard Data Assimilation Office. GCM development, parameterizations of cumulus convection, turbulence, radiative-cloud interactions, and land-surface processes.
2021-present: Member of WWRP/WCRP S2S Prediction Project Steering Group
2020-present: US liaison between the S2S Subgroup of the Weather Research Science Working Group (WRSWG-S2S) and the S2S Prediction Project for the S2S Project Aerosol Subproject
2014-present: Co-chair, GEOS-Chem Transport working group
2013-present: Member of the GEOS-Chem Scientific Steering Committee.
2003-present: Panelist and Reviewer, various NSF, NASA and NOAA proposal review panels, Reviewer, various Journals
Summer, 1996, 2009 - Mentor, NASA Summer Inst. in Earth Sciences
2005-2007, 2012: M.S. thesis committee, students in Dept. of Geography, Hunter College of the City University of New York
July 1993,1995,1999: Mentor, NASA Summer Institute in Sci., Tech., Eng. and Research (SISTER)
2024. "Insights into the causes and predictability of the 2022/23 California Flooding." Journal of Climate [10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0696.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "Tropical cyclones in the GEOS-S2S-2 subseasonal forecasts." Weather and Forecasting [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "The Role of Tropical Easterly Jet on the Bay of Bengal’s Tropical Cyclones: Observed Climatology and Future Projection." Journal of Climate 36 (17): 5825-5840 [10.1175/jcli-d-22-0804.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "Climatology of tropical cyclone precipitation in the S2S models." Weather and Forecasting 38 (9): 1759-1776 [https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-23-0029.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "Seasonal forecasting skill for the High Mountain Asia region in the Goddard Earth Observing System." Earth System Dynamics 14 (1): 147-171 [10.5194/esd-14-147-2023] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "The Simulation and Subseasonal Forecasting of Hydrological Variables: Insights from a Simple Water Balance Model." Journal of Hydrometeorology 23 (11): 1719-1736 [10.1175/jhm-d-22-0050.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "Earth system model parameter adjustment using a Green's functions approach." Geoscientific Model Development 15 (5): 2309-2324 [10.5194/gmd-15-2309-2022] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Seasonality in prediction skill of the Madden-Julian Oscillation and associated dynamics in Version 2 of NASA's GEOS-S2S forecast system." Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres 126 (18): e2021JD034961 [10.1029/2021JD034961] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Asymmetry in Subseasonal Surface Air Temperature Forecast Error with Respect to Soil Moisture Initialization." Journal of Hydrometeorology 22 (10): 2505-2519 [10.1175/jhm-d-21-0022.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Improving the Representation of Subtropical Boundary Layer Clouds in the NASA GEOS Model with the Eddy-Diffusivity/Mass-Flux Parameterization." Monthly Weather Review 149 (3): 793-809 [10.1175/mwr-d-20-0183.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Representation of tropical storms by the Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications version 2." Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences 57 35-49 [10.1007/s13143-019-00169-y] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Subseasonal‐to‐Seasonal Hindcast Skill Assessment of Ridging Events Related to Drought Over the Western United States." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 125 (22): [10.1029/2020jd033655] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "To What Extent Biomass Burning Aerosols Impact South America Seasonal Climate Predictions?." Geophysical Research Letters 47 (16): [10.1029/2020gl088096] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Using a Simple Water Balance Framework to Quantify the Impact of Soil Moisture Initialization on Subseasonal Evapotranspiration and Air Temperature Forecasts." Journal of Hydrometeorology 21 (8): 1705-1722 [10.1175/jhm-d-20-0007.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Three‐to‐Six‐Day Air–Sea Oscillation in Models and Observations." Geophysical Research Letters 47 (10): [10.1029/2019gl085837] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Windows of Opportunity for Skillful Forecasts Subseasonal to Seasonal and Beyond." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 101 (5): E608-E625 [10.1175/bams-d-18-0326.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Satellite Sea Surface Salinity Observations Impact on El Niño/Southern Oscillation Predictions: Case Studies From the NASA GEOS Seasonal Forecast System." Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 125 (4): [10.1029/2019jc015788] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "GEOS-S2S Version 2: The GMAO high resolution coupled model and assimilation system for seasonal prediction." Journal of Geophysical Research 125 (5): [10.1029/2019JD031767] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Differences in tropical high clouds among reanalyses: origins and radiative impacts." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics [10.5194/acp-2019-1187] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "A Systematic Approach to Assessing the Sources and Global Impacts of Errors in Climate Models." Journal of Climate 32 (23): 8301-8321 [10.1175/jcli-d-19-0189.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Convective entrainment rates estimated from Aura CO and CloudSat/CALIPSO observations and comparison with GEOS‐5." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 2019JD030846 [10.1029/2019jd030846] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Annual Cycle of Planetary Boundary Layer Heights Estimated From Wind Profiler Network Data." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 124 (12): 6207-6221 [10.1029/2018jd030102] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Tendency Bias Correction in Coupled and Uncoupled Global Climate Models with a Focus on Impacts over North America." Journal of Climate 32 (2): 639-661 [10.1175/jcli-d-18-0598.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Consequences of different air-sea feedbacks on ocean using MITgcm and MERRA-2 forcing: Implications for coupled data assimilation systems." Ocean Modelling 132 91-111 [10.1016/j.ocemod.2018.10.006] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "The roles of climate change and climate variability in the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season." Scientific Reports 8 [10.1038/s41598-018-34343-5] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "The impact of SST-forced and unforced teleconnections on 2015/16 El Nino winter precipitation over the western United States." Journal of Climate 31 (15): 5825-5844 [10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0218.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "GEOS-Chem High Performance (GCHP v11-02c): a next-generation implementation of the GEOS-Chem chemical transport model for massively parallel applications." Geoscientific Model Development 11 (7): 2941-2953 [10.5194/gmd-11-2941-2018] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Assessing the Grell-Freitas Convection Parameterization in the NASA GEOS Modeling System." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems [10.1029/2017ms001251] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Errors and improvements in the use of archived meteorological data for chemical transport modeling: an analysis using GEOS-Chem v11-01 driven by GEOS-5 meteorology." Geoscientific Model Development 11 (1): 305-319 [10.5194/gmd-11-305-2018] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Chemical Mechanisms and Their Applications in the Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) Earth System Model." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems [10.1002/2017ms001011] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Large-Scale Atmospheric Transport in GEOS Replay Simulations." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 9 (7): 2545-2560 [10.1002/2017ms001053] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Practice and philosophy of climate model tuning across six US modeling centers." Geoscientific Model Development 10 (9): 3207-3223 [10.5194/gmd-10-3207-2017] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Direct estimation of the global distribution of vertical velocity within cirrus clouds." Scientific Reports 7 (1): 6840 [10.1038/s41598-017-07038-6] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "An evaluation of gravity waves and gravity wave sources in the Southern Hemisphere in a 7 km global climate simulation." Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 143 (707): 2481-2495 [10.1002/qj.3101] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "The Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2)." Journal of Climate 30 5419–5454 [10.1175/jcli-d-16-0758.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Introduction to the SPARC Reanalysis Intercomparison Project (S-RIP) and overview of the reanalysis systems." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 17 (2): 1417-1452 [10.5194/acp-17-1417-2017] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Atmospheric water balance and variability in the MERRA-2 reanalysis." J. Climate 30 (4): 1177-1196 [10.1175/jcli-d-16-0338.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Large-scale controls on Atlantic tropical cyclone activity on seasonal time scales." Journal of Climate 29 6727-6749 [10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0098.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Tropical waves and the quasi-biennial oscillation in a 7-km global climate simulation." Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 73 3771–3783 [10.1175/jas-d-15-0350.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Frequency and impact of summertime stratospheric intrusions over Maryland during DISCOVER-AQ (2011): New evidence from NASA's GEOS-5 simulations." J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. [10.1002/2015jd024052] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Structure and Dynamics of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in MERRA-2." J. Climate 29:14 5339-5354 [10.1175/jcli-d-15-0809.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Atmospheric summer teleconnections and Greenland ice sheet surface mass variations: Insights from MERRA-2." Environmental Research Letters 11 (2): [10.1088/1748-9326/11/2/024002] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Quantitative Sensitivity Analysis of Physical Parameterizations for Cases of Deep Convection in the NASA GEOS-5." Journal of Climate 29 (2): 455-479 [10.1175/jcli-d-15-0250.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "An assessment of upper troposphere and lower stratosphere water vapor in MERRA, MERRA2, and ECMWF reanalyses using Aura MLS observations." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 120 (22): 11,468-11,485 [10.1002/2015jd023752] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Estimating Planetary Boundary Layer Heights from NOAA Profiler Network Wind Profiler Data." Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 32 (9): 1545-1561 [10.1175/jtech-d-14-00155.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Impact of planetary boundary layer turbulence on model climate and tracer transport." Atmos. Chem. Phys. 15 (13): 7269-7286 [10.5194/acp-15-7269-2015] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Development of the GEOS-5 atmospheric general circulation model: evolution from MERRA to MERRA2 ." Geosci. Model Dev. 8 1339-1356 [10.5194/gmd-8-1339-2015] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "The Use of a Statistical Model of Storm Surge as a Bias Correction for Dynamical Surge Models and its Applicability along the U.S. East Coast." Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 3 (1): 73-86 [10.3390/jmse3010073] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Sensitivity of tropical cyclones to parameterized convection in the NASA GEOS-5 model." J. Climate 28 (2): 551-573 [10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00104.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Comparison of GEOS-5 AGCM planetary boundary layer depths computed with various definitions." Atmos. Chem. Phys. 14 (13): 6717-6727 [Full Text] [10.5194/acp-14-6717-2014] [Journal Article/Letter]
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 [10.5194/gmd-7-1733-2014] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Observation of mountain lee waves with MODIS NIR column water vapor." Geophys. Res. Lett. 41 (2): 710-716 [10.1002/2013GL058770] [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "The Aqua-Planet Experiment (APE): CONTROL SST Simulation." J. Meteorol. Soc. Japan 91A (0): 17-56 [10.2151/jmsj.2013-A02] [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "The Aqua-Planet Experiment (APE): Response to Changed Meridional SST Profile." J. Meteorol. Soc. Japan 91A (0): 57-89 [10.2151/jmsj.2013-A03] [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "The impact of limiting ocean roughness on GEOS-5 AGCM tropical cyclone forecasts." Geophysical Research Letters 40 (2): 411-416 [10.1029/2012GL053979] [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "Improved boundary layer depth retrievals from MPLNET." J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 118 (17): 9870-9879 [10.1002/jgrd.50570] [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "CGILS: Results from the first phase of an international project to understand the physical mechanisms of low cloud feedbacks in single column models." J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst. 5 (4): 826-842 [10.1002/2013MS000246] [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "Connections between the Spring Breakup of the Southern Hemisphere Polar Vortex, Stationary Waves, and Air–Sea Roughness." Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 70 (7): 2137-2151 [10.1175/JAS-D-12-0242.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "Constraints on the Profiles of Total Water PDF in AGCMs from AIRS and a High-Resolution Model." Journal of Climate 25 (23): 8341-8352 [10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00412.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "Improvement of the GEOS-5 AGCM upon updating the air-sea roughness parameterization." Geophysical Research Letters 38 (18): [10.1029/2011gl048802] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "Statistical Prediction of the Storm Surge Associated with Cool-Weather Storms at the Battery, New York." Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 50 (2): 273-282 [10.1175/2010jamc2459.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "MERRA: NASA’s Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications." J. Climate 24 (14): 3624-3648 [10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00015.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "Response of the Antarctic stratosphere to warm pool El Niño Events in the GEOS CCM." Atmos. Chem. Phys. 11 (18): 9659-9669 [10.5194/acp-11-9659-2011] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "Response of the Antarctic Stratosphere to Two Types of El Niño Events." J Atmos Sci 68 (4): 812-822 [10.1175/2011JAS3606.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "East Coast Cool-Weather Storms in the New York Metropolitan Region." Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 48 (11): 2320-2330 [10.1175/2009jamc2183.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "Running GCM physics and dynamics on different grids: algorithm and tests." Tellus A [10.3402/tellusa.v61i3.15602] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "Scales of variability of surface vegetation: Calculation and implications for climate models." Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 114 (G2): [10.1029/2008jg000762] [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "Observational validation of an extended mosaic technique for capturing subgrid scale heterogeneity in a GCM." Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology 59 (3): 622-632 [10.1111/j.1600-0889.2007.00257.x] [Journal Article/Letter]
2004. "The Impact on a GCM Climate of an Extended Mosaic Technique for the Land–Atmosphere Coupling." Journal of Climate 17 (20): 3877-3891 [10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<3877:tioagc>2.0.co;2] [Journal Article/Letter]
2003. "A New Look at Modeling Surface Heterogeneity: Extending Its Influence in the Vertical." Journal of Hydrometeorology 4 (5): 810-825 [10.1175/1525-7541(2003)004<0810:anlams>2.0.co;2] [Journal Article/Letter]
2002. "A global assessment of the mosaic approach to modeling land surface heterogeneity." Journal of Geophysical Research 107 (D14): 4217 [10.1029/2001jd000588] [Journal Article/Letter]
2001. "The tropical upper troposphere and lower stratosphere in the GEOS-2 GCM." Advances in Space Research 27 (8): 1457-1465 [10.1016/s0273-1177(01)00214-9] [Journal Article/Letter]
2000. "The GCM-Reality Intercomparison Project for SPARC (GRIPS): Scientific issues and initial results." Bull Amer Meteorol Soc 81 781-796. [Journal Article/Letter]
1997. "An evaluation of deep convective mixing in the Goddard Chemical Transport Model using International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project cloud parameters." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 102 (D21): 25467-25476 [10.1029/97jd02401] [Journal Article/Letter]
1996. "The Climatology of Parameterized Physical Processes in the GEOS-1 GCM and Their Impact on the GEOS-1 Data Assimilation System." Journal of Climate 9 (4): 764-785 [10.1175/1520-0442(1996)009<0764:tcoppp>2.0.co;2] [Journal Article/Letter]
1995. "Modulation of Dynamic Heating in the Winter Extratropics Associated with the Cross-Equatorial Hadley Circulation." Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 52 (15): 2609-2626 [10.1175/1520-0469(1995)052<2609:modhit>2.0.co;2] [Journal Article/Letter]
1995. "Vertical transport by convective clouds: Comparisons of three modeling approaches." Geophys. Res. Lett. 22: 1089-1092 [Journal Article/Letter]
1988. "A GCM simulation study of the influence of Saharan evapotranspiration and surface-albedo anomalies on July circulation and rainfall." Mon. Wea. Rev. 116 (11): 2388-2400 [10.1175/1520-0493(1988)116<2388:AGSSOT>2.0.CO;2] [Journal Article/Letter]
1988. "The roles of dry convection and cloud radiation feedback processes and the influence of recent improvements in the parameterization of convection in the GLA GCM." Mon. Wea. Rev. 11 2366-2387 [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "Climate characteristics of the atmospheric analysis increments from the GEOS S2S V3 AOGCM replayed to MERRA-2." NASA Technical Reports Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation, NASA/TM-2021-104606 62 147 [Report]
2021. "A phenomenon-based decomposition of model-based estimates of boreal winter ENSO variability." NASA Technical Reports Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 55 88 [Report]
2019. "Ensemble Generation Strategies Employed in the GMAO GEOS-S2S Forecast System." NASA Technical Reports Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation. NASA/TM-2019-104606 53 75 [Report]
2015. "GEOS-5 Chemistry Transport Model User's Guide." GMAO Office Note 8 [Report]
2015. "MERRA-2: Initial Evaluation of the Climate." NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 43 (NASA/TM–2015–10) 139 pp. [Report]
2015. "Evaluation of the 7-km GEOS-5 Nature Run." NASA Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 36 (NASA/TM-2014-104606): [Report]
Spring 2006: Teaching Fellowship - Physical Parameterizations in NWP Models, Dept. of Earth Atmos. and Planetary Sci., MIT
1999 - Present
1988 - Present
NASA Honor Award Group Achievement Award MERRA-2 Science Team, 2019
Global Modeling and Assimilation Office Scientific Achievement Award, 2019
NASA Cash and Time Off Awards, Rating-Based and Not Rating-Based, 2018, 2019
Global Modeling and Assimilation Office Outstanding Performance Award, 2009, 2011, 2012
NASA's Earth System Science Graduate Fellowship, 2000-2003
Gilman Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, 1999
Data Assimilation Office Outstanding Performance Award, 1998, 1995, 1986
Data Assimilation Office Most Exceptional Performance Award, 1993, 1989