Andrew M Fox
(Senior Research Scientist)
| Email: | andrew.fox@nasa.gov |
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NASA/GSFC Mail Code 610 Greenbelt, MD 20771 |
| Employer: | MORGAN STATE UNIV. |
Brief Bio
Since October 2022 I have been a Senior Research Scientist at Morgan State University in Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research II (GESTAR-II) and work at the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center developing the next generation land reanalysis system. Prior to this I worked at the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA) in Boulder, Colorado, from July 2019 leading efforts in land surface model data assimilation as Land Project Lead. I have conducted research in this field for the last two decades through a variety of projects focused on the roles of land surface processes in the coupled Earth System. Originally from Manchester, UK, I have degrees in Geography and Hydrology from the University of Oxford, the University of Colorado - Boulder, and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. I have worked as a researcher at a number of universities in the UK and in the US. I have strong connections with NCAR where I was a visiting scientist for several years developing a data assimilation system for the Community Land Model.
Research Interests
Data assimilation; Land surface modeling; Global carbon cycle; Hyperspectral remote sensing; Hydrological modeling; Ecological forecasting
Education
- PhD. 2003. Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK.
- MA. 1999. Department of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
- BA (1st Class). 1997. Department of Geography, University of Oxford, UK.
Publications
Refereed
2025. "A U.S. Scientific Community Vision for Sustained Earth Observations of Greenhouse Gases to Support Local to Global Action.", AGU Advances, 6 (6): e2025AV001914 [10.1029/2025av001914] [Journal Article/Letter]
2025. "Assimilation of ASCAT Soil Moisture and SMAP Brightness Temperature Observations into the NASA GEOS Land Data Assimilation System.", Journal of Hydrometeorology, 26 1237-1259 [10.1175/jhm-d-24-0139.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2024. "Integrating State Data Assimilation and Innovative Model Parameterization Reduces Simulated Carbon Uptake in the Arctic and Boreal Region.", Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 129 (9): [10.1029/2024jg008004] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "Assimilation of Blended Satellite Soil Moisture Data Products to Further Improve Noah-MP Model Skills.", Journal of Hydrology, 621 129596 [10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129596] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "Underestimation of the impact of land cover change on the biophysical environment of the Arctic and boreal region of North America.", Environmental Research Letters, 18 (1): 014012 [10.1088/1748-9326/ac8da7] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "An Agenda for Land Data Assimilation Priorities: Realizing the Promise of Terrestrial Water, Energy, and Vegetation Observations From Space.", Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 14 (11): e2022MS003259 [10.1029/2022ms003259] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "Assimilation of Global Satellite Leaf Area Estimates Reduces Modeled Global Carbon Uptake and Energy Loss by Terrestrial Ecosystems.", Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 127 (8): [10.1029/2022jg006830] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "Building a Land Data Assimilation Community to Tackle Technical Challenges in Quantifying and Reducing Uncertainty in Land Model Predictions.", Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 103 (3): E733-E740 [10.1175/bams-d-21-0228.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Reanalysis in Earth System Science: Toward Terrestrial Ecosystem Reanalysis.", Reviews of Geophysics, 59 (3): [10.1029/2020rg000715] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Improving CLM5.0 Biomass and Carbon Exchange Across the Western United States Using a Data Assimilation System.", Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 13 (7): [10.1029/2020ms002421] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Ecosystem‐Level Energy and Water Budgets Are Resilient to Canopy Mortality in Sparse Semiarid Biomes.", Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 125 (10): [10.1029/2020jg005858] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "A 3-dimensional model of Pinus edulis and Juniperus monosperma root distributions in New Mexico: implications for soil water dynamics.", Plant and Soil, 450 (1-2): 337-355 [10.1007/s11104-020-04446-y] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "The Community Land Model Version 5: Description of New Features, Benchmarking, and Impact of Forcing Uncertainty.", Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 2018MS001583 [10.1029/2018ms001583] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Remote sensing of dryland ecosystem structure and function: Progress, challenges, and opportunities.", Remote Sensing of Environment, 233 111401 [10.1016/j.rse.2019.111401] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Constraining estimates of terrestrial carbon uptake: new opportunities using long‐term satellite observations and data assimilation.", New Phytologist, 225 (1): 105-112 [10.1111/nph.16055] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Enhancing global change experiments through integration of remote‐sensing techniques.", Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 17 (4): 215-224 [10.1002/fee.2031] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Evaluation of a Data Assimilation System for Land Surface Models Using CLM4.5.", Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 10 (10): 2471-2494 [10.1029/2018ms001362] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Iterative near-term ecological forecasting: Needs, opportunities, and challenges.", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115 (7): 1424-1432 [10.1073/pnas.1710231115] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Chlorophyll Fluorescence Better Captures Seasonal and Interannual Gross Primary Productivity Dynamics Across Dryland Ecosystems of Southwestern North America.", Geophysical Research Letters, 45 (2): 748-757 [10.1002/2017gl075922] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Tree Mortality Decreases Water Availability and Ecosystem Resilience to Drought in Piñon-Juniper Woodlands in the Southwestern U.S.", Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 122 (12): 3343-3361 [10.1002/2017jg004095] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Evaluating the effect of alternative carbon allocation schemes in a land surface model (CLM4.5) on carbon fluxes, pools, and turnover in temperate forests.", Geoscientific Model Development, 10 (9): 3499-3517 [10.5194/gmd-10-3499-2017] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Grand Challenges in Understanding the Interplay of Climate and Land Changes.", Earth Interactions, 21 (2): 1-43 [10.1175/ei-d-16-0012.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Estimation of Community Land Model parameters for an improved assessment of net carbon fluxes at European sites.", Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 122 (3): 661-689 [10.1002/2015jg003297] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Optimizing Available Network Resources to Address Questions in Environmental Biogeochemistry.", BioScience, 66 (4): 317-326 [10.1093/biosci/biw005] [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "Reduction of the temperature sensitivity of minerotrophic fen methane emissions by simulated glacial atmospheric carbon dioxide starvation.", Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 118 (2): 462-470 [10.1002/jgrg.20017] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "Enhanced chemistry-climate feedbacks in past greenhouse worlds.", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108 (24): 9770-9775 [10.1073/pnas.1102409108] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "Declining atmospheric CO2 during the late Middle Eocene climate transition.", American Journal of Science, 311 (1): 63-75 [10.2475/01.2011.03] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Differential responses of production and respiration to temperature and moisture drive the carbon balance across a climatic gradient in New Mexico.", Global Change Biology, 17 (1): 410-424 [10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02269.x] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "Quantitative uncertainty analyses of ancient atmospheric CO2 estimates from fossil leaves.", American Journal of Science, 309 (9): 775-787 [10.2475/09.2009.01] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "The REFLEX project: Comparing different algorithms and implementations for the inversion of a terrestrial ecosystem model against eddy covariance data.", Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 149 (10): 1597-1615 [10.1016/j.agrformet.2009.05.002] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "Modification and testing of a one‐dimensional energy and mass balance model for supraglacial snowpacks.", Hydrological Processes, 22 (16): 3194-3209 [10.1002/hyp.6908] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "Net ecosystem exchange over heterogeneous Arctic tundra: Scaling between chamber and eddy covariance measurements.", Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 22 (2): [10.1029/2007gb003027] [Journal Article/Letter]