Dr. Chatterjee is a Senior Scientist and the GESTAR Group Lead at the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO), primarily working on carbon cycle dynamics and carbon-climate feedback problems. Prior to joining GMAO, he was a NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow (2013-2014) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. He received his PhD ('12) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor working with Anna Michalak and Richard Rood. During this time, he also spent a couple of years as a Visiting Investigator at the Carnegie Department of Global Ecology (Stanford University).
Dr. Chatterjee's research interests include global carbon cycle dynamics, carbon-climate feedbacks, and coupled biosphere-atmosphere dynamics. His research aims to further the understanding of global carbon cycle processes and the ability to predict future co-evolution of atmospheric CO2 concentrations and climate using a combination of advanced data assimilation methods and remote-sensing observations.
Op-Ed in the New York Times "How We Can Better Predict Weather Catastrophes"
Understanding the interactions between climate variability and the carbon cycle, with specific focus on the processes that maintain and alter the composition of the atmosphere and the climate
Understanding the linkages between carbon and the hydrological cycle over "hotspots" (e.g., high-latitudes, Tropics) by exploiting the synergy between NASA's remote-sensing missions (OCO-2 and SMAP) and field campaigns (ABoVE)
Developing and implementing Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSE) efforts to define NASA's next-generation of missions for observing greenhouse gases from space
Crowell, S., D. Baker, A. Schuh, et al. S. Basu, A. R. Jacobson, F. Chevallier, J. Liu, F. Deng, L. Feng, K. McKain, A. Chatterjee, J. B. Miller, B. B. Stephens, A. Eldering, D. Crisp, D. Schimel, R. Nassar, C. W. O'Dell, T. Oda, C. Sweeney, P. I. Palmer, and D. B. Jones. 2019. "The 2015–2016 carbon cycle as seen from OCO-2 and the global in situ network." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 19 (15): 9797-9831 [10.5194/acp-19-9797-2019]
Huntzinger, D. N., A. Chatterjee, D. Moore, et al. S. Ohrel, T. O. West, B. Poulter, A. Walker, J. Dunne, S. Cooley, A. Michalak, M. Tzortziou, L. Bruhwiler, A. Rosenblatt, Y. Luo, P. J. Marcotullio, J. Russell, N. Cavallaro, and G. Shrestha. 2018. "Chapter 19: Future of the North American Carbon Cycle. Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report." Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report, [10.7930/soccr2.2018.ch19]
Jacobson, A. R., J. B. Miller, A. Ballantyne, et al. S. Basu, L. Bruhwiler, A. Chatterjee, S. Denning, and L. E. Ott. 2018. "Chapter 8: Observations of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Methane. Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report." Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report, [10.7930/soccr2.2018.ch8]
Zhang, Z., N. E. Zimmermann, L. Calle, et al. G. Hurtt, A. Chatterjee, and B. Poulter. 2018. "Enhanced response of global wetland methane emissions to the 2015-2016 El Niño-Southern Oscillation event." Environmental Research Letters, 13 (7): [10.1088/1748-9326/aac939]
Fisher, J., D. J. Hayes, C. R. Schwalm, et al. D. N. Huntzinger, E. Stofferahn, K. Schaefer, Y. Luo, S. D. Wullschleger, S. Goetz, C. E. Miller, P. Griffith, S. Chadburn, A. Chatterjee, P. Ciais, T. Douglas, H. Genet, A. Ito, C. Neigh, B. Poulter, B. Rogers, O. Sonnentag, H. Tian, W. Wang, Y. Xue, Z.-L. Yang, and N. Zeng. 2018. "Missing pieces to modeling the Arctic-Boreal puzzle." Environmental Research Letters, 13 (2): [10.1088/1748-9326/aa9d9a]
Patra, P. K., D. Crisp, J. W. Kaiser, et al. D. Wunch, T. Saeki, K. Ichii, T. Sekiya, P. O. Wennberg, D. G. Feist, D. F. Pollard, D. W. Griffith, V. A. Velazco, M. De Maziere, M. K. Sha, C. Roehl, A. Chatterjee, and K. Ishijima. 2017. "The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) tracks 2–3 peta-gram increase in carbon release to the atmosphere during the 2014–2016 El Niño." Scientific Reports, 7 (1): 13567 [10.1038/s41598-017-13459-0]
Chatterjee, A., M. M. Gierach, A. J. Sutton, et al. 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 CO2over the tropical Pacific Ocean: Findings from NASA’s OCO-2 mission." Science, 358 (6360): eaam5776 [10.1126/science.aam5776]
Eldering, A., P. O. Wennberg, D. Crisp, et al. D. S. Schimel, M. R. Gunson, A. Chatterjee, J. Liu, F. M. 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): eaam5745 [10.1126/science.aam5745]
Chatterjee, A., and A. M. Michalak. 2013. "Technical Note: Comparison of ensemble Kalman filter and variational approaches for CO2 data assimilation." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 13: 11643-11660 [10.5194/acp-13-11643-2013 ]
Chatterjee, A., R. J. Engelen, S. R. Kawa, C. Sweeney, and A. M. Michalak. 2013. "Background error covariance estimation for atmospheric CO2 data assimilation." Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 118 (17): 10140-10154 [10.1002/jgrd.50654 ]
Chatterjee, A., A. M. Michalak, J. L. Anderson, K. L. Mueller, and V. Yadav. 2012. "Towards reliable ensemble Kalman filter estimates of CO2 fluxes." Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, 117 (D22306): [10.1029/2012JD018176]
Chatterjee, A., A. M. Michalak, R. A. Kahn, et al. S. R. Paradise, A. J. Braverman, and C. E. Miller. 2010. "A geostatistical data fusion technique for merging remote sensing and ground-based observations of aerosol optical thickness." J. Geophys. Res., 115 (D20): D08201 [10.1029/2009JD013765]
Weir, B., L. E. Ott, G. J. Collatz, et al. S. R. Kawa, B. Poulter, A. Chatterjee, T. Oda, and S. Pawson. 2020. "Calibrating satellite-derived carbon fluxes for retrospective and near real-time assimilation systems." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Submitted) [10.5194/acp-2020-496]
CMS-SERAC : Synthesis, Reconciliation and Assessment of CMS Prototype Products
; Principal Investigator ; 0.25 FTEGEOS-5 Forecasting and Modeling in support of ABoVE airborne research
; Principal Investigator ; 0.25 FTEUse of SMAP observations with OCO-2 data to understand the Carbon-Water cycle coupling
; Principal Investigator ; 0.25 FTEObserving and validating carbon-climate feedbacks with OCO-2
; Co-Principal Investigator ; 0.25 FTE(selected few - see CV for comprehensive list)
National Service (selected few, see CV for comprehensive list)
Committee Chair and/or Committee Member
NASA Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment Program (ABoVE)
NASA Carbon Monitoring System (CMS)
Journal Editorial Roles
North American Carbon Program (NACP)
Scientific Research Proposal Review Panel Member, 2013 - present
Journal Reviewer, 2012 - present
Co-organizer and convener
Universities Space Research Association Service
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3680-0160
ResearcherID: E-6296-2017
Publons: https://publons.com/a/1327572
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SvycV6QAAAAJ&hl=en
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Abhishek_Chatterjee7
Dr. Chatterjee is a Senior Scientist and the GESTAR Group Lead at the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO), primarily working on carbon cycle dynamics and carbon-climate feedback problems. Prior to joining GMAO, he was a NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow (2013-2014) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. He received his PhD ('12) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor working with Anna Michalak and Richard Rood. During this time, he also spent a couple of years as a Visiting Investigator at the Carnegie Department of Global Ecology (Stanford University).
Crowell, S., D. Baker, A. Schuh, et al. S. Basu, A. R. Jacobson, F. Chevallier, J. Liu, F. Deng, L. Feng, K. McKain, A. Chatterjee, J. B. Miller, B. B. Stephens, A. Eldering, D. Crisp, D. Schimel, R. Nassar, C. W. O'Dell, T. Oda, C. Sweeney, P. I. Palmer, and D. B. Jones. 2019. "The 2015–2016 carbon cycle as seen from OCO-2 and the global in situ network." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 19 (15): 9797-9831 [10.5194/acp-19-9797-2019]
Huntzinger, D. N., A. Chatterjee, D. Moore, et al. S. Ohrel, T. O. West, B. Poulter, A. Walker, J. Dunne, S. Cooley, A. Michalak, M. Tzortziou, L. Bruhwiler, A. Rosenblatt, Y. Luo, P. J. Marcotullio, J. Russell, N. Cavallaro, and G. Shrestha. 2018. "Chapter 19: Future of the North American Carbon Cycle. Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report." Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report [10.7930/soccr2.2018.ch19]
Jacobson, A. R., J. B. Miller, A. Ballantyne, et al. S. Basu, L. Bruhwiler, A. Chatterjee, S. Denning, and L. E. Ott. 2018. "Chapter 8: Observations of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Methane. Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report." Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report [10.7930/soccr2.2018.ch8]
Zhang, Z., N. E. Zimmermann, L. Calle, et al. G. Hurtt, A. Chatterjee, and B. Poulter. 2018. "Enhanced response of global wetland methane emissions to the 2015-2016 El Niño-Southern Oscillation event." Environmental Research Letters 13 (7): [10.1088/1748-9326/aac939]
Fisher, J., D. J. Hayes, C. R. Schwalm, et al. D. N. Huntzinger, E. Stofferahn, K. Schaefer, Y. Luo, S. D. Wullschleger, S. Goetz, C. E. Miller, P. Griffith, S. Chadburn, A. Chatterjee, P. Ciais, T. Douglas, H. Genet, A. Ito, C. Neigh, B. Poulter, B. Rogers, O. Sonnentag, H. Tian, W. Wang, Y. Xue, Z.-L. Yang, and N. Zeng. 2018. "Missing pieces to modeling the Arctic-Boreal puzzle." Environmental Research Letters 13 (2): [10.1088/1748-9326/aa9d9a]
Patra, P. K., D. Crisp, J. W. Kaiser, et al. D. Wunch, T. Saeki, K. Ichii, T. Sekiya, P. O. Wennberg, D. G. Feist, D. F. Pollard, D. W. Griffith, V. A. Velazco, M. De Maziere, M. K. Sha, C. Roehl, A. Chatterjee, and K. Ishijima. 2017. "The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) tracks 2–3 peta-gram increase in carbon release to the atmosphere during the 2014–2016 El Niño." Scientific Reports 7 (1): 13567 [10.1038/s41598-017-13459-0]
Chatterjee, A., M. M. Gierach, A. J. Sutton, et al. 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 CO2over the tropical Pacific Ocean: Findings from NASA’s OCO-2 mission." Science 358 (6360): eaam5776 [10.1126/science.aam5776]
Eldering, A., P. O. Wennberg, D. Crisp, et al. D. S. Schimel, M. R. Gunson, A. Chatterjee, J. Liu, F. M. 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): eaam5745 [10.1126/science.aam5745]
Chatterjee, A., and A. M. Michalak. 2013. "Technical Note: Comparison of ensemble Kalman filter and variational approaches for CO2 data assimilation." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 13 11643-11660 [10.5194/acp-13-11643-2013 ]
Chatterjee, A., R. J. Engelen, S. R. Kawa, C. Sweeney, and A. M. Michalak. 2013. "Background error covariance estimation for atmospheric CO2 data assimilation." Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres 118 (17): 10140-10154 [10.1002/jgrd.50654 ]
Chatterjee, A., A. M. Michalak, J. L. Anderson, K. L. Mueller, and V. Yadav. 2012. "Towards reliable ensemble Kalman filter estimates of CO2 fluxes." Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres 117 (D22306): [10.1029/2012JD018176]
Chatterjee, A., A. M. Michalak, R. A. Kahn, et al. S. R. Paradise, A. J. Braverman, and C. E. Miller. 2010. "A geostatistical data fusion technique for merging remote sensing and ground-based observations of aerosol optical thickness." J. Geophys. Res. 115 (D20): D08201 [10.1029/2009JD013765]
Weir, B., L. E. Ott, G. J. Collatz, et al. S. R. Kawa, B. Poulter, A. Chatterjee, T. Oda, and S. Pawson. 2020. "Calibrating satellite-derived carbon fluxes for retrospective and near real-time assimilation systems." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Submitted) [10.5194/acp-2020-496]