Brief Bio

Dr. Chatterjee is a Scientist and 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). 

Research Interests

Current Projects

Education

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI          Environmental Engineering                                          PhD  2012
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI          Environmental and Water Resources Engineering      MSE 2007
Delhi College of Engineering, New Delhi     Civil and Environmental Engineering                            BE    2006

Positions/Employment

Publications

Refereed

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]

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]

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. 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]

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]

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., 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., 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., 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]

Grants

Awards

(selected few - see CV for comprehensive list)

• NASA Group Achievement Award, ABoVE Airborne Science Campaign, NASA, 2018
• NASA Group Achievement Award, OCO2 Science Team Member, NASA, 2018
• GESTAR Excellence Award, Universities Space Research Association, 2018
• Outstanding Scientific Contribution by a new GMAO member, NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, 2016-2017
• AAAS/Science Program for Excellence in Science Recipient, 2012-2014
• Distinguished Leadership Award, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, 2008

 

Professional Societies

Professional Service

National Service (selected few, see CV for comprehensive list)

Committee Member

• Committee on Atmospheric Chemistry, Science and Technology Advisory Committee (STAC), American Meteorological Society (AMS)
• Falkenberg Award Selection Committee, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

NASA Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment Program (ABoVE)

• Co-Chair, Carbon Dynamics Working Group
• Guest Editor, ERL Special Issue/Collection on Resiliency and Vulnerability of Arctic and Boreal Ecosystems to Environmental Change: Advances and Outcomes of ABoVE

North American Carbon Program (NACP)

• Member, 2017 NACP Principal Investigators’ Planning Committee
• 2nd State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR-2), US Climate Change Science Program
  • Co-lead on Chapter 19 - Future of the North American Carbon Cycle
  • Co-author on Chapter 8 – Atmosphere

Scientific Research Proposal Review Panel Member, 2013 - present

• Department of Energy Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research
• NOAA Modeling, Analysis, Predictions, and Projections Program
• European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant
• NOAA Atmospheric Chemistry, Carbon Cycle and Climate (AC4) Program
• NASA Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) Program
• NASA ROSES Carbon Cycle Science Solicitation Program
• NASA Earth and Space Science (graduate student) Fellowships

Journal Reviewer, 2012 - present

• Nature Climate Change, Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmospheres), Journal of Geophysical Research (Biogeosciences), Monthly Weather Review, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Co-organizer and convener

• American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Session titled “Constraining Biosphere-Atmosphere Exchange using Remote-sensing and In Situ Networks” with M. Goeckede (MPI-BGC), A. Schuh (CSU), T. Lauvaux (Penn State Univ.), 2011 - present
• American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Session titled “The Resilience and Vulnerability of Arctic and Boreal Ecosystems to Climate Change” with N. Boelman (LDEO/Columbia Univ.), M. Mack (NAU) and P. Griffith (GSFC), 2017 - present
• American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Session titled “Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Quantifying Uncertainties in Measurements and Models and Resultant Climate Impacts” with S. Denning (CSU), S. Crowell (OU), and B. Moore III (OU), 2015 - present

Universities Space Research Association Service

• GESTAR People Committee, 2015 - 2016
• Panel Member, Science Career Panel, Mosaics in Science Career Workshop, National Park Service, 2016

Other Professional Information

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

Teaching Experience

Short Courses Taught

Data Assimilation in Biogeochemical Cycles
Location: Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
Dates: September 21-27, 2014
Role: Lecturer for atmospheric greenhouse gas inversion and measurement network design
Enrollment: 42 graduate students

ASP Summer Colloquium on Carbon-Climate Connections in the Earth System
Location: National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
Dates: August 2, 2013
Role: Co-Instructor with David Schimel (JPL), Matthew Long (NCAR) and Britton Stephens (NCAR) for tutorial session on atmospheric flux constraints
Enrollment: 25 graduate students

Workshop on Geostatistical Inverse Modeling
Location: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Dates: August 3-6, 2009
Role: Co-Instructor with Anna Michalak (CIS/Stanford Univ.) for hands-on session on
inverse modeling
Enrollment: 12 researchers, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students

Courses Taught at the University of Michigan

CEE 270: Statistical Methods for Data Analysis and Uncertainty Modeling
Location: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Dates: Fall 2008
Role: Graduate Student Instructor - responsibilities included developing assignments and teaching MINITAB for the laboratory section, holding office hours, grading midterm and final examination papers
Enrollment: 54 undergraduate students