Dr. Christa D. Peters-Lidard is currently the Director in the Sciences and Exploration Directorate, where she has been Deputy Director since November 2021. She was Deputy Director for Hydrosphere, Biosphere, and Geophysics in the Earth Sciences Division from 2015-2021, and she was the Acting GSFC Chief Scientist from 2020-2021. She was a Physical Scientist in the Hydrological Sciences Laboratory from 2001-2015, and Lab Chief from 2005-2012. Her research interests include land-atmosphere interactions, soil moisture measurement and modeling, and the application of high-performance computing and communications technologies in Earth system modeling, for which her Land Information System team was awarded the 2005 NASA Software of the Year Award. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and was awarded the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) Scientific Commission A Zeldovich Medal in 2004 and the Arthur S. Flemming Award in 2007. She was elected as an AMS Fellow in 2012, an AGU Fellow in 2018 and a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2023. She has served as Chief Editor for the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Journal of Hydrometeorology and as an elected member of the AMS Council and Executive Committee. Her Ph.D. is from the Water Resources Program in the Department of Civil Engineering and Operations Research at Princeton University, and she holds a B.S. in Geophysics Summa Cum Laude from Virginia Tech.
Christa D Peters-Lidard
(Director)
| Email: | christa.d.peters-lidard@nasa.gov |
| Phone: | 301.614.5811 |
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Brief Bio
Research Interests
Hydrometeorology, hydroclimatology
Earth Science: Hydrology / Water CycleLead research on measurement and modeling of land-atmosphere interactions, with emphasis on precipitation and soil moisture remote sensing and application of advanced computational technologies for offline and coupled land surface modeling.
Current Projects
NASA Unified Weather Research and Forecasting model (NU-WRF)
Hydrology / Water Cycle
Positions/Employment
Director, Sciences and Exploration Directorate (SES)
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD
January 2023 - Present
Maintain accountability and oversight for overall management of four Divisions pursuing studies in the Earth, Heliophysics, Planetary, and Astrophysical Sciences. Help manage an organization comprised of 525+ civil servants and 2000+ contractors, university research associates, and postdoctoral associates, numerous laboratory and field facilities and resources. Plan, lead, direct, implement, and assess programs and activities with a budget of over $500 million dedicated to exploring and understanding the Earth, Sun, Solar System, and Universe.
Deputy Director, Sciences and Exploration Directorate (SES)
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD
November 2021 - January 2023
Work with Director to maintain accountability and oversight for overall management of four Divisions pursuing studies in the Earth, Heliophysics, Planetary, and Astrophysical Sciences. Help manage an organization comprised of 525+ civil servants and 2000+ contractors, university research associates, and postdoctoral associates, numerous laboratory and field facilities and resources. Plan, lead, direct, implement, and assess programs and activities with a budget of over $500 million dedicated to exploring and understanding the Earth, Sun, Solar System, and Universe.
Acting Chief Scientist
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD
May 2020 - April 2021
Represent Earth and Space science and applications for the Center and on the Agency Science Council. Serve as Scientific Integrity Officer. Provide input and guidance on Center investments and programs.
Deputy Director for Hydrosphere, Biosphere, and Geophysics (GS-15)
NASA/GSFC - Earth Sciences Division, Code 610
January 2015 - November 2021
Responsible for overall management of the five laboratories pursuing studies in the Hydrospheric, Biospheric, and Geophysical Sciences including organizational management, personnel, facilities and resources. Responsible for planning, leading, directing, implementing and assessing programs and activities with a budget of over $70M dedicated to exploring and understanding the Earth's hydrosphere, cryosphere, biosphere, and solid earth, and the linkages between the oceans, land, atmosphere, and life on Earth.
Physical Scientist (GS-15)
NASA/GSFC - Hydrological Sciences Laboratory
May 2012 - January 2015
Serve as PI on research and applications projects including PMM science team, transitioning the award-winning Land Information System (LIS; http://lis.gsfc.nasa.gov) for research and applications with partners at the Air Force Weather Agency, NOAA/NCEP, USACE, USDA, NWS/OHD, NOHRSC and USGS/FEWS-NET. Currently leading NASA AIST-, and MAP- funded projects, including the NASA Unified WRF.
Supervisory Physical Scientist/Lab Chief (GS-15)
NASA/GSFC - Hydrological Sciences Laboratory
August 2005 - May 2012
Supervise 10 Civil Servant scientists and 20-30 contractors and research scientists. Responsible for $2M+ annual budget and coordination of NASA- and externally funded program of earth and space science research and applications. Continue to serve as PI on research and applications projects including PMM science team, transitioning the award-winning Land Information System (LIS; http://lis.gsfc.nasa.gov) for research and applications with partners at the Air Force Weather Agency, NOAA/NCEP, USACE, USDA, and NWS/OHD and NOHRSC. Currently leading NASA AIST-, and MAP-funded projects with Dr. W-K Tao in which LIS is coupled to mesoscale (WRF) and global cloud resolving (MMF) models.
Physical Scientist (GS-14 )
NASA/GSFC - Hydrological Sciences Branch
August 2004 - August 2005
Lead research on measurement and modeling of land-atmosphere interactions, with emphasis on soil moisture remote sensing and application of advanced computational technologies for offline and coupled land surface modeling. Projects include membership on the PMM science team, transitioning the award-winning Land Information System (LIS; http://lis.gsfc.nasa.gov) for research and applications with partners at the Air Force Weather Agency, NOAA/NCEP, USACE, USDA, and NWS/OHD and a NASA ESTO/AIST-funded project with Dr. W-K Tao in which LIS has been coupled to mesoscale (WRF) and cloud resolving (GCE) models.
Physical Scientist (GS-13)
NASA/GSFC - Hydrological Sciences Branch
September 2001 - August 2004
Lead research on measurement and modeling of land-atmosphere interactions, with emphasis on soil moisture remote sensing and application of advanced computational technologies for offline and coupled land surface modeling. Projects include membership on the PMM science team, transitioning the award-winning Land Information System (LIS; http://lis.gsfc.nasa.gov) for research and applications with partners at the Air Force Weather Agency, NOAA/NCEP, USACE, USDA, and NWS/OHD and a NASA ESTO/AIST-funded project with Dr. W-K Tao in which LIS has been coupled to mesoscale (WRF) and cloud resolving (GCE) models.
Assistant Professor
Georgia Institute of Technology - School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, Georgia
January 1997 - August 2001
Taught senior level class CEE4210 (Formerly CE4353): Hydrology and graduate level class CEE6221 (Formerly CE 6374): Physical Hydrology. Conducted independent research program on measurement and modeling of land-atmosphere interactions.
Education
M.A. Civil Engineering and Operations Research, Princeton University, June 1993.
B.S. Geophysics , Summa Cum Laude, Minor: Mathematics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, Virginia, May 1991.
Professional Societies
American Geophysical Union
Member, Hydrology Section Fellows Committee, 2020-present • Member, Bowie Medal Committee, 2017-2019 • Chair, Hydrology Early Career Award Committee, 2011-2014 • Member, Committee on Remote Sensing, 1997-present.
1990 - Present
American Meteorological Society
• Councilor, 2012-2015; Executive Committee, 2013-2015 • Chair, Hydrologic Research Awards Committee, 2016-2019 • Committee on Hydrology, Chair 2002-2005, Member, 1998-2005.
1993 - Present
Professional Service
Editorial Service
- Journal of Hydrometeorology Chief Editor, 2011-2018; Editor, 2004-2007; 2018-2019.
- Journal of Hydrology Associate Editor, 2007-2011.
- Water Resources Research Associate Editor, 2002-2003.
Committees
- Lead, NOAA MAPP Drought Task Force (2017-2021)
- Member, NCAR Advisory Panel (2017-present)
- Co-Chair, NCEP Strategic Implementation Plan Land/Hydrology WG (2016-2018)
- Member, UCACN Modeling Advisory Committee (UMAC) (2015-2018)
- GEWEX (WCRP Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment) Member, GLASS Panel (2004-2018)
- US Global Change Research Program Member, Water Cycle Science Steering Group (2002-2005)
- CLIVAR (WCRP International Research Program on Climate Variability and Predictability) Member, Pan American Implementation Panel, (2003-2005)
- National Research Council Committee on Hydrologic Science (1999-2001)
Awards
- Member, National Academy of Engineering, 2023
- Fellow, American Geophysical Union, 2018
- NASA Group Achievement Award, Observations for Climate Model Intercomparison Project, 2015
- NASA Group Achievement Award, Global Precipitation Measurement Mission (GPM) Post-Launch Team, 2015
- NASA Group Achievement Award, Global Precipitation Measurement Mission (GPM), 2014
- Fellow, American Meteorological Society, 2012
- NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, 2012
- Arthur S. Flemming Award, 2007
- NASA Software of the Year Award for the Land Information System, 2005
- NASA/GSFC Laboratory for Hydrospheric and Biospheric Processes Outstanding Achievement, 2005
- Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) Commission A Zeldovich Medal, 2004
- NASA/GSFC Special Act Award, 2002
- NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellow at GSFC, 1997
- George Van Ness Lothrop Honorific Fellowship in Engineering (Princeton), 1995 1996
- National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, 1992 1995
- Phi Beta Kappa, 1991
- Department of Geological Sciences Outstanding Senior Award (Virginia Tech), 1991
- Mortar Board National Senior Honor Society, 1990
- Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society, 1990
- Order of Omega Greek Honorary, 1989
- Golden Key National Honor Society, 1989
- Distinguished University Scholarship (Virginia Tech), 1987-1991
Other Professional Information
- ResearcherID: E-1429-2012
- ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1255-2876
Publications
Refereed
2024. "Development of a composite drought indicator for operational drought monitoring in the MENA region." Scientific Reports 14 (1): 5414 [10.1038/s41598-024-55626-0] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "Quantifying the importance of selected drought indicators for the United States Drought Monitor." J. Hydrometeor. 24 (9): 1457-1478 [10.1175/jhm-d-22-0180.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "NASA’s NMME-based S2S Hydrologic Forecast System for Food Insecurity Early Warning in Southern Africa." Journal of Hydrology 617 (B): 129005 [10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.129005] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "Automated model integration at source code level: An approach to implementing models into the NASA Land Information System." Environ. Model. & Soft. 159 105539 [10.1016/j.envsoft.2022.105539] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "History and Development of the USAF Agriculture Meteorology Modeling System and Resulting USAF–NASA Strategic Partnership." Weather and Forecasting 37 (12): 2293-2312 [10.1175/waf-d-22-0064.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "Assimilation of Remotely Sensed Leaf Area Index Enhances the Estimation of Anthropogenic Irrigation Water Use." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 14 (11): [10.1029/2022ms003040] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "A Central Asia hydrologic monitoring dataset for food and water security applications in Afghanistan." Earth System Science Data 14 (7): 3115-3135 [10.5194/essd-14-3115-2022] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "A NASA–Air Force precipitation analysis for rear-real-time operations." J. Hydrometeor. 23 (6): 965-989 [10.1175/jhm-d-21-0228.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "Towards effective drought monitoring in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region: Implications from assimilating leaf area index and soil moisture into the Noah-MP land surface model for Morocco." Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 26 (9): 2365-2386 [10.5194/hess-26-2365-2022] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "The efficacy of seasonal terrestrial water storage forecasts for predicting vegetation activity over Africa." Journal of Hydrometeorology 22 (11): 3121–3137 [10.1175/jhm-d-21-0046.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Introducing and evaluating the Climate Hazards center IMErg with Stations (CHIMES) - Timely station-enhanced Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for Global Precipitation Measurement." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 1-52 [10.1175/bams-d-20-0245.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Improving Cross-track Scanning Radiometers’ Precipitation Retrieval over Ocean by Morphing." Journal of Hydrometeorology 22 (9): 2393-2406 [10.1175/jhm-d-21-0038.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Daily Precipitation Frequency Distributions Impacts on Land-Surface Simulations of CONUS." Frontiers in Water 3 [10.3389/frwa.2021.640736] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Advances in land surface models and indicators for drought monitoring and prediction." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 102 (5): E1099–E1122 [10.1175/bams-d-20-0087.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Assimilation of vegetation conditions improves the representation of drought over agricultural areas." J. Hydrometeor. 22 (5): 1085-1098 [10.1175/jhm-d-20-0065.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "A high‐resolution land data assimilation system optimized for the western United States." JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association 57 (5): 692-710 [10.1111/1752-1688.12910] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "High-Resolution SMAP Satellite Soil Moisture Product: Exploring the Opportunities." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 1-15 [10.1175/bams-d-21-0016.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Drought variability over the conterminous United States for the past century." J. Hydrometeor. 22 (5): 1153-1168 [10.1175/jhm-d-20-0158.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Indicators of climate change impacts on the water cycle and water management." Climatic Change 165 (1-2): 36 [10.1007/s10584-021-03057-5] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Groundwater recharge estimated by land surface models: an evaluation in the conterminous U.S." J. Hydrometeor. 22 (2): 499-522 [10.1175/JHM-D-20-0130.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Applications of Dynamic Land Surface Information for Passive Microwave Precipitation Retrieval." Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 38 (2): 167-180 [10.1175/jtech-d-20-0048.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "The 2019‐2020 Australian drought and bushfires altered the partitioning of hydrological fluxes." Geophysical Research Letters 48 (1): [10.1029/2020gl091411] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Raindrop Signature from Microwave Radiometer Over Deserts." Geophysical Research Letters 47 (16): [10.1029/2020gl088656] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Assimilation of vegetation optical depth retrievals from passive microwave radiometry." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 24 (7): 3431-3450 [10.5194/hess-24-3431-2020] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Towards a Soil Moisture Drought Monitoring System for South Korea." Journal of Hydrology 125176 [10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125176] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Improving early warning of drought-driven food insecurity in Southern Africa using operational hydrological monitoring and forecasting products." Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences [10.5194/nhess-20-1187-2020] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Evaluation of V05 Precipitation Estimates from GPM Constellation Radiometers Using KuPR as the Reference." Journal of Hydrometeorology 21 (4): 705-728 [10.1175/jhm-d-19-0144.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "The NASA hydrological forecast system for food and water security applications." Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 101 (7): E1007-E1025 [10.1175/bams-d-18-0264.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Impact of surface albedo assimilation on snow estimation." Remote Sensing 12 (4): 645 [10.3390/rs12040645] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Satellite gravimetry improves seasonal streamflow forecast initialization in Africa." Water Resources Research 56 (2): e2019WR026259 [10.1029/2019wr026259] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Acute Water-Scarcity Monitoring for Africa." Water 11 (10): 1968 [10.3390/w11101968] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "NCA-LDAS Noah-3.3 Land Surface Model L4 Trends 0.125 x 0.125 degree V2.0, Annual Trends Data Product." Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) v 2.0 [10.5067/QFZZBKCO5YJG] [Dataset]
2019. "100 Years of Progress in Hydrology." Meteorological Monographs 59 25.1-25.51 [10.1175/amsmonographs-d-18-0019.1] [Article in Book]
2019. "NCA-LDAS: Overview and analysis of hydrologic trends for the National Climate Assessment." J. Hydrometeor. 20 (8): 1595-1617 [10.1175/JHM-D-17-0234.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "NCA-LDAS land analysis: Development and performance of a multisensor, multivariate land data assimilation system for the National Climate Assessment." J. Hydrometeor. 20 (8): 1571-1593 [10.1175/JHM-D-17-0125.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Assimilation of remotely sensed Leaf Area Index into the Noah-MP land surface model: Impacts on water and carbon fluxes and states over the continental U.S." J. Hydrometeor. 20 (7): 1359-1377 [10.1175/jhm-d-18-0237.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Hydrologic and Agricultural Earth Observations and Modeling for the Water-Food Nexus." Frontiers in Environmental Science 7 pp. 23 [10.3389/fenvs.2019.00023] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Earth Observations and Integrative Models in Support of Food and Water Security." Remote Sensing in Earth Systems Sciences [10.1007/s41976-019-0008-6] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Microphysics in Goddard multi-scale modeling systems: A Review." Current Trends in the Representation of Physical Processes in Weather and Climate Models 253-316 [10.1007/978-981-13-3396-5_14] [Article in Book]
2018. "Comprehensive evaluation of the Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) model in the North American Land Data Assimilation System." J. Hydrometeor. 19 (11): 1853-1879 [10.1175/jhm-d-18-0139.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Benchmarking and Process Diagnostics of Land Models." Journal of Hydrometeorology 19 (11): 1835-1852 [10.1175/jhm-d-17-0209.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "The Instantaneous Retrieval of Precipitation Over Land by Temporal Variation at 19 GHz." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 123 (17): 9279-9295 [10.1029/2017jd027596] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "The Land surface Data Toolkit (LDT v7.2) – a data fusion environment for land data assimilation systems." Geosci. Model Dev. 11 (9): 3605-3621 [10.5194/gmd-11-3605-2018] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Microphysics and Radiation Effect of Dust on Saharan Air Layer: An HS3 Case Study." Monthly Weather Review 146 (6): 1813-1835 [10.1175/mwr-d-17-0279.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Attribution of flux partitioning variations between land surface models over the continental U.S." Remote Sensing 10 (5): 751 [10.3390/rs10050751] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Bias correction to improve the skill of summer precipitation forecasts over the contiguous United States by the North American multi-model ensemble system." Atmospheric Science Letters 19 (5): e818 [10.1002/asl.818] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Parameter Sensitivity of the Noah-MP Land Surface Model with Dynamic Vegetation." Journal of Hydrometeorology JHM-D-17-0205.1 [10.1175/jhm-d-17-0205.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Impact of radiation frequency, precipitation radiative forcing, and radiation column aggregation on convection-permitting West African monsoon simulations." Climate Dynamics [10.1007/s00382-018-4187-2] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "NCA-LDAS Noah-3.3 Land Surface Model L4 Daily 0.125 x 0.125 degree V2.0, Daily Data." Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC), Greenbelt, Maryland, USA Version 2.0 [10.5067/7V3N5DO04MAS] [Dataset]
2017. "Similarity assessment of land surface model outputs in the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS)." Water Resour. Res. 53 (11): 8941-8965 [10.1002/2017wr020635] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Information theoretic evaluation of satellite soil moisture retrievals." Remote Sensing of Environment 204 392-400 [10.1016/j.rse.2017.10.016] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Upper Blue Nile Basin Water Budget from a Multi-Model Perspective." Journal of Hydrology [10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.10.040] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Improving Overland Precipitation Retrieval with Brightness Temperature Temporal Variation." Journal of Hydrometeorology 18 (9): 2355-2383 [10.1175/jhm-d-17-0050.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Impact of Assimilated Precipitation-Sensitive Radiances on the NU-WRF Simulation of the West African Monsoon." Monthly Weather Review 145 (9): 3881-3900 [10.1175/mwr-d-16-0389.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Evaluating hourly rainfall characteristics over the U.S. Great Plains in dynamically downscaled climate model simulations using NASA-Unified WRF." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 122 (14): 7371-7384 [10.1002/2017jd026564] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Scaling, similarity, and the fourth paradigm for hydrology." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 21 (7): 3701-3713 [10.5194/hess-21-3701-2017] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "The evolution of process-based hydrologic models: historical challenges and the collective quest for physical realism." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 21 (7): 3427-3440 [10.5194/hess-21-3427-2017] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Role of forcing uncertainty and background model error characterization in snow data assimilation." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 21 (6): 2637-2647 [10.5194/hess-21-2637-2017] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Development of high-resolution dynamic dust source function - A case study with a strong dust storm in a regional model." Atmospheric Environment 159 11-25 [10.1016/j.atmosenv.2017.03.045] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Sensitivity of CONUS Summer Rainfall to the Selection of Cumulus Parameterization Schemes in NU-WRF Seasonal Simulations." Journal of Hydrometeorology 18 (6): 1689-1706 [10.1175/jhm-d-16-0120.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Trade-off between cost and accuracy in large-scale surface water dynamic modeling." Water Resources Research 53 (6): 4942-4955 [10.1002/2017wr020519] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "A remote sensing-based tool for assessing rainfall-driven hazards." Environmental Modelling & Software 90 34-54 [10.1016/j.envsoft.2016.12.006] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "The Role of Low-Level, Terrain-Induced Jets in Rainfall Variability in Tigris–Euphrates Headwaters." Journal of Hydrometeorology 18 (3): 819-835 [10.1175/jhm-d-16-0165.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "A land data assimilation system for sub-Saharan Africa food and water security applications." Scientific Data 4 170012 [10.1038/sdata.2017.12] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Regionalizing Africa: Patterns of Precipitation Variability in Observations and Global Climate Models." Journal of Climate 29 (24): 9027-9043 [10.1175/jcli-d-16-0182.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Impacts of aerosol–monsoon interaction on rainfall and circulation over Northern India and the Himalaya Foothills." Climate Dynamics [10.1007/s00382-016-3430-y] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Chapter 92: Large-Scale and Global Hydrology." Handbook of Applied Hydrology 92.1-92.7 [Article in Book]
2016. "Assimilation of gridded GRACE terrestrial water storage estimates in the North American Land Data Assimilation System." J. Hydrometeor. 17 (7): 1951-1972 [10.1175/jhm-d-15-0157.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Evaluating ESA CCI soil moisture in East Africa." International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 48 96-109 [10.1016/j.jag.2016.01.001] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Evaluation of NU-WRF Rainfall Forecasts for IFloodS." Journal of Hydrometeorology 17 (5): 1317-1335 [10.1175/jhm-d-15-0134.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Basin-scale assessment of the land surface water budget in the NCEP operational and research NLDAS-2 systems." J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 121 (6): 2750-2779 [10.1002/2015jd023733] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "High-resolution NU-WRF simulations of a deep convective-precipitation system during MC3E: Further improvements and comparisons between Goddard microphysics schemes and observations." J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 121 (3): 1278-1305 [10.1002/2015jd023986] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Operational hydrological forecasting during the IPHEx-IOP campaign – Meet the challenge." Journal of Hydrology [10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.02.019] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Performance Metrics, Error Modeling, and Uncertainty Quantification." Monthly Weather Review 144 (2): 607-613 [10.1175/mwr-d-15-0087.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Impact of Soil Moisture Assimilation on Land Surface Model Spinup and Coupled Land-Atmosphere Prediction." Journal of Hydrometeorology 17 517-540 [10.1175/jhm-d-15-0072.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Basin-scale assessment of the land surface energy budget in the National Centers for Environmental Prediction operational and research NLDAS-2 systems." J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 121 (1): 196-220 [10.1002/2015jd023889] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Benchmarking NLDAS-2 soil moisture and evapotranspiration to separate uncertainty contributions." J. Hydrometeor. 17 (3): 745-759 [10.1175/jhm-d-15-0063.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "How many evaluation metrics do we need." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Association [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Decomposition of Sources of Errors in Seasonal Streamflow Forecasting over the US Sunbelt." J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 120 (23): 11,809–11,825 [10.1002/2015jd023687] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Performance of the Goddard multiscale modeling framework with Goddard ice microphysical schemes." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 8 (1): 66-95 [10.1002/2015ms000469] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "An examination of methods for estimating land surface microwave emissivity." J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 120 11,114-11,128 [10.1002/2015JD023582] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "An examination of methods for estimating land surface microwave emissivity." J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 120 (21): 11,114-11,128 [10.1002/2015jd023582] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Evaluating the utility of satellite soil moisture retrievals over irrigated areas and the ability of land data assimilation methods to correct for unmodeled processes." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 19 (11): 4463-4478 [10.5194/hess-19-4463-2015] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Forecasting Water Availability in Data Sparse and Heavily Managed Catchments in Africa and the Middle East." GEWEX News 27 (4): 8-11 [Newsletter]
2015. "A prototype physical database for passive microwave retrievals of precipitation over the US Southern Great Plains." J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 120 (19): 10,465-10,482 [10.1002/2015jd023430] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Quantifying the added value of snow cover area observations in passive microwave snow depth data assimilation." J. Hydrometeor. 16 (4): 1736-1741 [10.1175/JHM-D-15-0021.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Integrated modeling of aerosol, cloud, precipitation and land processes at satellite-resolved scales." Environmental Modelling and Software 67 149-159 [Full Text] [doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.01.007] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "A Semi-Empirical Model for Computing Land Surface Emissivity in the Microwave Region." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 53 (4): 1935-1946 [Full Text] [10.1109/TGRS.2014.2351232] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Blending satellite-based snow depth products with in situ observations for streamflow predictions in the Upper Colorado River Basin." Water Resour. Res. 51 (2): 1182-1202 [10.1002/2014WR016606] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Calculating Crop Water Requirement Satisfaction in the West Africa Sahel with Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture." Journal of Hydrometerology 16 295-305 [10.1175/JHM-D-14-0049.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Calibration to improve forward model simulation of microwave emissivity at GPM frequencies over the U.S. Southern Great Plains." IEEE Trans. Geophys. Remote Sens. 54 (2): [10.1109/TGRS.2015.2474120] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "The Plumbing of Land Surface Models: Benchmarking Model Performance." Journal of Hydrometeorology, vol. 16, issue 3, pp. 1425-1442 16 1425 [Full Text] [10.1175/JHM-D-14-0158.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Prospects for Advancing Drought Understanding, Monitoring, and Prediction." Journal of Hydrometeorology 16 (4): 1636-1657 [Full Text] [10.1175/JHM-D-14-0164.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Evaluating the utility of satellite soil moisture retrievals over irrigated areas and the ability of land data assimilation methods to correct for unmodeled processes." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions 12 5967 [Full Text] [10.5194/hessd-12-5967-2015] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Assimilation of passive microwave-based soil moisture and snow depth retrievals for drought estimation." J. Hydrometeor. 15 (6): 2446-2469 [10.1175/JHM-D-13-0132.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Water Balance in the Amazon Basin from a Land Surface Model Ensemble." J. Hydrometeor 15 (6): 2586-2614 [10.1175/JHM-D-14-0068.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Implementation of an aerosol-cloud microphysics-radiation coupling into the NASA Unified WRF: Simulation results for the 6-7 August 2006 AMMA special observing period." Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 140 (684): 2158-2175 [10.1002/qj.2286] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Uncertainties, correlations, and optimal blends of drought indices from the NLDAS multiple land surface model ensemble." J. Hydrometeor. 15 (4): 1636-1650 [10.1175/JHM-D-13-058.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "The Goddard Cumulus Ensemble model (GCE): Improvements and applications for studying precipitation processes." Atmospheric Research 143 392-424 [10.1016/j.atmosres.2014.03.005] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Comment on ‘Shang S. 2012. Calculating actual crop evapotranspiration under soil water stress conditions with appropriate numerical methods and time step. Hydrological Processes 26: 3338-3343. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8405’." Hydrological Processes 28 (11): 3833-3840 [10.1002/hyp.10138] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "A Comparison of Microwave Window Channel Retrieved and Forward-Modeled Emissivities Over the US Southern Great Plains." Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on 52 (5): 2395 - 2412 [10.1109/TGRS.2013.2260759] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Using Air Temperature to Quantitatively Predict the MODIS Fractional Snow Cover Retrieval Errors over the Continental United States." J. Hydrometeor. 15 (2): 551-562 [10.1175/JHM-D-13-060.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Application of USDM statistics in NLDAS-2: Optimal blended NLDAS drought index over the continental United States." J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 119 (6): 2947-2965 [10.1002/2013JD020994] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "A Real-Time MODIS Vegetation Product for Land Surface and Numerical Weather Prediction Models." Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on 52 (3): 1772 - 1786 [10.1109/TGRS.2013.2255059] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Quantifying Uncertainties in Land-Surface Microwave Emissivity Retrievals." IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing 52 (2): 829-840 [10.1109/TGRS.2013.2244214] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Assessing the Impact of L-Band Observations on Drought and Flood Risk Estimation: A Decision-Theoretic Approach in an OSSE Environment." J. Hydrometeor 15 (6): 2140-2156 [Full Text] [10.1175/JHM-D-13-0204.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Introducing multisensor satellite radiance-based evaluation for regional Earth System modeling." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 119 (13): 8450-8475 [10.1002/2013JD021424] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Simulation of a Flash Flooding Storm at the Steep Edge of the Himalayas." J. Hydrometeor. 15 (1): 212-228 [10.1175/JHM-D-12-0155.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "Multiscale evaluation of the improvements in surface snow simulation through terrain adjustments to radiation." J. Hydrometeor. 14 (1): 220-232 [10.1175/JHM-D-12-046.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "Advancing Drought Understanding, Monitoring, and Prediction." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 94 (12): ES186–ES188 [10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00248.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "Estimating water discharge from large radar altimetry datasets." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 17 (3): 923-933 [10.5194/hess-17-923-2013] [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "Diagnosing the Nature of Land–Atmosphere Coupling: A Case Study of Dry/Wet Extremes in the U.S. Southern Great Plains." J. Hydrometeor. 14 (1): 3-24 [10.1175/JHM-D-12-023.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "Impact of Land Model Calibration on Coupled Land–Atmosphere Prediction." J. Hydrometeor. 14 (5): 1373-1400 [10.1175/JHM-D-12-0127.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "Effect of land cover on atmospheric processes and air quality over the continental United States – a NASA Unified WRF (NU-WRF) model study." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 13 (13): 6207-6226 [10.5194/acp-13-6207-2013] [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "Representation of Soil Moisture Feedbacks during Drought in NASA Unified WRF (NU-WRF)." J. Hydrometeor 14 (1): 360-367 [10.1175/JHM-D-12-069.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "An Evaluation of Microwave Land Surface Emissivities Over the Continental United States to Benefit GPM-Era Precipitation Algorithms." IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing 51 (1): 378-398 [10.1109/TGRS.2012.2199121] [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "Assimilating satellite-based snow depth and snow cover products for improving snow predictions in Alaska." Advances in Water Resources 54 208-227 [10.1016/j.advwatres.2013.02.005] [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "The NASA-Goddard Multi-scale Modeling Framework–Land Information System: Global land/atmosphere interaction with resolved convection." Environmental Modelling & Software 39 103-115 [10.1016/j.envsoft.2012.02.023] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "Distributed assimilation of satellite-based snow extent for improving simulated streamflow in mountainous, dense forests: An example over the DMIP2 western basins." Water Resour. Res. 48 (9): W09557 [10.1029/2011WR011347] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "Tracing hydrologic model simulation error as a function of satellite rainfall estimation bias components and land use and land cover conditions." Water Resour. Res. 48 (11): W11509 [10.1029/2011WR011643] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "Global Distribution of Extreme Precipitation and High-Impact Landslides in 2010 Relative to Previous Years." J. Hydrometeor. 13 (5): 1536-1551 [10.1175/JHM-D-12-02.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "A comparison of methods for a priori bias correction in soil moisture data assimilation." Water Resour. Res. 48 (3): W03515 [10.1029/2010WR010261] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "Land surface Verification Toolkit (LVT) – a generalized framework for land surface model evaluation." Geosci. Model Dev. 5 (3): 869-886 [10.5194/gmd-5-869-2012] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "Quantifying the change in soil moisture modeling uncertainty from remote sensing observations using Bayesian inference techniques." Water Resour. Res. 48 (11): W11514 [10.1029/2012WR012337] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "Estimating evapotranspiration with land data assimilation systems." Hydrological Processes 25 (26): 3979-3992 [10.1002/hyp.8387] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "Advances in landslide nowcasting: evaluation of a global and regional modeling approach." Environmental Earth Sciences 66 (6): 1683-1696 [10.1007/s12665-011-0990-3] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "Diagnosing the Sensitivity of Local Land–Atmosphere Coupling via the Soil Moisture–Boundary Layer Interaction." J. Hydrometeor 12 (5): 766-786 [10.1175/JHM-D-10-05014.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "Hyperresolution global land surface modeling: Meeting a grand challenge for monitoring Earth's terrestrial water." Water Resour. Res. 47 (5): W05301 [10.1029/2010WR010090] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "The impact of microphysical schemes on hurricane intensity and track." Asia-Pacific J Atmos Sci 47 (1): 1-16 [10.1007/s13143-011-1001-z] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Evaluation of GSMaP Precipitation Estimates over the Contiguous United States." J. Hydrometeor 11 (2): 566-574 [10.1175/2009JHM1190.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "A global map of uncertainties in satellite-based precipitation measurements." Geophysical Research Letters 37 (24): L24407 [10.1029/2010GL046008] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Real-Time Bias Reduction for Satellite-Based Precipitation Estimates." J. Hydrometeor 11 (6): 1275-1285 [10.1175/2010JHM1246.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "WRF Simulations of the 20–22 January 2007 Snow Events over Eastern Canada: Comparison with In Situ and Satellite Observations." J Applied Meteor Climatol 49 (11): 2246–2266 [10.1175/2010JAMC2282.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "On the Relationship Between Temperature and MODIS Snow Cover Retrieval Errors in the Western U.S." IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Observations Remote Sensing 3 (1): 132-140 [10.1109/JSTARS.2009.2039698] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "New, improved bulk-microphysical schemes for studying precipitation processes in WRF: Part I: Comparison with different microphysical schemes." Mon Wea Rev [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "Component analysis of errors in satellite-based precipitation estimates." J. Geophys. Res. 114 (D24): D24101 [10.1029/2009JD011949] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "Impact of Urban Growth on Surface Climate: A Case Study in Oran, Algeria." Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 48 (2): 217-231 [10.1175/2008JAMC2044.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "Role of Subsurface Physics in the Assimilation of Surface Soil Moisture Observations." J. Hydrometeor 10 (6): 1534-1547 [10.1175/2009JHM1134.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "A Modeling and Observational Framework for Diagnosing Local Land–Atmosphere Coupling on Diurnal Time Scales." J. Hydrometeor 10 (3): 577-599 [10.1175/2009JHM1066.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "A Multiscale Modeling System: Developments, Applications, and Critical Issues." Bull. Am. Meteor. Soc. 90 (4): 515-534 [10.1175/2008BAMS2542.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. " Goddard Multi-Scale Modeling Systems with Unified Physics." Annales Geophysics 27 3055-3064 [10.5194/angeo-27-3055-2009] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "Role of precipitation uncertainty in the estimation of hydrologic soil properties using remotely sensed soil moisture in a semi-arid environment." Water Resour. Res. 44 (5): W05S18 [10.1029/2007WR005884] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "A land surface data assimilation framework using the land information system: Description and applications." Advances in Water Resources 31 (11): 1419-1432 [10.1016/j.advwatres.2008.01.013] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "Impacts of High-Resolution Land Surface Initialization on Regional Sensible Weather Forecasts from the WRF Model." J Hydrometeorol. 9 (6): 1249-1266 [10.1175/2008JHM990.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "Spatial interpolation of precipitation in a dense gauge network for monsoon storm events in the southwestern United States." Water Resour. Res. 44 (5): W05S13 [10.1029/2006WR005788] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "On the Relationship Between Mean and Variance of Soil Moisture Fields¹." Journal of the American Water Resources Association 44 (1): 235-242 [10.1111/j.1752-1688.2007.00150.x] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "An integrated high-resolution hydrometeorological modeling testbed using LIS and WRF." Environmental Modelling & Software 23 (2): 169-181 [10.1016/j.envsoft.2007.05.012] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "Appropriate scale of soil moisture retrieval from high resolution radar imagery for bare and minimally vegetated soils." Remote Sens Environ 112 (2): 403-414 [10.1016.j.rse.2007.06.021] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "An Integrated Hydrologic Modeling and Data Assimilation Framework." Computer 41 (12): 52-59 [10.1109/MC.2008.475] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "High-performance land surface modeling with a Linux cluster." Computers & Geosciences 34 (11): 1492-1504 [10.1016/j.cageo.2007.12.014] [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "Using remotely-sensed estimates of soil moisture to infer soil texture and hydraulic properties across a semi-arid watershed." Remote Sens. Environ. 110 (1): 79-97 [10.1016/j.rse.2007.02.007] [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "High-performance Earth system modeling with NASA/GSFC’s Land Information System." Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering 3 (3): 157-165 [10.1007/s11334-007-0028-x] [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "A GIS framework for surface-layer soil moisture estimation combining satellite radar measurements and land surface modeling with soil physical property estimation." Environmental Modelling & Software 22 (6): 891-898 [10.1016/j.envsoft.2006.05.022] [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "Evaluating Clouds in Long-Term Cloud-Resolving Model Simulations with Observational Data." J Atmos Sci 64 4153-4329 [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "Systematic anomalies over inland water bodies in satellite-based precipitation estimates." Geophys Res Lett 34 (L14403): 5 pp [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "Multitemporal Analysis of TRMM-Based Satellite Precipitation Products for Land Data Assimilation Applications." J Hydrometeorol 8 1165-1183 [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "Development of a parameterization for simulating the urban temperature hazard using satellite observations in climate model." Nat Hazards 43 257-271 [10.1007/s11069-007-9117-2] [Journal Article/Letter]
2006. "A remote sensing observatory for hydrologic sciences: A genesis for scaling to continental hydrology." Water Resources Res 42 (7): W07301 [10.1029/2005WR004435] [Journal Article/Letter]
2006. "U.S. Contributions to the CEOP." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 87 (7): 927-939 [10.1175/BAMS-87-7-927] [Journal Article/Letter]
2006. "Land information system: An interoperable framework for high resolution land surface modeling." Environ Modelling Software 21 1402-1415 [Journal Article/Letter]
2004. "Ultra-high resolution observation-driven land modeling needed to enable the development of global cloud resolving Earth system models." GEWEX News 14 (3): 8-9 [Journal Article/Letter]
2004. "A comparison of geographical information systems-based algorithms for computing the TOPMODEL topographic index." Water Resour Res 40 (6): W06303 [10.1029/2004WR003069] [Journal Article/Letter]
2003. "An analytical method for predicting surface soil moisture from rainfall observations." Water Resources Res 39 (11): 3-1 - 3-12 [10.1029/2003WR002142] [Journal Article/Letter]
2002. "Raingage Network Design Using NEXRAD Precipitation Estimates." J Amer Water Resources Assoc 38 (5): 1393-1407 [Journal Article/Letter]
Non-Refereed
2014. "Drought Prediction for Socio-Cultural Stability Project." NASA/TM-2014-218303 [Full Text] [Report]
2014. "Land surface microwave emissivity dynamics: Observations, analysis and modeling ." Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment (MicroRad), 2014 13th Specialist Meeting on 99 - 102 [10.1109/MicroRad.2014.6878917] [Proceedings]
2012. "Water discharge estimates from large radar altimetry datasets in the Amazon basin." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions 9 (6): 7591-7611 [10.5194/hessd-9-7591-2012] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "A Goddard multi-scale modeling system with unified physics." GEWEX News 18 (1): 6-8 [Full Text] [Newsletter]
2006. "Role of leaf surface water in the bi-directional ammonia exchange between the atmosphere and terrestrial biosphere." Proc Workshop on Agricultural Air Quality: State of Science 1250-1253 [Full Text] [Proceedings]
2002. "Design and evaluation of the coupled MM5/TOPLATS modeling system for a Texas air quality exceedance episode." Twelfth PSU/NCAR Mesoscale Model Users' Workshop [Full Text] [Report]
2002. "Reducing Near-Surface Cool/Moist Biases Over Snowpack and Early Spring Wet soils in NCEP ETA Model Forecasts Via Land Surface Model Upgrades." Proc AMS 2002 Annual Meeting J1-J6 [Proceedings]
2002. "The Effects of Implementing Topmodel Concepts in the NOAH Model." Proc AMS 2002 Annual Meeting J132-J135 [Proceedings]