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.
Andrew M Fox
(Senior Research Scientist)
| Email: | andrew.fox@nasa.gov |
| Org Code: | 610 |
| Address: |
NASA/GSFC Mail Code 610 Greenbelt, MD 20771 |
| Employer: | MORGAN STATE UNIV. |
Brief Bio
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
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]