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Andrea Molod is affiliated with the Goddard Space Flight Center in the United States. Their research primarily centers on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to Environmental Science. Within these fields, their subfields of study include Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Oceanography, alongside Environmental Engineering and Ecology to a lesser extent.

The scientist's work covers several focused topics in climate and atmospheric research. These include Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing.

Andrea Molod has published extensively, particularly in the following venues:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Journal of Hydrometeorology

Some of their recent notable papers include:

  • "Windows of Opportunity for Skillful Forecasts Subseasonal to Seasonal and Beyond," 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "GEOS-S2S Version 2: The GMAO High-Resolution Coupled Model and Assimilation System for Seasonal Prediction," 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "Differences in tropical high clouds among reanalyses: origins and radiative impacts," 2020, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • "Local Air-Sea Interactions at Ocean Mesoscale and Submesoscale in a Western Boundary Current," 2022, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Satellite Sea Surface Salinity Observations Impact on El Niño/Southern Oscillation Predictions: Case Studies From the NASA GEOS Seasonal Forecast System," 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans

The scientist frequently collaborates with several peers in their domain. Key co-authors include Siegfried D. Schubert, Young-Kwon Lim, Randal D. Koster, Eric Hackert, and Dimitris Menemenlis.

Best Publications

  • The Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2)

    Ronald Gelaro;Will McCarty;Max J. Suárez;Max J. Suárez;Ricardo Todling

  • MERRA: NASA’s Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications

    Michele M. Rienecker;Max J. Suarez;Ronald Gelaro;Ricardo Todling

  • Development of the GEOS-5 atmospheric general circulation model: evolution from MERRA to MERRA2

    Andrea Molod;Lawrence Takacs;Max Suarez;Julio Bacmeister

  • Introduction to the SPARC Reanalysis Intercomparison Project (S-RIP) and overview of the reanalysis systems

    Masatomo Fujiwara;Jonathon S. Wright;Gloria L. Manney;Lesley J. Gray

  • The GEOS-5 Atmospheric General Circulation Model: Mean Climate and Development from MERRA to Fortuna

    Andrea Molod;Lawrence Takacs;Max Suarez;Julio Bacmeister

  • Windows of opportunity for skillful forecasts subseasonal to seasonal and beyond

    Annarita Mariotti;Cory Baggett;Elizabeth A. Barnes;Emily Becker

  • The GCM–Reality Intercomparison Project for SPARC (GRIPS): Scientific Issues and Initial Results

    Steven Pawson;Steven Pawson;Steven Pawson;K. Kodera;K. Hamilton;T. G. Shepherd

  • Atmospheric Water Balance and Variability in the MERRA-2 Reanalysis

    Michael G. Bosilovich;Franklin R. Robertson;Lawrence Takacs;Andrea Molod

  • CGILS: Results from the first phase of an international project to understand the physical mechanisms of low cloud feedbacks in single column models

    Minghua Zhang;Christopher S. Bretherton;Peter N. Blossey;Phillip H. Austin

  • Practice and philosophy of climate model tuning across six US modeling centers

    Gavin A. Schmidt;David Bader;Leo J. Donner;Gregory S. Elsaesser;Gregory S. Elsaesser

  • GEOS-Chem High Performance (GCHP v11-02c): a next-generation implementation of the GEOS-Chem chemical transport model for massively parallel applications

    Sebastian D. Eastham;Sebastian D. Eastham;Michael S. Long;Christoph A. Keller;Elizabeth Lundgren

  • Structure and Dynamics of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in MERRA-2.

    Lawrence Coy;Krzysztof Wargan;Andrea M. Molod;William R. McCarty

  • Large-Scale Atmospheric Transport in GEOS Replay Simulations

    Clara Orbe;Luke D. Oman;Susan E. Strahan;Darryn W. Waugh

  • A GCM Simulation Study of the Influence of Saharan Evapotranspiration and Surface-Albedo Anomalies on July Circulation and Rainfall

    Y. C. Sud;A. Molod

  • GEOS-S2S Version 2: The GMAO High Resolution Coupled Model and Assimilation System for Seasonal Prediction.

    Andrea Molod;Eric Hackert;Yury Vikhliaev;Bin Zhao

  • The roles of dry convection, cloud-radiation feedback processes and the influence of recent improvements in the parameterization of convection in the GLA GCM

    Y. Sud;A. Molod

  • An assessment of upper troposphere and lower stratosphere water vapor in MERRA, MERRA2, and ECMWF reanalyses using Aura MLS observations

    Jonathan H. Jiang;Hui Su;Chengxing Zhai;Longtao Wu

  • The Aqua-Planet Experiment (APE): CONTROL SST Simulation

    Michael Blackburn;David L. Williamson;Kensuke Nakajima;Wataru Ohfuchi

  • Development of two-moment cloud microphysics for liquid and ice within the NASA Goddard Earth Observing System Model (GEOS-5)

    Donifan Barahona;Andrea M. Molod;Andrea M. Molod;Julio Bacmeister;Athanasios Nenes

  • Chemical Mechanisms and their Applications in the Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) Earth System Model

    J. Eric Nielsen;Steven Pawson;Andrea M. Molod;Benjamin Auer

Frequent Co-Authors

Siegfried D. Schubert
Siegfried D. Schubert Goddard Space Flight Center
Steven Pawson
Steven Pawson Goddard Space Flight Center
Richard I. Cullather
Richard I. Cullather Langley Research Center
Max J. Suarez
Max J. Suarez Universities Space Research Association
Randal D. Koster
Randal D. Koster Goddard Space Flight Center
Dimitris Menemenlis
Dimitris Menemenlis California Institute of Technology
Patrick Heimbach
Patrick Heimbach The University of Texas at Austin
Luke D. Oman
Luke D. Oman Goddard Space Flight Center
Lawrence Coy
Lawrence Coy Goddard Space Flight Center
Julio T. Bacmeister
Julio T. Bacmeister National Center for Atmospheric Research

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