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Overview

Joseph A. Santanello is affiliated with the Goddard Space Flight Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental and earth sciences, with a significant contribution to atmospheric science and global and planetary change.

The main fields of study they have contributed to include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these broad areas, their work extensively covers subfields such as:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Oceanography

Santanello's research topics span various aspects of meteorology and climate studies. Key subjects covered in their publications are:

  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Climate variability and models
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds

Their scholarly output includes papers published in prestigious journals. Notable recent papers are:

  • "Integrating continuous atmospheric boundary layer and tower-based flux measurements to advance understanding of land-atmosphere interactions," 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • "Assimilation of NASA's Airborne Snow Observatory Snow Measurements for Improved Hydrological Modeling: A Case Study Enabled by the Coupled LIS/WRF-Hydro System," 2022, Water Resources Research
  • "Impacts of Irrigation on Summertime Temperatures in the Pacific Northwest," 2020, Earth Interactions
  • "Global evaluation of terrestrial near-surface air temperature and specific humidity retrievals from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS)," 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Increased Likelihood of Appreciable Afternoon Rainfall Over Wetter or Drier Soils Dependent Upon Atmospheric Dynamic Influence," 2020, Geophysical Research Letters

Joseph A. Santanello regularly collaborates with several researchers, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Patricia Lawston-Parker
  • Sujay V. Kumar
  • J. Marshall Shepherd
  • Joshua K. Roundy
  • Jeffrey B. Basara

Their work appears frequently in notable scientific journals such as:

  • Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • Earth Interactions
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Best Publications

  • Land–Atmosphere Interactions: The LoCo Perspective

    Joseph A. Santanello;Paul A. Dirmeyer;Craig R. Ferguson;Kirsten L. Findell

  • The Impact of Anthropogenic Land Use and Land Cover Change on Regional Climate Extremes

    Kirsten L. Findell;Alexis Berg;Pierre Gentine;John P. Krasting

  • Diurnal Covariation in Soil Heat Flux and Net Radiation

    Joseph A. Santanello;Mark A. Friedl

  • The Plumbing of Land Surface Models: Benchmarking Model Performance

    M.J. Best;G. Abramowitz;H.R. Johnson;A.J. Pitman

  • Irrigation in the Earth system

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  • Diagnosing the Sensitivity of Local Land–Atmosphere Coupling via the Soil Moisture–Boundary Layer Interaction

    Joseph A. Santanello;Christa D. Peters-Lidard;Sujay V. Kumar

  • A Modeling and Observational Framework for Diagnosing Local Land–Atmosphere Coupling on Diurnal Time Scales

    Joseph A. Santanello;Christa D. Peters-Lidard;Sujay V. Kumar;Charles Alonge

  • Irrigation Signals Detected From SMAP Soil Moisture Retrievals

    Patricia M. Lawston;Patricia M. Lawston;Joseph A. Santanello;Sujay V. Kumar

  • Evaluating the utility of satellite soil moisture retrievals over irrigated areas and the ability of land data assimilation methods to correct for unmodeled processes

    S. V. Kumar;S. V. Kumar;C. D. Peters-Lidard;J. A. Santanello;R. H. Reichle

  • Impact of urbanization on US surface climate

    Lahouari Bounoua;Ping Zhang;Ping Zhang;Georgy Mostovoy;Georgy Mostovoy;Kurtis Thome

  • A comparison of methods for a priori bias correction in soil moisture data assimilation

    Sujay V. Kumar;Sujay V. Kumar;Rolf H. Reichle;Kenneth W. Harrison;Christa D. Peters-Lidard

  • Using remotely-sensed estimates of soil moisture to infer soil texture and hydraulic properties across a semi-arid watershed

    Joseph A. Santanello;Joseph A. Santanello;Christa D. Peters-Lidard;Matthew E. Garcia;Matthew E. Garcia;David M. Mocko;David M. Mocko

  • Diagnosing the Nature of Land–Atmosphere Coupling: A Case Study of Dry/Wet Extremes in the U.S. Southern Great Plains

    Joseph A. Santanello;Christa D. Peters-Lidard;Aaron Kennedy;Sujay V. Kumar

  • Confronting Weather and Climate Models with Observational Data from Soil Moisture Networks over the United States

    Paul A. Dirmeyer;Jiexia Wu;Holly E. Norton;Wouter A. Dorigo

  • Integrated modeling of aerosol, cloud, precipitation and land processes at satellite-resolved scales

    Christa D. Peters-Lidard;Eric M. Kemp;Toshihisa Matsui;Joseph A. Santanello

  • Impact of Irrigation Methods on Land Surface Model Spinup and Initialization of WRF Forecasts

    Patricia M. Lawston;Joseph A. Santanello;Benjamin F. Zaitchik;Matthew Rodell

  • Verification of land-atmosphere coupling in forecast models, reanalyses and land surface models using flux site observations.

    Paul A. Dirmeyer;Liang Chen;Jiexia Wu;Chul Su Shin

  • A New Research Approach for Observing and Characterizing Land-Atmosphere Feedback

    Volker Wulfmeyer;David D. Turner;B. Baker;R. Banta

  • Acceleration of Land Surface Model Development over a Decade of Glass

    Bart van den Hurk;Martin Best;Paul Dirmeyer;Andy Pitman

  • Convective Planetary Boundary Layer Interactions with the Land Surface at Diurnal Time Scales: Diagnostics and Feedbacks

    Joseph A. Santanello;Mark A. Friedl;Michael B. Ek

  • An Empirical Investigation of Convective Planetary Boundary Layer Evolution and Its Relationship with the Land Surface

    Joseph A. Santanello;Mark A. Friedl;William P. Kustas

Frequent Co-Authors

Sujay V. Kumar
Sujay V. Kumar Goddard Space Flight Center
Christa D. Peters-Lidard
Christa D. Peters-Lidard Goddard Space Flight Center
Paul A. Dirmeyer
Paul A. Dirmeyer George Mason University
Michael Ek
Michael Ek National Center for Atmospheric Research
David Mocko
David Mocko National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Matthew Rodell
Matthew Rodell Goddard Space Flight Center
Shaocheng Xie
Shaocheng Xie Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Rolf H. Reichle
Rolf H. Reichle Goddard Space Flight Center
Gianpaolo Balsamo
Gianpaolo Balsamo European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Pierre Gentine
Pierre Gentine Columbia University

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