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Overview

Randal D. Koster is affiliated with the Goddard Space Flight Center in the United States. Their research focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions in global and planetary change as well as atmospheric science.

The scientist's study areas include environmental engineering, water science and technology, and oceanography. Their work covers key topics such as climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, soil moisture and remote sensing, hydrology and watershed management studies, precipitation measurement and analysis, flood risk assessment and management, and cryospheric studies and observations.

Frequent co-authors of Randal D. Koster include:

  • Siegfried D. Schubert
  • Anthony M. DeAngelis
  • Rolf H. Reichle
  • Eunjee Lee
  • Andrea Molod

Common publication venues where Randal D. Koster has contributed include:

  • Journal of Climate
  • Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Selected recent papers provide insight into the scientist's research scope and timeframe:

  • "GEOS-S2S Version 2: The GMAO High-Resolution Coupled Model and Assimilation System for Seasonal Prediction," 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "Investigation of the 2016 Eurasia heat wave as an event of the recent warming," 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • "The NASA Hydrological Forecast System for Food and Water Security Applications," 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Soil Moisture Memory: State-Of-The-Art and the Way Forward," 2024, Reviews of Geophysics
  • "Mechanisms Associated with Daytime and Nighttime Heat Waves over the Contiguous United States," 2020, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

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

  • The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission

    Dara Entekhabi;Eni G Njoku;Peggy E O'Neill;Kent H Kellogg

  • Regions of Strong Coupling Between Soil Moisture and Precipitation

    Randal D. Koster;Paul A. Dirmeyer;Zhichang Guo;Gordon Bonan

  • A catchment-based approach to modeling land surface processes in a general circulation model: 1. Model structure

    Randal D. Koster;Max J. Suarez;Agnès Ducharne;Marc Stieglitz

  • GLACE: The Global Land-Atmosphere Coupling Experiment. Part I: Overview

    Randal D. Koster;Zhichang Guo;Paul A. Dirmeyer;Gordon Bonan

  • Validity of the temperature reconstruction from water isotopes in ice cores

    J. Jouzel;R. B. Alley;K. M. Cuffey;W. Dansgaard

  • On the Cause of the 1930s Dust Bowl

    Siegfried D. Schubert;Max J. Suarez;Philip J. Pegion;Philip J. Pegion;Randal D. Koster

  • Bias reduction in short records of satellite soil moisture

    Rolf H. Reichle;Rolf H. Reichle;Randal D. Koster

  • Assessment and Enhancement of MERRA Land Surface Hydrology Estimates

    Rolf H. Reichle;Randal D. Koster;Gabriëlle J. M. De Lannoy;Barton A. Forman

  • The GEOS-5 Data Assimilation System-Documentation of Versions 5.0.1, 5.1.0, and 5.2.0

    Max J. Suarez;M. M. Rienecker;R. Todling;J. Bacmeister

  • Modeling the land surface boundary in climate models as a composite of independent vegetation stands

    Randal D. Koster;Max J. Suarez

  • On the Nature of Soil Moisture in Land Surface Models

    Randal D. Koster;Zhichang Guo;Rongqian Yang;Paul A. Dirmeyer

  • Variance and Predictability of Precipitation at Seasonal-to-Interannual Timescales

    Randal D. Koster;Max J. Suarez;Mark Heiser

  • Soil Moisture Memory in Climate Models

    Randal D. Koster;Max J. Suarez

  • Performance Metrics for Soil Moisture Retrievals and Application Requirements

    Dara Entekhabi;Rolf H. Reichle;Randal D. Koster;Wade T. Crow

  • A Catchment-Based Approach to Modeling Land Surface Processes in a Gcm, Part 1: Model Structure

    Randal D. Koster;Max J. Suarez;Agnes Ducharne;Marc Stieglitz

  • Contribution of land surface initialization to subseasonal forecast skill: first results from a multi-model experiment.

    R. D. Koster;S. P.P. Mahanama;S. P.P. Mahanama;T.J. Yamada;T.J. Yamada;T.J. Yamada;Gianpaolo Balsamo

  • Comparison and assimilation of global soil moisture retrievals from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for the Earth Observing System (AMSR‐E) and the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR)

    Rolf H. Reichle;Rolf H. Reichle;Randal D. Koster;Ping Liu;Ping Liu;Sarith P. P. Mahanama;Sarith P. P. Mahanama

  • Extended versus Ensemble Kalman Filtering for Land Data Assimilation

    Rolf H. Reichle;Jeffrey P. Walker;Randal D. Koster;Paul R. Houser

  • Cabauw Experimental Results from the Project for Intercomparison of Land-Surface Parameterization Schemes

    T.H. Chen;A. Henderson-Sellers;P.C.D. Milly;A.J. Pitman

Frequent Co-Authors

Rolf H. Reichle
Rolf H. Reichle Goddard Space Flight Center
Sarith Mahanama
Sarith Mahanama National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Max J. Suarez
Max J. Suarez Universities Space Research Association
Siegfried D. Schubert
Siegfried D. Schubert Goddard Space Flight Center
Wade T. Crow
Wade T. Crow Agricultural Research Service
Paul A. Dirmeyer
Paul A. Dirmeyer George Mason University
John S. Kimball
John S. Kimball University of Montana
Andrea Molod
Andrea Molod Goddard Space Flight Center
Sujay V. Kumar
Sujay V. Kumar Goddard Space Flight Center

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