GESTAR II Researchers publish as lead and co-authors

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Throughout the past few months, GESTAR II scientists have led or co-authored various publications. We invite you to peruse this selection.

Ahn, D. Y. (614/MSU), D. L. Goldberg, F. Liu (614/MSU), D. C. Anderson (614/UMBC), T. Coombes, C. P. Loughner, M. Kiel, and A. Chatterjee (2025), "Satellite-Based Analysis of CO2 Emissions from Global Cities: Regional, Economic, and Demographic Attributes," AGU Advances, 6 (4), https://doi.org/10.1029/2025AV001747.

Fox, A. M. (610.1/MSU), R. Reichle, and Q. Liu (2025), “Assimilation of ASCAT Soil Moisture and SMAP Brightness Temperature Observations into the NASA GEOS Land Data Assimilation System,” J. Hydrometeorol., https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-24-0139.1.

Huemmrich, K.F. (618/UMBC), S. Caplan, J.A. Gamon, and P. Campbell (618/UMBC) (2025), “Determining Terrestrial Ecosystem Gross Primary Productivity from PACE OCI,” IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, Vol. 22, https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2025.3587584. (See related UMBC News article!)

Knowland, K. E., P. A. Wales (610.1/MSU), K. Wargan, B. Weir (610.1/MSU), S. Pawson, R. Damadeo, and D. Flittner (2025), “Stratospheric water vapor beyond NASA’s Aura MLS: Assimilating SAGE III/ISS profiles for a continued climate record,” Geophys. Res. Lett., https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL112610.

Kolassa, K., M. Ganeshan (613/MSU), E. L McGrath-Spangler (610.1/MSU), O. Reale, R. Reichle, and S. Q. Zhang (2025), “Impact of assimilating SMAP observations over land on tropical cyclone representation: A case study of Tropical Cyclone Idai,” Quart. Jnl. Royal Meteoro. Soc., https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.5018.

Mkaouar, A. (618/UMBC), D. Shean, T. Yin, C. S. R. Neigh, R. V. Leite, P. Montesano, A. Kallel, and J.-P. Gastellu-Etchegorry (2025), "Refining satellite laser altimetry geolocation through full-waveform radiative transfer modeling and matching," Sci. Remote Sens., 12, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.srs.2025.100248.

Seo, J. (618/MSU), A. Sayeed, S. Park (618/MSU), J. Kerekes, S. M. Christel, M. T. Tran, and P. Gupta (2025), “PM2.5 forecasting at U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide using NASA model powered by machine learning,” Earth Space Sci., 12, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025EA004210.

Wang, Y., M. Schoeberl, and G. Taha (614/MSU) (2025), "Using OMPS-LP color ratio to extract stratospheric aerosol particle radius and estimate its uncertainty," Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 345, 109560, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2025.109560.

Yang, Y. (613), S. Bhatta (613/MSU), and A. Delgado-Bonal (613/UMBC) (2025), "Decadal

observations of global daytime cloud properties from DSCOVR–EPIC," Front. Remote Sens.,