Publications Page growing

With the holidays, travel and deadlines it has been difficult to put together regular snippets of interesting results. The hope was to summarize the papers coming out but there are quite a few and a lot of useful information. I hope to get back to that in the coming weeks.

In the mean time, it is important to share the information in a timely fashion, and the speed that the internet and electronic publishing permits is much greater now than anytime before. The GMAO is collecting information and manuscripts with permission of the authors on our www site. The MERRA Publications page is growing well, most manuscripts are presently submitted for publication and some already accepted. In addition, while most of the papers are written by GMAO staff, quite a few have been authored outside the GMAO, without a GMAO co-author. Most papers have some critical review of the realism of the system. It is important for the development of the systems to account for the strengths and weaknesses, and is a challenge to improve the system while keeping the processes that are already well represented. Shared knowledge would be critical to this development.

Included on the page is the general overview description of the project: Rienecker, M.M., et al., 2011. MERRA - NASA's Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications. J. Climate (submitted). Check the page linked above for the latest status on the paper. At this time it is still being reviewed.