List of works by Randal D. Koster

A Comparative Analysis of Two Land Surface Heterogeneity Representations

A Data-Driven Approach for Daily Real-Time Estimates and Forecasts of Near-Surface Soil Moisture.

scientific article

A Modeling Study of the Causes and Predictability of the Spring 2011 Extreme US Weather Activity

scientific article published on 21 October 2016

A One-Dimensional Interactive Soil-Atmosphere Model for Testing Formulations of Surface Hydrology

scholarly article by Randal D. Koster & Peter S. Eagleson published June 1990 in Journal of Climate

A Revised Framework for Analyzing Soil Moisture Memory in Climate Data: Derivation and Interpretation

article by Sonia I. Seneviratne & Randal D. Koster published February 2012 in Journal of Hydrometeorology

A Simple Framework for Examining the Interannual Variability of Land Surface Moisture Fluxes

article by Randal D. Koster & Max J. Suarez published July 1999 in Journal of Climate

A U.S. CLIVAR Project to Assess and Compare the Responses of Global Climate Models to Drought-Related SST Forcing Patterns: Overview and Results

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

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A catchment-based approach to modeling land surface processes in a general circulation model: 2. Parameter estimation and model demonstration

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A catchment-based land surface model for GCMS and the framework for its evaluation

A land surface data assimilation framework using the land information system: Description and applications

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A reconsideration of the initial conditions used for stable water isotope models

scientific article

AGCM Biases in Evaporation Regime: Impacts on Soil Moisture Memory and Land–Atmosphere Feedback

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An Agenda for Land Surface Hydrology Research and a Call for the Second International Hydrological Decade

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An updated treatment of soil texture and associated hydraulic properties in a global land modeling system

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Analyzing the Concurrence of Meteorological Droughts and Warm Periods, with Implications for the Determination of Evaporative Regime

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Assessing the Impact of Horizontal Error Correlations in Background Fields on Soil Moisture Estimation

Assessment and Enhancement of MERRA Land Surface Hydrology Estimates

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Assessment of MERRA-2 Land Surface Energy Flux Estimates

scientific article

Assessment of MERRA-2 Land Surface Hydrology Estimates

article

Assessment of the SMAP Level-4 Surface and Root-Zone Soil Moisture Product Using In Situ Measurements

Assimilation of GRACE terrestrial water storage into a land surface model: Evaluation and potential value for drought monitoring in western and central Europe

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Assimilation of Satellite-Derived Skin Temperature Observations into Land Surface Models

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CORRIGENDUM

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

article by T. H. Chen et al published June 1997 in Journal of Climate

Canopy height and climate dryness parsimoniously explain spatial variation of unstressed stomatal conductance

scientific article published on 19 July 2022

Causes of Long-Term Drought in the U.S. Great Plains

Comparing the Degree of Land–Atmosphere Interaction in Four Atmospheric General Circulation Models

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)

article published in 2007

Confronting weather and climate models with observational data from soil moisture networks over the United States.

scientific article

Continental water recycling and H218O concentrations

scholarly article

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

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Contribution of soil moisture retrievals to land data assimilation products

scholarly article

Deuterium excess in Greenland snow: Analysis with simple and complex models

article

Distinct Hydrological Signatures in Observed Historical Temperature Fields

Do Global Models Properly Represent the Feedback between Land and Atmosphere?

article

Drought-Induced Warming in the Continental United States under Different SST Regimes

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Effect of a Canopy Interception Reservoir on Hydrological Persistence in a General Circulation Model

article published in 1995

Estimating Basin-Scale Water Budgets with SMAP Soil Moisture Data

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Estimation of Predictability with a Newly Derived Index to Quantify Similarity among Ensemble Members

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

Evaluation and Enhancement of Permafrost Modeling With the NASA Catchment Land Surface Model

scientific article published on 08 November 2017

Extended versus Ensemble Kalman Filtering for Land Data Assimilation

article by Rolf H. Reichle et al published December 2002 in Journal of Hydrometeorology

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

scientific article

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

scholarly article

GLACE: The Global Land–Atmosphere Coupling Experiment. Part II: Analysis

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Glacial-interglacial changes in moisture sources for greenland: influences on the ice core record of climate.

scientific article published on January 1994

Global Assessment of the SMAP Level-4 Surface and Root-Zone Soil Moisture Product Using Assimilation Diagnostics

Global Meteorological Drought: A Synthesis of Current Understanding with a Focus on SST Drivers of Precipitation Deficits

Global Soil Moisture from Satellite Observations, Land Surface Models, and Ground Data: Implications for Data Assimilation

article by Rolf H. Reichle et al published June 2004 in Journal of Hydrometeorology

Global relationships among traditional reflectance vegetation indices (NDVI and NDII), evapotranspiration (ET), and soil moisture variability on weekly timescales

scientific article published on 24 October 2018

Global sources of local precipitation as determined by the Nasa/Giss GCM

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Hydroclimatic Controls on the Means and Variability of Vegetation Phenology and Carbon Uptake

Hydroclimatic Variability and Predictability: A Survey of Recent Research

scientific article published on 25 July 2017

Hydroclimatic Variability and Predictability: A Survey of Recent Research

Impact of Land Surface Initialization on Seasonal Precipitation and Temperature Prediction

article published in 2003

Impact of Subsurface Temperature Variability on Surface Air Temperature Variability: An AGCM Study

Impact of snow darkening via dust, black carbon, and organic carbon on boreal spring climate in the Earth system

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Impact of soil moisture initialization on boreal summer subseasonal forecasts: mid-latitude surface air temperature and heat wave events

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Improved Hydrological Simulation Using SMAP Data: Relative Impacts of Model Calibration and Data Assimilation

scientific article published on 01 April 2018

Improving Short-term Climate Forecasts with Satellite Observations

Improving early warning of drought-driven food insecurity in southern Africa using operational hydrological monitoring and forecasting products

scientific article published on 30 April 2020

Inferring Soil Moisture Memory from Streamflow Observations Using a Simple Water Balance Model

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Influence of Land Surface Fluxes on Precipitation: Inferences from Simulations Forced with Four ARM–CART SCM Datasets

Influence of dust and black carbon on the snow albedo in the NASA Goddard Earth Observing System version 5 land surface model

article

Influence of the Interannual Variability of Vegetation on the Surface Energy Balance—A Global Sensitivity Study

Interactive Vegetation Phenology, Soil Moisture, and Monthly Temperature Forecasts

Intercomparison of Soil Moisture Memory in Two Land Surface Models

Investigation of the 2016 Eurasia heat wave as an event of the recent warming

scientific article

Key results and implications from phase 1(c) of the Project for Intercomparison of Land-surface Parametrization Schemes

Land Surface Controls on Hydroclimatic Means and Variability

Land Surface Precipitation in MERRA-2

article by Rolf H. Reichle et al published March 2017 in Journal of Climate

Large Scale Influences on Summertime Extreme Precipitation in the Northeastern United States.

scientific article published on 9 December 2016

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

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Multimodel Ensemble Reconstruction of Drought over the Continental United States

scholarly article by Aihui Wang et al published May 2009 in Journal of Climate

Northern Eurasian Heat Waves and Droughts

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Observational evidence that soil moisture variations affect precipitation

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On the Nature of Soil Moisture in Land Surface Models

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On the Role of SST Forcing in the 2011 and 2012 Extreme U.S. Heat and Drought: A Study in Contrasts

On the cause of the 1930s Dust Bowl

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Origin of July Antarctic precipitation and its influence on deuterium content: a GCM analysis

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PEAT-CLSM: A Specific Treatment of Peatland Hydrology in the NASA Catchment Land Surface Model

scientific article published on 07 May 2019

Performance Metrics for Soil Moisture Retrievals and Application Requirements

Phenological versus meteorological controls on land-atmosphere water and carbon fluxes

scholarly article

Potential Predictability of Long-Term Drought and Pluvial Conditions in the U.S. Great Plains

Precipitation Estimation Using L-Band and C-Band Soil Moisture Retrievals.

scientific article published on 6 September 2016

Realistic Initialization of Land Surface States: Impacts on Subseasonal Forecast Skill

article by Randal D. Koster et al published December 2004 in Journal of Hydrometeorology

Rebound in Atmospheric Predictability and the Role of the Land Surface

Regions of Strong Coupling Between Soil Moisture and Precipitation

scientific article published in Science

Relative contributions of land and ocean processes to precipitation variability

scientific article

Relevance of time-varying and time-invariant retrieval error sources on the utility of spaceborne soil moisture products

scholarly article

Representation of subsurface storm flow and a more responsive water table in a TOPMODEL-based hydrology model

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Revisiting a hydrological analysis framework with International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project Initiative 2 rainfall, net radiation, and runoff fields

article

Role of Subsurface Physics in the Assimilation of Surface Soil Moisture Observations

article by Sujay V. Kumar et al published December 2009 in Journal of Hydrometeorology

SMAP Level 4 Surface and Root Zone Soil Moisture

scientific article

Seasonal Precipitation Timing and Ice Core Records

scientific article

Seasonal variation of land–atmosphere coupling strength over the West African monsoon region in an atmospheric general circulation model

Sensitivity of Latent Heat Flux from PILPS Land-Surface Schemes to Perturbations of Surface Air Temperature

Simulation of high-latitude hydrological processes in the Torne–Kalix basin: PILPS Phase 2(e): 3: Equivalent model representation and sensitivity experiments

scholarly article published in Global and Planetary Change

Simulations of the HDO and H218O atmospheric cycles using the NASA GISS general circulation model: Sensitivity experiments for present-day conditions

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Simulations of the HDO and H218O atmospheric cycles using the NASA GISS general circulation model: The seasonal cycle for present-day conditions

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Skill in streamflow forecasts derived from large-scale estimates of soil moisture and snow

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Soil Moisture Initialization Error and Subgrid Variability of Precipitation in Seasonal Streamflow Forecasting

Soil Moisture Memory in AGCM Simulations: Analysis of Global Land–Atmosphere Coupling Experiment (GLACE) Data

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Soil Moisture Memory in Climate Models

Soil Moisture, Snow, and Seasonal Streamflow Forecasts in the United States

Soil moisture effects on seasonal temperature and precipitation forecast scores in Europe

Sources of Sahel Precipitation for Simulated Drought and Rainy Seasons

Stable water isotope behavior during the last glacial maximum: A general circulation model analysis

article

Storm instigation from below

article by Randal D. Koster published 12 June 2011 in Nature Geoscience

Suggestions in the Observational Record of Land–Atmosphere Feedback Operating at Seasonal Time Scales

The 2010 Russian drought impact on satellite measurements of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence: Insights from modeling and comparisons with parameters derived from satellite reflectances

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The ISLSCP Initiative I Global Datasets: Surface Boundary Conditions and Atmospheric Forcings for Land-Atmosphere Studies

The Influence of Land Surface Moisture Retention on Precipitation Statistics

The Interplay between Transpiration and Runoff Formulations in Land Surface Schemes Used with Atmospheric Models

article by Randal D. Koster & P. C. D. Milly published July 1997 in Journal of Climate

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

scientific article published on 01 June 2017

The NASA hydrological forecast system for food and water security applications

The Physical Mechanisms by Which the Leading Patterns of SST Variability Impact U.S. Precipitation

The Rhône-Aggregation Land Surface Scheme Intercomparison Project: An Overview

article by A. Boone et al published January 2004 in Journal of Climate

The Second Phase of the Global Land–Atmosphere Coupling Experiment: Soil Moisture Contributions to Subseasonal Forecast Skill

article by Randal D. Koster et al published October 2011 in Journal of Hydrometeorology

The Sensitivity of Surface Fluxes to Soil Water Content in Three Land Surface Schemes

article by Paul A. Dirmeyer et al published April 2000 in Journal of Hydrometeorology

The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission

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The components of a ‘SVAT’ scheme and their effects on a GCM's hydrological cycle

The global geochemistry of bomb-produced tritium: General circulation model compared to available observations and traditional interpretations

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The hydrosphere State (hydros) Satellite mission: an Earth system pathfinder for global mapping of soil moisture and land freeze/thaw

The origin of Antarctic precipitation: a modelling approach

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The pattern across the continental United States of evapotranspiration variability associated with water availability

The role of soil moisture initialization in subseasonal and seasonal streamflow prediction – A case study in Sri Lanka

Timescales of Land Surface Evapotranspiration Response

Tropical Peatland Hydrology Simulated With a Global Land Surface Model

scientific article published in 2022

Using Observed Spatial Correlation Structures to Increase the Skill of Subseasonal Forecasts

Validity of the isotopic thermometer in central Antarctica: Limited impact of glacial precipitation seasonality and moisture origin

scholarly article by Jean Jouzel published in 2000

Validity of the temperature reconstruction from water isotopes in ice cores

scientific article published in 1997

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

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

scientific article published on 12 February 2018

Water isotopes in precipitation:

scholarly article

“Efficiency Space”: A Framework for Evaluating Joint Evaporation and Runoff Behavior*

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