The NASA/GSFC Land Information System (LIS) has now been successfully coupled to the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) and Goddard Cumulus Ensemble (GCE) models using parallel techniques in a manner compliant with the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF). LIS is a highperformance Land Data Assimilation System (LDAS), developed under funding from ESTO-CT’s Round-3 CAN, whose TRL3 technolo...

One of the most important issues in structure-function relationship modeling is that each rangeland has numerous functions and each of them can provide the most benefits in a certain state of that ecosystem. In fact, relationship between structure and function can be varied in different states. After presentation of the Linear Structure-Function Model based on the Clementsian succession theory,...

Understanding regional-scale water resource systems requires understanding coupled hydrologic and climate interactions. The traditional approach in the hydrologic sciences and engineering fields has been to either treat the atmosphere as a forcing condition on the hydrologic model, or to adopt a specific hydrologic model design in order to be interoperable with a climate model. We propose here ...

NASA's Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) Earth System Model (ESM) is a modular, general circulation model (GCM), and data assimilation system (DAS) that is used to simulate and study the coupled dynamics, physics, chemistry, and biology of our planet. GEOS is developed by the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. It generates near-real-time anal...

We describe the Harvard–NASA Emission Component version 1.0 (HEMCO), a stand-alone software component for computing emissions in global atmospheric models. HEMCO determines emissions from different sources, regions, and species on a user-defined grid and can combine, overlay, and update a set of data inventories and scale factors, as specified by the user through the HEMCO configuration file. N...

This research is funded by the Marine, Coastal and Polar Systems (PACES II) of the Hermann von HelmholtzGemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren e.V.. K.S. is funded by the European Commission Erasmus Mundus Masters Course in Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management (MESPOM). C.L., O.K. and K.K. received support from the “Modular System for Shelves and Coasts” (MOSSCO) grant provided by th...

In this paper the effect of a summer Mistral event on the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian Seas in the northwestern Mediterranean is discussed, using a coupled numerical model and satellite and in situ observations. The focus is on the spatial and temporal distribution of the ocean mixed layer response to the strong winds, and on how this is affected by atmosphere–ocean coupling. The model used is the C...