Journal Articles

2025

Doughty, R., Wimberly, M. C., Wanyama, D., Peiro, H., Parazoo, N., Crowell, S., & Cho, M. A. (2025). Seasonality and synchrony of photosynthesis in African forests inferred from spaceborne chlorophyll fluorescence and vegetation indices. Biogeosciences, 22(8), 1985–2004. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-1985-2025

Jensen, M. P., Flynn, J. H., Gonzalez-Cruz, J. E., Judd, L. M., Kollias, P., Kuang, C., McFarquhar, G. M., Powers, H., Ramamurthy, P., Sullivan, J., et al. (2025). Studying aerosol, clouds, and air quality in the coastal urban environment of southeastern Texas. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0102.1

Keely, W. R., Lamminpää, O., Mauceri, S., Crowell, S. M. R., O’Dell, C. W., & McGarragh, G. R. (2025). Conditional diffusion-based retrieval of atmospheric CO₂ from Earth observing spectroscopy. arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.17074. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.17074

Keely, W., Mauceri, S., Nelson, R., Laughner, J., O’Dell, C. W., Massie, S. T., Baker, D. F., Kiel, M., Lamminpää, O., Hobbs, J. M., et al. (2025). Uncertainty-aware machine learning bias correction and filtering for OCO-2: Part 2. Earth and Space Science, 12(11), e2025EA004329. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025EA004329

Mauceri, S., Keely, W., Laughner, J., O’Dell, C. W., Massie, S., Nelson, R., Baker, D., Kiel, M., Lamminpää, O., Hobbs, J., et al. (2025). Uncertainty-aware machine learning bias correction and filtering for OCO-2: Part 1. Earth and Space Science, 12(7), e2025EA004328. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025EA004328

Somkuti, P., McGarragh, G., O’Dell, C., Di Noia, A., Vogel, L., Crowell, S., Ott, L. E., & Bösch, H. (2025). Surface reflectance biases in XCH4 retrievals from the 2.3 μm band are enhanced in the presence of aerosols. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 18(18), 4647–4663. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-4647-2025

Wang, Q., Crowell, S., & Klein, P. (2025). Noah-MP parameter optimization at Southern Great Plains using Bayesian optimization. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 130(13), e2024JD041793. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JD041793

2024

McGarragh, G. R., O’Dell, C. W., Crowell, S. M. R., Somkuti, P., Burgh, E. B., & Moore III, B. (2024). The GeoCarb greenhouse gas retrieval algorithm: Simulations and sensitivity to sources of uncertainty. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 17(3), 1091–1121. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-1091-2024

Wimberly, M. C., Wanyama, D., Doughty, R., Peiro, H., & Crowell, S. (2024). Increasing fire activity in African tropical forests is associated with deforestation and climate change. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(9), e2023GL106240. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL106240

2023

Byrne, B., Baker, D. F., Basu, S., Bertolacci, M., Bowman, K. W., Carroll, D., Chatterjee, A., Chevallier, F., Ciais, P., Cressie, N., et al. (2023). National CO₂ budgets (2015–2020) inferred from atmospheric CO₂ observations in support of the global stocktake. Earth System Science Data, 15, 963–1004. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-963-2023

Crowell, S., Haist, T., Tscherpel, M., Caron, J., Burgh, E., & Moore III, B. (2023). Performance and polarization response of slit homogenizers for the GeoCarb mission. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 16, 195–208. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-195-2023

Keely, W. R., Mauceri, S., Crowell, S., & O’Dell, C. W. (2023). A nonlinear data-driven approach to bias correction of XCO₂ for NASA’s OCO-2 ACOS version 10. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 16(23), 5725–5748. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-5725-2023

Wang, J., Zeng, N., Wang, M., Jiang, F., Chevallier, F., Crowell, S., He, W., Johnson, M. S., Liu, J., Liu, Z., et al. (2023). Anomalous net biome exchange over Amazonian rainforests induced by the 2015/16 El Niño: Soil dryness-shaped spatial pattern but temperature-dominated total flux. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(11), e2023GL103379. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL103379

Wang, Q., Crowell, S. M. R., & Pal, S. (2023). Atmospheric variations in summertime column integrated CO₂ on synoptic scales over the US. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128(6), e2021JD036256. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD036256

2022

Alberti, C., Hase, F., Frey, M., Dubravica, D., Blumenstock, T., Dehn, A., Castracane, P., Surawicz, G., Harig, R., Baier, B. C., et al. (2022). Improved calibration procedures for the EM27/SUN spectrometers of the COllaborative Carbon Column Observing Network (COCCON). Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 15(8), 2433–2463. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-2433-2022

Cui, Y. Y., Zhang, L., Jacobson, A. R., Johnson, M. S., Philip, S., Baker, D., Chevallier, F., Schuh, A. E., Liu, J., Crowell, S., et al. (2022). Evaluating global atmospheric inversions of terrestrial net ecosystem exchange CO₂ over North America on seasonal and sub-continental scales. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(18), e2022GL100147. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100147

Hu, X.-M., Xue, M., Gao, L., & Crowell, S. (2022). Impact of 2019 mid-west flood on CO₂ and CH₄ using yearly WRF-GHG simulations over the contiguous United States. Authorea Preprints. https://doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10512123.1

Peiro, H., Crowell, S., Schuh, A., Baker, D. F., O’Dell, C., Jacobson, A. R., Chevallier, F., Liu, J., Eldering, A., Crisp, D., et al. (2022). Four years of global carbon cycle observed from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 (OCO-2) version 9 and in situ data and comparison to OCO-2 version 7. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 22(2), 1097–1130. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-1097-2022

Peiro, H., Crowell, S., & Moore III, B. (2022). Optimizing 4 years of CO₂ biospheric fluxes from OCO-2 and in situ data in TM5: Fire emissions from GFED and inferred from MOPITT CO data. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 22(24), 15817–15849. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-15817-2022

Qin, Y., Xiao, X., Wigneron, J.-P., Ciais, P., Canadell, J. G., Brandt, M., Li, X., Fan, L., Wu, X., Tang, H., et al. (2022). Large loss and rapid recovery of vegetation cover and aboveground biomass over forest areas in Australia during 2019–2020. Remote Sensing of Environment, 278, 113087. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2022.113087

Schuh, A. E., Byrne, B., Jacobson, A. R., Crowell, S. M. R., Deng, F., Baker, D. F., Johnson, M. S., Philip, S., & Weir, B. (2022). On the role of atmospheric model transport uncertainty in estimating the Chinese land carbon sink. Nature, 603(7901), E13–E14. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04258-9

Zhang, L., Davis, K. J., Schuh, A. E., Jacobson, A. R., Pal, S., Cui, Y. Y., Baker, D., Crowell, S., Chevallier, F., Remaud, M., et al. (2022). Multi-season evaluation of CO₂ weather in OCO-2 MIP models. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127(2), e2021JD035457. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD035457

2021

Hu, X.-M., Gourdji, S. M., Davis, K. J., Wang, Q., Zhang, Y., Xue, M., Feng, S., Moore, B., & Crowell, S. M. R. (2021). Implementation of improved parameterization of terrestrial flux in WRF-VPRM improves the simulation of nighttime CO₂ peaks and a daytime CO₂ band ahead of a cold front. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126(10), e2020JD034362. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD034362

Hu, X.-M., Hu, J., Gao, L., Cai, C., Jiang, Y., Xue, M., Zhao, T., & Crowell, S. M. R. (2021). Multisensor and multimodel monitoring and investigation of a wintertime air pollution event ahead of a cold front over eastern China. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126(10), e2020JD033538. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD033538

Qin, Y., Xiao, X., Wigneron, J.-P., Ciais, P., Brandt, M., Fan, L., Li, X., Crowell, S., Wu, X., Doughty, R., et al. (2021). Carbon loss from forest degradation exceeds that from deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Nature Climate Change, 11(5), 442–448. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01026-5

Qin, Y., Xiao, X., Wigneron, J.-P., Ciais, P., Canadell, J. G., Brandt, M., Li, X., Fan, L., Wu, X., Tang, H., et al. (2021). Annual maps of forests in Australia from analyses of microwave and optical images with FAO forest definition. Journal of Remote Sensing, 1, 9870565. https://doi.org/10.34133/2021/9870565

Somkuti, P., O’Dell, C. W., Crowell, S., Köhler, P., McGarragh, G. R., Cronk, H. Q., & Burgh, E. B. (2021). Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence from the Geostationary Carbon Cycle Observatory (GeoCarb): An extensive simulation study. Remote Sensing of Environment, 263, 112565. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112565

2020

Hu, X.-M., Crowell, S., Wang, Q., Zhang, Y., Davis, K. J., Xue, M., Xiao, X., Moore, B., Wu, X., Choi, Y., et al. (2020). Dynamical downscaling of CO₂ in 2016 over the contiguous United States using WRF-VPRM, a weather-biosphere-online-coupled model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 12(4), e2019MS001875. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019MS001875

Li, X., Hu, X.-M., Cai, C., Jia, Q., Zhang, Y., Liu, J., Xue, M., Xu, J., Wen, R., & Crowell, S. M. R. (2020). Terrestrial CO₂ fluxes, concentrations, sources and budget in Northeast China: Observational and modeling studies. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 125(6), e2019JD031686. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JD031686

2019

Crowell, S., Baker, D., Schuh, A., Basu, S., Jacobson, A. R., Chevallier, F., Liu, J., Deng, F., Feng, L., McKain, K., et al. (2019). The 2015–2016 carbon cycle as seen from OCO-2 and the global in situ network. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 19(15), 9797–9831. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-9797-2019

Kulawik, S. S., Crowell, S., Baker, D., Liu, J., McKain, K., Sweeney, C., Biraud, S. C., Wofsy, S., O’Dell, C. W., Wennberg, P. O., et al. (2019). Characterization of OCO-2 and ACOS-GOSAT biases and errors for CO₂ flux estimates. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 12(10), 5223–5262. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-5223-2019

Nivitanont, J., Crowell, S. M. R., & Moore III, B. (2019). A scanning strategy optimized for signal-to-noise ratio for the Geostationary Carbon Cycle Observatory (GeoCarb) instrument. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 12(6), 3317–3334. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-3317-2019

Schuh, A. E., Jacobson, A. R., Basu, S., Weir, B., Baker, D., Bowman, K., Chevallier, F., Crowell, S., Davis, K. J., Deng, F., et al. (2019). Quantifying the impact of atmospheric transport uncertainty on CO₂ surface flux estimates. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 33(4), 484–500. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GB006086

2018

Crowell, S. M. R., Kawa, S. R., Browell, E. V., Hammerling, D. M., Moore, B., Schaefer, K., & Doney, S. C. (2018). On the ability of space-based passive and active remote sensing observations of CO₂ to detect flux perturbations to the carbon cycle. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123(2), 1460–1477. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JD027836

Moore III, B., Crowell, S. M. R., Rayner, P. J., Kumer, J., O’Dell, C. W., O’Brien, D., Utembe, S., Polonsky, I., Schimel, D., & Lemen, J. (2018). The potential of the Geostationary Carbon Cycle Observatory (GeoCarb) to provide multi-scale constraints on the carbon cycle in the Americas. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 6, 109. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2018.00109

O’Dell, C. W., Eldering, A., Wennberg, P. O., Crisp, D., Gunson, M. R., Fisher, B., Frankenberg, C., Kiel, M., Lindqvist, H., Mandrake, L., et al. (2018). Improved retrievals of carbon dioxide from Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 with the version 8 ACOS algorithm. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 11(12), 6539–6576. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-6539-2018

Shi, Z., Crowell, S., Luo, Y., & Moore III, B. (2018). Model structures amplify uncertainty in predicted soil carbon responses to climate change. Nature Communications, 9(1), 2171. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04526-9

2016

Schimel, D., Sellers, P., Moore III, B., Chatterjee, A., Baker, D., Berry, J., Bowman, K., Ciais, P., Crisp, D., Crowell, S., et al. (2016). Observing the carbon-climate system. arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.02106. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1604.02106

2015

Crowell, S., Rayner, P., Zaccheo, S., & Moore, B. (2015). Impacts of atmospheric state uncertainty on O₂ measurement requirements for the ASCENDS mission. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 8(7), 2685–2697. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-2685-2015

2014

Crowell, S., White, L., & Wicker, L. (2014). Estimation of near surface wind speeds in strongly rotating flows. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 235, 201–211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amc.2014.02.086

Rayner, P. J., Utembe, S. R., & Crowell, S. (2014). Constraining regional greenhouse gas emissions using geostationary concentration measurements: A theoretical study. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 7(10), 3285–3293. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-3285-2014

2010

Crowell, S., & Lakshmivarahan, S. (2010). Forecast bias correction: A second order method. arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.1508. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1011.1508