David Mocko
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
http://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/~mocko/
RESEARCH AREA EXPERIENCE   Land-surface modeling, Soil moisture and snowmelt, Water and energy fluxes, Model intercomparisons
 
EDUCATION  
1994   Master of Science, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
1991   Physics Major, The College of New Jersey
1987   Madison High School, Madison, New Jersey
 
PREVIOUS POSITIONS  
Jul 1991-Jan 1995   Graduate Research Assistant, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO
Feb 1995-Aug 1995   Operating Systems Programmer II, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Ft. Collins, CO
 
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS   American Meteorological Society, American Geophysical Union
 
HONORS AND AWARDS  
Jan 2009   Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Outstanding Performance Award
Jan 2009   Climate and Radiation Branch, Special Act Award
Jan 2005   Climate and Radiation Branch, Outstanding Scientific Support Award
Aug 1999   Laboratory for Atmospheres, Outstanding Performance in Technical Support Award
 
Recent Invited Lectures
and Conference Presentations
 
Dec 2006   AGU 2006 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA
May 2006   AGU 2006 Joint Assembly, Baltimore, MD
Jan 2004   AMS 2004 Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA
Jan 2002   AMS 2002 Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL
Jan 1999   AMS 1999 Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX
Feb 1997   AMS 1997 Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA
 
Show Refereed Publications
Refereed Publications
1.Mocko, D. M., and W. R. Cotton, 1995: Evaluation of fractional cloudiness parameterizations for use in a mesoscale model. J. Atmos. Sci., 52(16), 2884-2901.
2.Mocko, D. M., and Y. C. Sud, 1998: Comparison of land-surface model (SSiB) to three parameterizations of evapotranspiration - A study based on ISLSCP Initiative I data. Earth Interactions, 2(2-003), 40 pages.
3.Mocko, D. M., G. K. Walker, and Y. C. Sud, 1999: New snow-physics to complement SSiB. Part II: Effects on soil moisture initialization and simulated surface fluxes, precipitation and hydrology of GEOS II GCM. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 77(1B), 349-366.
4.Sud, Y. C., and D. M. Mocko, 1999: New snow-physics to complement SSiB. Part I: Design and evaluation with ISLSCP Initiative I datasets. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 77(1B), 335-348.
5.Mocko, D. M., and Y. C. Sud, 2001: Refinements to SSiB with an emphasis on snow-physics: Evaluation and validation using GSWP and Valdai data. Earth Interactions, 5(5-001), 31 pages.
6.Sud, Y. C., D. M. Mocko, G. K. Walker, and R. D. Koster, 2001: Influence of land surface fluxes on precipitation: Inferences from simulations forced with four ARM-CART SCM datasets. J. Climate, 14(17), 3666-3691.
7.Bowling, L. C., D. P. Lettenmaier, B. Nijssen, P. Graham, D. B. Clark, M. El Maayar, R. Essery, S. Goers, Y. M. Gusev, F. Habets, B. van den Hurk, J. Jin, D. Kahan, D. Lohmann, X. Ma, S. Mahanama, D. Mocko, O. Nasonova, G.-Y. Niu, et al., 2003: Simulation of high-latitude hydrological processes in the Torne-Kalix basin: PILPS phase 2(e). Parts 1 & 2. Glob. and Plan. Change, 38(1-2), 1-53.
8.Sud, Y. C., D. M. Mocko, K.-M. Lau, and R. Atlas, 2003: Simulating the midwestern U.S. drought of 1988 with a GCM. J. Climate, 16(23), 3946-3965.
9.Schlosser, C. A., and D. M. Mocko, 2003: The impact of snow conditions in spring dynamical seasonal predictions. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 108(D16), 8616, doi:10.1029/2002JD003113.
10.Koster, R. D., P. A. Dirmeyer, Z. Guo, G. Bonan, E. Chan, P. Cox, C. T. Gordon, S. Kanae, E. Kowalczyk, D. Lawrence, P. Liu, C.-H. Lu, S. Malyshev, B. McAvaney, K. Mitchell, D. Mocko, T. Oki, K. Oleson, A. Pitman, Y. C. Sud, et al., 2004: Regions of strong coupling between soil moisture and precipitation. Science, 305(5687), 1138-1140.
11.Sud, Y. C., D. M. Mocko, and S.-J. Lin, 2006: Performance of two cloud-radiation parameterization schemes in the fvGCM for anomalously wet May and June 2003 over the continental United States and Amazonia. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 111(D6), 6201, doi:10.1029/2005JD006246.
12.Seneviratne, S. I., R. D. Koster, Z.-C. Guo, P. A. Dirmeyer, E. Kowalczyk, D. Lawrence, P. Liu, C.-H. Lu, D. M. Mocko, K. W. Oleson, and D. Verseghy, 2006: Soil moisture memory in AGCM simulations: Analysis of Global Land-Atmosphere Coupling Experiment (GLACE) data. J. Hydrometeor., 7(5), 1090-1112.
13.Koster, R. D., Z.-C. Guo, P. A. Dirmeyer, G. Bonan, E. Chan, P. Cox, H. Davies, C. T. Gordon, S. Kanae, E. Kowalczyk, D. Lawrence, P. Liu, C.-H. Lu, S. Malyshev, B. McAvaney, K. Mitchell, D. M. Mocko, T. Oki, K. W. Oleson, A. Pitman, Y. C. Sud, et al., 2006: GLACE: The Global Land-Atmosphere Coupling Experiment. Part I: Overview. J. Hydrometeor., 7(4), 590-610.
14.Guo, Z.-C., P. A. Dirmeyer, R. D. Koster, G. Bonan, E. Chan, P. Cox, C. T. Gordon, S. Kanae, E. Kowalczyk, D. Lawrence, P. Liu, C.-H. Lu, S. Malyshev, B. McAvaney, J. L. McGregor, K. Mitchell, D. M. Mocko, T. Oki, K. W. Oleson, A. Pitman, Y. C. Sud, et al., 2006: GLACE: The Global Land-Atmosphere Coupling Experiment. Part II: Analysis. J. Hydrometeor., 7(4), 611-625.
15.Santanello, J. A., Jr., C. D. Peters-Lidard, M. Garcia, D. M. Mocko, M. A. Tischler, M. S. Moran, and D. P. Thoma, 2007: Using remotely-sensed estimates of soil moisture to infer soil texture and hydraulic properties across a semi-arid watershed. Rem. Sens. of Environ., 110, 79–97, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2007.02.007.
16.Peters-Lidard, C. D., D. M. Mocko, M. Garcia, J. A. Santanello, M. A. Tischler, M. S. Moran, and Y. Wu, 2008: Role of precipitation uncertainty in the estimation of hydrologic soil properties using remotely-sensed soil moisture in a semi-arid environment. Water Resour. Res., USDA-ARS-SWRC special issue, 44, W05S18, doi:10.1029/2007WR005884.
17.Bosilovich, M. G., D. M. Mocko, J. O. Roads, and A. Ruane, 2009: A Multi-model Analysis for the Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period (CEOP). J. Hydrometeor., 10(4), 912–934, DOI: 10.1175/2009JHM1090.1, 2009.