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Will McCarty
Researcher at Goddard Space Flight Center
Publications - 34
Citations - 5151
Will McCarty is an academic researcher from Goddard Space Flight Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Data assimilation & Numerical weather prediction. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 26 publications receiving 3215 citations. Previous affiliations of Will McCarty include Morgan State University.
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The Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2)
Ronald Gelaro,Will McCarty,Max J. Suarez,Max J. Suarez,Ricardo Todling,Andrea Molod,Lawrence L. Takacs,Cynthia A. Randles,Cynthia A. Randles,Anton Darmenov,Michael G. Bosilovich,Rolf H. Reichle,Krzysztof Wargan,Lawrence Coy,Richard I. Cullather,Richard I. Cullather,Clara S. Draper,Clara S. Draper,Santha Akella,V. Buchard,V. Buchard,Austin Conaty,Arlindo da Silva,Wei Gu,Gi-Kong Kim,Randal D. Koster,Robert A. Lucchesi,Dagmar Merkova,J. E. Nielsen,Gary Partyka,Steven Pawson,William M. Putman,Michele M. Rienecker,Siegfried D. Schubert,Meta Sienkiewicz,Bin Zhao,Bin Zhao +36 more
TL;DR: An overview of the MERRA-2 system and various performance metrics is provided, including the assimilation of aerosol observations, several improvements to the representation of the stratosphere including ozone, and improved representations of cryospheric processes.
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Introduction to the SPARC Reanalysis Intercomparison Project (S-RIP) and overview of the reanalysis systems
Masatomo Fujiwara,Jonathon S. Wright,Gloria L. Manney,Lesley J. Gray,James Anstey,Thomas Birner,Sean M. Davis,Sean M. Davis,Edwin P. Gerber,V. Lynn Harvey,Michaela I. Hegglin,Cameron R. Homeyer,John A. Knox,Kirstin Krüger,Alyn Lambert,Craig S. Long,Patrick Martineau,Andrea Molod,B. M. Monge-Sanz,Michelle L. Santee,Susann Tegtmeier,Simon Chabrillat,David G. H. Tan,David Jackson,Saroja Polavarapu,Gilbert P. Compo,Gilbert P. Compo,Rossana Dragani,Wesley Ebisuzaki,Yayoi Harada,Chiaki Kobayashi,Will McCarty,Kazutoshi Onogi,Steven Pawson,Adrian Simmons,Krzysztof Wargan,Jeffrey S. Whitaker,Cheng Zhi Zou +37 more
TL;DR: The Stratosphere-troposphere Processes And their Role in Climate (SPARC) Reanalysis Intercomparison Project (S-RIP) is a coordinated activity to compare reanalysis data sets using a variety of key diagnostics.
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LIDAR-MEASURED WIND PROFILES The Missing Link in the Global Observing System
W. E. Baker,Robert Atlas,Carla Cardinali,Amy C. Clement,G. D. Emmitt,Bruce M. Gentry,R. Michael Hardesty,Erland Källén,Michael J. Kavaya,Rolf H. Langland,Zaizhong Ma,Michiko Masutani,Will McCarty,R. Bradley Pierce,Zhaoxia Pu,Lars Peter Riishojgaard,James M. Ryan,Sara C. Tucker,Martin Weissmann,James G. Yoe +19 more
TL;DR: The European Space Agency (ESA)'s Atmospheric Dynamics Mission Aeolus (ADM-Aeolus) Doppler wind lidar (DWL), now scheduled for launch in 2015, will be a major milestone as mentioned in this paper.
MERRA-2 Input Observations: Summary and Assessment
Randal D. Koster,Will McCarty,Lawrence Coy,Ronald Gelaro,Albert S. Huang,Dagmar Merkova,Edmond B. Smith,Meta Sienkiewicz,Krzysztof Wargan +8 more
TL;DR: The Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2) is an atmospheric reanalysis, spanning 1980 through near-real-time, that uses state-of-the-art processing of observations from the continually evolving global observing system as mentioned in this paper.
Evaluation of the 7-km GEOS-5 Nature Run
Ronald Gelaro,William M. Putman,Steven Pawson,C. Draper,Andrea Molod,P. M. Norris,Lesley Ott,Nikki C. Prive,Oreste Reale,Deepthi Achuthavarier,Michael G. Bosilovich,V. Buchard,Winston C. Chao,Lawrence Coy,Richard I. Cullather,Arlindo da Silva,Anton Darmenov,Randal D. Koster,Will McCarty,Siegfried D. Schubert +19 more
TL;DR: In this article, an evaluation of the GEOS-5 Nature Run (G5NR) is presented, which is used for conducting observing system simulation experiments (OSSEs).