Rolf Reichle

Research Group

Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center:
The goal of the NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office is to advance the state of the art of data assimilation and to produce research-quality assimilated global data sets for advancing our understanding of the Earth system and climate change.

Publications

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• Reichle, R. H., S. V. Kumar, S. P. P. Mahanama, R. D. Koster, and Q. Liu (2009), Assimilation of satellite-derived skin temperature observations into land surface models, Journal of Hydrometeorology, Journal of Hydrometeorology, submitted.
  
• Entekhabi, D., R. H. Reichle, R. D. Koster, and W. T. Crow (2009), Performance Metrics for Soil Moisture Retrievals and Application Requirements, Journal of Hydrometeorology, in press.
  
• Entekhabi, D., E. Njoku, P. O'Neill, et al. (2009), The Soil Moisture Active and Passive (SMAP) Mission, Proceedings of the IEEE, submitted.
  
• De Lannoy, G. J. M., R. H. Reichle, P. R. Houser, K. R. Arsenault, N. E. C. Verhoest, and V. R. N. Pauwels (2009), Satellite-Scale Snow Water Equivalent Assimilation into a High-Resolution Land Surface Model, Journal of Hydrometeorology, in press, doi:10.1175/2009JHM1192.1.
  
• Kumar, S. V., R. H. Reichle, R. D. Koster, W. T. Crow, and C. D. Peters-Lidard (2009), Role of subsurface physics in the assimilation of surface soil moisture observations, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 10, 1534-1547, doi:10.1175/2009JHM1134.1.
  
• Tedesco, M., R. H. Reichle, A. Loew, T. Markus, and J. Foster (2009), Assessment of climatologically and meteorologically driven dynamic approaches for snow depth retrieval from space-borne microwave brightness temperature, IEEE Transactions on Geosciences and Remote Sensing, in press.
  
• Kumar, S., C. Peters-Lidard, Y. Tian, R. Reichle, J. Geiger, C. Alonge, J. Eylander, and P. Houser (2008), An integrated hydrologic modeling and data assimilation framework, IEEE Computer, 41, 52-59, doi:10.1109/MC.2008.511.
  
• Reichle, R. H., W. T. Crow, R. D. Koster, H. Sharif, and S. P. P. Mahanama (2008), Contribution of soil moisture retrievals to land data assimilation products, Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L01404, doi:10.1029/2007GL031986.
  
• Reichle, R. H., W. T. Crow, and C. L. Keppenne (2008), An adaptive ensemble Kalman filter for soil moisture data assimilation, Water Resources Research, 44, W03423, doi:10.1029/2007WR006357.
  
• Crow, W. T. and R. H. Reichle (2008), Comparison of adaptive filtering techniques for land surface data assimilation, Water Resources Research, 44, W08423, doi:10.1029/2008WR006883.
  
• Reichle, R. H., M. G. Bosilovich, W. T. Crow, R. D. Koster, S. V. Kumar, S. P. P. Mahanama, and B. F. Zaitchik (2009), Recent Advances in Land Data Assimilation at the NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, In: Data Assimilation for Atmospheric, Oceanic and Hydrologic Applications, edited by Seon K. Park and Liang Xu, 407-428, Springer Verlag, New York, doi:10.1007/978-3-540-71056-1.
  
• Reichle, R. H. (2008), Data Assimilation Methods in the Earth Sciences, Advances in Water Resources, 31, 1411-1418, doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2008.01.001.
  
• Mahanama, S. P. P., R. D. Koster, R. H. Reichle, and L. Zubair (2008), The Role of Soil Moisture Initialization in Sub-seasonal and Seasonal Streamflow Prediction - A Case Study in Sri Lanka, Advances in Water Resources, 31, 1333-1343, doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2008.06.004.
  
• Koster, R. D., T. L. Bell, R. H. Reichle, M. J. Suarez, and S. D. Schubert (2008), Using Observed Spatial Correlation Structures to Increase the Skill of Subseasonal Forecasts, Monthly Weather Review, 136, 1923-1939, doi:10.1175/2007MWR2255.1.
  
• Kumar, S. V., R. H. Reichle, C. D. Peters-Lidard, R. D. Koster, X. Zhan, W. T. Crow, J. B. Eylander, and P. R. Houser (2008), A Land Surface Data Assimilation Framework using the Land Information System: Description and Applications, Advances in Water Resources, 31, 1419-1432, doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2008.01.013.
  
• Zaitchik, B. F., M. Rodell, and R. H. Reichle (2008), Assimilation of GRACE terrestrial water storage data into a land surface model: Results for the Mississippi River basin, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 9, 535-548, doi:10.1175/2007JHM951.1.
  
• Mahanama, S. P. P., R. D. Koster, R. H. Reichle, and M. J. Suarez (2008), Impact of Subsurface Temperature Variability on Surface Air Temperature Variability: An AGCM Study, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 9, 804-815, doi:10.1175/2008JHM949.1.
  
• Reichle, R. H., R. D. Koster, P. Liu, S. P. P. Mahanama, E. G. Njoku, and M. Owe (2007), 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), Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 112, D09108, doi:10.1029/2006JD008033.
  
• De Lannoy, G. J. M., R. H. Reichle, P. R. Houser, V. R. N. Pauwels, and N. E. C. Verhoest (2007), Correcting for Forecast Bias in Soil Moisture Assimilation with the Ensemble Kalman Filter, Water Resources Research, 43, W09410, doi:10.1029/2006WR005449.
  
• Crow, W. T., D. Entekhabi, R. D. Koster, and R. H. Reichle (2006), Multiple Spaceborne Water Cycle Observations Would Aid Modeling, EOS American Geophysical Union, 87, 149,153, doi:10.1029/2006EO150002.
  
• Crow, W. T., R. D. Koster, R. H. Reichle, and H. Sharif (2005), Relevance of time-varying and time-invariant retrieval error sources on the utility of spaceborne soil moisture products, Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L24405, doi:10.1029/2005GL024889.
  
• Reichle, R. H. and R. D. Koster (2005), Global assimilation of satellite surface soil moisture retrievals into the NASA Catchment land surface model, Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L02404, doi:10.1029/2004GL021700.
  
• Reichle, R. H. and R. D. Koster (2004), Bias reduction in short records of satellite soil moisture, Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L19501, doi:10.1029/2004GL020938.
  
• Koster, R. D., M. J. Suarez, P. Liu, U. Jambor, A. A. Berg, M. Kistler, R. H. Reichle, M. Rodell, and J. Famiglietti (2004), Realistic Initialization of Land Surface States: Impacts on Subseasonal Forecast Skill, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 5, 1049-1063, doi:10.1175/JHM-387.1.
  
• Berg, A. A., J. S. Famiglietti, M. Rodell, R. H. Reichle, U. Jambor, S. L. Holl, and P. R. Houser (2005), Development of a Hydrometeorological Forcing Data Set for Global Soil Moisture Estimation, International Journal of Climatology, 25, 1697-1714, doi:10.1002/joc.1203.
  
• Reichle, R. H., R. D. Koster, J. Dong, and A. A. Berg (2004), Global Soil Moisture from Satellite Observations, Land Surface Models, and Ground Data: Implications for Data Assimilation, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 5, 430-442.
  
• Walker, J. P., P. R. Houser, and R. H. Reichle (2003), New Remote Sensing Technologies Require Advances in Hydrologic Data Assimilation, EOS American Geophysical Union, 84, 545,551, doi:10.1029/2003EO490002.
  
• Reichle, R. H. and R. D. Koster (2003), Assessing the impact of horizontal error correlations in background fields on soil moisture estimation, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 4, 1229-1242.
  
• Reichle, R. H., J. P. Walker, R. D. Koster, and P. R. Houser (2002), Extended vs. Ensemble Kalman Filtering for Land Data Assimilation, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 3, 728-740.
  
• Reichle, R. H., D. B. McLaughlin, and D. Entekhabi (2002), Hydrologic data assimilation with the Ensemble Kalman filter, Monthly Weather Review, 130, 103-114.
  
• Reichle, R. H., D. Entekhabi, and D. B. McLaughlin (2001), Downscaling of radiobrightness measurements for soil moisture estimation: A four-dimensional variational data assimilation approach, Water Resources Research, 37, 2353-2364, doi:10.1029/2001WR000475.
  
• Reichle, R. H., D. B. McLaughlin, and D. Entekhabi (2001), Variational data assimilation of microwave radiobrightness observations for land surface hydrology applications, IEEE Transactions on Geosciences and Remote Sensing, 39, 1708-1718, doi:10.1109/36.942549.
  
• Reichle, R. H., D. B. McLaughlin, and D. Entekhabi (2000), Variational data assimilation of soil moisture and temperature from remote sensing observations, In: IAHS Red Book Publication no. 265 (peer-reviewed), Calibration and Reliability in Groundwater Modelling: Coping with Uncertainty, edited by F. Stauffer et al., 353-359, IAHS Press, Wallingford, UK.
  
• Reichle, R. H., W. Kinzelbach, and H. Kinzelbach (1998), Effective parameters in heterogeneous and homogeneous transport models with kinetic sorption, Water Resources Research, 34, 583-594, doi:10.1029/97WR03518.
  

• Eylander, J., C. D. Peters-Lidard, D. Hall, J. Foster, R. Reichle, and S. Kumar (2008), Air Force Weather Agency Land Information System and Snow Analysis Model, Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation Quarterly Newsletter, 24, 1-2.
  
• Reichle, R. H. and R. D. Koster (2002), Land data assimilation with the Ensemble Kalman Filter: Assessing model error parameters using innovations, In: Developments in Water Science - Computational Methods in Water Resources, 47(2), Eds. S. M. Hassanizadeh, R. J. Schotting, W. G. Gray, and G. F. Pinder, pp 1387-1394, Elsevier, New York, USA.
  

• Reichle, R. H. (2009), Advances in land data assimilation at NASA, Invited Presentation, ECMWF/GLASS Workshop on Land Surface Modelling and Data Assimilation and the Implications for Predictability.
  
• Reichle, R. H., B. F. Zaitchik, and M. Rodell (2009), Assimilation of GRACE terrestrial water storage data into a land surface model, Invited Presentation, 88th AMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
  
• Reichle, R. H., S. V. Kumar, R. D. Koster, W. T. Crow, and C. Peters-Lidard (2008), The impact of subsurface physics on soil moisture estimates derived from the assimilation of surface observations, Invited Presentation, AGU Joint Assembly, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA.
  
• Kumar, S. V., R. H. Reichle, R. D. Koster, and C. D. Peters-Lidard (2008), Impact of Land Surface Representation in the Assimilation of Surface Soil Moisture, Invited Presentation, 88th AMS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA.
  
• De Lannoy, G. J., P. R. Houser, R. H. Reichle, V. R. Pauwels, N. E. Verhoest (2007), Dealing with systematic errors in land surface modeling, soil moisture observations and assimilation, Invited Presentation, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA.
  
• Rodell, M., B. F. Zaitchik, and R. H. Reichle (2007), Assimilation of GRACE Derived Terrestrial Water Storage Data into a Hydrological Model, Invited Presentation, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA.
  
• Reichle, R. H. (2007), An adaptive Ensemble Kalman filter for soil moisture data assimilation, Invited Presentation, AGU Joint Assembly, May 2007, Acapulco, Mexico.
  
• Rodell, M., B. Zaitchik, H. Kato, R. H. Reichle, and R. van der Velde (2007), Enhancement of Satellite Observations of the Land Surface Via Data Assimilation, Invited Presentation, AGU Joint Assembly, Acapulco, Mexico.
  
• Koster, R. D., and R. H. Reichle (2007), Current Capabilities and Future Directions for Land Surface Data Assimilation, Invited Presentation, 87th AMS Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, USA.
  
• Reichle, R. H. (2006), Soil moisture and soil temperature data assimilation in the NASA/GMAO system, Invited Presentation, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF), Reading, UK.
  
• Reichle, R. H. (2006), Assimilating retrievals of surface soil moisture and land surface temperature into a land surface model, Invited Presentation, IGARSS, Denver, CO, USA.
  
• Reichle, R. H., R. D. Koster, M. G. Bosilovich, and S. Mahanama (2006), Biases and scaling in soil moisture and temperature data assimilation, Invited Presentation, AGU Spring Meeting, Baltimore, MD, USA.
  
• Rodell, M., R. H. Reichle, K. Ellett, J. Walker, F. Lemoine, and H. Kato (2006), Land Surface Model Assimilation of Data from GRACE and Other Satellites, Invited Presentation, AGU Spring Meeting, Baltimore, MD, USA.
  
• Reichle, R. H. (2006), Soil moisture and soil temperature assimilation with the Ensemble Kalman filter, Invited Presentation, Workshop on Predictability, Observations, and Uncertainties in Geosciences, March 13-15, 2006, School of Computational Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA.
  
• Reichle, R. H. (2004), Land data assimilation and seasonal climate prediction, Invited Presentation, ECMWF/ELDAS Workshop on Land Surface Assimilation, Reading, UK.
  
• Reichle, R. H., P. R. Houser, M. Rodell, and R. D. Koster (2003), Recent progress in land data assimilation at NASA, Invited Presentation, IUGG Meeting, Sapporo, Japan.
  
• Reichle, R. H. and R. D. Koster (2002), Land data assimilation with the Ensemble Kalman Filter: Assessing model error parameters using innovations, Invited Presentation, XIV International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources, Delft, Netherlands (In: Developments in Water Science - Computational Methods in Water Resources, 47(2), Eds. S. M. Hassanizadeh, R. J. Schotting, W. G. Gray, and G. F. Pinder, pp 1387-1394, Elsevier, New York, 2002).
  
• Reichle, R. H. (2002), Lessons learned from data assimilation into uncoupled land models, Invited Presentation, Workshop on Land-atmosphere Coupling Aspects in Land Data Assimilation and SVAT Parameter Estimation, Global Land Atmosphere System Study (GLASS), De Bilt, Netherlands.
  
• McLaughlin, D. B., D. Entekhabi, and R. H. Reichle (2001), Hydrologic Data Assimilation: Challenges and Promising Solutions, Invited Presentation, AGU Spring Meeting, Boston, MA, USA.
  
• Reichle, R. H., D. B McLaughlin, and D. Entekhabi (1998), Soil Moisture and Temperature Data Assimilation and Down-Scaling from Remotely-Sensed Passive Microwave Data, Invited Presentation, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA.
  

• Peters-Lidard, C. D., S. V. Kumar, J. A. Santanello Jr., R. H. Reichle, J. B. Eylander, and M. B. Ek (2010), Multi-Scale Hydrometeorological Modeling, Land Data Assimilation and Parameter Estimation with the Land Information System, Fourth Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference, Las Vegas, NV, USA.
  
• Tedesco, M., P. Narvekar, R. Kelly, J. Foster, and R. H. Reichle (2010), Assessment and development of the NASA AMSR-E SWE algorithm, 11th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment (MicroRAD), Washington, DC, USA.
  
• Houborg, R., M. Rodell, J. S. Famiglietti, R. Heim, J. Lawrimore, B. Li, R. H. Reichle, M. Rosencranz, M. Svoboda, B. D. Wardlow, and B. F. Zaitchik (2010), Towards integrating GRACE terrestrial water storage data into the U.S. and North American Drought Monitors , 90th AMS Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, USA.
  
• Reichle, R. H., W. T. Crow, R. D. Koster, and J. Kimball (2010), The SMAP Level 4 Surface and Root-zone Soil Moisture (L4_SM) product, 90th AMS Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, USA.
  
• Holmes, T., T. Jackson, R. H. Reichle, J. Basara (2009), Validation of soil temperature dataset against ground measurements in Oklahoma, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA.
  
• Jones, L. A., J. S. Kimball, R. H. Reichle, K. Zhang, K. C. McDonald (2009), Satellite Remote Sensing of Net Ecosystem CO2 Exchange using optical-IR and Microwave sensors: Algorithm Development for the SMAP Decadal Survey Mission, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA.
  
• Sahoo, A., G. J. M. De Lannoy, R. H. Reichle, P. R. Houser, L. Gates (2009), Assimilation of Satellite Observed Soil Moisture into the Noah Land Surface Model Using the 3-D EnKF Technique, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA.
  
• De Lannoy, G. J. M., R. H. Reichle, P. R. Houser, K. R. Arsenault, N. E. C. Verhoest, and V. R. N. Pauwels (2009), Fine scale snow analyses improvement through coarse scale snow water equivalent assimilation, Fifth WMO Symposium on Data Assimilation, Melbourne, Australia.
  
• Crow, W. T., R. H. Reichle, R. D. Koster, and J. Kimball (2009), Land Data Assimilation Activities in Preparation of the NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission, Fifth WMO Symposium on Data Assimilation, Melbourne, Australia.
  
• Peters-Lidard, C. D., S. V. Kumar, J. A. Santanello Jr., and R. H. Reichle (2009), Multi-scale hydrometeorological modeling, land data assimilation and parameter estimation with the land information system, Sixth International Scientific Conference on the Global Energy and Water Cycle, Melbourne, Australia.
  
• Reichle, R. H., W. T. Crow, R. D. Koster, and 14 co-authors (2009), Global High Resolution Mapping and Assimilation of Soil Moisture Observations from the SMAP Radar and Radiometer , Sixth International Scientific Conference on the Global Energy and Water Cycle, Melbourne, Australia.
  
• Mahanama, S., R. H. Reichle, R. D. Koster, and D. Lettenmaier (2009), Contribution of Soil Moisture Information to Streamflow Prediction in the Snowmelt Season: A Continental-Scale Analysis, Sixth International Scientific Conference on the Global Energy and Water Cycle, Melbourne, Australia.
  
• Entekhabi, D., E. Njoku, P. O'Neill, and 14 co-authors (2009), High resolution mapping of soil moisture with SMAP radar and radiometer in support of new approaches to water cycle science and applications, IGARSS, Cape Town, South Africa.
  
• Kumar, S. V., R. H. Reichle, and C. D. Peters-Lidard (2009), Comparison of bias mitigation strategies for skin temperature assimilation, 88th AMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
  
• Reichle, R. H., S. V. Kumar, S. P. P., Mahanama, and R. D. Koster (2008), Bias estimation and assimilation of land surface temperature, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA.
  
• Liu, Q. and R. H. Reichle (2008), Estimating the observation error of AMSR-E soil moisture retrievals through adaptive data assimilation, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA.
  
• Peters-Lidard, C. D., S. V. Kumar, J. A. Santanello, Y. Tian, M. Rodell, D. Mocko, and R. Reichle (2008), High Performance Hydrometeorological Modeling, Land Data Assimilation and Parameter Estimation with the Land Information System at NASA/GSFC, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA.
  
• Peters-Lidard, C. D., S. V. Kumar, J. A. Santanello, Y. Tian, M. Rodell, D. Mocko, and R. Reichle (2008), High Resolution Land Data Assimilation Supported by NASA/GSFC and the Land Information System (LIS), USGEO-CGEO Workshop on Water and Ice, Arlington, VA, USA.
  
• Reichle, R. H., W. T. Crow, R. D. Koster, H. Sharif, and S. P. P. Mahanama (2008), An Observing System Simulation Experiment (OSSE) framework for the SMAP Level 4 soil moisture data assimilation products, Microwave Land Hydrology Workshop, Oxnard, CA, USA.
  
• Tedesco, M., R. Kelly, J. Foster, R. Reichle, J. Wang, E. J. Kim, and J. Miller (2008), Maintenance, validation, and improvement of the NASA AMSR-E SWE product, Microwave Land Hydrology Workshop, Oxnard, CA, USA.
  
• Reichle, R. H., S. Kumar, R. Koster, C. Peters-Lidard, and W. Crow (2008), Impact of land model physics on soil moisture assimilation, IGARSS, Boston, MA, USA.
  
• Tedesco, M., A. Loew, T. Markus, and R. Reichle (2008), A radiance-based assimilation framework for the retrieval of SWE and snow depth from AMSR-E and SSM/I data, IGARSS, Boston, MA, USA.
  
• Mahanama, S. P., R. D. Koster, R. H. Reichle, and L. Zubair (2008), The Role of Soil Moisture Initialization in Sub-seasonal and Seasonal Streamflow Prediction, AGU Joint Assembly, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA.
  
• S. V. Kumar, C. Peters-Lidard, and R. H. Reichle (2008), Land surface modeling and data assimilation with the Land Information System, AGU Joint Assembly, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA.
  
• Reichle, R. H., and M. G. Bosilovich (2008), Issues regarding the assimilation of satellite retrievals of land surface temperature into land surface models, International Workshop on the Retrieval and Use of Land Surface Temperature, Asheville, NC, USA.
  
• Kumar, S. V., Reichle, R. H., and C. Peters-Lidard (2008), Skin temperature data assimilation in the Land Information System (LIS), International Workshop on the Retrieval and Use of Land Surface Temperature, Asheville, NC, USA.
  
• Schubert, S. et al. (2008), Assimilating Earth System Observations at NASA: MERRA and Beyond, Third WCRP International Conference on Reanalysis, Tokyo, Japan.
  
• Rodell, M., B. Zaitchik, and R. H. Reichle (2008), Assimilation of GRACE Derived Terrestrial Water Storage Data, Third International Workshop on Catchment-scale Hydrological Modeling and Data Assimilation, Melbourne, Australia.
  
• Mitchell, K., J. D. Tarpley, C. Peters-Lidard, M. A. Friedl, X. Zeng, L. Jiang, R. H. Reichle, P. R. Houser, and X. Zhan (2008), Satellite-Derived Land Surface Fields in the Data Assimilation, Validation and Forcing of the Land Component of NCEP Global and Regional Weather and Climate Prediction Models, 88th AMS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA.
  
• Mahanama, S., R. D. Koster, J. T. Bacmeister, R. H. Reichle, and M. J. Suarez (2008), Land-atmosphere coupling strength in the GEOS-5 AGCM, 88th AMS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA.
  
• Reichle, R. H., W. T. Crow, R. D. Koster, H. O. Sharif, S. P. Mahanama (2007), The contribution of soil moisture retrievals to land data assimilation products, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA.
  
• Crow, W. T. and R. H. Reichle (2007), The development of adaptive filtering techniques for land surface models, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA.
  
• Reichle, R. H., W. Crow, R. D. Koster, H. Sharif, and S. Mahanama (2007), A data assimilation OSSE for assessing uncertainty and utility of soil moisture retrievals, AGU Joint Assembly, Acapulco, Mexico.
  
• Mahanama, S. P. P., R. H. Reichle, L. Zubair, and R. D. Koster (2007), Soil Moisture Memory and Predictability of Seasonal Streamflow in Sri Lanka, AGU Joint Assembly, Acapulco, Mexico.
  
• Kumar, S. V., R. H. Reichle, C. Peters-Lidard, and R. Koster (2007), An Integrated System for Sequential Hydrologic Data Assimilation using the Land Information System, AGU Joint Assembly, Acapulco, Mexico.
  
• Reichle, R. H., R. D. Koster, P. Liu, S. P. P. Mahanama, E. G. Njoku, and M. Owe (2007), Comparison and assimilation of global soil moisture retrievals from AMSRE and SMMR, Workshop on Satellite Observations of the Global Water Cycle, Beckman Center of the National Academies, Irvine, CA, USA.
  
• Reichle, R. H., W. Crow, R. Koster, H. Sharif, and S. Mahanama (2007), Assessment of uncertainty and utility of soil moisture retrievals in a data assimilation experiment, 87th AMS Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, USA.
  
• Mahanama, S., R. D. Koster, J. T. Bacmeister, P. Liu, M. J. Suarez, and R. H. Reichle (2007), Single column model analysis of land-atmosphere coupling strength, 87th AMS Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, USA.
  
• De Lannoy, G. J., R. H. Reichle, P. R. Houser, V. R. Pauwels, and N. E. Verhoest (2006), Ensemble Kalman Filtering of Soil Moisture Observations With Model Bias Correction, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA.
  
• Reichle, R. H., W. Crow, R. D. Koster, H. Sharif, and S. Mahanama (2006), Assessing the impact of errors in soil moisture retrievals on their utility in a data assimilation system, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA.
  
• Pinheiro, A. C., R. H. Reichle, S. Kumar, K. Arsenault, J. L. Privette, and Y. Yu (2006), Determining the required accuracy of LST products for estimating surface energy fluxes, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA.
  
• Kim, E., M. Tedesco, R. H. Reichle, B. Choudhury, J. Foster, D. Hall, C. Peters-Lidard, and G. Riggs (2006), The Goddard Snow Radiance Assimilation Project: an Integrated Snow Radiance and Snow Physics Modeling Framework for Snow/Cold Land Surface Modeling, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA.
  
• Zaitchik, B. F., M. Rodell, R. H. Reichle, and F. G. Lemoine (2006), Assimilating GRACE observations into the Catchment LSM: results for the Mississippi basin, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA.
  
• Kumar, S. V., C. D. Peters-Lidard, J. Eylander, R. H. Reichle, W. Crow, X. Zhan, P. Houser, R. Koster, M. Suarez, and J. Dong (2006), A Generic Interoperable, Hydrologic Data Assimilation Framework using the Land Information System, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA.
  
• Pinheiro, A., S. Kumar, R. Reichle, J. L. Privette, Y. Yu, and K. Arsenault (2006), Determining the required accuracy of LST products for estimating surface energy fluxes, Workshop on Recent Advances in Quantitative Remote Sensing, Valencia, Spain.
  
• Rienecker, M. M., M. J. Suarez, R. D. Koster, R. H. Reichle, C. Keppenne, D. Adamec and S. D. Schubert (2006), Improving Short-term Climate Forecasts with Satellite Observations, IGARSS, Denver, CO, USA.
  
• Koster, R. D., M. J. Suarez, S. D. Schubert, R. H. Reichle (2006), Using Observed Spatial Correlation Structures of Rainfall and Temperature to Improve the Skill of Subseasonal Forecasts Relying on Land Surface Moisture Initialization, AGU Spring Meeting, Baltimore, USA.
  
• Bosilovich, M. G., C. P. Lidard, M. Rodell, R. H. Reichle, G. Compo, P. Dirmeyer, and P. Houser (2006), Land Data Reanalyses, Meeting of the National Research Council's Climate Research Committee, Washington, DC, USA.
  
• Reichle, R. H., S. Mahanama, R. D. Koster, J. D. Radakovich, and M. G. Bosilovich (2006), A new look at the assimilation of satellite retrievals of land surface temperature into a land surface model, 86th AMS Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, USA.
  
• Reichle, R. H., R. D. Koster, and P. Liu (2006), Assimilation of global AMSR-E surface soil moisture into the NASA Catchment land surface model, 86th AMS Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, USA.
  
• Seneviratne, S. I., R. H. Reichle, R. D. Koster, and M. Hirschi (2005), Assimilation of basin-scale estimates of terrestrial water storage variations in a catchment-based land surface model, General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria.
  
• Seneviratne, S. I., R. H. Reichle, and R. D. Koster (2005), Assimilation of basin-scale water-balance estimates of monthly terrestrial water-storage variations in a catchment-based land surface model, 5th International Scientific Conference on the Global Energy and Water Cycle, Orange County, CA, USA.
  
• Reichle, R. H. and R. D. Koster (2005), Bias reduction and assimilation of short records of satellite soil moisture, 85th AMS Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, USA.
  
• Pegion, P., S. Schubert, R. Koster, M. Suarez, R. H. Reichle, and P. Liu (2004), The European Heatwave of 2003: A Modeling Study Using the NSIPP-1 AGCM, 29th NOAA Annual Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
  
• Kurkowski, N., R. H. Reichle, S. Miller, J. Gottschalck, R. Koster, P. Liu, J. Meng, P. Pegion, M. Rodell, S. Schubert, and M. Suarez (2004), Impact of Land Initialization on Coupled Seasonal Forecasts during Summer 2004, 29th NOAA Annual Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
  
• Reichle, R. H., R. D. Koster, and S. P. P. Mahanama (2004), Bias correction of satellite soil moisture and assimilation into the NASA Catchment land surface model, Second International Workshop on Catchment-scale Hydrological Modeling and Data Assimilation, Princeton, NJ, USA.
  
• Seneviratne, S. I., R. H. Reichle, R. D. Koster, S. P. P. Mahanama, M. Hirschi, and C. Schär (2004), Basin-scale water-balance estimates of terrestrial water-storage variations: Potential for data assimilation, Second International Workshop on Catchment-scale Hydrological Modeling and Data Assimilation, Princeton, NJ, USA.
  
• Reichle, R. H., R. D. Koster, and J. Dong (2004), On global soil moisture from satellite observations, land surface models, and ground data, and implications for land data assimilation, 84th AMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, USA.
  
• Ni-Meister, W., J. Walker, P. Houser, and R. H. Reichle (2004), Soil moisture initialization for climate prediction through data assimilation, 84th AMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, USA.
  
• Reichle, R. H. and R. D. Koster (2003), Assessing the impact of horizontal error correlations in background fields on soil moisture estimation with the ensemble Kalman filter, Workshop on Ensemble Weather Forecasting in the Short to Medium Range, Val-Morin, Quebec, Canada.
  
• Reichle, R. H. and R. D. Koster (2003), Assessing the impact of horizontal error correlations in forcing data on soil moisture estimation, 83rd AMS Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA, USA.
  
• Koster, R. D., M. J. Suarez, M. Rodell, U. Jambor, P. Liu, R. H. Reichle, and P. Houser (2003), Improved Land Surface Initial Conditions for Seasonal Weather Forecasts, 83rd AMS Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA, USA.
  
• Reichle, R. H., R. D. Koster, W. Ni-Meister, and P. R. Houser (2002), A parallel Ensemble Kalman filter for four-dimensional land data assimilation, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA.
  
• Ni-Meister, W., J. Walker, R. H. Reichle, P. Houser and R. Koster (2002), Soil Moisture Intialization for Climate Predictions: Assimilating SMMR into a Land Surface Model, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA.
  
• Zhan, X., J. Entin, P. R. Houser, R. H. Reichle, and J. P. Walker (2002), Application of Kalman Filtering for Soil Moisture Data Assimilation in GSFC's Land Data Assimilation System, AGU Spring Meeting, Washington, DC, USA.
  
• Reichle, R. H., R. D. Koster, J. P. Walker, M. M. Rienecker, and P. R. Houser (2002), Aspects of the Extended and Ensemble Kalman filters for land data assimilation in the NASA Seasonal-to-Interannual Prediction Project, 82nd AMS Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, USA.
  
• Reichle, R. H., J. P. Walker, R. D. Koster, M. M. Rienecker, and P. R. Houser (2001), Assimilation of soil moisture with the Ensemble Kalman filter in support of NASA's Seasonal-to-Interannual Prediction Project, International Workshop on Catchment-scale Hydrological Modeling and Data Assimilation, Wageningen, Netherlands.
  
• Reichle, R. H., D. B McLaughlin, and D. Entekhabi (2001), Soil Moisture Data Assimilation with the Ensemble Kalman Filter, AGU Spring Meeting, Boston, MA, USA.
  
• Reichle, R. H., D. B McLaughlin, and D. Entekhabi (2000), Variational data assimilation of soil moisture and temperature from remote sensing observations, 80th AMS Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA, USA.
  
• Reichle, R. H., D. B McLaughlin, and D. Entekhabi (1999), Four-dimensional Data Assimilation and Down-Scaling of Remote Sensing SGP97 Observations for the Estimation of Profile Soil Moisture and Soil Temperature, 79th AMS Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, USA.
  
• McLaughlin, D. B., D. Entekhabi, R. H. Reichle, and S. J. Luis (1998), Using Data Assimilation to Infer Soil Moisture From Remotely-Sensed Observations, AGU Spring Meeting, Boston, MA, USA.
  
• Devereaux, J. A., J. S. Famiglietti, M. L. Branstetter, S. T. Graham, K. I. Mohr, M. Rodell, G. Kim, D. Miller, E. Amano, J. Levine, R. H. Reichle, and T. J. Jackson (1997), Correlation of Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture Content With Gravimetric and Impedance Probe Measurements at Two Sites During SGP97, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA.
  

• Rolf H Reichle: Variational Assimilation of Remote Sensing Data for Land Surface Hydrologic Applications, PhD Dissertation, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, Feb 2000
• Rolf H Reichle: Zeitabhängige effektive Parameter in homogenen und heterogenen Transport-Modellen mit kinetischem Austausch, MS Thesis, Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie, Institut für Umweltphysik, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, 1996.

Curriculum Vitae

08/2008 - present

Research Scientist at the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

08/2008 - present

Fellow at the Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center at UMBC

07/2005 - 07/2008

Associate Research Scientist at the Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center at UMBC (hosted at the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

01/2001 - 06/2005

Assistant Research Scientist at the Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center at UMBC (hosted at the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

02/2000 - 12/2000

Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

08/1996 - 02/2000

PhD candidate and Research Assistant at the Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

04/1996 - 07/1996

Research and Teaching Assistant at the Institute of Environmental Engineering (IfU) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland

05/1993 - 03/1996

MS in Physics at the Dept. of Physics, Institute of Environmental Physics , Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

08/1992 - 04/1993

Exchange student at the University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France

04/1990 - 07/1992

BS in Physics, BS in Mathematics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

Contact

Rolf Reichle
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Global Modeling and Assimilation Office
Mail Code 610.1
8800 Greenbelt Rd
Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA

Phone : +1 (301) 614-5693
FAX : +1 (301) 614-6297

E-mail: rolf DOT reichle AT nasa DOT gov