Publications

Journal articles and preprints. The full list, with citation counts, is on Google Scholar. Author lists are shortened where the source list was.

2025

  • Keely, W., Mauceri, S., Nelson, R., Laughner, J., O’Dell, C. W., Massie, S., Baker, D., Kiel, M., Lamminpää, O., Hobbs, J., et al. (2025). Uncertainty-aware machine learning bias correction and filtering for OCO-2: Part 2. Earth and Space Science 12(11), e2025EA004329.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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, early online release.

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.
  • 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.

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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

2022

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

2021

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

2020

  • 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.
  • 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.

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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

2018

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Crowell, S. M. R., Randolph Kawa, S., 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.
  • 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.

2015

  • Crowell, S., Rayner, P., Zaccheo, S., & Moore, B. (2015). Impacts of atmospheric state uncertainty on O 2 measurement requirements for the ASCENDS mission. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 8(7), 2685–2697.

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. PDF
  • 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.

Preprints and discussion papers

  • 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.
  • Doughty, R., Wang, Y., Johnson, J., Parazoo, N., Magney, T., Pierrat, Z., Xiao, X., Guanter, L., Köhler, P., Frankenberg, C., et al. (2023). A novel data-driven global model of photosynthesis using solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence. Authorea preprint.
  • Keely, W., Crowell, S., Moore, B., Diochnos, D., & O’Dell, C. (2022). Geophysical Bias Correction of Trace Green House Gas Satellite Retrievals Using Explainable Machine Learning Methods. Authorea preprint.
  • 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 preprint.
  • Peiro, H. E., Kurt, A., & Crowell, S. (2022). Combustion efficiency observed with CO and NO2 TROPOMI data: a first counties scale study during the 2020 fires of California. Authorea preprint.
  • Nivitanont, J., Crowell, S., O’Dell, C., Burgh, E., McGarragh, G., O’Brien, D., & Moore, B. (2022). Characterizing the Effects of Inhomogeneous Scene Illumination on the Retrieval of Greenhouse Gases from a Geostationary Platform. Authorea preprint.
  • Crowell, S., Haist, T., Tscherpel, M., Caron, J., Burgh, E., & Moore III, B. (2022). Performance and polarization response of slit homogenizers for the GeoCarb mission. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Discussions, 1–23.
  • Byrne, B., Baker, D. F., Basu, S., Bertolacci, M., Bowman, K. W., Carroll, D., Chatterjee, A., Chevallier, F., Ciais, P., Cressie, N., et al. (2022). National CO₂ budgets (2015–2020) inferred from atmospheric CO₂ observations in support of the global stocktake. Earth System Science Data Discussions, 1–59.
  • 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 Discussions, 1–61.
  • Schimel, D., Sellers, P., Moore III, B., Chatterjee, A., Baker, D., Berry, J., Bowman, K., Crisp, P. C. D., Crowell, S., Denning, S., et al. (2016). Observing the carbon-climate system. arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.02106.
  • Crowell, S., Rayner, P., Zaccheo, S., & Moore, B. (2014). Impacts of spectroscopic errors on O2 measurement requirements for the ASCENDS mission. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Discussions 7(7), 6855–6875.
  • Crowell, S. & Lakshmivarahan, S. (2010). Forecast Bias Correction: A Second Order Method. arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.1508.

Earlier work

Postdoctoral work at the National Severe Storms Laboratory with David Stensrud and Dave Turner: observing system simulation experiments for a winter storm modeled on January 2008 and a spring convective outbreak modeled on May 24, 2011.

Numerical methods for weather prediction, with Catherine Mavriplis, Louis Wicker and Dustin Williams: finite difference, discontinuous Galerkin and spectral difference schemes compared on advection, Burgers and acoustic-advection problems. Presented at ICCS 2009 and ICOSAHOM 2009.