Andrea Molod

20.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
100 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Andrea Molod is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrea Molod has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Atmospheric Science, 89 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 29 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Andrea Molod's work include Climate variability and models (68 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (57 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (31 papers). Andrea Molod is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (68 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (57 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (31 papers). Andrea Molod collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and France. Andrea Molod's co-authors include Lawrence L. Takacs, Max J. Suárez, Julio T. Bacmeister, Haydee Salmun, Y. C. Sud, Steven Pawson, Siegfried D. Schubert, Andrew Eichmann, In‐Sun Song and Luke D. Oman and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Scientific Reports and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Andrea Molod

95 papers receiving 3.3k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Development of the GEOS-5 atmospheric general circulation model: evolution from MERRA to MERRA2

2015 861 citations Andrea Molod, Lawrence L. Takacs et al. Geoscientific model development profile →

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Andrea Molod

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Lawrence L. Takacs United States

John Methven United Kingdom

Paul Berrisford United Kingdom

Jason N. S. Cole Canada

Robert G. Fovell United States

Melville E. Nicholls United States

Yunfei Fu China

John Edwards United Kingdom

Courtney Schumacher United States

Daniela I. V. Domeisen Switzerland

Lawrence L. Takacs United States

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Fields of papers citing papers by Andrea Molod

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Andrea Molod

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20 of 20 papers shown

Siegelman, Lia, et al.. (2025). Ocean submesoscale fronts induce diabatic heating and convective precipitation within storms. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 2 indexed citations

Song, Ci, et al.. (2025). Signatures of aerosol-cloud interactions in GiOcean: a coupled global reanalysis with two-moment cloud microphysics. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 25(21). 15567–15592.

Schubert, Siegfried D., Yehui Chang, Anthony M. DeAngelis, et al.. (2024). Insights into the Causes and Predictability of the 2022/23 California Flooding. Journal of Climate. 37(13). 3613–3629. 2 indexed citations

Hackert, Eric, et al.. (2023). Impact of the TAO/TRITON Array on Reanalyses and Predictions of the 2015 El Niño. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 128(11). 2 indexed citations

Strobach, Ehud, Patrice Klein, Andrea Molod, et al.. (2022). Local Air‐Sea Interactions at Ocean Mesoscale and Submesoscale in a Western Boundary Current. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(7). 38 indexed citations

Coy, Lawrence, Paul A. Newman, Andrea Molod, et al.. (2022). Seasonal Prediction of the Quasi‐Biennial Oscillation. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 127(6). 10 indexed citations

Aquila, Valentina, Eric Hackert, Feng Li, et al.. (2021). Impacts of the Eruption of Mount Pinatubo on Surface Temperatures and Precipitation Forecasts With the NASA GEOS Subseasonal‐to‐Seasonal System. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(16). 8 indexed citations

Lim, Young‐Kwon, Nathan Arnold, Andrea Molod, & Steven Pawson. (2021). Seasonality in Prediction Skill of the Madden‐Julian Oscillation and Associated Dynamics in Version 2 of NASA's GEOS‐S2S Forecast System. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(18). 7 indexed citations

Wright, Jonathon S., Xiaoyi Sun, Paul Konopka, et al.. (2020). Differences in tropical high clouds among reanalyses: origins and radiative impacts. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 20(14). 8989–9030. 37 indexed citations

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Longo, K., Saulo R. Freitas, Caio A. S. Coelho, et al.. (2020). To What Extent Biomass Burning Aerosols Impact South America Seasonal Climate Predictions?. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(16). 6 indexed citations

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Strobach, Ehud, Andrea Molod, Atanas Trayanov, et al.. (2020). Three‐to‐Six‐Day Air–Sea Oscillation in Models and Observations. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(10). 13 indexed citations

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Molod, Andrea, Santha Akella, Lauren C. Andrews, et al.. (2020). GEOS S2S Version 3: The New NASA/GMAO High Resolution Seasonal Prediction System. 1 indexed citations

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Mariotti, Annarita, Cory Baggett, Elizabeth A. Barnes, et al.. (2020). Windows of Opportunity for Skillful Forecasts Subseasonal to Seasonal and Beyond. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 101(5). E608–E625. 189 indexed citations

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Strobach, Ehud, Andrea Molod, Atanas Trayanov, et al.. (2019). An Ocean-Atmosphere Simulation for Studying Air-Sea Interactions. The EGU General Assembly. 10459. 1 indexed citations

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Freitas, Saulo R., Georg Grell, Andrea Molod, et al.. (2018). Assessing the Grell‐Freitas Convection Parameterization in the NASA GEOS Modeling System. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 10(6). 1266–1289. 38 indexed citations

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Salmun, Haydee, Andrea Molod, & Allison B. Marquardt Collow. (2018). The Use of MERRA-2 near surface meteorology to understand the behavior of observed planetary boundary layer heights over the US Great Plains. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2018. 2 indexed citations

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Orbe, Clara, Luke D. Oman, S. E. Strahan, et al.. (2017). Large‐Scale Atmospheric Transport in GEOS Replay Simulations. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 9(7). 2545–2560. 75 indexed citations

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Holt, Laura, et al.. (2017). An evaluation of gravity waves and gravity wave sources in the Southern Hemisphere in a 7 km global climate simulation. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 143(707). 2481–2495. 44 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Gavin A., David C. Bader, Leo J. Donner, et al.. (2017). Practice and philosophy of climate model tuning across six US modeling centers. Geoscientific model development. 10(9). 3207–3223. 94 indexed citations

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Selkirk, Henry B., Andrea Molod, Steven Pawson, et al.. (2015). An Assessment of Upper Tropospheric Water Vapor in the MERRA-2 Reanalysis: Comparisons with MLS and In Situ Water Vapor Measurements. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2015. 1 indexed citations

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