David Mocko's Resume

David Mocko

E-mail: njdvlsrule@aol.com
http://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/~mocko/

EDUCATION:: M.S. Atmospheric Science (GPA: 3.9/4.0) - Mar 1994; Colorado State University - Fort Collins CO; Thesis Title: Diagnosing Boundary Layer Fractional Cloudiness in a Mesoscale Model; B.S. Physics (Computer Science Track) (GPA: 3.6/4.0) - May 1991; The College of New Jersey (nee Trenton State College) - Ewing NJ

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS:

Senior Scientific Programmer/Analyst - Oct 1995-Present

SAIC - Beltsville MD

located at: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Laboratory for Atmospheres, Climate and Radiation Branch, Greenbelt, MD

Participating in a Coordinated Energy and water cycle Observations Project (CEOP) multi-model analysis intercomparison
Simulating surface soil moisture and estimating soil properties as part of the Army Remote Moisture System (ARMS)
Participating in the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) project and maintaining a real-time drought monitor
Writing results from studies in peer-reviewed journals
Presenting results at various scientific conferences and meetings
Administering a Linux workstation and a Windows PC laptop
Improved a land-surface hydrology model via modifications of its physical parameterizations, including a new snow physics scheme
Simulated climate studies using an atmospheric general circulation model
Participated in the Global Soil Wetness Project, PILPS Phase 2e, and GLACE land-surface model intercomparisons

Operating Systems Programmer II - Feb 1995-Aug 1995

Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere - Fort Collins CO

Installed UNIX workstation and configured use of the RAMS, GRASS, Emacs, X11, LaTeX, Httpd, etc., for a team of researchers
Programmed and modified computer code in FORTRAN, C, and HTML

Graduate Research Assistant - Jul 1991-Jan 1995

Colorado State University - Fort Collins CO

Employed the Colorado State University Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS) on two different case studies: 7 Jul 1987, as part of the FIRE I experiment over the ocean off the California coast; and 7 Jun 1983, as part of the BLX 83 experiment over Oklahoma
Programmed nine fractional cloudiness parameterizations into RAMS
Evaluated the performance of the various parameterizations against observational data and tested sensitivity of model to using fractional cloudiness within the model's predictive equations

SKILLS:: Linux/Unix workstations and clusters, Cray/Compaq supercomputers, FORTRAN 77/90, HTML, UNIX shell scripts, LaTeX, Emacs, GrADS, VMware, Microsoft Windows/Office

PUBLICATIONS:: 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., accepted with minor revision and re-submitted.; 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.; 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.; 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.; 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, et al., 2004: Regions of strong coupling between soil moisture and precipitation. Science, 305(5687), 1138-1140.; 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.; Schlosser, C.A., and D.M. Mocko, 2003: The impact of snow conditions in spring dynamical seasonal predictions. J. Geophys. Res., 108(D16), 8616, doi:10.1029/2002JD003113.; 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, 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.; Mocko, D.M., and Y.C. Sud, 2001: Refinements to SSiB with an emphasis on snow-physics: Evaluation and validation with GSWP and Valdai data. Earth Interactions, 5(5-001), 31 pp.; 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.; 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.; 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.; Mocko, D.M., and Y.C. Sud, 1998: Comparison of a land-surface model (SSiB) to three parameterizations of evapotranspiration - a study based on ISLSCP Initiative I data. Earth Interactions, 2(2-003), 35 pp.; 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.; Mocko, D.M., 1994: Diagnosing boundary layer fractional cloudiness in a mesoscale model. Masters Thesis, Atmospheric Science Paper No. 553, Dept. of Atmos. Sci., Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, 107 pp.

HONORS/AWARDS:: Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Outstanding Performance Award - Jan 2009; Climate and Radiation Branch, Special Act Award - Jan 2009; Climate and Radiation Branch, Outstanding Scientific Support Award - Jan 2005; Laboratory for Atmospheres, Outstanding Performance in Technical Support Award, Science - Aug 1999

PROFESSIONAL AND HONOR SOCIETIES:: American Meteorological Society, American Geophysical Union, Sigma Pi Sigma (Physics Honor Society), Phi Kappa Phi

ACTIVITIES:: Softball, personal computing, photography

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