Joseph A. Santanello

Joseph Santanello received the M.S. degree in meteorology from Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA, in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in geography from Boston University, Boston, MA, USA, in 2005. He leads the GEWEX LoCo working group focused on coordinating international efforts to diagnose and improve land–atmosphere interactions in models from local to global scales, over the last 15 years. He serves as Land Team lead of the NASA Unified WRF (NU-WRF) modeling system, which includes coupling to NASA's Land Information System and facilitates model-data fusion research in the realm of land data assimilation (e.g., soil moisture) and land surface model calibration (e.g., surface fluxes). He currently serves as the Lead of GSFC working group supporting NASA's Decadal Survey Incubation efforts for the PBL, assessing current capabilities and limitations of satellite remote sensing to routinely monitor the PBL for land surface and land–atmosphere studies and modeling, including engagement of GSFC and mission science teams, as well as the PBL community in response to the 2017 Decadal Survey.