This page includes my peer-reviewed natural science publications. Students I mentored are denoted with a dagger (†). Selected social scientific and interdisciplinary scholarship, as well as public writing, are linked on my CV and my writing page.
Scientific publications
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Publications making substantial use of CHEEREIO
Pendergrass, D.C. Jacob, D. J., Balasus, N., Estrada, L., Varon, D. J., East, J. D., He, M., Mooring, T. A., Penn, E., Nesser, H., & Worden, J. R. (2025). Trends and seasonality of 2019–2023 global methane emissions inferred from a localized ensemble transform Kalman filter (CHEEREIO v1.3.1) applied to TROPOMI satellite observations. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 25(21), 14353–14369. Link to paper (open access). Link to PDF. Read a general audience explainer.
Voshtani, S., Jones, D. B. A., Wunch, D., Pendergrass, D. C., Wennberg, P. O., Pollard, D. F., Morino, I., Ohyama, H., Deutscher, N. M., Hase, F., Sussmann, R., Weidmann, D., Kivi, R., García, O., Té, Y., Chen, J., Anderson, K., Stevens, R., Kondragunta, S., … Murata, I. (2025). Quantifying CO emissions from boreal wildfires by assimilating TROPOMI and TCCON observations. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 25(21), 15527–15565. Link to paper (open access).
Pendergrass, D. C., Jacob, D. J., Nesser, H., Varon, D. J., Sulprizio, M., Miyazaki, K., & Bowman, K. W. (2023). CHEEREIO 1.0: A versatile and user-friendly ensemble-based chemical data assimilation and emissions inversion platform for the GEOS-Chem chemical transport model. Geoscientific Model Development, 16(16), 4793–4810. Link to paper (open access). Link to PDF. Read a general audience explainer.
CHEEREIO papers submitted, in review, and in revision
Pendergrass, D. C., Shindell, D. T., Clarisse, L., Van Damme, M., Beaudor, M., Jiang, J., Zhai, S. Attributing 2013–2024 drivers of global ammonia emissions using IASI observations: implications under future climate change. Submitted.
Zhong, H., Shen, L., Pendergrass, D. C., Qin, K., Peng, S., Qu, M., Jin, J., and Gautam, R. Satellite observations reveal stable global fossil fuel methane emissions despite rising production since 2019. Submitted.
Li, Y†, D. C. Pendergrass, D. J. Jacob, Y. Tang, J. Qiu, and B. Zheng. Trends and drivers of China’s methane emissions 2019–2024 inferred from regional atmospheric inversion. In revision at Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.