1. Luo, L., E. F. Wood (2007), Monitoring and predicting the 2007 U.S. drought, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L22702, doi:10.1029/2007GL031673.
2. Luo, L., E. F. Wood, and M. Pan (2007), Bayesian merging of multiple climate model forecasts for seasonal hydrological predictions, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D10102, doi:10.1029/2006JD007655.
3. Hayhoe, K., C. Wake, T. Huntington, L. Luo, M. D. Schwartz, J. Sheffield, E. F. Wood, B. Anderson, J. Bradbury, A. DeGaetano, T. J. Troy, and D. Wolfe, 2006: Past and future changes in climate and hydrological indicators in the U.S. Northeast. Climate Dynamics,doi:10.1007/s00382-006-0187-8
4. Luo, L., and E. F. Wood (2006), Assessing the idealized predictability of precipitation and temperature in the NCEP Climate Forecast System, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L04708, doi:10.1029/2005GL025292.
5. Lohmann, Dag, Kenneth E. Mitchell, Paul R. Houser, Eric F. Wood, John C. Schaake, Alan Robock, Brian A. Cosgrove, Justin Sheffield, Qingyun Duan, Lifeng Luo, Wayne Higgins, Rachel T. Pinker, and J. Dan Tarpley, 2004:  Streamflow and water balance intercomparisons of four land-surface models in the North American Land Data Assimilation System project.  J. Geophys. Res., 109, D07S91, doi: 10.1029/2003JD003517.
6. Schaake, John C., Qingyun Duan, Victor Koren, Kenneth E. Mitchell, Paul R. Houser, Eric F. Wood, Alan Robock, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Dag Lohmann, Brian Cosgrove, Justin Sheffield, Lifeng Luo, R. Wayne Higgins, Rachel T. Pinker, and J. Dan Tarpley, 2004:  An inter-comparison of soil moisture fields in the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS).  J. Geophys. Res., 109, D01S90, doi:10.1029/2002JD003309.
7. Mitchell, Kenneth E., Dag Lohmann, Paul R. Houser, Eric F. Wood, John C. Schaake, Alan Robock, Brian A. Cosgrove, Justin Sheffield, Qingyun Duan, Lifeng Luo, R. Wayne Higgins, Rachel T. Pinker, J. Dan Tarpley, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Curtis H. Marshall, Jared K. Entin, Ming Pan, Wei Shi, Victor Koren, Jesse Meng, Bruce H. Ramsay, and Andrew A. Bailey, 2004: The Multi-institution North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS): Utilizing multiple GCIP products and partners in a continental distributed hydrological modeling system. J. Geophys. Res., 109, D07S90, doi: 10.1029/2003JD003823.
8. Pan, Ming, Justin Sheffield, Eric F. Wood, Kenneth E. Mitchell, Paul R. Houser, John C. Schaake, Alan Robock, Dag Lohmann, Brian Cosgrove, Qingyun Duan, Lifeng Luo, R. Wayne Higgins, Rachel T. Pinker, and J. Dan Tarpley, 2003:  Snow process modeling in the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS): 2. Evaluation of model simulated snow water equivalent.  J. Geophys. Res., 108 (D22), 8850, doi:10.1029/2003JD003994.
9. Sheffield, Justin, Ming Pan, Eric F. Wood, Kenneth E. Mitchell, Paul R. Houser, John C. Schaake, Alan Robock, Dag Lohmann, Brian Cosgrove, Qingyun Duan, Lifeng Luo, R. Wayne Higgins, Rachel T. Pinker, J. Dan Tarpley, and Bruce H. Ramsay, 2003: Snow process modeling in the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS): 1. Evaluation of model simulated snow cover extent. J. Geophys. Res., 108 (D22), 8849, doi:10.1029/2003JD003274.
10. Robock, Alan, Lifeng Luo, Eric F. Wood, Fenghua Wen, Kenneth E. Mitchell, Paul R. Houser, John C. Schaake, Dag Lohmann, Brian Cosgrove, Justin Sheffield, Qingyun Duan, R. Wayne Higgins, Rachel T. Pinker, J. Dan Tarpley, Jeffrey B. Basara, and Kenneth C. Crawford, 2003:  Evaluation of the North American Land Data Assimilation System over the Southern Great Plains during the warm season.  J. Geophys. Res., 108 (D22), 8846, doi:10.1029/2002JD003245.
11. Cosgrove, Brian A., Dag Lohmann, Kenneth E. Mitchell, Paul R. Houser, Eric F. Wood, John C. Schaake, Alan Robock, Justin Sheffield, Qingyun Duan, Lifeng Luo, R. Wayne Higgins, Rachel T. Pinker, and J. Dan Tarpley, 2003:  Land surface model spinup behavior in the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS).  J. Geophys. Res., 108 (D22), 8845, doi:10.1029/2002JD003119.
12. Pinker, Rachel T., J. Dan Tarpley, Istvan Laszlo, Kenneth E. Mitchell, Paul R. Houser, Eric F. Wood, John C. Schaake, Alan Robock, Dag Lohmann, Brian A. Cosgrove, Justin Sheffield, Qingyun Duan, Lifeng Luo, and R. Wayne Higgins, 2003: Surface radiation budgets in support of the GEWEX Continental Scale International Project (GCIP) and the GEWEX Americas Prediction Project (GAPP), including the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) project.  J. Geophys. Res., 108 (D22), 8844, doi:10.1029/2002JD003301.
13. Luo, Lifeng, Alan Robock, Kenneth E. Mitchell, Paul R. Houser, Eric F. Wood, John C. Schaake, Dag Lohmann, Brian Cosgrove, Fenghua Wen, Justin Sheffield, Qingyun Duan, R. Wayne Higgins, Rachel T. Pinker, and J. Dan Tarpley, 2003:  Validation of the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) retrospective forcing over the Southern Great Plains.  J. Geophys. Res., 108 (D22), 8843, doi:10.1029/2002JD003246.
14. Cosgrove, Brian A., Dag Lohmann, Kenneth E. Mitchell, Paul R. Houser, Eric F. Wood, John Schaake, Alan Robock, Curtis Marshall, Justin Sheffield, Lifeng Luo, Qingyun Duan, Rachel T. Pinker, J. Dan Tarpley, R. Wayne Higgins, and Jesse Meng, 2003:  Realtime and retrospective forcing in the North American Land Data Assimilation Systems (NLDAS) project.  J. Geophys. Res., 108 (D22), 8842, doi:10.1029/2002JD003118.
15. Roads, John, Richard Lawford, E. Bainto, Ernesto Berbery, Shyh-Chin Chen, Balazs M. Fekete, Kevin Gallo, Andrew Grundstein, Wayne Higgins, Masao Kanamitsu, W. Krajewski, Venkat Lakshmi, D. Leathers, Dennis Lettenmaier, L. Luo, Edwin Maurer, Tilden Meyers, D. Miller, Kenneth Mitchell, T. Mote, Rachel Pinker, T. Reichler, David Robinson, Alan Robock, James Smith, G. Srinivasan, Konstantin Vinnikov, Thomas Vonder Haar, Charles J. Vorosmarty, S. Williams, and E. Yarosh, 2003: GCIP Water and Energy Budget Synthesis (WEBS). J. Geophys. Res., 108 (D16), 8609, doi:10.1029/2002JD002583.
16. Luo, Lifeng, Alan Robock, Konstantin Y. Vinnikov, C. Adam Schlosser, Andrew G. Slater, Aaron Boone, Harald Braden, Peter Cox, Patricia de Rosnay, Robert E. Dickinson, Yong-Jiu Dai, Qingyun Duan, Jared Entin, Pierre Etchevers, Ann Henderson-Sellers, Nicola Gedney, Yevgeniy M. Gusev, Florence Habets, Jinwon Kim, Eva Kowalczyk, Kenneth Mitchell, Olga N. Nasonova, Joel Noilhan, Andrew J. Pitman, John Schaake, Andrey B. Shmakin, Tatiana G. Smirnova, Diana Verseghy, Peter Wetzel, Yongkang Xue, Zong-Liang Yang, and Qing-Cun Zeng, 2003: Effects of frozen soil on soil temperature, spring infiltration, and runoff: Results from the PILPS 2(d) experiment at Valdai, Russia. J. Hydrometeorology, 4, 334-351.
17. Srinivasan, G., Alan Robock, Jared K. Entin, Lifeng Luo, Konstantin Y. Vinnikov, Pedro Viterbo, and Participating AMIP Modeling Groups, 2000: Soil moisture simulations in revised AMIP models. J. Geophys. Res., 105, 26,635-26,644.

1. The Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment (NECIA): Climate Change in the U.S. Northeast - A report of the Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment, October 2006.
2. Déry S. J., Luo, L., Sheffield, J., and Wood, E. F., 2005: Do dynamical models pick up pan-arctic teleconnections?, GEWEX News, 15, 12-13.

1. Lifeng Luo and Eric F. Wood: Seasonal hydrologic forecasting with VIC model over the Ohio river basin. In preparation for J. Hydrometeorology.
2. Lifeng Luo Eric F. Wood, Justin Sheffiled and Haibin Li: Retrospective Forecasts of U.S droughts with a multi-model seasonal hydrological prediction system. In preparation for J. Hydrometeorology
3. Lifeng Luo and Eric F. Wood: Improving precipitation generation for seasonal hydrological predictions. In preparation.
4. Lifeng Luo,Haibin Li and Eric F. Wood: The value of hindcast in seasonal hydrologic predictions. In preparation

1. Seasonal hydrological prediction for the Ohio River Basin (with Eric F. Wood, AGU Joint Assembly, Baltimore, Maryland, May 23-27, 2006)
2. Seasonal Hydrologic Prediction System over the Eastern U.S.(with Eric F. Wood, AGU Fall meeting, Sanf Francisco, California, Dec 19-22, 2005)
3. A VIC-base seasonal hydrologic forecast system over the eastern US (with Eric F. Wood, 2nd International workshop on hydrologic ensemble prediction experiment (HEPEX), Boulder, Colorado, July 19-22, 2005)
4. A VIC-based experimental seasonal hydrologic forecast system over the eastern US (with Eric F. Wood, 5th International scientific conference on GEWEX, Orange County, California, June 20-24, 2005)
5. Predictability of hydrological variables and their seasonal prediction in the GFDL climate model (with C. T. Gordon, S. L. Malyshev, and E. F. Wood, AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, California, December 13-17, 2004)
6. Precipitation variability and potential predictability at seasonal-to-interannual timescale in the GFDL General Circulation Model (with E. F. Wood, C. T. Gordon and S. L. Malyshev; American Geophysical Union and Canadian Geophysical Union Joint Assembly, Montreal, Canada, May 17-21, 2004)
7. An experimental seasonal streamflow prediction system and the streamflow predictability over the Ohio river basin (with E. F. Wood, A. W. Wood and D. P. Lettenmaier; AGU spring meeting, Montreal, Canada, May 17-21, 2004)
8. Development of Hydrologic nowcast and forecast products using land data assimilation system output (With Wade Crow, Justin Sheffield, Eric F. Wood and Dennis P. Lettenmaier; GEWEX/GAPP Principle Investigator Workshop, Seattle, Washington, July 21-24, 2003)
9. An estimate of the sensitivity of large-scale model simulations to the mosaic-of-tiles approach to land-atmosphere coupling: A case study over the GCIP region (with, C. P. Weaver, R. Avissar and A. Robock; Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 13-17, 2002)
10. Evaluation of North American LDAS retrospective forcing with station observations and model experiments (with Alan Robock, Kenneth E. Mitchell, Paul R. Houser, Eric F. ood, John C. Schaake, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Dag Lohmann, Brian A. Cosgrove, Q. Duan, J. Sheffield, Jesse Meng, Wayne Higgins, Rachel T. Pinker, Dan Tarpley, Kenneth C. Crawford, and Jeffrey B. Basara; Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 13-17, 2002)
11. Evaluation of LDAS land surface models with observed forcing and hydrology (with Alan Robock, Kenneth Mitchell, Paul Houser, John Schaake, Eric Wood, Dennis Lettenmairer, Dag Lohmann, Brian Cosgrove, Qingyun Duan, Rachel Pinker, Wayne Higgines and D. Tarpley; AMS Annual Meeting, Orlando, January 13-17, 2002)
12. Soil moisture variations in Oklahoma (with Alan Robock, Konstantin Vinnikov, Karen Humes, Ronald Elliott, and Jeff Basara; AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 15-19, 2000)

13. Oklahoma Mesonet soil moisture observations for 1998: Visualization, quality control and analysis of scales (with Alan Robock, Karen Humes, Konstantin Vinnikov, Jeff Basara, and Ronald Elliott: GEWEX/BAHC International Workshop on Soil Moisture Monitoring, Analysis and Prediction, Norman, Oklahoma, May 16-18, 2000)
14. Water partition in a seasonally snow covered region: results from the PILPS 2(d) experiment at Valdai, Russia (with Alan Robock, G. Srinivasan, Konstantin Y. Vinnikov, Jared K. Entin and PILPS modeling groups; AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 13-17, 1999)

1. The development of a simulated soil moisture analysis for the US for real-time monitoring and seasonal forecasting of drought (with Justin Sheffield and Eric F. Wood, workshop in drought??????)
2. Soil moisture observations for validation of soil moisture retrieval using the Tropical Rain Measurement Mission Precipitation Radar (with Alan Robock, Shinta Seto, Taikan Oki, Toshio Iguchi and Katumi Musiake; European Geosciences Union 1st general assembly, Nice, France, April 25-30, 2004)
3. The Global Soil Moisture Data Bank: An update including new United States stations (with Alan Robock, Mingquan Mu, and Konstantin Vinnikov; AMS Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate, presented by Alan Robock Long Beach, California, February 9-13, 2003)

4. High latitude soil moisture observations to study climate variations and to evaluate climate models (Invited presentation; with Alan Robock, Konstantin Vinnikov, and Mingquan Mu, presented by Alan Robock; AGU Fall Meeting, December 6-10, 2002)
5. The GAPP/GCIP Multi-institution North American Land Data Assimilation System (N-LDAS) (with Kenneth E. Mitchell, P. Houser, J. Schaake, E. Wood, A. Robock, D. Lettenmaier, D. Lohmann, B. Cosgrove, Q. Duan, J. Sheffield, W. Higgins, D. Tarpley, R. Pinker, and J. Meng; presented by Kenneth E. Mitchell; Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 13-17, 2002)
6. An Intercomparison of North American LDAS Soil Moisture Fields (with John Schaake, Qingyun Duan, Kenneth Mitchell, Paul Houser, Eric Wood, Alan Robock, Dennis Lettenmaier, Brian Cosgrove, Dag Lohmann, Justin Sheffield, Wayne Higgins, Rachel Pinker, and Dan Tarpley; presented by John Schaake; Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 13-17, 2002)
7. Validation of North American-LDAS modeled energy budgets (with Eric F. Wood, Jesse Meng, Fengua Wen, Kenneth Mitchell, Paul R. Houser, John Schaake, Alan Robock, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Dag Lohmann, Brian Cosgrove, Qingyun Duan, Justin Sheffield, Wayne Higgins, Rachel Pinker, and Dan Tarpley; presented by Eric F. Wood; Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 13-17, 2002)
8. Progress to Derive Improved Surface Radiation Budgets for the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Continental-Scale International Project and the GEWEX Americas Prediction Project (GCIP/GAPP) (with Rachel T. Pinker., J. Dan Tarpley, Kenneth Mitchell, Xu Li, Tzveta Kassabova, Hongqing Liu, Istvan Laszlo, Paul R. Houser, Eric F. Wood, John Schaake, Alan Robock, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Wayne Higgins, Brian A. Cosgrove, Dag Lohmann, Justin Sheffield, Q. Duan, and the North America LDAS Team; presented by Rachel Pinker; Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 13-17, 2002)
9. Real-time and retrospective forcing in the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) project (with Brian A. Cosgrove, Dag Lohmann, Kenneth E. Mitchell, Paul R. Houser, Eric F. Wood, John Schaake, Alan Robock, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Qingyun Duan, Justin Sheffield, Jesse Meng, Wayne Higgins, Rachel Pinker, Dan Tarpley, and Ying Lin; presented by Paul Houser; Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 13-17, 2002)
10. Evaluation of North American LDAS land surface models with observed surface fluxes, soil moisture, and soil temperature (with Alan Robock, Kenneth E. Mitchell, Paul R. Houser, Eric F. Wood, John C. Schaake, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Brian A. Cosgrove, Q. Duan, Dag Lohmann, J. Sheffield, Wayne Higgins, Rachel T. Pinker, Dan Tarpley, Kenneth C. Crawford, and Jeffrey B. Basara, presented by Alan Robock; Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 13-17, 2002)
11. Evaluation of streamflow and snowpack simulations in the land surface models of the Land Data Assimilation System (LDAS) project (with Dag Lohmann, Kenneth Mitchelll, Paul Houser, John Schaake, Eric Wood, Alan Robock, Dan Tarpley, Rachel Pinker, Wayne Higgins, Dennis Lettenmaier, Brian Cosgrove, Qingyun Duan, Justin Sheffield, presented by Dag Lohmann; AMS Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, January 13-17, 2002)
12. Evaluation of Land Data Assimilation System simulations of soil moisture in the GCIP region (Invited presentation, with Alan Robock and Konstantin Y. Vinnikov, presented by Alan Robock; GAPP PI Workshop, Potomac, Maryland, April 30-May 2, 2001)
13. Water partition in a seasonally snow covered region; Results from the PILPS 2(d) experiment at Valdai, Russia (with Alan Robock and Konstantin Y. Vinnikov; presented by Alan Robock; AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 15-19, 2000)
14. Soil moisture observations for LDAS evaluation (with Alan Robock and Konstantin Y. Vinnikov, presented by Alan Robock; 15th AMS Conference on Hydrology, Long Beach, California, January, 9-14, 2000)
15. Evaluation of PILPS 2(d) hydrological simulations at Valdai, Russia (Invited paper; with Alan Robock, Konstantin Y. Vinnikov, Jared K. Entin and Nina A. Speranskaya; presented by Alan Robock, XXII Scientific Assembly of the IUGG, Birmingham, UK, July, 19-30, 1999)
16. Partition of snowmelt into runoff and infiltration in PILPS 2(d) (Invited paper, with Alan Robock, K.Y. Vinnikov, and N. A. Speranskaya; presented by Alan Robock; 14th AMS Conference on Hydrology, Dallas, Texas,January 10-15, 1999)