Dan Li publishes on atmospheric boundary layer in Atmospheric Research
Assistant Professor Dan Li has published a single-author, invited review article titled “Turbulent Prandtl number in the atmospheric boundary layer – where are we now?” in Atmospheric Research. Turbulent Prandtl number is named after the Father of Modern Fluid Mechanics, Ludwig Prandtl, and is an indicator of how turbulent transport of heat differs from its […]
Istem Fer, Elizabeth Cowdery, and Mike Dietze publish in Biogeosciences
Postdoc Istem Fer, PhD candidate Elizabeth Cowdery, and Associate Professor Mike Dietze have co-authored “Linking big models to big data: efficient ecosystem model calibration through Bayesian model emulation” in Biogeosciences. “Bayesian methods provide a rigorous data assimilation framework for these applications, especially for problems with multiple data constraints,” the authors note. “However, the Markov chain […]
Rachael Garrett publishes on causes of changes in land use extent and intensity
Assistant Professor Rachael Garrett has published “Middle-range Theories of Land System Change” in Global Environmental Change. Dr. Garrett and her colleagues note that while an integrated theory of land system change remains elusive, they show that contextual generalizations that describe chains of causal mechanisms explaining a well-bounded range of phenomena, as well as the conditions […]
PhD alum Yan Yang publishes in Nature Communications
Yan Yang, a 2017 PhD graduate, recently published part of her dissertation research in Nature Communications. In “Post-drought Decline of the Amazon Carbon Sink” Yang and her colleagues report a significant loss of carbon over the entire Amazon basin at a rate of 0.3 +/- 0.2 PgC per year after the 2005 mega-drought, which continued […]