research overview
- Interested in carbon and water cycling in a subalpine forest
- Contact Info
Burns, Sean Research Associate
Positions
- Research Associate, Institute of Arctic & Alpine Research (INSTAAR)
Research Areas
Research
keywords
- Meteorological measurements
Publications
selected publications
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conference proceeding
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Turbulence statistics of a Kelvin-Helmholtz billow event observed in the night-time boundary layer during the Cooperative Atmosphere-Surface Exchange Study field program.
Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans.
189-204.
2000
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Turbulence statistics of a Kelvin-Helmholtz billow event observed in the night-time boundary layer during the Cooperative Atmosphere-Surface Exchange Study field program.
Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans.
189-204.
2000
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journal article
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A Comparison of the Diel Cycle of Modeled and Measured Latent Heat Flux During the Warm Season in a Colorado Subalpine Forest.
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems.
617-651.
2018
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Climate controls over ecosystem metabolism: insights from a fifteen-year inductive artificial neural network synthesis for a subalpine forest.
Oecologia.
25-41.
2017
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The Niwot Ridge Subalpine Forest US-NR1 AmeriFlux site - Part 1: Data acquisition and site record-keeping.
Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems.
2016
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Measuring spatiotemporal variation in snow optical grain size under a subalpine forest canopy using contact spectroscopy.
Water Resources Research.
7513-7522.
2016
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Earlier snowmelt reduces atmospheric carbon uptake in midlatitude subalpine forests.
Geophysical Research Letters.
8160-8168.
2016
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Convergent approaches to determine an ecosystem's transpiration fraction.
Global Biogeochemical Cycles.
933-951.
2016
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Terrestrial carbon balance in a drier world: the effects of water availability in southwestern North America.
Global Change Biology.
1867-1879.
2016
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Fluxes of energy, water, and carbon dioxide from mountain ecosystems at Niwot Ridge, Colorado.
Plant Ecology and Diversity.
663-676.
2015
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The relative contributions of alpine and subalpine ecosystems to the water balance of a mountainous, headwater catchment.
Hydrological Processes.
4794-4808.
2015
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Greenness indices from digital cameras predict the timing and seasonal dynamics of canopy-scale photosynthesis.
Ecological Applications.
99-115.
2015
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The influence of warm-season precipitation on the diel cycle of the surface energy balance and carbon dioxide at a Colorado subalpine forest site.
Biogeosciences.
7349-7377.
2015
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Ecological processes dominate the C-13 land disequilibrium in a Rocky Mountain subalpine forest.
Global Biogeochemical Cycles.
352-370.
2014
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Snow Temperature Changes within a Seasonal Snowpack and Their Relationship to Turbulent Fluxes of Sensible and Latent Heat.
Journal of Hydrometeorology.
117-142.
2014
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Forecasting net ecosystem CO2 exchange in a subalpine forest using model data assimilation combined with simulated climate and weather generation.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.
549-565.
2013
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Assessing filtering of mountaintop CO2 mole fractions for application to inverse models of biosphere-atmosphere carbon exchange.
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
2099-2115.
2012
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Using sonic anemometer temperature to measure sensible heat flux in strong winds.
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques.
2095-2111.
2012
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Seasonal pattern of regional carbon balance in the central Rocky Mountains from surface and airborne measurements.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.
2011
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THE CANOPY HORIZONTAL ARRAY TURBULENCE STUDY.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
593-611.
2011
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An interannual assessment of the relationship between the stable carbon isotopic composition of ecosystem respiration and climate in a high-elevation subalpine forest.
Journal of Geophysical Research.
2011
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Atmospheric Stability Effects on Wind Fields and Scalar Mixing Within and Just Above a Subalpine Forest in Sloping Terrain.
Boundary-Layer Meteorology.
231-262.
2011
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Assessing net ecosystem carbon exchange of U.S. terrestrial ecosystems by integrating eddy covariance flux measurements and satellite observations.
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.
60-69.
2011
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Soil, plant, and transport influences on methane in a subalpine forest under high ultraviolet irradiance (vol 6, pg 1311, 2009).
Biogeosciences.
851-851.
2011
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Climate control of terrestrial carbon exchange across biomes and continents.
Environmental Research Letters.
2010
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A MULTISCALE AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY INVESTIGATION OF ECOSYSTEM-ATMOSPHERE CO2 EXCHANGE OVER THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS OF COLORADO.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
209-230.
2010
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Longer growing seasons lead to less carbon sequestration by a subalpine forest.
Global Change Biology.
771-783.
2010
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Tree species effects on ecosystem water-use efficiency in a high-elevation, subalpine forest.
Oecologia.
491-504.
2010
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Modeling whole-tree carbon assimilation rate using observed transpiration rates and needle sugar carbon isotope ratios.
New Phytologist.
1000-1015.
2010
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Biological and physical influences on the carbon isotope content of CO2 in a subalpine forest snowpack, Niwot Ridge, Colorado.
Biogeochemistry.
37-59.
2009
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Ecohydrological controls on snowmelt partitioning in mixed-conifer sub-alpine forests.
Ecohydrology.
129-142.
2009
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A Cable-Borne Tram for Atmospheric Measurements along Transects.
Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology.
462-473.
2009
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An Evaluation of Calibration Techniques for In Situ Carbon Dioxide Measurements Using a Programmable Portable Trace-Gas Measuring System.
Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology.
291-316.
2009
- A CABLE-BORNE TRAM FOR ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENTS ALONG TRANSECTS. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 22-23. 2009
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Soil, plant, and transport influences on methane in a subalpine forest under high ultraviolet irradiance.
Biogeosciences.
1311-1324.
2009
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Estimation of net ecosystem carbon exchange for the conterminous United States by combining MODIS and AmeriFlux data.
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.
1827-1847.
2008
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The contribution of advective fluxes to net ecosystem exchange in a high-elevation, subalpine forest.
Ecological Applications.
1379-1390.
2008
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Partitioning net ecosystem carbon exchange and the carbon isotopic disequilibrium in a subalpine forest.
Global Change Biology.
1785-1800.
2008
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Canopy structure and atmospheric flows in relation to the delta C-13 of respired CO2 in a subalpine coniferous forest.
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.
592-605.
2008
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Partitioning net ecosystem exchange of CO2: A comparison of a Bayesian/isotope approach to environmental regression methods.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.
2007
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CO2 transport over complex terrain.
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.
1-21.
2007
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The contribution of beneath-snow soil respiration to total ecosystem respiration in a high-elevation, subalpine forest.
Global Biogeochemical Cycles.
2006
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Evaluation of remote sensing based terrestrial productivity from MODIS using regional tower eddy flux network observations.
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.
1908-1925.
2006
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Winter forest soil respiration controlled by climate and microbial community composition.
Nature: New biology.
711-714.
2006
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Modeling and measuring the nocturnal drainage flow in a high-elevation, subalpine forest with complex terrain.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
2005
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Climatic influences on net ecosystem CO2 exchange during the transition from wintertime carbon source to springtime carbon sink in a high-elevation, subalpine forest.
Oecologia.
130-147.
2005
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Extensive observations of CO2 carbon isotope content in and above a high-elevation subalpine forest.
Global Biogeochemical Cycles.
2005
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Measurement of directional wave spectra using aircraft laser altimeters.
Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology.
869-885.
2005
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Airflows and turbulent flux measurements in mountainous terrain Part 2: Mesoscale effects.
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.
187-205.
2004
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A nonparametric method for separating photosynthesis and respiration components in CO2 flux measurements.
Geophysical Research Letters.
2004
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Atmospheric disturbances that generate intermittent turbulence in nocturnal boundary layers.
Boundary-Layer Meteorology.
255-279.
2004
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Heat balance in the nocturnal boundary layer during CASES-99.
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology.
1649-1666.
2003
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An evaluation of bulk Ri-based surface layer flux formulas for stable and very stable conditions with intermittent turbulence.
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
2523-2537.
2003
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A field intercomparison technique to improve the relative accuracy of longwave radiation measurements and an evaluation of CASES-99 pyrgeometer data quality.
Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology.
348-361.
2003
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Intermittent turbulence associated with a density current passage in the stable boundary layer.
Boundary-Layer Meteorology.
199-219.
2002
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CASES-99: A comprehensive investigation of the stable nocturnal boundary layer.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
555-581.
2002
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Comparisons of aircraft, ship, and buoy radiation and SST measurements from TOGA COARE.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
15627-15652.
2000
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Comparisons of aircraft, ship, and buoy meteorological measurements from TOGA COARE.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
30853-30883.
1999
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Improved wind measurements on research aircraft.
Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology.
860-875.
1999
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Coupling of internal waves on the main thermocline to the diurnal surface layer and sea surface temperature during the Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment.
Journal of Geophysical Research.
12613-12628.
1998
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Measuring sea surface mean square slope with a 36-GHz scanning radar altimeter.
Journal of Geophysical Research.
12587-12601.
1998
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Observations of sea surface mean square slope under light wind during the Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment.
Journal of Geophysical Research.
12603-12612.
1998
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A Comparison of the Diel Cycle of Modeled and Measured Latent Heat Flux During the Warm Season in a Colorado Subalpine Forest.
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems.
617-651.
2018