research overview
- Interested in carbon and water cycling in a subalpine forest
- Contact Info
Burns, Sean
Positions
- Research Associate, Geography
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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Identifying Canopy Snow in Subalpine Forests: A Comparative Study of Methods.
Water Resources Research.
2025
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Scaling Individual Tree Transpiration With Thermal Cameras Reveals Interspecies Differences to Drought Vulnerability.
Geophysical Research Letters.
2024
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Phenology of Photosynthesis in Winter-Dormant Temperate and Boreal Forests: Long-Term Observations From Flux Towers and Quantitative Evaluation of Phenology Models.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.
2024
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The shear contribution to the equation of state: A universal law for the elastic moduli of solids.
International Journal of Solids and Structures.
2023
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Bark beetle impacts on forest evapotranspiration and its partitioning.
Science of the Total Environment.
2023
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Reply to Garen et al.: Within- canopy temperature data also do not support limited homeothermy.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA.
2023
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No evidence of canopy-scale leaf thermoregulation to cool leaves below air temperature across a range of forest ecosystems.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA.
2022
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Gross primary production (GPP) and red solar induced fluorescence (SIF) respond differently to light and seasonal environmental conditions in a subalpine conifer forest.
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.
2022
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Coupling of Tree Growth and Photosynthetic Carbon Uptake Across Six North American Forests.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.
2022
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Challenges and Capabilities in Estimating Snow Mass Intercepted in Conifer Canopies With Tree Sway Monitoring.
Water Resources Research.
2022
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Resolving temperature limitation on spring productivity in an evergreen conifer forest using a model-data fusion framework.
Biogeosciences.
541-558.
2022
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Seasonality in aerodynamic resistance across a range of North American ecosystems.
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.
2021
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Implementation and Evaluation of a Unified Turbulence Parameterization Throughout the Canopy and Roughness Sublayer in Noah-MP Snow Simulations.
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems.
2021
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Integrating continuous atmospheric boundary layer and tower-based flux measurements to advance understanding of land-atmosphere interactions.
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.
2021
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Challenges and Capabilities in Estimating Snow Mass Intercepted in Conifer Canopies with Tree Sway Monitoring
2021
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Challenges and Capabilities in Estimating Snow Mass Intercepted in Conifer Canopies with Tree Sway Monitoring
2021
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The effect of static pressure-wind covariance on vertical carbon dioxide exchange at a windy subalpine forest site.
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.
2021
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Resolving temperature limitation on spring productivity in an evergreen conifer forest using a model-data fusion framework.
Biogeosciences Discussions.
2021
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Supplementary material to "Resolving temperature limitation on spring productivity in an evergreen conifer forest using a model-data fusion framework".
Biogeosciences Discussions.
2021
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Revisiting the Surface Energy Imbalance.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
2021
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The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data (vol 7, 225, 2020).
Scientific Data.
2021
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Montane forest productivity across a semiarid climatic gradient.
Global Change Biology.
6945-6958.
2020
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Hillslope Hydrology Influences the Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Remotely Sensed Ecosystem Productivity.
Water Resources Research.
2020
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Decomposing reflectance spectra to track gross primary production in a subalpine evergreen forest.
Biogeosciences.
4523-4544.
2020
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Wide discrepancies in the magnitude and direction of modeled solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence in response to light conditions.
Biogeosciences.
3733-3755.
2020
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The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data.
Scientific Data.
2020
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Decomposing reflectance spectra to track gross primary production in a subalpine evergreen forest
2020
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Supplementary material to "Decomposing reflectance spectra to track gross primary production in a subalpine evergreen forest"
2020
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The Community Land Model Version 5: Description of New Features, Benchmarking, and Impact of Forcing Uncertainty.
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems.
4245-4287.
2019
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Correction to: Atmospheric Stability Effects on Wind Fields and Scalar Mixing Within and Just Above a Subalpine Forest in Sloping Terrain.
Boundary-Layer Meteorology: an international journal of physical and biological processes in the atmospheric boundary layer.
481-484.
2019
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Sustained Nonphotochemical Quenching Shapes the Seasonal Pattern of Solar-Induced Fluorescence at a High-Elevation Evergreen Forest.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.
2005-2020.
2019
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Mechanistic evidence for tracking the seasonality of photosynthesis with solar-induced fluorescence.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA.
11640-11645.
2019
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The Impact of Biomass Heat Storage on the Canopy Energy Balance and Atmospheric Stability in the Community Land Model.
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems.
83-98.
2019
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Estimating Soil Respiration in a Subalpine Landscape Using Point, Terrain, Climate, and Greenness Data.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.
3231-3249.
2018
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Temporal Dynamics of Aerodynamic Canopy Height Derived From Eddy Covariance Momentum Flux Data Across North American Flux Networks.
Geophysical Research Letters.
9275-9287.
2018
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Assessing the interplay between canopy energy balance and photosynthesis with cellulose δ18O: large-scale patterns and independent ground-truthing.
Oecologia.
995-1007.
2018
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Limitations to winter and spring photosynthesis of a Rocky Mountain subalpine forest.
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.
241-255.
2018
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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: an international journal of global change.
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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Optimization of an enclosed gas analyzer sampling system for measuring eddy covariance fluxes of H2O and CO2.
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques.
1341-1359.
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: an international journal of global change.
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: Biogeosciences.
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: an international journal of physical and biological processes in the atmospheric boundary layer.
231-262.
2011
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Assessing net ecosystem carbon exchange of US 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 continuous measure of gross primary production for the conterminous United States derived from MODIS and AmeriFlux data.
Remote Sensing of Environment: an interdisciplinary journal.
576-591.
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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Controls over ozone deposition to a high elevation subalpine forest.
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.
1447-1459.
2009
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A comparison of water and carbon dioxide exchange at a windy alpine tundra and subalpine forest site near Niwot Ridge, Colorado.
Biogeochemistry: an international journal.
61-76.
2009
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Biological and physical influences on the carbon isotope content of CO2 in a subalpine forest snowpack, Niwot Ridge, Colorado.
Biogeochemistry: an international journal.
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 δ13C 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: an international journal of global change.
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.
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 -: art. no. GB3023.
Global Biogeochemical Cycles: an international journal of global change.
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 -: art. no. L17107.
Geophysical Research Letters.
2004
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Atmospheric disturbances that generate intermittent turbulence in nocturnal boundary layers.
Boundary-Layer Meteorology: an international journal of physical and biological processes in the atmospheric boundary layer.
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: an international journal of physical and biological processes in the atmospheric boundary layer.
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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Identifying Canopy Snow in Subalpine Forests: A Comparative Study of Methods.
Water Resources Research.
2025