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Nate Brunsell Office Hours: MW 3:30-4:30 or by appt.
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| Research Interests and Current Projects |
| My primary area of research is examining the effects of surface heterogeneity on land atmosphere interactions. This research will help in understanding how to translate local measurements of carbon, water and heat fluxes to larger scales to address how regional climate change and land use patterns impact different areas. I use micrometeorological techniques such as large aperture scintillometry and eddy covariance to address the spatial and temporal variability of water, carbon and energy fluxes. Modeling analysis using large eddy simulation (LES) and Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere Transfer (SVAT) schemes help to extend our understanding of the processes governing local to regional scale interactions. These field observations and model results are combined with remote sensing observations to address the impact of spatial heterogeneity on surface fluxes at larger scales |
| More information on Dr. Brunsell's research is available here. |
| Courses Taught and Teaching Awards |
| GEOG 104: Principles of Physical Geography |
| ATMO 642: Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere |
| ATMO 680: Physical Meteorology |
| GEOG 531/731: Topics in Physical Geography |
| Publications During the Last 5 Years |
Brunsell, N. A.: 2006, Characterization of land-surface precipitation feedback regimes with remote sensing. Remote Sensing of Environment, 100, 200-211. |
French, A. N., F. Jacob, M. C. Anderson, W. P. Kustas, W. Timmermans, A. Gieske, B. Su, H. Su, M. F. McCabe, F. Li, J. Prueger, and N. Brunsell: 2005, Erratum: surface energy fluxes with the Advanced Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) at the Iowa SMACEX site (USA). Remote Sensing of Environment, 99, 471. |
French, A. N., F. Jacob, M. C. Anderson, W. P. Kustas, W. Timmermans, A. Gieske, B. Su, H. Su, M. F. McCabe, F. Li, J. Prueger, and N. Brunsell: 2005, Surface energy fluxes with the Advanced Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) at the Iowa SMACEX site (USA). Remote Sensing of Environment, 99, 55-65. |
White, M.A., N. Brunsell, and M.D. Schwartz: 2004, Vegetation phenology in global change studies. In Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science. M.D. Schwartz, editor. Kluwer Academic Publishers, New York, NY. 453-466. |
Brunsell, N. A. and R. R. Gillies: 2003, Length scale analysis of surface energy fluxes derived from remote sensing. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 4, 1212-1219. |
Brunsell, N. A. and R. R. Gillies: 2003, Determination of scaling characteristics of AVHRR data with wavelets: Application to SGP97, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 24, 14, 2945-2957. |
Brunsell, N. A. and R. R. Gillies: 2003, Scale issues in land-atmosphere interactions: implications for the remote sensing of the surface energy balance, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 117, 3-4, 203-221. |
Brunsell, N. A. and R. R. Gillies: 2002, Incorporation of surface emissivity into a thermal atmospheric correction, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 68, 12, 1263-1269. |
Brunsell, N. and Gillies, R.: 2001, The effect of emissivity on evaporation, in Remote Sensing and Hydrology 2000: Proceedings of a Symposium Held at Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 2000. eds: M. Owe, K. Brubaker, J. Ritchie and A. Rango, 267, 276-280. |
Menking, K. M., R. Y. Anderson, N. A. Brunsell, B. D. Allen, A. L. Ellwein, T. A. Loveland and S. W. Hostetler: 2000, Evaporation from groundwater discharge playas, Estancia Basin, central New Mexico. Global and Planetary Change, 25, 133-147. |
