Research Interests for John D. Albertson

Surface hydrology and boundary layer meteorology; semi-arid vegetation dynamics; Large eddy simulation of turbulence and turbulent transport; urban air quality; hydroclimatic controls on infectious disease dynamics.

Representative Publications

1. Huang, J; Cassiani, M; Albertson, JD, Analysis of coherent structures within the atmospheric boundary layer, Boundary-Layer Meteorology, vol. 131 no. 2 (2009), pp. 147-171, ISSN 0006-8314 [doi] [abs]
2. Kim, T-Y; Cassiani, M; Albertson, JD; Dolbow, JE; Fried, E; Gurtin, ME, Impact of the inherent separation of scales in the Navier-Stokes- αβ equations, Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, vol. 79 no. 4 (2009), ISSN 1539-3755 (id. 045307.) [doi] [abs]
3. Montaldo, N; Albertson, JD; Mancini, M, Vegetation dynamics and soil water balance in a water-limited Mediterranean ecosystem on Sardinia, Italy, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, vol. 12 no. 6 (2008), pp. 1257-1271, ISSN 1027-5606 [abs]
4. Detto, M; Katul, G; Mancini, M; Montaldo, N; Albertson, JD, Surface heterogeneity and its signature in higher-order scalar similarity relationships, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, vol. 148 no. 6-7 (2008), pp. 902-916, ISSN 0168-1923 [doi] [abs]
5. Bertoldi, G; Albertson, JD; Kustas, WP; Li, F; Anderson, MC, On the opposing roles of air temperature and wind speed variability in flux estimation from remotely sensed land surface states, Water Resources Research, vol. 43 no. 10 (2007), ISSN 0043-1397 [doi] [abs]
6. Cassiani, M; Katul, GG; Albertson, JD, The effects of canopy leaf area index on airflow across forest edges: Large-eddy simulation and analytical results, Boundary-Layer Meteorology, vol. 126 no. 3 (2008), pp. 433-460, ISSN 0006-8314 [doi] [abs]
7. Montaldo, N; Albertson, JD; Mancini, M, Dynamic calibration with an ensemble Kalman filter based data assimilation approach for root-zone moisture predictions, Journal of Hydrometeorology, vol. 8 no. 4 (2007), pp. 910-921, ISSN 1525-755X [doi] [abs]
8. Bertoldi, G; Kustas, WP; Albertson, JD, Estimating spatial variability in atmospheric properties over remotely sensed land surface conditions, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, vol. 47 no. 8 (2008), pp. 2147-2165, ISSN 1558-8424 [doi] [abs]
9. Poggi, D; Katul, GG; Albertson, JD; Ridolfi, L, An experimental investigation of turbulent flows over a hilly surface, Physics of Fluids, vol. 19 no. 3 (2007), ISSN 1070-6631 [doi] [abs]
10. Williams, CA; Scanlon, TM; Albertson, JD, Influence of surface heterogeneity on scalar dissimilarity in the roughness sublayer, Boundary-Layer Meteorology, vol. 122 no. 1 (2007), pp. 149-165, ISSN 0006-8314 [doi] [abs]
11. Timmermans, WJ; Bertoldi, G; Albertson, JD; Olioso, A; Su, Z; Gieske, ASM, Accounting for atmospheric boundary layer variability on flux estimation from RS observations, International Journal of Remote Sensing, vol. 29 no. 17-18 (2008), pp. 5275-5290, ISSN 0143-1161 [doi] [abs]
12. Drewry, DT; Albertson, JD, Diagnosing model error in canopy-atmosphere exchange using empirical orthogonal function analysis, Water Resources Research, vol. 42 no. 6 (2006), ISSN 0043-1397 [doi] [abs]
13. Williams, CA; Albertson, JD, Dynamical effects of the statistical structure of annual rainfall on dryland vegetation, Global Change Biology, vol. 12 no. 5 (2006), pp. 777-792, ISSN 1354-1013 [doi] [abs]
14. Williams, CA; Albertson, JD, Soil moisture controls on canopy-scale water and carbon fluxes in an African savanna, Water Resources Research, vol. 40 no. 9 (2004), pp. W0930201-W0930214, ISSN 0043-1397 [doi] [abs]