Presentations by Desai Lab Members

2018

Response of North American Winter Extratropical Cyclones to Projected Late Twenty-First Century Snow Extents
Ryan Clare, UW Special Seminar, Aug 9, 2018

Uncertainty and model sensitivity of agricultural irrigation on atmospheric latent heating
Molly Aufforth, UW Special Seminar, Jun 11, 2018

Observing Wisconsin Central Sands water budget components under high groundwater demand and a changing climate
Ammara Talib, UW CEE Graduate seminar, May 3, 2018

Scaling of the Carbon, Energy Exchange, and Evapotranspiration over Heterogeneous Ecosystems
Ke Xu, UW AOS Special Seminar (PhD defense) Mar 16, 2018

UW ACI: High Throughput Computing with WRF
Ryan Claire, UW Department Seminar Jan 31, 2018

Observing Wisconsin Central Sands water budget components under high groundwater demand and a changing climate
Ammara Talib, UW CCR CPEP Seminar, Madison, WI USA Jan 30, 2018

2017

How many flux towers are enough? How elaborate of a scaling is enough?
Ke Xu, Session B24D , AGU Fall 2017 Meeting, New Orleans, LA USA, Dec 12, 2017

Conundrums in eddy covariance flux towers: How many towers are enough? How tall is a tower tall enough?
Ke Xu, AOS Department Seminar, Madison, WI USA Mar 29, 2017

2016

Controls on Temporal Variation in Ecosystem-Atmosphere Carbon Dioxide Exchange in Lakes and Reservoirs
Malgorzata Golub, Ph.D. seminar, Madison, WI USA Nov 1, 2016

Multi-temporal controls of carbon dioxide flux at the water-air interface: The first global synthesis of flux towers over inland waters
Malgorzata Golub, Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Ft. Lauderdale, FL USA Aug 9, 2016

How to address scaling, storage flux and non-closed energy balance problems for eddy-covariance observations? Mapping surface-atmosphere exchange using environmental response function
Ke Xu, AMS 32nd Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Salt Lake City, UT, Jun 22, 2016

Does Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover Influence Mid-Latitude Cyclone Trajectories? Weather System Implications for a Changing Climate
Gabe Bromley, Climate, People, Environment Program (CPEP) Seminar, Madison, WI USA, April 29, 2016

Scaling of Evapotranspiration and Net Ecosystem Exchange
Ke Xu, Wisconsin Ecology Spring Symposium Student Presentations, Madison, WI USA, March 30, 2016

Potential applications of cloud-cleared global composite imagery from the VIIRS Day/Night Band
Tommy Jasmin, Environment and Resources MS Exit Seminar, Madison, WI USA, March 14, 2016

How to make eddy-covariance observations a suitable representation for the surface-atmosphere exchange in a "box"?
Ke Xu, Climate, People, Environment Program (CPEP) Seminar, Madison, WI USA, March 4, 2016

Environmental controls of energy and trace gas exchanges at the water-air interface: Global synthesis of eddy fluxes over inland waters
Malgorzata Golub, Dept of Physics Seminar, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Feb 26, 2016

2015

Environmental controls of energy and trace gas exchanges at the water-air interface: Global synthesis of eddy fluxes over inland waters
Malgorzata Golub, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA USA, Dec 19, 2015

Mapping surface-atmosphere exchange by using environmental response function for both turbulent and storage eddy-covariance fluxes
Ke Xu, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA USA, Dec 16, 2015

Spatiotemporal variability of energy and trace gas fluxes in inland water bodies
Malgorzata Golub, Center for Limnology Seminar, Madison, WI USA, Nov 25, 2015

Measuring eddy fluxes of trace gases and energy between lakes and the atmosphere
Malgorzata Golub, Center for Limnology Seminar, Madison, WI USA, Feb 25, 2015

The effect of random parameter errors on predictability of long-term change in freshwater pCO2 calculated from thermodynamic equilibria
Malgorzata Golub, Freshwater Science Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI USA, May 19, 2015

2014

Assessing Ecosystem Photosynthetic Potential along Two California Climate Gradients with Hyperspectral Remote Sensing
Sean DuBois, AOS Department Seminar, Madison, WI USA, Dec. 3, 2014

Monitoring and analyzing carbon, water, and climate variation of Northwood ecosystems
Jonathan Thom, 3rd Science in the Northwoods, Boulder Junction, WI USA, Oct. 18, 2014

Spatial rectification of tower-based eddy-covariance flux observations
Ke Xu, 3rd Science in the Northwoods, Boulder Junction, WI USA, Oct. 17, 2014

Assessment of Ecosystem Photosynthetic Parameters in California and its Implications for the Northwoods
Sean DuBois, 3rd Science in the Northwoods, Boulder Junction, WI USA, Oct. 16, 2014

How to consistently inform NEON’s land surface model with tower-based eddy-covariance flux observations? A novel approach to spatio-temporal rectification
Ke Xu, 99th Ecological Society of America Conference, Sacramento, CA, Aug 11, 2014

The effect of random uncertainties on CO2 emissions from lakes
Malgorzata Golub, Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting 2014, Portland, OR, May 21, 2014

2013

Drivers of Long and Short-Term Temporal Variability in Lake CO2 Flux: Analysis of Multi-Decade and High-Frequency Observations in the North Temperate Lakes
Malgorzata Golub, Climate, People, and the Environment Program Seminar, Madison, WI, May 3, 2013

Long term trends in carbon emissions from the NTL-LTER lakes
Malgorzata Golub, North Temperate Lakes LTER Young Scientists' Meeting, Madison, WI, Apr. 10, 2013

Photosynthesis, flux tower data, and spectroscopy: Spring break 2013
Sean DuBois, Environment on Tap, Nelson Institue for Environmental Studies Informal Student Conference, Madison, WI, Mar 25, 2013

Can we accurately derive population from satellite data?
Tommy Jasmin, Environment on Tap, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies Informal Student Conference, Madison, WI, Mar 25, 2013

2012

Are long-term trends in lake pCO2 responsive to climatic variability and change?
Malgorzata Golub, UW Limnology Seminar, Nov 21, 2012

Modeling the role of ecological succession in peatland carbon cycle responses to rapid and long term hydrological change
Ben Sulman, 30th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology/1st Conference on Atmospheric Biogeosciences, Boston, MA, May 30, 2012

Wetland carbon cycle responses to hydrological change: Impacts on regional and global carbon budget
Ben Sulman, University of Wisconsin, AOS Department Seminar (Ph.D. talk), April 23, 2012

Relationship Between Snow Extent and Mid-Latitude Cyclone Centers From NARR Objectively Derived Storm Position and Snow Cover
Matt Rydzik, University of Wisconsin, Department Seminar (M.S. talk), April 11, 2012

Relationship Between Snow Extent and Mid-Latitude Storm Tracks From NARR Objectively Derived Storm Position and Snow Cover (Video link)
Matt Rydzik, 26th Conference on Hydrology, American Meteorological Society Annual meeting, New Orleans, LA, Jan. 25, 2012

2011

The Influence of Amazonian Deforestation under Varied Rainfall Regimes
Justin Bagley, American Geophysical Union Fall 2011 meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 9, 2011

Ecosystem Model Performance at Wetlands: Results from the North American Carbon Program Site Synthesis
Ben Sulman, American Geophysical Union Fall 2011 meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 9, 2011

The strength of contributions from topography mismatch and measurement filtering to simulated net ecosystem exchange in complex terrain
Bjorn Brooks, American Geophysical Union Fall 2011 meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 8, 2011

A dynamic boundary: The impacts & feedbacks of land cover change on atmospheric moisture and energy
Justin Bagley, University of Wisconsin, AOS Department Seminar (Ph.D. talk), Nov 30, 2011

The role of elevation on temperature trends in the United States: A comparison of three statistical methods
Ruben Behnke, University of Wisconsin, AOS Department Seminar (M.S. talk), March 30, 2011

Sources of variability, spatial representativeness, and filtering of mountaintop CO2 mixing ratios for application to carbon exchange inversion models
Bjorn Brooks, Climate, People, Environment Program Seminar Series, Madison, WI, Feb 11, 2011

Challenges for Wetland Carbon Cycling Modeling
Benjamin Sulman, North American Carbon Program plenary speaker, New Orleans, LA, Feb 2, 2011

2010

Quantification of regional carbon fluxes and boundary layer heights from the Airborne Carbon in the Mountains Experiment 2007
Will Ahue, University of Wisconsin, Department Seminar (M.S. talk), April 28, 2010

Wetland carbon dioxide flux residuals: An impact of hydrology?
Nicole Shroeder, University of Wisconsin Undergraduate Symposium 2010, Madison, WI, Apr. 15, 2010

Improved Characterization of Carbon Dioxide in the U.S. Mountain West
Bjorn Brooks, NOAA ESRL seminar, Boulder, CO, Jan 14, 2010