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Selected Publications:
Kenneth J. Davis, Department of Meteorology, The Pennsylvania State University

Baldocchi, D. (and 25 co-authors), FLUXNET: A new tool to study the temporal and spatial variability of ecosystem-scale carbon dioxide, water vapor and energy flux densities.  In press, Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc.

Patton, E.G., K.J. Davis, M.C. Barth, C.-H. Moeng and P.P. Sullivan, 2001. Decaying scalars emitted by a forest canopy:  A numerical study.  Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 100, 91-129.

Yi, C., K.J. Davis, P.S. Bakwin, and B.W. Berger, 2001.  Long-term observations of the evolution of the planetary boundary layer.  J. Atmos. Sci., 58, 1288-1299.

Berger, B.W., K.J. Davis, P.S. Bakwin, C. Yi and C. Zhao, 2001. Long-term carbon dioxide fluxes from a very tall tower in a northern forest:  Flux measurement methodology. J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech., 18, 529-542.

Haszpra, L., Z. Barcza, P.S. Bakwin, B.W. Berger, K.J. Davis and T. Weidinger, 2001. Measuring system for the long-term monitoring of biosphere/atmosphere exchange of carbon dioxide, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 3057-3069.

Kuck, L.R., T. Smith, B.B. Balsley, D. Helmig, T.J. Conway, P.P. Tans, K.J. Davis, M. Jensen, J.A. Bognar, R. Vazquez Arrieta, R. Rodriquez and J.W. Birks, 2000.  Measurements of landscape-scale fluxes of carbon dioxide in the Peruvian Amazon by vertical profiling through the convective boundary layer.  J. Geophys. Res., 105, 22,137-22,146.

Davis, K.J., N. Gamage, C. Hagelberg, D.H. Lenschow, C. Kiemle and P.P. Sullivan, 2000. An objective method for determining atmospheric structure from airborne lidar observations. J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech., 17, 1455-1468.

Yi, C., K.J. Davis, P.S. Bakwin, B.W. Berger, and L. C. Marr,  2000. The influence of advection on measurements of the net ecosystem-atmosphere exchange of CO2 observed from a very tall tower, J. Geophys. Res. 105, 9991-9999.

Baker, J.M., K.J. Davis and G.C. Liknes, 1999.  Surface energy balance and boundary layer development during snowmelt, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 19611-19621.

Greenberg, J.P., A. Guenther, P. Zimmerman, W. Baugh, C. Geron, K. Davis, D. Helmig and L. Klinger, 1999. Tethered balloon measurements of biogenic VOCs in the atmospheric boundary layer.  Atmos. Environ., 33, 855-867.

Giez, A., G. Ehret, R. L. Schwiesow, K. J. Davis and D. H. Lenschow, 1999. Water vapor flux measurements from ground-based vertically-pointed water vapor differential absorption and Doppler lidars, J. Oceanic Atmos. Tech., 16, 237-250.

Helmig, D.H., B. Balsley, K. Davis, L.R. Kuck, M. Jensen, J. Bogner, T. Smith, R.V. Arrieta, R. Rodriguez and J.W. Birks, 1998. Vertical profiling and determination of landscape fluxes of biogenic nonmethane hydrocarbons within the planetary boundary layer in the Peruvian Amazon, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 25519-25532.