Ken Davis 
EESI Associate
Ken Davis
Ph.D. University of Colorado at Boulder, 1992
Contact Information:
Department of Meteorology
512 Walker Building
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: +1-814-863-8601
Fax: +1-814-865-3663
email: davis@meteo.psu.edu
Dept. website: http://www.met.psu.edu/
Center website:
http://www.eesi.psu.edu/centers/climate.shtml
Current Research Interests:
Boundary layer meteorology, atmospheric carbon and hydrologic cycles, remote sensing using lidar, flux measurement methods, interactions among ecosystem processes and boundary layer development, interactions between atmospheric turbulence and chemistry
Selected Publications:
Cook, Bruce D., Paul V. Bolstad, Faith Ann Heinsch, Kenneth J. Davis, Weiguo Wang, Ron M. Teclaw, and Daniel D. Baumann. Cloudiness and water table measurements improve MODIS GPP predictions in a shrub wetland. JGR‐Biogeosciences, in press.
Lauvaux, T., M. Uliasz, C. Sarrat, F. Chevallier, P. Bousquet, C. Lac, K. J. Davis, P. Ciais, A. S. Denning, and P. Rayner, 2008. Mesoscale inversion: First results from the CERES campaign with synthetic data. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 8, 3459-3471, www.atmos-chem-phys.net/8/3459/2008/.
Gibert, Fabien, Irène Xuéref, Lilian Joly, Martina Schmidt, Kenneth J. Davis, Michel Ramonet, Pierre H. Flamant, Bertrand Parvitte, Virginie Zéninari, 2008. A case study of CO2, CO and particles content evolution in the suburban atmospheric boundary layer using a 2-μm Doppler DIAL, a 1-μm backscatter lidar and an array of in-situ sensors. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 128, 381–401, DOI 10.1007/s10546-008-9296-8.
Wang, W.G. and K.J. Davis, 2008. A numerical study of the influence of a clearcut on eddy-covariance fluxes of CO2 measured above a forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 148, 1488-1500, DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2008.05.009
Davis, K.J., Integrating Field Measurements with Flux Tower and Remote Sensing Data. In Field Measurements for Landscape-Scale Forest Carbon Monitoring, Hoover, Coeli M (Ed.) 2008, XVIII, 242 p. 20 illus., Hardcover. ISBN: 978-1-4020-8505-5.
Kang S.-L., K.J. Davis, 2008. The effects of mesoscale surface heterogeneity on the fair-weather convective atmospheric boundary layer, J. Atmos. Sci., 65, 3197-3213, doi: 10.1175/2008JAS2390.1.
Koch, G.J., J.Y. Beyon, F. Gibert, B.W. Barnes, S. Ismail, M. Petros, P.J. Petzar, J. Yu, E.A. Modlin, K.J. Davis, and U.N. Singh, 2008. Side-line tunable laser transmitter for differential absorption lidar measurements of CO2: Design and application to atmospheric measurements. Applied Optics, 47, 944-956, doi:10.1364/AO.47.000944.
Cook, B. D., P. V. Bolstad, J. G. Martin, F. A. Heinsch, K. J. Davis, W. Wang, A. R. Desai, and R. M. Teclaw. Using light-use and production efficiency models to predict forest production and carbon exchange during canopy disturbance events, 2008. Ecosystems, 11, 26–44, DOI: 10.1007/s10021-007-9105-0.
Ricciuto, D. M., K. J. Davis, and K. Keller, 2008. A Bayesian calibration of a simple carbon cycle model: The role of observations in estimating and reducing uncertainty, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 22, GB2030, doi:10.1029/2006GB002908.
Chen, J., K.J. Davis and T.P. Meyers, 2008. Ecosystem-atmosphere carbon and water cycling in the upper Great Lakes Region. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 148, 155-157, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2007.08.016.
Denning, A.S., N. Zhang, C. Yi, M. Branson, K. Davis, J. Kleist, and P. Bakwin, 2008. Evaluation of simulated atmospheric boundary layer depth at the WLEF tower. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. , 148, 206-215, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2007.08.012.
Desai, A.R., A. Noormets, P. V. Bolstad, J. Chen, B. D. Cook, K. J. Davis, E. S. Euskirchen, C. Gough, J. M. Martin, D. M. Ricciuto, H. P. Schmid, J. Tang, and W. Wang, 2008. Influence of vegetation and seasonal forcing on carbon dioxide fluxes across the Upper Midwest, USA: Implications for regional scaling. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 148, 288-308, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2007.08.001.