Nathaniel A. Brunsell

Associate Professor

Dept. of Geography

Atmospheric Sciences Program

214B Lindley Hall

University of Kansas

Lawrence, KS 66045

785-864-2021

brunsell@ku.edu

Upcoming Presentations

Oct 27, 2011. WCRP, Denver, CO:

Wilson and Brunsell: Understanding the spatial variation in timescales of extreme precipitation across the United States

Nov 18, 2011. Lincoln, NE:

Brunsell: Synthesizing biosphere-atmosphere processes across scales

AGU presentations (Dec 4-9, 2011 in San Francisco, CA.):

Lin and Brunsell: The spatial and temporal shifts of biofuel production in the ecosystem-level carbon and water dynamics in the central plains of the US

Brunsell and Nippert:

Assessing the implications of changing extreme value distributions of weather on carbon and water cycling in grasslands 

Barlage et al.: Urban modeling over Houston in support of SIMMER

Cochran and Brunsell: Temporal scales of mid-tropospheric CO2, precipitation, and vegetation phenology in the US great plains

El Kenawy et al.: Effects of climate change on the intensity and frequency of hot spells in northeastern Spain during the 21st century

Wilson and Brunsell: Assessing the geographical and climate space distributions of extreme weather events

Mechem and Brunsell: Preliminary results from a regional climate modeling framework for investigating North American climate extremes

Recent Presentations:

Apr 4-8, 2011. EGU, Vienna Austria:

Brunsell, Miller and Kleidon: Influence of dissipation on the spatial structure of the atmospheric boundary layer.

Hirmas and Brunsell:

Application of wavelet and fractal techniques to the analysis of soil structure and color. 

Recent Papers

11/1/11 Paper in Review: Cochran, F. and N. A. Brunsell: 2011, Temporal scales of tropospheric CO2, precipitation, and ecosystem responses in the central Great Plains. Remote Sensing of Environment.

11/1/11 Paper in Review: Lin, P. and N. A. Brunsell: 2011, Assessing the impacts of landcover and regional climate change on local vegetation phenology. Remote Sensing of Environment.

9/18/11 Paper in Review: Brunsell, N. A and C. J. Wilson: 2011, Multiscale controls on water and carbon cycling in a central US grassland. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.

8/18/11 Paper Published: Brunsell, N. A and M. C. Anderson: 2011, Characterizing the multi-scale spatial structure of remotely sensed evapotranspiration with information theory. Biogeosciences, 8, 2269-2011.

7/5/11 Paper in Press: Petrie, M.D., N. A. Brunsell and J. B. Nippert: 2011, Climate change alters growing season flux dynamics in mesic grasslands. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, in press.

6/20/11 Paper Published: Brunsell, N. A., S. Schymanski and A. Kleidon: 2011, Quantifying the thermodynamic entropy budget of the land surface: is this useful?. Earth System Dynamics, 2, 87-103.

4/7/11 Paper Published: Brunsell, N. A., D. B. Mechem and M. C. Anderson: 2011, Surface heterogeneity impacts on boundary layer dynamics via energy balance partitioning. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 11,3403-3416.

3/17/11 Paper in Press: Petrie, M. D. and N. A. Brunsell: 2011, The role of precipitation variability on the ecohydrology of grasslands. Ecohydrology, in press.