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Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

submitted, in review
Abdul-Aziz, O., Ishtiaq, K.,Zaki, M., Desai, A.R., Tang, J., Oberbauer, S., Blanken, P., Starr, G., and Staudhammer, C., 2017. Linking net ecosystem exchange (NEE) with the climatic and ecohydrological indicators across diverse ecosystems using data analytics. J. Geophys Res.-G., #2017JG003995, submitted.
Besnard, S, Carvalhais, N, Arain, M, Black, T, Buchmann, N, Cescatti, A, Chen, J, Clevers, J, Desai, A.R., Gough, C., Havránková, K, Herold, M, Hoertnagl, L, Jung, M, Knohl, A, Kruijt, B., Krupkova, L, Law, B, Lindroth, A, Noormets, A, Roupsard, O, Steinbrecher, R, Varlagin, A, Vincke, C, and Reichstein, M., 2018. Quantifying the effect of forest age in annual net forest carbon balance. Env. Res. Lett., #ERL-105639, submitted.
Knox, S., Jackson, R.B., Poulter, B., McNicol , G., Fluet-Chouinard, E., Zhang, Z., Hugelius, G., Bousquet, P., Canadell, J,G., Saunois, M., Papale, D., Chu, H., Keenan, T.F., Baldocchi, D., Mammarella, I., Aurela, M., Bohrer, G., Campbell, D., Cescatti, A., Chamberlain, S., Chen, J., Dengel, S., Desai, A.R., Euskirchen, E., Fribord, T., Goeckede, M., Heimann, M., Helbig, M., Kang, M., Klatt, J., Krauss, K.W., Kutzbach, L., Lohila, A., Mitra, B., Morin, T.H., Nilsson, M.B., Nio, S., Noormets, A., Oechel, W.C., Peichl, M., Peltola, O., Reba, M.L., Runkle, B.R.K., Ryu, Y., Sachs, T., Schäfer, K.V.R., Shurpali, N., Sonnentag, O., Tang, A.C.I., Vesala, T., Ward, E.J., Windham-Myers, L., and Zona, D., 2018. FLUXNET-CH4 Synthesis Activity: Objectives, Observations, and Future Directions. Bulletin of the AMS, #BAMS-D-18-0268, submitted.
Loken, L., Schramm, P., Stadler, P., Desai, A.R., and Stanley, E., 2018. Large spatial and temporal variability of carbon dioxide and methane in a eutrophic lake, Limnology and Oceangraphy, #LO-18-0026, submitted.
Lu,X., Desai, A.R., Cheng, X., Soudani, K., and Li, X., 2018. Can we empirically predict net carbon uptake period with satellite remote sensing? Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, #S-18-01279, submitted.
Ma, S., Law, B., Starr, G., Desai, A.R., Bohrer, G., Barr, J., Yang, B., McFadden , J., Phillips, R., Detto, M., Massman, W., and Baldocchi, D., 2018. On phylogenetic stability in thermal functional traits of plant communities dominating 129 ecosystems in Northern and Southern America, New Phytologist, #NPH-MS-2018-26540, submitted.
McCombs , A., Hiscox, A., Desai, A.R.., Wang, C., 2017. An empirical modeling approach to estimating regional scale net ecosystem exchange in maize and soybean fields in the US corn belt. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, #AGRFORMET-D-17-00847, submitted.
Niu, B., Zhang, X., Piao, S., Janssens, I., Fu, G., He, Y., Zhang, Y., Shi, P., Yu, C., Zhang, J., Yu, G., Xu, M., Wu, J., Zhu, L., Desai, A.R., Chen, J., Bohrer, G., Gough, C., Mammarella, I., Varlagin, A., Fares, S., Zhao, X., Li, Y., Wang, H., and Ouyang, Z., 2017. Future warming likely to homogenize the temperature sensitivity of ecosystem respiration, submitted.
Peaucelle, M., Bacour, C., Ciais, P., Vuichard, N., Kuppel, S., Penuelas, J.; Belelli Marchesini, L., Blanken, P.D., Buchmann, N., Chen, J., Delpierre, N., Desai, A. R., Dufrêne; E., Gianelle, D., Gimeno-Colera, C., Gruening, C., Helfter, C., Hörtnagl, L., Ibrom, A., Joffre, R., Kato, T., Kolb, T., Law, B., Lindroth, A., Mammarella, I., Merbold, L., Minerbi, S., Montagnani, L., Šigut, L., Sutton, M., Varlagin, A., Vesala, T., Wohlfahrt, G., Wolf, S., Yakir, D., Viovy, N., 2018. Exploring plant functional traits co-variations with a terrestrial biosphere model. Global Ecolology and Biogeography, #GEB-2018-0061, submitted.
Wu, C. Wang, S., Wang , H., Ciais , P., Penuelas, J., Myneni , R., Desai, A.R., Gough , C., Gonsamo , A., Black , A.,Jassal , R., Ju , W., Yuan , W., Fu , Y., Shen , M., Chen , J., Ge, Q., 2018. Contrasting responses of autumn leaf coloration to daytime and nighttime warming, submitted.
Xu, K., Sühring, M., Metzger, S., Durden,D., Desai, A.R., 2018. Can data mining help eddy-covariance see the landscape? A large-eddy simulation study, Boundary-Layer Meteorology, #BOUN-D-18-00116, submitted.

in press
Sühring, M., Metzger, S., Xu, K., and Desai, A.R., 2018. Tradeoffs in flux dis-aggregation: a large-eddy simulation study. Boundary Layer Meteorology, in press, doi:10.1007/s10546-018-0387-x, in press.

2018
Chu, H., Baldocchi, D., Poindexter, C., Abraha, M., Desai, A.R., Bohrer, G., Arain, A., Griffis, T., Blanken, P., O'Halloran, T, Thomas, R.Q., Zhang, Q., Burns, S., Frank, J., Christian, D., Brown, S., Black, A., Cough, C., Law, B., Lee, X., Chen, J., Reed, D., Massman, W., Clark, K., Hatfield, J., Prueger, J., Bracho, R., Baker, J., and Martin, T., 2018. Temporal dynamics of aerodynamic canopy height derived from eddy covariance momentum flux data across North American Flux Networks, Geophysical Res. Lett., 45, 9275–9287, doi:10.1029/2018GL079306.
Dubois, S., Desai, A.R., Singh, A., Serbin, S., Goulden, M., Baldocchi, D., Ma, S., Oechel, W., Wharton, S., Kruger, E., and Townsend, P., 2018. Using imaging spectroscopy to detect variation in terrestrial ecosystem productivity across a water-stressed landscape Ecological Applications, 28, 1313-1324, doi:10.1002/eap.1733. (link)
Helliker, B.R., Song, X., Goulden, M.L., Clark, K., Bolstad, P., Munger, J.W., Chen, J., Noormets, A., Dragoni, D., Hollinger, D., Wofsy, S.C., Martin, T., Baldocchi, D., Euskirchen, E., and Desai, A.R., 2018. Assessing the interplay between canopy energy balance and photosynthesis with cellulose δ18O: large-scale patterns and independent ground-truthing. Oecologia, 187(4), 995-1007, doi:10.1007/s00442-018-4198-z.
Kleindl, W., Stoy, P., Binford, M., Desai, A.R., Dietze, M.C., Schultz, C., Starr, G., Staudhammer, C., and Wood, D., 2018. Toward a Social-ecological Theory of Forest Macrosystems For Improved Ecosystem Management Forests, 9(4), 200, doi:10.3390/f9040200. (link).
Li, X.; Xiao, J.; He, B.; Arain, M.A., Beringer, J., Desai, A.R., Emmel, C., Hollinger, D., Krasnova, A., Mammarella, I.; Noe, S., Serrano-Ortiz, P., Rey-Sanchez, C. Rocha, A., and Varlagin, A., 2018. Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence is strongly correlated with terrestrial photosynthesis for a variety of biomes: First global analysis based on OCO-2 and flux tower observations, Global Change Biology, 24, 3990–4008, doi:10.1111/gcb.14297.
McCombs , A., Hiscox, A., Wang, C., Desai, A.R., Suyker, A.E., and Biraud, S.C., 2018. Carbon flux phenology from the sky: Evaluation for maize and soybean. J. Atmos. Ocean Tech., 35, 877-892, doi:10.1175/JTECH-D-17-0004.1.
Novick, K.A., Biederman, J.A., Desai, A.R., Litvak, M.E., Moore, D.J.P., Scott, R.L., and Torn, M.S., 2018. The AmeriFlux Network: A Coalition of the Willing. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 249, 444-456, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2017.10.009. (link)
Pugh, C.A., Reed, D.E., Desai, A.R., Sulman, B.N., 2018. Wetland Flux Controls: How does interacting water table levels and temperature influence carbon dioxide and methane fluxes in Northern Wisconsin?, Biogeochemistry, 137(1–2), 15–25, doi:10.1007/s10533-017-0414-x. (link)
Qiu, C., Zhu, D., Ciais, P., Guenet, B., Krinner, G., Peng, S., Aurela, M., Bernhofer, C., Brümmer, C., Bret-Harte, S., Chu, H., Chen, J., Desai, A.R., Dušek, J., Euskirchen, E. S., Fortuniak, K., Flanagan, L. B., Friborg, T., Grygoruk, M., Gogo, S., Grünwald, T., Hansen, B. U., Holl, D., Humphreys, E., Hurkuck, M., Kiely, G., Klatt, J., Kutzbach, L., Largeron, C., Laggoun-Défarge, F., Lund, M., Lafleur, P. M., Li, X., Mammarella, I., Merbold, L., Nilsson, M. B., Olejnik, J., Ottosson-Löfvenius, M., Oechel, W., Parmentier, F.-J. W., Peichl, M., Pirk, N., Peltola, O., Pawlak, W., Rasse, D., Rinne, J., Shaver, G., Schmid, H. P., Sottocornola, M., Steinbrecher, R., Sachs, T., Urbaniak, M., Zona, D., and Ziemblinska, K., 2018. ORCHIDEE-PEAT (revision 4596), a model for northern peatland CO2, water and energy fluxes on daily to annual scales Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 497-519, doi:10.5194/gmd-11-497-2018. (link)
Reed, D.R., Dugan, H., Flannery, A., and Desai, A.R., 2018. Carbon sink and source dynamics of a eutrophic deep lake using multiple flux observations over multiple years Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 3, 285-292, 10.1002/lol2.10075. (link)
Reed, D.E., Frank, J.M., Ewers, B.E., and Desai, A.R., 2018. Time dependency of eddy covariance site energy balance. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 249, 467-478, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2017.08.008 (link).
Xu, K., Metzger, S., Desai, A.R., 2018 Surface-atmosphere exchange in a box: Space-time resolved storage and net vertical fluxes from tower-based eddy covariance. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 255, 81-91, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2017.10.011. (link) (companion from Metzger et al)
2017
Donnelly, A., Yu, R. Caffarra, A., Hanes, J., Liang, L., Desai, A.R., Liu, L., and Schwartz, M.D., 2017. Interspecific and interannual variation in the duration of spring phenophases in a northern mixed forest Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 243, 55-67, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2017.05.007. (link)
Golub, M.G., Desai, A.R., McKinley , G.A., Remucal, C.K., and Stanley, E.H., 2017. Large uncertainty in estimating pCO2 from carbonate equilibria in lakes. J. Geophys. Res.-G., 122, 2909–2924, doi:10.1002/2017JG003794. (link) (supplement)
Helbig, M., Chasmer, L., Desai, A.R., Kljun, N., Quintom W., and Sonnetag, O., 2017. Direct climate change effects on net carbon dioxide fluxes exceed indirect effects of thawing permafrost in a boreal forest-wetland landscape. Global Change Biology, 23, 3231–3248, doi:10.1111/gcb.13638. (link)
Jones, L., Kimball, J.S., Reichle, R.H., Madani, N., Glassy, J., Ardizzone, J., Colliander, A., Cleverly, J., Desai, A.R., Eamus, D., Euskirchen, E., Hutley, L., Macfarlane, C., Scott, R., 2017. The SMAP Level 4 Carbon Product for Monitoring Ecosystem Land-Atmosphere CO2 Exchange. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 55, 6517-6532, doi:10.1109/TGRS.2017.2729343. (link)
Kenny, W.T., Bohrer, G., Morin, T.H., Vogel, C.S., Matheny, A.M., and Desai, A.R., 2017. A Numerical Case Study of the Implications of Secondary Circulations to the Interpretation of Eddy-Covariance Measurements Over Small Lakes. Boundary-Layer Meteorol., 165, 311–332, 10.1007/s10546-017-0268-8. (link)
Metzger, S., Durden, D., Sturtevant, C., Luo, H., Pingintha-Durden, N., Sachs, T., Serafimovich, A., Hartmann, J., Li, J., Xu, K., Desai, A.R., 2017. eddy4R: A community-extensible processing, analysis and modeling framework for eddy-covariance data based on R, Git, Docker and HDF5. Geoscientific Model Development, 10, 3189-3206, 2017, doi:10.5194/gmd-10-3189-2017. (link)
Phillips, C.L., Bond-Lamberty, B., Desai, A.R., Lavoie, M., Risk, D., Tang, J., Todd-Brown, K., and Vargas, R., 2017. The value of soil respiration measurements for interpreting and modeling terrestrial carbon cycling. Plant and Soil, 413, 1, doi:10.1007/s11104-016-3084-x.
Xu, K., Metzger, S., Desai, A.R., 2017. Upscaling tower-observed turbulent exchange at fine spatio- temporal resolution using environmental response functions. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 232:10-22, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2016.07.019. (link)
2016
Chu, H., Chen, J., Gottgens, J., Desai, A.R., Ouyang, Z., and Qian, S.S., 2016. Response and biophysical regulation of carbon dioxide fluxes to climate variability and anomaly in contrasting ecosystems in northwestern Ohio, USA. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 220, 50–68, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2016.01.008.
Desai, A.R., Wohlfahrt, G., Zeeman, M.J., Katata, G., Eugster, W., Montagnani, L., Gianelle, D., Mauder, M., and Schmid., H.-P., 2016. Montane ecosystem productivity responds more to global circulation patterns than climatic trends. Environ. Res. Lett. 11(2):024013 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/11/2/024013. (link)
Whelan, M.E., Hilton, T.W., Berry, J.A., Berkelhammer, M., Desai, A.R., and Campbell, J.E., 2016. Carbonyl sulfide exchange in soils for better estimates of ecosystem carbon uptake. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 3711-3726, doi:10.5194/acp-16-3711-2016. (link)
Whitaker, E., Reed, D.E., Desai, A.R., 2016. Lake ice measurements from soil water content reflectometer sensors. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 14, 224–230, doi:10.1002/lom3.10083. (link)
Wolf, S., Keenan, T.F., Fisher, J.B., Baldocchi, D.D., Desai, A.R., Richardson, A.D., Scott, R.L., Law, B.E., Litvak, M.E., Brunsell, N.A., Peters, W., and van der Laan-Luijkx, I.T., 2016. Warm spring reduced carbon cycle impact of the 2012 US summer drought. Proc. Natl Acad Sci, 113, 5880-5885, doi:10.1073/pnas.1519620113. (link) (commentary)
Zscheischler, J., Fatichi, S., Wolf, S., Blanken, P., Bohrer, G., Clark, K., Desai, A.R., Hollinger, D., Keenan, T., Novick, K.A., and Seneviratne, S.I., 2016. Short-term favorable weather conditions are an important control of interannual variability in carbon and water fluxes. J. Geophys. Res. - G., 121, doi:10.1002/2016JG003503. (link)
2015
Becknell, J.M., Desai, A.R., Dietze, M.C., Schultz, C.A., Starr, G., Duffy, P.A., Franklin, J.F., Pourmokhtarian, A., Hall, J., Stoy, P.C., Binford, M.W., Boring, L.E., and Stuadhammer, C.L., 2015. Assessing interactions among changing climate, management, and disturbance in forests: A macrosystems approach. Bioscience, 65:263-274, doi:10.1093/biosci/biu234. (link)
Christian, B.A., Joshi, N.C., Saini, M.J., Mehta, N.K., Goroshi, S., Nidamanuri, R.R., Thenkabail, P., Desai, A.R., and Krishnayya, N.S.R., 2015. Seasonal variations in phenology and productivity of a tropical dry deciduous forest from MODIS and Hyperion. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 214-215, 91-105, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.08.246. (link)
Chu, H., Gottgens, J., Chen, J., Sun, G., Desai, A.R., Ouyang, Z., Shao, C., and Czajkowski, K., 2015. Climatic variability, hydrologic anomaly, and methane emission can turn productive freshwater marshes into net carbon sources. Global Change Biology, 21, 1165–1181, doi:10.1111/gcb.12760. (link)
Desai, A.R., Vesala, T., and Rantakari, M., 2015. Measurements, modeling, and scaling of inland water gas exchange. EOS, 96, doi:10.1029/2015EO022151. (link) (supplement)
Desai, A.R., Xu, K., Tian H., Weishampel, P., Thom, J., Baumann, D., Andrews, A.E., Cook, B.D., King, J.Y., and Kolka, R., 2015. Landscape-level terrestrial methane flux observed from a very tall tower. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 201, 61-75, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2014.10.017.(link) (Corrigendum)
Petrescu, A.M., Lohila, A., Tuovinen, J.P., Baldocchi, D.D., Desai, A.R., Roulet, N.T., Vesala, T., et al., 2015. The uncertain climate footprint of wetlands under human pressure. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 112, 4594-4599, doi:10.1073/pnas.1416267112. (link)
Phillips, C., McFarlane , K., LaFranchi , B., Desai, A.R., Miller, J., and Lehman, S., 2015. Observations of 14CO2 in ecosystem respiration from a temperate deciduous forest in Northern Wisconsin. J. Geophys-Res-G., 120, 600–616, doi:10.1002/2014JG002808.
Serbin, S.P., Singh, A., Desai, A.R., DuBois, S.G., Jablonski, A.D., Kingdon, C.C., Kruger, E.L., and Townsend, P.A., 2015. Remotely estimating photosynthetic capacity, and its response to temperature, in vegetation canopies using imaging spectroscopy. Rem. Sens. Environ.,167, 78-87, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2015.05.024. (link)
Viskari, T., Hardimann, B., Desai, A.R., and Dietze, M.C., 2015. Model-data assimilation of multiple phenological observations to constrain and predict leaf area index. Ecological Applications, 25, 546–558, doi:10.1890/14-0497.1. (link)
2014
Andrews, A.E., Kofler, J.D., Trudeau, M.E., Williams, Neff, D.H., Masarie, K.A., Chao, D.Y., Kitzis, D.R., Novelli, P.C., Zhao, C.L., Dlugokencky, E.J., Lang, P.M., Crotwell, M.J., Fischer, M.L., Parker, M.J., Lee, J.T., Baumann, D.D., Desai, A.R., Stanier, C.O., de Wekker, S.F.J., Wolfe, D.E., Munger, J.W., and Tans, P.P., 2014. CO2, CO, and CH4 measurements from tall towers in the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory's Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network: instrumentation, uncertainty analysis, and recommendations for future high-accuracy greenhouse gas monitoring efforts. Atmos. Meas. Tech., 7, 647-687, doi:10.5194/amt-7-647-2014. (link)
Bagley, J.E., Desai, A.R., Harding, K.J., Snyder, P.K., and Foley, J.A., 2014. Drought and deforestation: Has land cover change influenced recent precipitation extremes in the Amazon? J. Climate, 27, 345-361, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00369.1. (link)
Desai, A.R., 2014. Influence and predictive capacity of climate anomalies on daily to decadal extremes in canopy photosynthesis. Photosynthesis Research, 119, 31-47, doi:10.1007/s11120-013-9925-z. (link)
Dietze, M.C., Serbin, S.P., Davidson, C., Desai, A.R., Feng, X., Kelly, R., Kooper, R., LeBauer , D., Mantooth, J., McHenry , K., and Wang, D., 2014. A quantitative assessment of a terrestrial biosphere model's data needs across North American biomes. J. Geophys. Res-G, 119, 286–300, doi:10.1002/2013JG002392. (link)
Matheny, A., Bohrer, G., Stoy, P., Baker, I., Black, A., Desai, A.R., Dietze, M., Gough, C.M., Ivanov, V., Jassal, R., Novick, K.,Schäfer, K., Verbeeck, H., 2014. Characterizing the diurnal patterns of errors in the prediction of evapotranspiration by several land-surface models: an NACP analysis. J. Geophys. Res.-G, 119, 1458–1473, doi:10.1002/2014JG002623. (link)
Pressel, K., Collins, W.C., and Desai, A.R., 2014. The spatial scale dependence of water vapor variability inferred from observations from a very tall tower. J. Geophys Res., 119(16), 9822-9837, doi:10.1002/2013JD021141. (link)
Rydzik, M. and Desai, A.R., 2014. Relationship between snow extent and midlatitude disturbance centers. J. Climate, 27, 2971–2982, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00841.1. (link)
Shen, M., Tang, Y., Desai, A.R., Gough, C., and Chen, J., 2014. Can EVI-derived land surface phenology be used as a surrogate for phenology of canopy photosynthesis? International Journal of Remote Sensing, 35, 1162-1174, doi:10.1080/01431161.2013.875636.	(link)
Tang, X., Li, H., Desai, A.R., Nagy, Z., Lou, J., Kolb, T.E., Olioso, A., Xu, X., Yao, L., Kutsch, W., Pilegaard, K., Köstner, B., and Ammann, C., 2014. How is water-use efficiency of terrestrial ecosystems distributed and changing on Earth? Nature Scientific Reports., 4, article 7483, 1-11, doi:10.1038/srep07483. (link)
Tang, X., Li, H., Desai, A.R., Xu, X., and Xie, J., 2014. Comparison of multiple models for remote sensing of carbon exchange using MODIS data in conifer-dominated forests. Intl. J. Rem. Sens., 35, 8252-8271, doi:10.1080/01431161.2014.981644. (link)
Wang, W., Xiao, J., Ollinger, S.V., Desai, A.R., Chen, J., and Noormets, A., 2014. Quantifying the effects of harvesting on carbon fluxes and stocks in northern temperate forests. Biogeosciences, 11, 6667-6682, doi:10.5194/bg-11-6667-2014. (link)
Wei, S., Yi, C., Hendrey, G., Eaton, T., Rustic, G., Wang, S., Liu, H., Krakauer, N., Wang, W., Desai, A.R., Montagnani, L., Paw U, K.T., Falk, M., Black, A., Benhofer, C., Gruenwald, T., Laurila, T., Cescatti, A., Moore, E., Bracho, R., Valentini, R., 2014. Data-based perfect-deficit approach to understanding climate extremes and forest carbon assimilation capacities. Environ Res. Lett., 9, 065002, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/9/6/065002. (link)
Xiao, J., Ollinger, S., Frolking, S., Hurtt, G.C., Hollinger, D.Y., Davis, K.J., Pan, Y., Zhang, X., Deng, F., Chen, J., Baldocchi, D.D., Arain, A., Desai, A.R., Richardson, A.D. Sun, G., Amiro, B., Margolis, H., Gu, L., Scott, R.L., Blanken, P.D., Suyker, A.E., 2014. Data-driven diagnostics of North American carbon dynamics. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 197, 142-157, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2014.06.013. (link)
2013
Moore, D.J.P., Trahan, N.A., Wilkes, P., Quaife, T., Stephens, B.B., Elder, K., Desai, A.R., Negron, J., and Monson, R.K., 2013. Persistent reduced ecosystem respiration after insect disturbance in high elevation forests. Ecol. Letters, 16, 731–737, doi:10.1111/ele.12097. (link)
Phillips, C., McFarlane, K.J., Risk, D., and Desai, A.R., 2013. Biological and physical influences on soil 14CO2 seasonal dynamics in a temperate hardwood forest. Biogeosciences, 10, 7999-8012, doi:10.5194/bg-10-7999-2013 (link)
Sulman, B.N., Desai, A.R., and Mladenoff, D., 2013. Modeling Soil and Biomass Carbon Responses to Declining Water Table in a Wetland-Rich Landscape. Ecosystems, 16, 491-507, doi:10.1007/s10021-012-9624-1. (link)
Tang, X., Wang, Z., Xie, J., Liu, D., Desai, A.R., Jia, M., Dong, Z., Liu, X., and Liu, B., 2013. Monitoring the seasonal and interannual variation of the carbon sequestration in a temperate deciduous forest with MODIS time series data, Forest Ecology and Management, 306, 150-160, doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2013.06.032.
Wu, C., Chen, J. M., Black, T. A., Price, D. T., Kurz, W. A., Desai, A.R., Gonsamo, A., Jassal, R. S., Gough, C. M., Bohrer, G., Dragoni, D., Herbst, M., Gielen, B., Berninger, F., Vesala, T., Mammarella, I., Pilegaard, K. and Blanken, P. D., 2013. Interannual variability of net ecosystem productivity in forests is explained by carbon flux phenology in autumn. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 22, 994-1006, doi:10.1111/geb.12044.
Wu, C.,Chen, J.M., Desai., A.R., LaFleur , P.M., and Verma, S.B., 2013. Positive impacts of precipitation intensity on monthly CO2 fluxes in North America. Global and Planetary Change, 100, 204-214, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2012.10.019. (link)
2012
Bagley, J.E., Desai, A.R., Dirmeyer, P., and Foley, J.A., 2012. Effects of land cover change on precipitation and crop yield in the world's breadbaskets. Environmental Research Letters, 7, 014009 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/014009. (link)
Brooks, B.J., Desai, A.R., Stephens, B.B., Bowling, D., Burns, S.P., Watt, A., Heck, S.L., and Sweeney, C., 2012. Assessing filtering of mountaintop CO2 mixing ratios for application to inverse models of biosphere-atmosphere carbon exchange. Atmos. Chem Phys., 12, 2099-2115, doi:10.5194/acp-12-2099-2012 (link)
Grant, R.F., Desai, A.R., Sulman, B.N., 2012. Modelling contrasting responses of wetland productivity to changes in water table depth. Biogeosciences, 9, 4215-4231, doi:10.5194/bg-9-4215-2012. (link)
Hicke, J.A., Allen, C.D., Desai, A.R., Dietze, M., Hall, R., Hogg, E.T., Kashian, D., Moore, D., Raffa, K., Sturrock, R., and Vogelmann, J., 2012. Effects of biotic disturbances on forest carbon cycling in the United States and Canada. Global Change Biology, 18, 7-34, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02543.x.
Keppel-Aleks, G., Wennberg, P.O., Washenfelder, R.A., Wunch, D., Schneider, T., Toon, G.C., Andres, R., Blavier, J.-F., Connor, B., Davis, K.J., Desai, A.R., Messerschmidt, J., Notholt, J., Roehl, C.M., Sherlock, V., Stephens, B.B., Vay, S.A., and Wofsy, S.C., 2012. The imprint of surface fluxes and transport on variations in total column carbon dioxide. Biogeosciences 9, 875-891, doi:10.5194/bg-9-875-2012. (link)
Niu, S., et al. (64 co-authors including Desai, A.R.), 2012. Thermal optimality of net ecosystem exchange of carbon dioxide and underlying mechanisms. New Phytologist, 194(3), 775-783, doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04095.x.
Read, J.S., Hamilton, D.P., Desai, A.R., Rose, K.C., MacIntyre , S., Lenters, J.D., Smyth, R.L., Hanson, P.C., Cole, J.J., Staehr, P.A., Rusak, J.A., Pierson, D.C., Brookes, J.D., Laas, A., and Wu., C.H., 2012. Lake-size dependency of wind shear and convection as controls on gas exchange. Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L09405, doi:10.1029/2012GL051886.
Richardson, A.R., Anderson, R.S., Altaf Arain, M., Barr, A.G., Bohrer, G., Chen, G., Chen, J.M., Ciais, P., Davis, K.J., Desai, A.R., Dietze, M.C., Dragoni, D., Garrity, S., Gough, C.M., Grant, R., Hollinger, D.Y., Margolis, H.A., McCaughey , H., Migliavacca, M., Monson, R.K., Munger, J.W., Poulter, B., Raczka, B.M., Ricciuto, D.M., Sahoo, A., Schaefer, K., Tian, H., Vargas, R., Verbeeck, H., Xiao, J., and Xue, Y., 2012. Terrestrial biosphere models need better representation of vegetation phenology: results from the North American Carbon Program Site Synthesis. Global Change Biology, 18(2), 566-584, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02562.x.
Schaefer, K. et al. (50 co-authors including Desai, A.R.), 2012. A model-data comparison of gross primary productivity: Results from the North American Carbon Program Site Synthesis. J. Geophys. Res., 117, G03010, doi:10.1029/2012JG001960.
Sprintsin, M., Chen, J.M., Desai, A.R., and Gough, C.M., 2012. Evaluation of leaf-to-canopy upscaling methodologies against carbon flux data in North America. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, 117, G01023, doi:10.1029/2010JG001407.
Sulman, B.N., Desai, A.R., Schroeder, N.M., Ricciuto, D.M., Barr, A., Richardson, A.D., Flanagan, L.B., LaFleur , P.M., Tian, H., Chen, G., Grant, R.F., Poulter, B., Verbeeck, H., Ciais, P., Ringeval, B., Baker, I.T., Schaefer, K., Luo, Y., and Weng, E., 2012. Impact of hydrological variations on modeling of peatland CO2 fluxes: results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, 117, G01031, doi:10.1029/2011JG001862. (link)
Tang, X., Wang, Z., Liu, D., Song, K., Jia, M., Dong, Z., Munger, J.W., Hollinger, D.Y., Bolstad, P.V., Goldstein, A.H., Desai, A.R., Dragoni, D., and Liu, X., 2012. Estimating the net ecosystem exchange for the major forests in the northern United States by integrating MODIS and AmeriFlux data. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 156, 75-84, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2012.01.003
Wu. C., Chen, J.M., Desai, A.R., Hollinger, D., Arain, A., Margolis, H.A., Gough, C.M., and Staebler, R., 2012. Remote sensing of canopy light use efficiency in temperate and boreal forests of North America using MODIS imagery. Remote Sensing of the Environment, 118, 60-72, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2011.11.012. (link)
2011
Atilla, N., McKinley, G., Bennington, V., Baehr, M., Urban, N., DeGrandpre , M., Desai, A.R., and Wu, C., 2011. Observed variability of Lake Superior pCO2. Limnology and Oceanography, 53(3): 775-786, doi:10.4319/lo.2011.56.3.0775.
Bagley, J., Desai, A.R., West, P.C., and Foley, J.A., 2011. A simple, minimal parameter model for predicting the influence of changing land cover on the land-atmosphere system. Earth Interactions, 15, 1-32, doi:10.1175/2011EI394.1. (link)
Blonquist, J.M., Montzka, S.A., Munger, J.W., Yakir, D., Desai, A.R., Dragoni, D., Griffis, T.J.,Monson, R.K., Scott, R.L., and Bowling, D.R., 2011. The potential of carbonyl sulfide as a tracer for gross primary productivity at flux tower sites. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, 116, G04019, doi:10.1029/2011JG001723.
Buffam, I., Turner, M.G., Desai, A.R., Hanson, P., Rusak, J., Lottig, N.R., Stanley, E.H., and Carpenter, S.R., 2011. Integrating aquatic and terrestrial components to construct a complete carbon budget for a north temperate lake district. Global Change Biology, 17(2): 1193-1211, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02313.x.
Desai, A.R., Moore, D.J.P., Ahue, W., Wilkes, P.T.V., De Wekker, S., Brooks, B.G., Campos, T., Stephens, B.B., Monson, R.K., Burns, S., Quaife, T., Aulenbach, S., and Schimel, D.S., 2011. Seasonal pattern of regional carbon balance in the Central Rocky Mountains from the Airborne Carbon in the Mountains Experiment 2007. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, 116, G04009, doi:10.1029/2011JG001655. (link)
DiGangi , J.P., Boyle, E.S., Karl, T., Harley, P., Turnipseed, A., Kim, S., Cantrell, C., Maudlin, L., Zheng, W., Flocke, F., Hall, S., Ullmann, K., Nakashima,Y., Paul, J.B., Wolfe, G.M., Desai, A.R., Kajii, Y., Guenther, A., and Keutsch, F.N., 2011. First direct measurements of formaldehyde flux via eddy covariance: Implications for missing in-canopy formaldehyde sources. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 10565-10578, doi:10.5194/acp-11-10565-2011. (link)
Vasys, V.N., Desai, A.R., McKinley , G.A., Bennington, V., Michalak, A.M., and Andrews, A.E., 2011. Influence of large lake carbon exchange on regional tracer transport inversions. Environmental Research Letters, 6 034016 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/6/3/034016. (link)
Yuan, W., Luo, Y., Li, X., Liu, S., Yu, G., Zhou, T., Bahn, M., Black, A., Desai, A.R., Cescatti, A., Marcolla, B., Jacobs, C., Chen, J., Aurela, M., Berhnofer, C., Gielen, B., Bohrer, G., Cook, D.R., Dragoni, D., Dunn, A.L., Gianelle, D., Grünwald, T., Ibrom, A., Leclerc, M.Y., Lindroth, A., Liu, H., Marchesini, L.B., Montagnani, L., Pita, G., Rodeghiero, M. Rodrigues, A., Starr, G., and Stoy, P.C., 2011. Redefinition and global estimation of basal ecosystem respiration rate. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 25, GB4002, doi:10.1029/2011GB004150.
Yuan, W., Luo, Y., Liang, S., Yu, G., Niu, S., Stoy, P., Chen, J., Desai, A.R., Lindroth, A., Gough, C., Ceulemans, R., Arain, A., Bernhofer, C., Cook, B.D., Cook, D.R., Dragoni, D., Gielen, B., Janssens, I., Longdoz, B., Liu, H., Lund, M., Matteucci, G., Moors, E., Scott, R.L., Seufert, G., and Varner, R., 2011. Thermal adaptation of net ecosystem exchange. Biogeosciences, 8, 1453-1463, doi:10.5194/bg-8-1453-2011. (link)
Zobitz, J., Desai, A.R., Moore, D.J.P., and Chadwick, M.A., 2011. A primer for data assimilation with ecological models using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). Oecologia, 167(3), 599-611, doi:10.1007/s00442-011-2107-9. (code)
2010
Amiro, B., Barr, A.G., Barr, J.G., Black, T.A., Bracho, R., Brown, M., Chen, J., Clark, K.L., Davis, K.J., Desai, A.R., Dore, S., Engel, V., Fuentes, J.D., Goldstein, A.H., Goulden, M.L., Kolb, T.E., Lavigne, M.B., Law, B.E., Margolis, H.A., Martin, T., McCaughey , J.H., Misson, L., Montes-Helu, M., Noormets, A., Randerson, J.T., Starr, G., and Xiao, J., 2010. Ecosystem carbon dioxide fluxes after disturbance in forests of North America. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, 115, G00K02 , doi:10.1029/2010JG001390.
Desai, A.R., 2010. Climatic and phenological controls on coherent regional interannual variability of carbon dioxide flux in a heterogeneous landscape. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, 115: G00J02 , doi:10.1029/2010JG001423. (link)
Desai, A.R., Helliker, B.R., Moorcroft, P.R., Andrews, A.E., and Berry, J.A., 2010. Interannual variability in regional carbon fluxes from top-down and bottom-up perspectives. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, 115, G02011, doi:10.1029/2009JG001122. (link)
Hollinger, D.Y., Ollinger, S.V., Richardson, A.D., Meyers, T.P., Dail, D.B., Martin, M.E., Scott, N.A., Arkebauer, T.J., Baldocchi, D.D., Clark, K., Curtis, P.S., Davis, K.J., Desai, A.R., Goulden, M.L., Gu, L., Katul, G.G., Pallardy, S., Paw U, K.T., Schmid, H., Stoy, P.C., Suyker, A.E., and Verma, S.B., 2010. Albedo estimates for land surface models and support for a new paradigm based on foliage nitrogen concentration. Global Change Biology, 16: 696-710, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02028.x.
Schwalm, C., Williams, C., Schaefer, K., et al. (43 other co-authors including Desai, A.R.), 2010. A model-data intercomparison of CO2 exchange across North America: Results from the North American Carbon Program Site Synthesis. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, 115, G00H05 , doi:10.1029/2009JG001229.
Sulman, B.N., Desai, A.R., Saliendra, N., Lafleur, P.M., Flanagan, L.B., Sonnentag, O., Mackay, D.S., Barr, A.G., and van der Kamp, G., 2010. Carbon fluxes at northern fens and bogs have opposite responses to inter-annual fluctuations in water table. Geophysical Research Letters, 37, L19702, doi:10.1029/2010GL044018. (link)
Yi, C., et al. (151 authors include Desai, A.R.), 2010. Climate control of terrestrial carbon exchange across biomes and continents. Environmental Research Letters, 5, 034007, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/5/3/034007. (link)
Yuan, W., Liu, S., Yu, G., Bonnefond, J-M., Chen J., Davis, K.J., Desai, A.R., Goldstein, A.H., Gianelle, D., Rossi, F., Suyker, A., and Verma, S.B., 2010. Global estimates of evapotranspiration and gross primary production based on MODIS and global meteorology data. Remote Sensing of the Environment, 114(7): 1416-1431, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2010.01.022.
2009
Desai, A.R., Austin, J.A., Bennington, V., and McKinley, G.A., 2009. Stronger winds over a large lake in response to a weakening air to lake temperature gradient. Nature-Geoscience, 2: 855-858, doi:10.1038/NGEO693. (link)
Sulman, B.N., Desai, A.R., Cook, B.D., Saliendra, N., and Mackay, D.S., 2009. Contrasting carbon dioxide fluxes between a drying shrub wetland in Northern Wisconsin, USA, and nearby forests. Biogeosciences, 6: 1115-1126, doi:10.5194/bg-6-1115-2009. (link)
Van Gorsel, E., Delpierre, N., Leuning, R., Black, A., Munger, J.W., Wofsy, S., Aubinet, M., Feigenwinter, C., Beringer, J., Bonal, D., Chen, B., Chen, J., Clement, R., Davis, K.J., Desai, A.R., Dragoni, D., Etzold, S., Grünwald, T., Gu, L., Heinesch, B., Hutyra, L.R., Jans, W.W., Kutsch, W., Law, B.E., Leclerc, M.Y., Mammarella, I., Montagnani, L., Noormets, A., Rebmann, C., and Whaton, S., 2009. Estimating nocturnal ecosystem respiration from the vertical turbulence flux and change in storage of CO2. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology,149(11): 1919-1930, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2009.06.020.
2008
Blankinship, J.C., Riveros-Iregui, D.A., Desai, A.R., 2008. NCAR Advanced Study Program Students "Method-Hop" Their Way to Regional Biogeochemistry. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 89(10): 1571-1573, doi:10.1175/2008BAMS2615.1 (link)
Cook, B.D., Bolstad, P.V., Martin, J.G., Heinsch, F.A., Davis, K.J., Wang, W., Desai, A.R., and Teclaw, R.M., 2008. Using light-use and production efficiency models to predict forest production and carbon exchange during canopy disturbance events. Ecosystems, 11: 26-44, doi:10.1007/s10021-007-9105-0.
Desai, A.R., Noormets, A.N., Bolstad, P.V., Chen, J., Cook, B.D., Davis, K.J., Euskirchen, E.S., Gough, C.M., Martin, J.G., Ricciuto, D.M., Schmid, H.P., Tang, J.W. and Wang, W., 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(2): 288-308, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2007.08.001. (link)
Desai, A.R., Richardson, A.D., Moffat, A.M., Kattge, J., Hollinger, D.Y., Barr, A., Falge, E., Noormets, A., Papale, D., Reichstein, M., and Stauch, V.J., 2008. Cross site evaluation of eddy covariance GPP and RE decomposition techniques. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 148(6-7): 821-838, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2007.11.012. (link)
Noormets, A.N., Desai, A.R., Cook, B.D., Euskirchen, E., Ricciuto, D.M., Davis, K.J., Bolstad, P.V., Schmid, H.-P., Vogel, C.V., Carey, E.V., Su, H.B., and Chen, J., 2008. Moisture sensitivity of ecosystem respiration: Comparison of 14 forest ecosystems in the Upper Great Lakes Region, USA. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 148(2): 216-230, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2007.08.002.
Tang, J., Bolstad, P.V., Desai, A.R., Martin, J.G., Cook, B.D., Davis, K.J., and Carey, E.V., 2008. Ecosystem respiration and its components in an old-growth northern forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 148(2): 171-185, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2007.08.008.
2007
Barkley, M.P., Monks, P.S., Hewitt, A.J., Mchida, T., Desai, A.R., Vinnichenko, N., Nakazawa, T., Yu Arshinow, M., Fedoseev, N., and Watai, T., 2007. Assessing the near surface sensitivity of SCIAMACHY atmospheric CO2 retrieved using (FSI) WFM-DOAS. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 7(13), 3597-3617, doi:10.5194/acp-7-3597-2007. (link)
Desai, A.R., Moorcroft, P.R., Bolstad, P.V., and Davis, K.J., 2007. Regional carbon fluxes from a biometrically-constrained dynamic ecosystem model: Impact of disturbance, CO2 fertilization and heterogeneous land cover. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, 112(G01017), doi:10.1029/2006JG000264. (link)
Moffat, A.M., Papale, D., Reichstein, M., Hollinger, D.Y., Richardson, A.D., Barr, A.G., Beckstein, C., Braswell, B.H., Churkina, G., Desai, A.R., Falge, E., Gove, J.H., Heimann, M., Hui, D., Jarvis, A.J., Kattge, J., Noormets, A., and Stauch, V.J., 2007. Comprehensive comparison of gap-filling techniques for eddy covariance net carbon fluxes. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 147(3-4): 209-232, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2007.08.011.
2006
Desai, A.R., Davis, K.J., Senff, C., Ismail, S., Browell, E.V., Stauffer, D.R., and Reen, B.P., 2006. A case study on the effects of heterogeneous soil moisture on mesoscale boundary layer structure in the southern Great Plains, USA. Part I: Simple prognostic model. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 119(2): 195-238, doi:10.1007/s10546-005-9024-6. (link)
Heinsch, F.A., Zhao, M., Running, S.W., Kimball, J.S., Nemani, R.R., Davis, K.J., Bolstad, P.V., Cook, B.D., Desai, A.R., Ricciuto, D.M., Law, B.E., Oechel, W.C., Kwon, H., Luo, H., Wofsy, S.C., Dunn, A.L., Munger, J.W., Baldocchi, D.D., Xu, L., Hollinger, D.Y., Richardson, A.D., Stoy, P.C., Siqeira, M.B.S., Monson, R.K., Burns, S., and Flanagan, L.B., 2006. Evaluation of remote sensing based terrestrial productivity from MODIS using Ameriflux tower eddy flux network observations. IEEE Transactions on Geosciences and Remote Sensing, 44(7): 1908-1925, doi:10.1109/TGRS.2005.853936.
Reen, B.P., Stauffer, D.R., Davis, K.J., and Desai, A.R., 2006. A case study on the effects of heterogeneous soil moisture on mesoscale boundary layer structure in the southern Great Plains, USA. Part II: Mesoscale modeling. Boundary Layer Meteorology, 120(2): 275-314, doi:10.1007/s10546-006-9056-6.
Tang, J., Bolstad, P.V., Ewers, B.E., Desai, A.R., Davis, K.J., and Carey, E.V., 2006. Sap-flux-upscaled canopy transpiration, stomatal conductance and water use efficiency in an old-growth forest in the Great Lakes region of United States. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, 111(G02009): doi:10.1029/2005JG000083. (link)
2005
Desai, A.R., Bolstad, P.V., Cook, B.D., Davis, K.J., and Carey, E.V., 2005. Comparing net ecosystem exchange of carbon dioxide between an old-growth and mature forest in the upper Midwest, USA. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 128(1-2): 33-55, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2004.09.005. (link)
2004
Cook, B.D., Davis, K.J., Wang, W., Desai, A.R., Berger, B.W., Teclaw, R.M., Martin, J.G., Bolstad, P.V., Bakwin, P.S., Yi, C., and Heilman, W., 2004. Carbon exchange and venting anomalies in an upland deciduous forest in northern Wisconsin, USA. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 126(3-4): 271-295, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2004.06.008. (link)
Yi, C., Davis, K.J., Bakwin, P.S., Denning, A.S., Zhang, N., Desai, A.R., Lin, J.C., Gerbig, C., and Wofsy, S.C., 2004. Observed covariance between ecosystem carbon exchange and atmospheric boundary layer dynamics at a site in northern Wisconsin. Journal of Geophysical Research, 109(D08302), doi:10.1029/2003JD004164. (link)
Yi, C., Li, R., Bakwin, P.S., Desai, A.R., Ricciuto, D.M., Burns, S., Turnipseed, A.A., Wofsy, S.C., Munger, J.W., Wilson, K., and Monson, R.K., 2004. A nonparametric method for separating photosynthesis and respiration components in CO2 flux measurements. Geophysical Research Letters, 31(L17107), doi:10.1029/2004GL020490. (link)

Other publications

Theses

Xu, K., 2018. Scaling of the Carbon, Energy Exchange, and Evapotranspiration over Heterogeneous Ecosystems Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.

Taebel, Z., 2018. Ice Dynamics in Lake Model Surface Energy Balance Uncertainty Undergraduate senior thesis, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. (link)

Nielsen, K., 2017. An Investigation of Boundary Layer Depth Retrieval and Characteristics from the SPARC Trailer at the Park Falls WLEF Tall Tower Undergraduate senior thesis, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. (link)

Golub, M.G., 2016. Controls on Temporal Variation in Ecosystem-Atmosphere Carbon Dioxide Exchange in Lakes and Reservoirs. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. (link)

Jasmin, T., 2016. Addressing future challenges of sustainability and human health through unbiased monitoring of trends in economic development, energy use, and air quality using satellite remote sensing. M.S. thesis, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.

Bromley, G., 2016. Effects of Snow Boundary Generated Baroclinicity on Middle Latitude Disturbances Undergraduate senior thesis, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. (link)

DuBois, S., 2015. Assessing ecosystem photosynthetic potential along two California climate gradients. M.S. thesis, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. (link)

Sulman, B.N., 2012. Peatland carbon cycle responses to hydrological change at time scales from years to centuries: Impacts on model simulations and regional carbon budgets. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. (link)

Rydzik, M., 2012. Relationship between snow extent and mid-latitude cyclone centers from NARR objectively derived storm position and snow cover. M.S. thesis, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. (link)

Bagley, J.E., 2011. Impacts of land cover change: Energy regulation, breadbasket production, and precipitation. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. (link)

Behnke, R.J., 2011. The role of elevation on temperature trends in the western United States: A comparison of two statistical methods. M.S. thesis, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. (link)

Ahue, W.K.M., 2010. Regional carbon fluxes and boundary layer heights from the Airborne Carbon in the Mountains Experiment 2007. M.S. thesis, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. (link)

Schroeder, N.M., 2010. Hydrological impacts on wetland carbon flux residuals. Senior undergraduate thesis, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. (link)

Sulman, B.N., 2009. A comparison of carbon dioxide, water, and energy fluxes at a drying shrub wetland in northern Wisconsin, USA with nearby wetland and forest sites. M.S. thesis, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, (link)

Desai, A.R., 2006. Scaling regional land-atmosphere fluxes of carbon dioxide with mesoscale observation networks: Impact of land cover, management and disturbance. Ph.D. dissertation, Penn State University, University Park, PA, (link)

Desai, A.R., 2000. Plan B projects: 1.) Surface energy flux dependence on remotely-sensed soil moisture and vegetation in the Southern Great Plains; 2.) Point-source air pollution risk buffers from long-term climate data and Gaussian plume models, 3.) Interaction of resolution and classification in high-resolution urban/suburban land cover imagery, Unpublished master's thesis, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (link)

Books & Book Chapters

Desai, A.R., 2017. Global Climate Change Education is All Local in Knox, A., Conceição, S., and Martin, L., Eds. Mapping the Field of Adult and Continuing Education: An International Compendium, Vol: 1, Adult Learners, Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing/American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE), ISBN 978-1-62036-525-0, pp 69-72.

Reichstein, M., Stoy, P., Desai, A.R., Lasslop, G. and Richardson, A., 2011. Partitioning net fluxes, in Aubinet, M., Vesala, T., Papale, D., eds., Eddy Covariance: A Practical Guide to Measurement and Data Analysis . Berlin, Germany: Spring Atmospheric Sciences, ISBN: 978-94-007-2350-4, 438 pages, pp. 263-289, doi:10.1007/978-94-007-2351-1_9.

Noormets, A., Chen, J., Gu, L., and Desai, A.R., 2009. The phenology of gross ecosystem productivity and ecosystem respiration in temperate hardwood and conifer chronosequences, in Noormets, A. (Ed.), Phenology of Ecosystem Processes: Applications in Global Change Research , Springer, New York, ISBN: 978-1441900258, 299 pages, pp. 59-85.

Desai, A.R. and Jasen, E.P. Outside Oberlin: Exploring Lorain County and Vicinity. Oberlin, OH: Oberlin College Student Union, 1997.

Data Products

Barr, A.G., D.M. Ricciuto, K. Schaefer, A. Richardson, D. Agarwal, P.E. Thornton, K. Davis, B. Jackson, R.B. Cook, D.Y. Hollinger, C. van Ingen, B. Amiro, A. Andrews, M.A. Arain, D. Baldocchi, T.A. Black, P. Bolstad, P. Curtis, A.R. Desai, D. Dragoni, L. Flanagan, L. Gu, G. Katul, B.E. Law, P. Lafleur, H. Margolis, R. Matamala, T. Meyers, H. McCaughey , R. Monson, J.W. Munger, W. Oechel, R. Oren, N. Roulet, M. Torn, and S. Verma, 2013. NACP Site: Tower Meteorology, Flux Observations with Uncertainty, and Ancillary Data. Data set. Available on-line http://daac.ornl.gov from Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA, doi:10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1178

Desai, A.R., 2018. AmeriFlux US-Los Lost Creek, doi:10.17190/AMF/1246071

Desai, A.R., 2018. AmeriFlux US-PFa Park Falls/WLEF, doi:10.17190/AMF/1246090

Desai, A.R., 2018. AmeriFlux US-Syv Sylvania Wilderness Area, doi:10.17190/AMF/1246106

Desai, A.R., 2018. AmeriFlux US-WCr Willow Creek, doi:10.17190/AMF/1246111

Richardson, A.D., K. Hufkens, T. Milliman, D.M. Aubrecht, M. Chen, J.M. Gray, M.R. Johnston, T.F. Keenan, S.T. Klosterman, M. Kosmala, E.K. Melaas, M.A. Friedl, S. Frolking, M. Abraha, M. Alber, M. Apple, B.E. Law, T.A. Black, P. Blanken, D. Browning, S. Bret-Harte, N. Brunsell, S.P. Burns, E. Cremonese, A.R. Desai, A.L. Dunn, D.M. Eissenstat, S.E. Euskirchen, L.B. Flanagan, B. Forsythe, J. Gallagher, L. Gu, D.Y. Hollinger, J.W. Jones, J. King, O. Langvall, J.H. McCaughey , P.J. McHale , G.A. Meyer, M.J. Mitchell, M. Migliavacca, Z. Nesic, A. Noormets, K. Novick, J. O'Connell, A.C. Oishi, W.W. Oswald, T.D. Perkins, R.P. Phillips, M.D. Schwartz, R.L. Scott, O. Sonnentag, and J.E. Thom. 2017. PhenoCam Dataset v1.0: Vegetation Phenology from Digital Camera Imagery, 2000-2015. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1511

Andrews, A.; Kofler,J.; Trudeau, M.E.; Bakwin, P.S.; Fisher, M.L.; Sweeney, C.; Desai, A.R.; and NOAA ESRL, 2017. Earth System Research Laboratory Carbon Cycle and Greenhouse Gases Group Continuous Measurements of CO2, CO, and CH4 from Tall Towers, 1992-Present, Version 1. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. doi:10.7289/V57W69F2

Conference Papers, Discussion Papers, Technical Reports, and Extended Abstracts

Desai, A.R., 2018: It’s So UnFAIR ! AGU EOS Editor's Vox, doi:10.1029/2018EO097389. (link)

Desai, A.R., 2018: The Acid Tongue of Climate Change Strikes Our Streams AGU Editor's Highlights, EOS, (link)

Desai, A.R., 2018: What Lies and Waits Beneath Lake Ice?! AGU Editor's Highlights, EOS, (link)

Desai, A.R., 2018: Getting Littoral with Lake Carbon Efflux AGU Editor's Highlights, EOS, (link)

Desai, A.R., 2018: Drones Hunt for Impacts of Oil Exploration on Wetland Emissions AGU Editor's Highlights, EOS, (link)

Desai, A.R., 2018: Ocean Wind Satellites Observe an Amazonian Drought AGU Editor's Highlights, EOS, (link)

Desai, A.R., 2018: What Will Redwood Trees Do Without Foggy Days? AGU Editor's Highlights, EOS, (link)

Brooks, B., Lee, D., Desai, A.R., Pomara, L., Hargrove, W., 2017. Quantifying seasonal patterns in disparate environmental variables using the PolarMetrics R package. IEEE International Conference on Seventh Workshop on Data Mining in Earth System Science (DMESS), #SP19206, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8215677/ .

Desai, A.R., 2017: Thawing Permafrost: Monitored, Quantified, Predicted AGU EOS Editor's Highlights, doi:10.1029/2018EO076233. (link)

Hoffman, F. M., C. D. Koven, G. Keppel-Aleks, D. M. Lawrence, W. J. Riley, J. T. Randerson, A. Ahlström, G. Abramowitz, D. D. Baldocchi, M. J. Best, B. Bond-Lamberty, M. G. De Kauwe, A. S. Denning, A. Desai, V. Eyring, J. B. Fisher, R. A. Fisher, P. J. Gleckler, M. Huang, G. Hugelius, A. K. Jain, N. Y. Kiang, H. Kim, R. D. Koster, S. V. Kumar, H. Li, Y. Luo, J. Mao, N. G. McDowell, U. Mishra, P. R. Moorcroft, G. S. H. Pau, D. M. Ricciuto, K. Schaefer, C. R. Schwalm, S. P. Serbin, E. Shevliakova, A. G. Slater, J. Tang, M. Williams, J. Xia, C. Xu, R. Joseph, and D. Koch, 2017. International Land Model Benchmarking (ILAMB) 2016 Workshop Report, DOE/SC-0186, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Germantown, Maryland, USA, doi:10.2172/1330803. (link)

Brooks, B.-G. J., Desai, A.R., Michalak, A.M., Stephens, B.B., and Zscheischler, J., 2016. Feasibility for detection of ecosystem response to disturbance by atmospheric carbon dioxide. Biogeosciences Discuss., doi:10.5194/bg-2016-223.

Desai, A.R., 2016: Your Science Is Your (Openly Shared) Data, AGU EOS Editor's Vox, doi:10.1029/2018EO052769. (link)

Kooper, R., McHenry , K., Dietze, M.C., LeBauer , D.S., Serbin, S., Desai, A.R., 2013: Ecological Cyberinfrastructure and HPC Towards More Accurately Predicting Future Levels of Greenhouse Gases, Proceedings of XSEDE13: Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment. (peer reviewed) (link)

Urban, N.R. and Desai, A.R., 2009. Are the Great Lakes a significant net source or sink of CO2? Proceedings of the International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology, (Verhandlungen Internationale Vereinigung für theoretische und angewandte Limnologie), 30(8): 1283-1288. (peer reviewed) (link)

Brooks, B.J., A.R. Desai, B. Stephens, 2010: A new data set of filtered Rocky Mountain atmospheric carbon dioxide measurements for improved flux retrievals. 19th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, American Meteorological Society, Abstract J9.5, Keystone, CO, Aug 2-6, 2010. ((link))

Sulman, B.N., A.R. Desai, D.S. Mackay, S. Samanta, B.D. Cook, N. Saliendra, 2008: Interactions of carbon and water cycles in north temperate wetlands: Modeling and observing the impact of a declining water table trend on regional biogeochemistry. 18th Conference of Atmospheric Biogeosciences, American Meteorological Society, Orlando, FL, Apr. 29, 2008, session 1.2. (link)

Desai, A.R., K.J. Davis, D.R. Stauffer, B.P. Reen, R.J. Dobosy and S. Ismail. Mesoscale variability in boundary layer development over the southern Great Plains. 9th Conference on Mesoscale Processes, American Meteorological Society, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, Jul. 2001, 4 pp. (link)

Reen, B.P., D.R. Stauffer, J.J. Davis and A.R. Desai. On the added value of high-resolution remotely sensed soil moisture data in a mesoscale model. 14th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction, American Meteorological Society, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, Jul. 2001, 5pp. (link)

Conference Abstracts (non peer reviewed)

10-20 conference abstracts per year for posters and talk presented at regional, national and international workshops, including AGU and AMS. Links to posters and talks provided where available after each reference. Click here to access our regularly updated list. Or here for a list of all seminar presentations.