Lakes

Our lab is working on several studies attempting to quantify the linkages between terrestrial carbon cycling and aquatic carbon cycling in lake rich regions such as the Northern Highlands lake district of northern Wisconsin.

ProjectsAnkur DesaiDecember 4, 2018lakes, modeling, wetland, carbon

PEcAn

Many of the most pressing questions about global change are not necessarily limited by the need to collect new data as much as by our ability to synthesize existing data. The Predictive Ecosystem Analyzer (PEcAn) seeks to improve this ability.

ProjectsAnkur DesaiDecember 4, 2018pecan, modeling, ecosystem, forecasting

ChEAS

The Chequamegon Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (ChEAS ) is a research cooperative that seeks to understand carbon and water cycles of terrestrial ecosystems at regional scales, using the Northwoods of Wisconsin as our study region. New projects have also focused on central and southern Wisconsin ecosystems.

ProjectsAnkur DesaiDecember 4, 2018cheas, carbon, watercycle, wetlands

CHEESEHEAD19

CHEESEHEAD is an intensive field-campaign designed specifically to address long-standing puzzles regarding the role of atmospheric boundary-layer responses to scales of spatial heterogeneity in surface-atmosphere heat and water exchanges.

ProjectsAnkur DesaiDecember 4, 2018cheesehead, surface-atmosphere, modeling, machinelearning, eddy covariance

Wetland Flux Controls: How does interacting water table levels and temperature influence carbon dioxide and methane fluxes in Northern Wisconsin?

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.

Kika TuffOctober 17, 2018carbon, flux, eddy covariance, Ameriflux

Montane ecosystem productivity responds more to global circulation patterns than climatic trends

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.

PublicationsKika TuffOctober 17, 2018ecosystem, climate, carbon

Surface-atmosphere exchange in a box: Space-time resolved storage and net vertical fluxes from tower-based eddy covariance

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.

PublicationsKika TuffOctober 17, 2018flux, Ameriflux, climate