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Corey Markfort

Wind sheltering of a lake by a canopy
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Full Name:
Corey D. Markfort
Project:
IGERT: Non- Equilibrium Dynamics Across Space and Time: A common Approach for Engineers, Earth Scientists, Ecologists
Role:
Graduate Student
Joined IGERT:
2008
Univ. or Institute:
University of Minnesota
Department:
Civil Engineering
Title:
NASA ESS Graduate Fellow
Primary Discipline:
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Academic Interests:
Ecosystem - Atmosphere Exchange Processes, Ecosystem Ecology, fluid dynamics, boundary-layer meteorology, Physical Limnology, hydrology and water resources, physical ecology and environmental fluid mechanics, Fluid-Structure Interactions, Wind Energy
CV / Resume URL:
http://umn.edu/~mark0340
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Wind sheltering of lakes and wetlands: the effect of stability on turbulent canopy wakes and evaporation

Topographic features and heterogeneous vegetation cover of the landscape, as well as atmospheric stability present significant challenges for predicting fluxes of momentum, heat, moisture, and climate-controlling... More »

About Me

My research generally focuses on land-atmosphere interactions, atmospheric boundary-layer (ABL) turbulence, large-eddy simulation (LES), and experimental boundary-layer turbulence studies of flows over canopy transitions in order to better understand lake/wetland surface fluxes of mass and momentum, provide more reliable input to lake ecosystem response models, land-atmospheric flux parameterizations, and test LES sub-grid scale parameterizations for ABL simulations over complex terrain.

In particular I am interested to use an interdisciplinary approach to better understand land-atmosphere-lake exchange processes, of momentum, heat, water vapor, and gas constituents in the coupled two boundary layer (lake-atmosphere) system with heterogeneous land cover and topography, which is a particular case of land surface heterogeneity (including canopy and thermal transitions). These transport processes are important in engineering and environmental applications, including lake hydrodynamic models, and weather and pollution models. My work includes (or will involve) a combination of experimental work in the SAFL Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel (using hot wire anemometry and PIV), field measurements (using sonic anemometry, wether stations, and wind LiDAR), modeling (using LES), and theoretical development.

I’ve also conducted experiments on wind energy to test canopy and surface layer scaling laws and improve parameterizations for wind farm design and for large scale weather and climate models.