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John D. Albertson

John D. Albertson

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
54
Citations
9095
World Ranking
4095
National Ranking
1553

Overview

John D. Albertson is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their primary research field is Environmental Science, with a total of 34 publications contributing to this domain. Within this broad area, Albertson's work spans several key subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology, and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty.

Albertson's research addresses a range of topics associated with environmental and atmospheric phenomena. The main topics covered in their publications include Wind and Air Flow Studies, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Hydrological Forecasting Using AI, Climate Variability and Models, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, and Urban Heat Island Mitigation.

The scientist has frequently published in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Environmental Science & Technology, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Remote Sensing of Environment, and Earth's Future. These publications reflect a breadth of engagement across both open-access platforms and peer-reviewed journals.

Among Albertson's recent scholarly papers are the following:

  • Impact of heat storage on remote-sensing based quantification of anthropogenic heat in urban environments, 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Mobile Measurement System for the Rapid and Cost-Effective Surveillance of Methane and Volatile Organic Compound Emissions from Oil and Gas Production Sites, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Understanding the Influence of Urban Form on the Spatial Pattern of Precipitation, 2024, Earth's Future
  • A spatial land use clustering framework for investigating the role of land use in mediating the effect of meteorology on urban air quality, 2021, Atmospheric Environment X
  • Combined Effects of Warming and Grazing on Rangeland Vegetation on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, 2021, Frontiers in Environmental Science

Albertson has collaborated extensively with a number of frequent coauthors. These include Xiaochi Zhou, Xiao Peng, Amir Montazeri, Qi Li, and Alexander Young, reflecting a network of partnerships on multiple research projects.

Best Publications

  • The effect of vegetation density on canopy sub-layer turbulence

    D. Poggi;A. Porporato;L. Ridolfi;J. D. Albertson

  • Surface length scales and shear stress: Implications for land-atmosphere interaction over complex terrain

    John D. Albertson;Marc B. Parlange

  • Soil moisture and vegetation controls on evapotranspiration in a heterogeneous Mediterranean ecosystem on Sardinia, Italy

    Matteo Detto;Nicola Montaldo;John D. Albertson;Marco Mancini

  • Determining land surface fractional cover from NDVI and rainfall time series for a savanna ecosystem

    Todd M Scanlon;John D Albertson;Kelly K Caylor;Chris A Williams

  • Natural integration of scalar fluxes from complex terrain

    John D. Albertson;Marc B. Parlange

  • An Investigation of Higher-Order Closure Models for a Forested Canopy

    Gabriel G. Katul;John D. Albertson

  • A mixing layer theory for flow resistance in shallow streams

    Gabriel Katul;Patricia Wiberg;John Albertson;John Albertson;George Hornberger

  • Climate control of terrestrial carbon exchange across biomes and continents

    Chuixiang Yi;Daniel Ricciuto;Runze Li;John Wolbeck

  • Estimating the uncertainty in annual net ecosystem carbon exchange: spatial variation in turbulent fluxes and sampling errors in eddy‐covariance measurements

    Ram Oren;Cheng-I. Hsieh;Cheng-I. Hsieh;Paul C. Stoy;John Albertson

  • A Note On The Contribution Of Dispersive Fluxes To Momentum Transfer Within Canopies

    D. Poggi;G. G. Katul;J. D. Albertson

  • Momentum Transfer and Turbulent Kinetic Energy Budgets within a Dense Model Canopy

    D. Poggi;D. Poggi;G. G. Katul;J. D. Albertson

  • Multiscale analysis of vegetation surface fluxes: from seconds to years

    Gabriel Katul;Chun-Ta Lai;Karina Schäfer;Brani Vidakovic

  • The Effects of Canopy Leaf Area Index on Airflow Across Forest Edges: Large-eddy Simulation and Analytical Results

    M. Cassiani;G. G. Katul;J. D. Albertson

  • Temporal dynamics of soil moisture variability: 1. Theoretical basis

    John D. Albertson;Nicola Montaldo

  • Net ecosystem exchange of grassland in contrasting wet and dry years

    Vesna Jaksic;Gerard Kiely;John Albertson;Ram Oren

  • Canopy scale measurements of CO2 and water vapor exchange along a precipitation gradient in southern Africa

    Todd M. Scanlon;John D. Albertson

  • Soil moisture controls on canopy-scale water and carbon fluxes in an African savanna

    Christopher A. Williams;John D. Albertson

  • On the structure of soil moisture time series in the context of land surface models

    J.D. Albertson;G. Kiely

  • Recession flow analysis for aquifer parameter determination

    Jozsef Szilagyi;Marc B. Parlange;John D. Albertson

  • Spatial Variability of Turbulent Fluxes in the Roughness Sublayer of an Even-Aged Pine Forest

    Gabriel G. Katul;Cheng-I. Hsieh;David Bowling;Kenneth Clark

  • Multiscale analysis of vegetation surface fluxes : from seconds to years

    Gabriel G Katul;Chun-Ta Lai;Karina Schäfer;Brani Vidakovic

Frequent Co-Authors

Gabriel G. Katul
Gabriel G. Katul Duke University
Marc B. Parlange
Marc B. Parlange University of Rhode Island
Todd M. Scanlon
Todd M. Scanlon University of Virginia
Gerard Kiely
Gerard Kiely University College Cork
Ram Oren
Ram Oren Duke University
William P. Kustas
William P. Kustas Agricultural Research Service
Amilcare Porporato
Amilcare Porporato Princeton University
Brani Vidakovic
Brani Vidakovic Georgia Institute of Technology
Georg Wohlfahrt
Georg Wohlfahrt University of Innsbruck
Albert Olioso
Albert Olioso INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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