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Overview

John Finnigan is affiliated with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia. Their research spans several fields including Environmental Science and Engineering, with specific focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Computational Mechanics, Environmental Engineering, Plant Science, and Atmospheric Science.

They have contributed to topics including Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows, Aeolian processes and effects, Wind and Air Flow Studies, Plant responses to elevated CO2, Tree-ring climate responses, and Aerodynamics and Fluid Dynamics Research.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Finnigan include Ian N. Harman, Edward G. Patton, Toshiki SANEMITSU, Naoki Ikegaya, and Tsubasa Okaze.

John Finnigan's publications appear regularly in notable venues such as Boundary-Layer Meteorology, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, New Phytologist, Environmental Science Atmospheres, and the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Finnigan include:

  • Boundary-Layer Flow Over Complex Topography, 2020, Boundary-Layer Meteorology
  • Appropriate Momentum Provision for Numerical Simulations of Horizontally Homogeneous Urban Canopies Using Periodic Boundary Conditions, 2023, Boundary-Layer Meteorology
  • Moving beyond the incorrect but useful paradigm: reevaluating big-leaf and multilayer plant canopies to model biosphere-atmosphere fluxes - a review, 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Canopy wetness in the Eastern Amazon, 2020, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Linking water use efficiency with water use strategy from leaves to communities, 2023, New Phytologist

Best Publications

  • Atmospheric Boundary Layer Flows: Their Structure and Measurement

    J. C. Kaimal;John J. Finnigan

  • Turbulence in plant canopies

    John J. Finnigan

  • Atmospheric boundary layer flows

    J.C. Kaimal;John J. Finnigan

  • Coherent eddies and turbulence in vegetation canopies: The mixing-layer analogy

    M. R. Raupach;J. J. Finnigan;Y. Brunet

  • A re-evaluation of long-term flux measurement techniques - Part I: Averaging and coordinate rotation

    J. J. Finnigan;Robert Clement;Y. Malhi;R. Leuning

  • Averaging, Detrending, and Filtering of Eddy Covariance Time Series

    John Moncrieff;Robert Clement;John Finnigan;Tilden Meyers

  • Losses, inefficiencies and waste in the global food system.

    Peter Alexander;Peter Alexander;Calum Brown;Almut Arneth;John Finnigan

  • Could consumption of insects, cultured meat or imitation meat reduce global agricultural land use?

    Peter Alexander;Peter Alexander;Calum Brown;Almut Arneth;Clare Dias

  • Turbulence structure above a vegetation canopy

    John J. Finnigan;Roger H. Shaw;Edward G. Patton

  • On Measuring Net Ecosystem Carbon Exchange Over Tall Vegetation on Complex Terrain

    Dennis Baldocchi;John Finnigan;Kell Wilson

  • A simple unified theory for flow in the canopy and roughness sublayer

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  • A wind tunnel study of air flow in waving wheat: Two-point velocity statistics

    R. H. Shaw;Y. Brunet;J. J. Finnigan;M. R. Raupach

  • Turbulence in Waving Wheat

    J. J. Finnigan

  • The Wind in the Willows: Flows in Forest Canopies in Complex Terrain

    Stephen E. Belcher;Ian N. Harman;John J. Finnigan

  • Human appropriation of land for food: The role of diet

    Peter Alexander;Peter Alexander;Calum Brown;Almut Arneth;John Finnigan

  • Results Of A Panel Discussion About The Energy Balance Closure Correction For Trace Gases

    Thomas Foken;Marc Aubinet;John J. Finnigan;Monique Y. Leclerc

  • A wind tunnel study of turbulent flow around single and multiple windbreaks, part I: Velocity fields

    M. J. Judd;M. R. Raupach;J. J. Finnigan

  • Flow over a hill covered with a plant canopy

    J. J. Finnigan;S. E. Belcher

  • Turbulent Transport in Flexible Plant Canopies

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  • A comment on the paper by Lee (1998): “On micrometeorological observations of surface-air exchange over tall vegetation”

    John Finnigan

  • Turbulence in Waving Wheat. I. Mean Statistics and Honami

    J. J. Finnigan

  • A wind tunnel study of air flow in waving wheat: Single-point velocity statistics

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  • How Nature Works; The science of self-organized criticality

    John Finnigan

Frequent Co-Authors

Roger H. Shaw
Roger H. Shaw University of California, Davis
Barry Gardiner
Barry Gardiner INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Elizabeth A. Fulton
Elizabeth A. Fulton Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Gabriel G. Katul
Gabriel G. Katul Duke University
Yves Brunet
Yves Brunet INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Kyaw Tha Paw U
Kyaw Tha Paw U University of California, Davis
Ray Leuning
Ray Leuning CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
Francis H. S. Chiew
Francis H. S. Chiew Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Brett A. Bryan
Brett A. Bryan Deakin University

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