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Peter D. Blanken is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Water Science and Technology.

Their work covers a range of topics, notably Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, and Climate Variability and Models.

Blanken has contributed to numerous peer-reviewed publications. Notable recent papers include:

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data, 2020, Scientific Data
  • Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites, 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function, 2021, Nature
  • Increasing contribution of peatlands to boreal evapotranspiration in a warming climate, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • Ecosystem transpiration and evaporation: Insights from three water flux partitioning methods across FLUXNET sites, 2020, Global Change Biology

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Water Resources Research
  • Biogeosciences
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Scientific Data

Blanken commonly collaborates with other researchers in the field. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Sean P. Burns
  • Ankur R. Desai
  • Gil Bohrer
  • D. R. Bowling
  • Andrew D. Richardson

Best Publications

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • The increasing importance of atmospheric demand for ecosystem water and carbon fluxes

    Kimberly A. Novick;Darren L. Ficklin;Paul C. Stoy;Christopher A. Williams

  • Land cover changes and their biogeophysical effects on climate

    Rezaul Mahmood;Roger A. Pielke;Kenneth G. Hubbard;Dev Niyogi

  • Annual cycles of water vapour and carbon dioxide fluxes in and above a boreal aspen forest

    T. A. Black;G. Hartog;H. H. Neumann;P.D. Blanken

  • Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites

    Housen Chu;Xiangzhong Luo;Xiangzhong Luo;Zutao Ouyang;W. Stephen Chan

  • An underestimated role of precipitation frequency in regulating summer soil moisture

    Chaoyang Wu;Jing M. Chen;Jukka Pumpanen;Alessandro Cescatti

  • Energy balance and canopy conductance of a boreal aspen forest: Partitioning overstory and understory components

    P. D. Blanken;T. A. Black;P. C. Yang;H. H. Neumann

  • Joint control of terrestrial gross primary productivity by plant phenology and physiology

    Jianyang Xia;Shuli Niu;Philippe Ciais;Ivan A Janssens

  • Mechanistic evidence for tracking the seasonality of photosynthesis with solar-induced fluorescence

    Troy S Magney;David R Bowling;Barry A Logan;Katja Grossmann

  • Description and Evaluation of the Characteristics of the NCAR High-Resolution Land Data Assimilation System

    Fei Chen;Kevin W. Manning;Margaret A. LeMone;Stanley B. Trier

  • Impacts of land use/land cover change on climate and future research priorities

    Rezaul Mahmood;Roger A. Pielke;Kenneth G. Hubbard;Dev Niyogi

  • Global comparison of light use efficiency models for simulating terrestrial vegetation gross primary production based on the LaThuile database

    Wenping Yuan;Wenwen Cai;Jiangzhou Xia;Jiquan Chen

  • Effects of climatic variability on the annual carbon sequestration by a boreal aspen forest

    W. J. Chen;T. A. Black;P. C. Yang;A. G. Barr

  • The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function

    Mirco Migliavacca;Talie Musavi;Miguel D. Mahecha;Jacob A. Nelson

  • Eddy covariance measurements of evaporation from Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada

    Peter D. Blanken;Wayne R. Rouse;Alistair D. Culf;Chris Spence

  • Unresolved issues with the assessment of multidecadal global land surface temperature trends

    Roger A. Pielke;Christopher A. Davey;Dev Niyogi;Souleymane Fall

  • Energy budget above a high-elevation subalpine forest in complex topography

    A.A. Turnipseed;P.D. Blanken;D.E. Anderson;Russell K. Monson

  • Increasing contribution of peatlands to boreal evapotranspiration in a warming climate

    Manuel Helbig;Manuel Helbig;James Michael Waddington;Pavel Alekseychik;Brian D. Amiro

  • Turbulent Flux Measurements Above and Below the Overstory of a Boreal Aspen Forest

    P.D. Blanken;T. A. Black;H. H. Neumann;G. Den Hartog

  • Ecosystem transpiration and evaporation: Insights from three water flux partitioning methods across FLUXNET sites.

    Jacob A. Nelson;Oscar Pérez-Priego;Sha Zhou;Sha Zhou;Rafael Poyatos

  • Airflows and turbulent flux measurements in mountainous terrain Part 1. Canopy and local effects

    Andrew A Turnipseed;Andrew A Turnipseed;Dean E Anderson;Peter D Blanken;William M Baugh

  • Radiation regime and canopy architecture in a boreal aspen forest

    J.M. Chen;P.D. Blanken;T.A. Black;M. Guilbeault

  • Rainfall interception and the coupled surface water and energy balance

    Albert I.J.M. van Dijk;John H. Gash;Eva van Gorsel;Peter D. Blanken

Frequent Co-Authors

Sean P. Burns
Sean P. Burns University of Colorado Boulder
Jiquan Chen
Jiquan Chen Michigan State University
T. A. Black
T. A. Black University of British Columbia
Mark W. Williams
Mark W. Williams Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
Ankur R. Desai
Ankur R. Desai University of Wisconsin–Madison
Russell K. Monson
Russell K. Monson University of Colorado Boulder
Andrej Varlagin
Andrej Varlagin Russian Academy of Sciences
Russell L. Scott
Russell L. Scott Agricultural Research Service
Wayne R. Rouse
Wayne R. Rouse McMaster University
Leonardo Montagnani
Leonardo Montagnani Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

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