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D-Index
49
Citations
13215
World Ranking
5144
National Ranking
1889

Overview

Sean P. Burns is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research broadly focuses on Environmental Science, with a significant emphasis on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, and Plant Science.

The following are the main topics covered in their research publications:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Forest ecology and management

Frequent co-authors in their collaborative work include:

  • Peter D. Blanken
  • Andrew D. Richardson
  • D. R. Bowling
  • Gil Bohrer
  • Ankur R. Desai

The venues where Sean P. Burns most often publishes are:

  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Biogeosciences
  • Architecture_MPS
  • Water Resources Research
  • Scientific Data

Selected recent papers include:

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data (2020, Scientific Data)
  • Integrating continuous atmospheric boundary layer and tower-based flux measurements to advance understanding of land-atmosphere interactions (2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology)
  • Author Correction: The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data (2021, Scientific Data)
  • No evidence of canopy-scale leaf thermoregulation to cool leaves below air temperature across a range of forest ecosystems (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Wide discrepancies in the magnitude and direction of modeled solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence in response to light conditions (2020, Biogeosciences)

Best Publications

  • The Community Land Model version 5 : description of new features, benchmarking, and impact of forcing uncertainty

    David M. Lawrence;Rosie A. Fisher;Charles D. Koven;Keith W. Oleson

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

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • Evaluation of remote sensing based terrestrial productivity from MODIS using regional tower eddy flux network observations

    F.A. Heinsch;Maosheng Zhao;S.W. Running;J.S. Kimball

  • Winter forest soil respiration controlled by climate and microbial community composition

    Russell K. Monson;David L. Lipson;Sean P. Burns;Andrew A. Turnipseed

  • CASES-99: A Comprehensive Investigation of the Stable Nocturnal Boundary Layer

    Gregory S. Poulos;William Blumen;David C. Fritts;Julie K. Lundquist

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

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

  • Longer growing seasons lead to less carbon sequestration by a subalpine forest

    Jia Hu;David J. P. Moore;Sean P. Burns;Sean P. Burns;Russell K. Monson;Russell K. Monson

  • Estimation of Net Ecosystem Carbon Exchange for the Conterminous United States by Combining MODIS and AmeriFlux Data

    Jingfeng Xiao;Qianlai Zhuang;Dennis D. Baldocchi;Beverly E. Law

  • A continuous measure of gross primary production for the conterminous United States derived from MODIS and AmeriFlux data

    Jingfeng Xiao;Qianlai Zhuang;Beverly E. Law;Jiquan Chen

  • Climatic influences on net ecosystem CO2 exchange during the transition from wintertime carbon source to springtime carbon sink in a high-elevation, subalpine forest

    Russell K. Monson;Jed P. Sparks;Jed P. Sparks;Todd N. Rosenstiel;Laura E. Scott-Denton

  • Assessing net ecosystem carbon exchange of U.S. terrestrial ecosystems by integrating eddy covariance flux measurements and satellite observations

    Jingfeng Xiao;Qianlai Zhuang;Beverly E. Law;Dennis D. Baldocchi

  • Atmospheric Disturbances that Generate Intermittent Turbulence in Nocturnal Boundary Layers

    Jielun Sun;Donald H. Lenschow;Sean P. Burns;Robert M. Banta

  • SHALLOW DRAINAGE FLOWS

    L. Mahrt;Dean Vickers;Reina Nakamura;M. R. Soler

  • Ecohydrological controls on snowmelt partitioning in mixed‐conifer sub‐alpine forests

    Noah P. Molotch;Noah P. Molotch;Paul D. Brooks;Sean P. Burns;Sean P. Burns;Marcy Litvak

  • Intermittent Turbulence Associated with a Density Current Passage in the Stable Boundary Layer

    Jielun Sun;Sean P. Burns;Donald H. Lenschow;Robert Banta

  • Climate control of terrestrial carbon exchange across biomes and continents

    Chuixiang Yi;Daniel Ricciuto;Runze Li;John Wolbeck

  • Greenness indices from digital cameras predict the timing and seasonal dynamics of canopy-scale photosynthesis.

    Michael Toomey;Mark A. Friedl;Steve Frolking;Koen Hufkens

  • Terrestrial carbon balance in a drier world: the effects of water availability in southwestern North America

    Joel A. Biederman;Russell L. Scott;Michael L. Goulden;Rodrigo Vargas

  • Turbulence statistics of a Kelvin-Helmholtz billow event observed in the night-time boundary layer during the Cooperative Atmosphere-Surface Exchange Study field program

    William Blumen;Robert Banta;Sean P. Burns;David C. Fritts

  • Improved Wind Measurements on Research Aircraft

    D. Khelif;S. P. Burns;C. A. Friehe

Frequent Co-Authors

Russell K. Monson
Russell K. Monson University of Colorado Boulder
Peter D. Blanken
Peter D. Blanken University of Colorado Boulder
Jielun Sun
Jielun Sun National Center for Atmospheric Research
David R. Bowling
David R. Bowling University of Utah
Ankur R. Desai
Ankur R. Desai University of Wisconsin–Madison
Donald H. Lenschow
Donald H. Lenschow National Center for Atmospheric Research
Britton B. Stephens
Britton B. Stephens National Center for Atmospheric Research
Walter C. Oechel
Walter C. Oechel San Diego State University
Andrew D. Richardson
Andrew D. Richardson Northern Arizona University
Christian Frankenberg
Christian Frankenberg California Institute of Technology

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