Instructor:

Dennis Baldocchi
Professor of Biometeorology
Ecosystem Science Division
Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management
345 Hilgard Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
Email: Baldocchi@berkeley.edu
Phone: 510-642-2874
 

Classroom: 107 Mulford

Mondays 14-16

Office Hours: By Appointment

Course Description

This course examines contemporary biometeorological and micrometeorological theories, models, and data that relate to the quantification of mass and energy between the biosphere and atmosphere. Each class meeting will consist of a two-hour lecture/discussion. This course will cover five Broad Topics:

1.Micrometeorological Methods for Measuring Mass and Energy Flux Densities

2. Biosphere/Atmosphere Interactions: Models for Integrating Leaf Scale Fluxes to the Canopy Scale

3. Biosphere/Atmosphere Interactions: Integrating and Scaling from Canopy to Landscape Scales

3. Plant-Canopy Micrometeorology

4. Planetary Boundary Layer Turbulence and Characteristics

5. Plant-Atmosphere Interactions: Trace Gas Deposition and Emissions

Upon completion of this course the student should be able to apply this knowledge in a critical manner to review journal articles, write and critique research proposals and to conduct research.

Student Participation

Students will be assigned weekly reading assignment of key reviews associated with each topic. Students will be expected to participate in lively discussion during the lectures and lead a discussion of the reading during the last half-hour of Class.

External exercises will involve the use of data, computation exercises and application of system model calculations to illustrate points made in the lectures. I encourage the students to buy and learn MATLAB. A growing number of exercises will use MATLAB to plot and visualize data.

This year we will use b-space as a Web interface, in addition to this web site, to exchange data and modeling, email one another, etc.

Each student will produce a term paper on a topic of their choice, that fall within the domain of Biometeorology/Micrometeorology. Students are encouraged to develop and analyze simple models and/or analyze data available on the net through such projects as Fluxnet.

At the end of the semester, each student will be responsible for presenting a 30 minute discussion on

Grade will be determined on the basis:

a. Participation in and Leadership of Class Discussions, 10%

b. External Class Assignments, 30%

c. Class Term Paper, 50%.

d. Paper Presentation, 10%

Class Lecture Material and Figures

Pdf copies of lecture overheads and material that augments the lectures is available for downloading on a lecture by lecture basis from the following table.

LECTURE Number and Notes	Lecture Title and Overheads	Reading Assignment see b-space for pdf
Section 1. Micrometeorological Methods of Measuring Mass and Energy Flux Densities
1 Jan 23	Lecture 1, Micrometeorological Flux Measurement Methods: Background, History,& Future	Dabberdt et ak, 1993 Science
2 Jan 27	Lecture 2, Micrometeorological Flux Measurement Methods: Flux-Gradient Theory	Pattey et al. 2006 Can J Soil Sci
3. Feb 6	Lecture 3 Micrometeorological Flux Measurement Methods: Eddy Covariance, Application, Part 1	Moore 1986. BLM Burba and Anderson. LICOR Eddy Covariance Manual Assignment Process raw turbulence data; compute fluxes with different averaging time constants. SpectralTranfer Function Code (Matlab)
4. Feb 13	Lecture 4 Micrometeorological Flux Measurement Methods, Eddy Covariance, Application, Part 2,	Hollinger et al. 2004. GCB Flux Processing Software Fourier Transform Software
5. Feb 24	Lecture 5 Micrometeorological Flux Measurement Methods, Eddy Covariance, Part 3	Moffat et al. 2007. AgForestMet
6. Feb 27	Lecture 6, Lessons Learned from Flux Networks	Baldocchi. 2008. Aust J Bot
Section 2. Biosphere/Atmosphere Interactions
7. Mar 5	Lecture 7, Canopy Modeling, Part 1	Sellers et al. 1997. Science
8. Mar 12	Lecture 8, Canopy Modeling, Part 2	duPury & Farquhar. 1997. Plant, Cell, Environment Mat Williams et al 2009 Biogeosciences
9. Mar 23	Topic 9, Canopy Modeling, Part 3	Finnigan 2000. Annual Review Fluid Mechanics
10. Apr 2	Topic 10, Advanced Topics on Leaf Energy Balance and Photosynthesis and Models	Nikolov et al.(1995) Matlab Code Basic Code for Leaf Photosynthesis
11. Apr 9	Topic 11, Integrating or Scaling Information from Canopy to Landscape Scales, part 1: Footprint Models	Schmid 2002. AgForestMet Matlab Code for Hseih 2d footprint model
12. Apr 16	Topic 12 Integrating or Scaling Information from Canopy to Landscape Scales, part 2; planetary boundary layer	Raupach et al. 1998
13.. 14. Apr 27	Trace Gas Emissions Trace Gas Deposition	Fuentes et al. (2000)
Apr 30	Presentations
	Lagrangian Models

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