Email: patton@ucar.edu
Phone: 303-497-8958
Postal Address: P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO, 80307-3000
Shipping Address: 3450 Mitchell Lane, Boulder, CO, 80307-3000

Research Interests

I am a Project Scientist in the Boundary Layers and Turbulence Group within MMM.

My research interests include a number of areas: 1) statistics and structure of canopy turbulence and the interaction with larger-scale planetary boundary layer (PBL) turbulence, 2) impact of orography on turbulent exchange, 3) response of the boundary layer to coupled land surfaces with imposed soil moisture heterogeneity, 4) interactions between PBL/canopy turbulence and chemistry, 5) dispersion in and above vegetation, and 6) the interaction between the PBL and wind turbines. Most of my work involves the use of numerical simulation (using LES) to relate larger-scale models and measurements through process-level understanding.

Publications

Coen, J. L., M. Cameron, J. Michalakes, E. G. Patton, P. J. Riggan, K. M. Yedinak: 2013, "WRF-Fire: Coupled weather-wildland fire modeling with the Weather Research and Forecasting model", Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 52, pp. 16-38, DOI:10.1175/JAMC-D-12-023.1. pdf

Weil, J. C., P. P. Sullivan, E. G. Patton, C.-H. Moeng: 2012, "Statistical variability of dispersion in the convective boundary layer: Ensembles of simulations and observations", Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 145, pp. 185-210, DOI:10.1007/s10546-012-9704-y. pdf

Lee, X., J. Huang, E. G. Patton: 2012, "A large-eddy simulation study of water vapour and carbon dioxide isotopes in the atmospheric boundary layer", Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 145, pp. 229-248, DOI:10.1007/s10546-011-9631-3. pdf

Chougule, A., J. Mann, M. Kelly, J. Sun, D. H. Lenschow, E. G. Patton: 2012, "Vertical cross-spectral phases in neutral atmospheric flow", Journal of Turbulence, 13, N36, DOI:10.1080/14685248.2012.711524. pdf

Dupont, S. and E. G. Patton: 2012, "Momentum and scalar transport within a vegetation canopy following atmospheric stability and seasonal canopy changes: the CHATS experiment", Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 12, pp. 5913-5935, DOI:10.5194/acp-12-5913-2012. pdf

Dupont, S. and E. G. Patton: 2012, "Influence of stability and seasonal canopy changes on micrometeorology within and above an orchard canopy: the CHATS experiment", Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 157, pp. 11-29, DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2012.01.011. pdf

Edburg, S. L., D. Stock, B. K. Lamb, and E. G. Patton: 2012, "The effect of vertical source distribution on scalar statistics within and above a forest canopy", Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 142, pp. 365-382, DOI: 10.1007/s10546-011-9686-1. pdf

Sullivan, P. P. and E. G. Patton: 2011, "The Effect of Mesh Resolution on Convective Boundary Layer Statistics and Structures Generated by Large-Eddy Simulation", Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 68, pp. 2395-2415, DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-10-05010.1. pdf

Patton, E. G., T. W. Horst, P. P. Sullivan, D. H. Lenschow, S. P. Oncley, W. O. J. Brown, S. P. Burns, A. B. Guenther, A. Held, T. Karl, S. D. Mayor, L. V. Rizzo, S. M. Spuler, J. Sun, A. A. Turnipseed, E. J. Allwine, S. L. Edburg, B. K. Lamb, R. Avissar, R. J. Calhoun, J. Kleissl, W. J. Massman, K. T. Paw U, J. C. Weil: 2011, "The Canopy Horizontal Array Turbulence Study", Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 92, pp. 593-611, DOI: 10.1175/2010BAMS2614.1. pdf

Vilà-Guerau de Arellano, E. G. Patton, T. Karl, K. van den Dries, M. C. Barth, J. J. Orlando: 2011, "The role of boundary layer dynamics on the diurnal evolution of isoprene and the hydroxyl radical over tropical forests", Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, D07304, DOI: 10.1029/2010JD014857. pdf

Huang, J., X. Lee, E. G. Patton: 2011, "Entrainment and budgets of heat, water vapor, and carbon dioxide in a convective boundary layer driven by time-varying forcing", Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, D06308, DOI: 10.1029/2010JD014938. pdf

Finnigan, J. J., R. H. Shaw, E. G. Patton: 2009, "Turbulent structure above a vegetation canopy", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 637, pp. 387-424, DOI: 10.1017/S0022112009990589. pdf

Patton, E. G., G. G. Katul: 2009, "Turbulent pressure and velocity perturbations induced by gentle hills covered with sparse and dense canopies", Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 133, pp. 189-217, DOI: 10.1007/s10546-009-9427-x. pdf

Huang, J., X. Lee, E. G. Patton: 2009, "Dissimilarity of scalar transport in the convective boundary layer in inhomogeneous landscapes", Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 130, pp. 327-345, DOI: 10.1007/s10546-009-9356-8. pdf

Held, A., E. Patton, L. Rizzo, J. Smith, A. Turnipseed, A. Guenther : 2008, "Relaxed eddy accumulation simulations of aerosol number fluxes and potential proxy scalars", Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 129, pp. 451-468, DOI: 10.1007/s10546-008-9327-5. pdf

Karl, T., A. Guenther, A. Turnipseed, E. G. Patton, K. Jardine : 2008, "Chemical sensing of plant stress at the ecosystem scale", Biogeosciences, 5, pp. 1287-1284. pdf

Huang, J., X. Lee, E. G. Patton: 2008, "A modelling study of flux imbalance and the influence of entrainment in the convective boundary layer", Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 127, pp. 273-292, DOI: 10.1007/s10546-007-9254-x. pdf

Wang, W., K. J. Davis, C. Yi, E. G. Patton, M. P. Butler, D. M. Ricciuto, P. S. Bakwin: 2007, "A note on the top-down and bottom-up gradient functions over a forested site", Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 124, pp. 305-314, DOI: 10.1007/s10546-007-9162-0. pdf

Wilson, D. K., E. L. Andreas, J. W. Weatherly, C. L. Pettit, E. G. Patton, P. P. Sullivan: 2007, "Characterization of uncertainty in outdoor sound propagation predictions", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121 (5), EL177-EL183, DOI: 10.1121/1.2716159. pdf

Vilà-Guerau de Arellano, J., S.-W. Kim, M. C. Barth, E. G. Patton: 2005, "Transport and chemical transformations influenced by shallow cumulus over land", Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 5, pp. 3219-3231, SRef-ID: 1680-7324/acp/2005-5-3219. pdf

Patton, E. G., P. P. Sullivan, C.-H. Moeng: 2005, "The influence of idealized heterogeneity on wet and dry planetary boundary layers coupled to the land surface", Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 62, pp. 2078-2097. pdf

Patton, E. G., P. P. Sullivan, C.-H. Moeng: 2004, "The influence of idealized heterogeneity on convective planetary boundary layers coupled to the land surface", NCAR Technical Note, TN-462+STR, pp. 71. pdf

Fitzmaurice, L., R. H. Shaw, K. T. Paw U, E. G. Patton: 2004, "Three-dimensional scalar microfront systems in a large-eddy simulation of vegetation canopy flow", Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 112, pp. 107-227. pdf

Patton, E. G., P. P. Sullivan, K. J. Davis: 2003, "The influence of a forest canopy on top-down and bottom-up diffusion in the planetary boundary layer", Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 129, pp. 1415-1434. pdf

Shaw, R. H. and E. G. Patton: 2003, "Canopy element influences on resolved- and subgrid-scale energy within a large-eddy simulation", Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 115, pp. 5-17. pdf

Patton, E. G., K. J. Davis, M. C. Barth, P. P. Sullivan: 2001, "Decaying scalars emitted by a forest canopy - A numerical study", Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 100, pp. 91-129. pdf

Patton, E. G., R. H. Shaw, M. J. Judd, M. R. Raupach: 1998, "Large-eddy simulation of windbreak flow", Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 87, 275-306. pdf

Dwyer, M. J., E. G. Patton, R. H. Shaw: 1997, "Turbulent kinetic energy budgets from a large-eddy simulation of flow above and within a forest canopy", Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 84, 23-43. pdf

Patton, E. G.: 1997, "Large-eddy simulation of turbulent flow above and within a plant canopy", Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Davis. pdf

Edward (Ned) Patton's Vitae