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 with a joint appointment between the Boundary Layers and Turbulence Group within MMM and the Biogeosciences Program within TIIMES.

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) coupled atmosphere-fire simulations in WRF. Most of my work involves the use of numerical simulation (using LES) to relate larger-scale models and measurements through process-level understanding.

Recent Publications

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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.

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