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Kenneth Davis

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Email
kjd10@psu.edu
Telephone
(814) 863-8601

512 Walker Bldg
University Park, PA 16802

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IEE Research Themes
Climate and Ecosystem Change
Water and Biogeochemical Cycles
Coordinating Council Member
Cofunded Faculty Member
Titles and Affiliations
Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Research Summary

Research interests include boundary layer meteorology, terrestrial carbon and hydrologic cycles, and flux measurement methods, and application of these tools to better understand the climate system and the urban environment.

Earth-Atmosphere Interactions Lab

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Research Keywords

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Boundary Layer
Carbon Dioxide
Carbon
Troposphere
Ecosystems
Net Ecosystem Exchange
Ecosystem
Eddy Covariance
Land Surface
Atmosphere
Atmospheric Inversion
Towers
Carbon Flux
Inversion
Aircraft
Ecosystem Respiration
Biosphere
Mixing Ratio
Respiration
Methane

Projects

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Urban Green Infrastructure and the Day-Night “Humid-Heat Islands” of the Northeast U.S.
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Community Engagement and Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Direct Air Quality Research at Industrial Sites Near Pittsburgh
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Toward a Lower-Carbon Food System: Quantification of Methane Emissions from Animal Agriculture

Recent Publications

A new exponentially decaying error correlation model for assimilating OCO-2 column-average CO2 data using a length scale computed from airborne lidar measurements

Baker, D. F., Bell, E., Davis, K. J., Campbell, J. F., Lin, B. & Dobler, J., Jan 26 2022, In: Geoscientific Model Development. 15, 2, p. 649-668 20 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Measurements of Atmospheric Methane Emissions from Stray Gas Migration: A Case Study from the Marcellus Shale

Dennis, L. E., Richardson, S. J., Miles, N., Woda, J., Brantley, S. L. & Davis, K. J., Apr 21 2022, In: ACS Earth and Space Chemistry. 6, 4, p. 909-919 11 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

A multi-city urban atmospheric greenhouse gas measurement data synthesis

Mitchell, L. E., Lin, J. C., Hutyra, L. R., Bowling, D. R., Cohen, R. C., Davis, K. J., DiGangi, E., Duren, R. M., Ehleringer, J. R., Fain, C., Falk, M., Guha, A., Karion, A., Keeling, R. F., Kim, J., Miles, N. L., Miller, C. E., Newman, S., Pataki, D. E., Prinzivalli, S., & 11 othersRen, X., Rice, A., Richardson, S. J., Sargent, M., Stephens, B. B., Turnbull, J. C., Verhulst, K. R., Vogel, F., Weiss, R. F., Whetstone, J. & Wofsy, S. C., Dec 2022, In: Scientific Data. 9, 1, 361.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Methane, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, and isotopic ratios of methane observations from the Permian Basin tower network

Monteiro, V. C., Miles, N. L., Richardson, S. J., Barkley, Z., Haupt, B. J., Lyon, D., Hmiel, B. & Davis, K. J., May 20 2022, In: Earth System Science Data. 14, 5, p. 2401-2417 17 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

The impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on greenhouse gases: a multi-city analysis of in situ atmospheric observations

Monteiro, V., Miles, N. L., Richardson, S. J., Turnbull, J., Karion, A., Kim, J., Mitchell, L., Lin, J. C., Sargent, M., Wofsy, S., Vogel, F. & Davis, K. J., Apr 1 2022, In: Environmental Research Communications. 4, 4, 041004.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Confronting the water potential information gap

Novick, K. A., Ficklin, D. L., Baldocchi, D., Davis, K. J., Ghezzehei, T. A., Konings, A. G., MacBean, N., Raoult, N., Scott, R. L., Shi, Y., Sulman, B. N. & Wood, J. D., Mar 2022, In: Nature Geoscience. 15, 3, p. 158-164 7 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Source decomposition of eddy-covariance CO2flux measurements for evaluating a high-resolution urban CO2emissions inventory

Wu, K., Davis, K. J., Miles, N. L., Richardson, S. J., Lauvaux, T., Sarmiento, D. P., Balashov, N. V., Keller, K., Turnbull, J., Gurney, K. R., Liang, J. & Roest, G., Jul 1 2022, In: Environmental Research Letters. 17, 7, 074035.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Multi-Season Evaluation of CO2 Weather in OCO-2 MIP Models

Zhang, L., Davis, K. J., Schuh, A. E., Jacobson, A. R., Pal, S., Cui, Y. Y., Baker, D., Crowell, S., Chevallier, F., Remaud, M., Liu, J., Weir, B., Philip, S., Johnson, M. S., Deng, F. & Basu, S., Jan 27 2022, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 127, 2, e2021JD035457.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Analysis of Oil and Gas Ethane and Methane Emissions in the Southcentral and Eastern United States Using Four Seasons of Continuous Aircraft Ethane Measurements

Barkley, Z. R., Davis, K. J., Feng, S., Cui, Y. Y., Fried, A., Weibring, P., Richter, D., Walega, J. G., Miller, S. M., Eckl, M., Roiger, A., Fiehn, A. & Kostinek, J., May 2021, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 126, 10, e2020JD034194.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Precipitation alters the CO2 effect on water-use efficiency of temperate forests

Belmecheri, S., Maxwell, R. S., Taylor, A. H., Davis, K. J., Guerrieri, R., Moore, D. J. P. & Rayback, S. A., Apr 2021, In: Global Change Biology. 27, 8, p. 1560-1571 12 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Evaluation of CarbonTracker's Inverse Estimates of North American Net Ecosystem Exchange of CO2 From Different Observing Systems Using ACT-America Airborne Observations

Cui, Y. Y., Jacobson, A. R., Feng, S., Wesloh, D., Barkley, Z. R., Zhang, L., Gerken, T., Keller, K., Baker, D. & Davis, K. J., Jun 2021, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 126, 12, e2020JD034406.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

The Atmospheric Carbon and Transport (ACT)-America Mission

Davis, K. J., Browell, E. V., Feng, S., Lauvaux, T., Obland, M. D., Pal, S., Baier, B. C., Baker, D. F., Baker, I. T., Barkley, Z. R., Bowman, K. W., Cui, Y. Y., Denning, A. S., Digangi, J. P., Dobler, J. T., Fried, A., Gerken, T., Keller, K., Lin, B., Nehrir, A. R., & 10 othersNormile, C. P., O'Dell, C. W., Ott, L. E., Roiger, A., Schuh, A. E., Sweeney, C., Wei, Y., Weir, B., Xue, M. & Williams, C. A., Sep 2021, In: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 102, 9, p. E1714-E1734

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Seasonal Variability in Local Carbon Dioxide Biomass Burning Sources Over Central and Eastern US Using Airborne In Situ Enhancement Ratios

DiGangi, J. P., Choi, Y., Nowak, J. B., Halliday, H. S., Diskin, G. S., Feng, S., Barkley, Z. R., Lauvaux, T., Pal, S., Davis, K. J., Baier, B. C. & Sweeney, C., Dec 27 2021, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 126, 24, e2020JD034525.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Quantifying Nitrous Oxide Emissions in the U.S. Midwest: A Top-Down Study Using High Resolution Airborne In-Situ Observations

Eckl, M., Roiger, A., Kostinek, J., Fiehn, A., Huntrieser, H., Knote, C., Barkley, Z. R., Ogle, S. M., Baier, B. C., Sweeney, C. & Davis, K. J., Mar 16 2021, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 48, 5, e2020GL091266.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

Joint CO2 Mole Fraction and Flux Analysis Confirms Missing Processes in CASA Terrestrial Carbon Uptake Over North America

Feng, S., Lauvaux, T., Williams, C. A., Davis, K. J., Zhou, Y., Baker, I., Barkley, Z. R. & Wesloh, D., Jul 2021, In: Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 35, 7, e2020GB006914.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review