Nathaniel A. Brunsell

Associate Professor

Dept. of Geography

Atmospheric Sciences Program

214B Lindley Hall

University of Kansas

Lawrence, KS 66045

785-864-2021

brunsell@ku.edu

Recent Papers

4/10/13 Paper Published: Brunsell, N. A. and C. J. Wilson: 2013, Multiscale interactions between water and carbon fluxes and environmental variables in a central U.S. grassland. Entropy, 15, 1324-1341.

4/4/13 Paper Published: Hu, L. and N. A. Brunsell: 2013, The impact of temporal aggregation of land surface temperature data for the surface urban heat island (SUHI) monitoring. Remote Sensing of Environment, 134, 162-174.

4/4/13 Paper Published: Cochran, F. V., N. A. Brunsell and D. B. Mechem: 2013, Comparing source and mid-troposphere CO2 concentrations from central U.S. grasslands. Entropy, 15, 606-623.

1/3/13 Paper Published: El Kenawy, A., J. I. Lopez-Moreno, N. A. Brunsell and S. M. Vicente- Serrano: 2013, Anomalously severe cold nights and warm days in northeast Spain: their spatial variability, driving forces and future projections. Global and Planetary Change, 101, 12-32.

12/20/12 Paper Published: Ruddell, B. L., N. A. Brunsell and P. Stoy: 2013, Applying information theory to quantify process uncertainty, feedback, and scale in the Earth system. EoS, doi:10.1002/2013EO0500007, 94, 56.

12/10/12 Paper in Press: Brunsell, N. A. and L. Hu: 2013, The role of scale in determining surface energy fluxes from remote sensing. in Remote Sensing of Land Surface Turbulent Fluxes and Soil Surface moisture Content: State of the Art, ed: G. Petropoulos, in press.

12/10/12 Paper in Press: Campbell, P. P. K., E. Middleton, K. J. Thome, R. F. Kokaly, K. F. Huemmrich, D. Lagomasino, K. Novik and N. A. Brunsell: 2013, EO-1 Hyperion reflectance time series at calibration and validation sites: Stability and sensitivity to seasonal dynamics. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, in press.

9/26/12 Paper Published: Cochran, F. and N. A. Brunsell: 2012, Temporal scales of tropospheric CO2, precipitation and ecosystem responses in central Great Plains. Remote Sensing of Environment, 127, 316-328.

Recent NEWS

AGU PRESENTATIONS: 12/3-7/12

B34A-05. Brunsell, Nippert and Ocheltree: Assessing the impacts of changing precipitation and temperature extremes on the current and future ecohydrology of grassland ecosystems

B43E-0450. Figueiredo, Rocha, Lamparelli and Brunsell: Comparison between historical yield and soybean crop EVI values using correlation map

B43E-0457. Cochran and Brunsell: Evaluating a Thermodynamically Based Metric of Sustainability

GC43A-1019. Wilson, Brunsell, Young and Miller: Variation in 20th Century Weather Extremes as a function of Biome

GC51B-1191.Hu and Brunsell: The impact of temporal aggregation of land surface temperature data for urban heat island monitoring

GC51B-1192. Johnson, Stoy, Brunsell and Ewing: Tracking Spatial and Temporal Changes in the Discontinuous Permafrost Zone using Multi-Resolution Analysis

H54D-08. Lin and Brunsell: Impacts of altered agricultural land cover patterns on carbon and water cycling in the central plains of the U.S.

11/28/12: Brunsell appointed to the editorial board of Climate: http://www.mdpi.com/climate

11/21/12: Leiqiu Hu awarded an NCAR/ASP Graduate Visitor Program fellowship to spend next summer at NCAR

Recent Presentations

5-10 August, 2012: Ecological Society of America, Portland, OR.:  Brunsell, Nippert and Ocheltree Implications of changing extreme weather distributions on grassland ecohydrology

16-18 July, 2012: CUAHSI Biennial meeting, Boulder CO:  Brunsell and Nippert: Modeling ecohydrological responses to extreme precipitation events in grasslands

Jun 12, 2012. FEAGRI, UNICAMP, Campinas, BR: Brunsell: Biosphere-atmosphere processes across scale

28 May - 1 June, 2012: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Boston, MA. Brunsell, N. A., T. Ocheltree, and J. B. Nippert:  Timing of extreme weather events impacts annual carbon and water dynamics in a grassland ecosystem