Current Funded Research
NSF (Physical and Dynamic Meteorology Program):
Collaborative Research: Measurement and Modeling of
Aerodynamic Interactions between Tree-Sway-Motion and Turbulence in and above a
Forest Canopy (2009-2012)
Past Funded Research
DOE (NIGEC –
UMBS (
Mass and Energy Exchange in a
Northern Hardwood Ecosystem (2003-2006)
DOE (NIGEC –
MMSF (Morgan-Monroe State Forest, Indiana University)
AmeriFlux Site:
Forest-Atmosphere Exchange of CO2 over a Mixed
Hardwood Ecosystem in the Midwest (2003-2006)
Undergraduate Research
Urban
Heat Island and Energy Consumption
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Su, H.-B., Schmid, H.P., Vogel, C.S., & Curtis, P.S. (2008). Effects of canopy morphology and thermal stability on mean flow and turbulence statistics inside a mixed hardwaood forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 148, 862-882. PDF
Gough, C.M., Vogel, C.S., Schmid, H.P.,
Su, H.-B., & Curtis, P.S. (2008). Multi-year
convergence of biometric and meteorological estimates of forest carbon storage.
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 148, 158-170. PDF
Noormets, A.,
Desai, A.R., Cook, B.D., Euskirchen, E.S., Ricciuto, D.M., Davis, K.J., Bolstad,
P.V., Schmid, H.P., Vogel, C.S., Carey, E.V., Su,
H.-B., Chen, J., (2008). Moisture sensitivity of ecosystem respiration:
Comparison of 14 forest ecosystems in the Upper Great Lakes Region, USA. Agricultural
and Forest Meteorology, 148, 216-230. PDF
Su, H.-B., Schmid,
H.P., Grimmond, C.S.B, Vogel, C.S., & Curtis,
P.S. (2008). An assessment of observed vertical
flux divergence in long-term eddy-covariance measurements over two Midwestern
forest ecosystems. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 148,
186-205. PDF
Curtis, P.S., Vogel, C.S., Gough, C.M.,
Schmid, H.P., Su, H.-B., Bovard, B.D., (2005). Respiratory Carbon Losses and the Carbon-Use Efficiency of a
Northern Hardwood Forest, 1999-2003. New Phytologist,
167, 437-456. PDF
Bovard, B.D., Curtis, P.S., Vogel, C.S.,
Su, H.-B., & Schmid, H.P. (2004). Environmental
Controls on Sap Flow in a Northern Hardwood Forest. Tree Physiology,
25, 31-38. PDF
Oliphant, A.J., Grimmond, C.S.B., Zutter, H.N., Schmid, H.P., Su, H.-B., Scott, S.L.; Offerle, B.; Randolph, J.C.; Ehman,
J., (2004). Heat Storage and Energy Balance Fluxes for
a Temperate Deciduous Forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology,
126, 185-201. PDF
Rocha, A.V., Su, H.-B., Vogel, C.S.,
Schmid, H.P., & Curtis, P.S. (2004). Photosynthetic
and Water Use Efficiency Responses to Diffuse Radiation by an Aspen-Dominated
Northern Hardwood Forest. Forest Science, 50(6), 793-801. PDF
Su, H.-B., Schmid,
H.P., Grimmond, C.S.B., Vogel, C.S., & Oliphant,
A.J. (2004). Spectral Characteristics and Correction of Long-Term
Eddy-Covariance Measurements over Two Mixed Hardwood Forests in Non-Flat
Terrain. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 110, 213-253. PDF
Schmid, H.P., Su, H.-B., Vogel, C.S.,
& Curtis, P.S. (2003). Ecosystem-Atmosphere
Exchange of Carbon Dioxide over a Mixed Hardwood Forest in Northern Lower
Michigan. Journal of Geophysical Research, 108, NO.
D, doi:10.1029/2002JD003011. PDF
Villani, M.G., Schmid, H.P., Su, H.-B., Hutton,
J.L., & Vogel, C.S. (2003). Turbulence
statistics measurements in a northern hardwood forest. Boundary-Layer
Meteorology, 108, 343-364. PDF
Schmid, H.P., Grimmond, C.S.B., Cropley, F., Offerle, B., &
Su, H.-B. (2000). Measurements of CO2
and energy fluxes over a mixed hardwood forest in the mid-western
Su, H.-B., Shaw, R.H., & Paw U, K.T. (2000). Two-point correlation analysis of neutrally stratified flow within
and above forest from large-eddy simulation. Boundary-Layer
Meteorology, 94, 423-460. PDF
Su, H.-B., Shaw, R.H., Paw U, K.T., Moeng, C.-H., & Sullivan, P.P. (1998). Turbulent statistics of neutrally stratified flow within and above
a sparse forest from large-eddy simulation and field observations. Boundary-Layer
Meteorology, 88, 363-397. PDF
Su, H.-B., Paw U, K.T., & Shaw, R.H.
(1996). Development of a coupled leaf and
canopy model for the simulation of plant-atmosphere interaction. Journal
of Applied Meteorology, 35, 733-748. PDF
Paw U, K.T., Qiu, J., Su, H.-B.,
Watanabe, T., & Brunet, Y. (1995). Surface renewal analysis: a new
method to obtain scalar fluxes. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 74,
119-137. PDF
Su,
H.-B. & Hong, Z.-X. (1994). An
experimental study of turbulence in Northern suburban surface layer of
Book Chapter
Paw U, K.T., Snyder, R.L., Spano, D., & Su, H.-B. (2005). Surface Renewal Estimates of Scalar Exchange. In J.L. Hatfield and J.M. Baker (Ed.) Micrometeorology in Agricultural Systems, Agronomy Monograph No. 47, (pp. 455-483). Madison, WI: ASA-CSSA-SSSA Publishers. PDF
Book Review
Su, H.-B.
(2006). Book Review: Handbook for
Micrometeorology, A Guide for Surface Flux Measurement and Analysis. Agricultural
and Forest Meteorology, 136, 80-82. PDF
Conference Presentations
and Proceedings
Su,
H.-B., Rudnicki, M., Hiscox,
A., Webb, V., Miller, D.: 2009. Large-Eddy Simulation of the
Aerodynamic Interactions between Canopy Roughness Sublayer
Turbulence and Tree-Sway Motions. Proceedings of the 2nd
International Conference Wind Effects on Trees. 13-16
October, Freiburg, Germany.
Su,
H.-B.: 2008. Effects of canopy morphology and thermal stability on turbulence
spectra, structure functions and lagged two-point correlations observed inside
a mixed hardwood forest. American Meteorological Society 28th Conference on Agricultural and Forest
Meteorology, Paper No. J2.5, Orlando, FL.
Su,
H.-B., Patton, E.G.: 2006, 'Large-Eddy Simulation of the Roughness Sublayer
within and above Forest Canopies and Its Transition to the Outer Regions of the
Atmospheric Boundary Layers'. American Meteorological Society 17th Symposium
on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Paper No. J2.3, San
Diego, CA.
Su,
H.-B., Schmid, H.P., Vogel, C.S., Curtis, P.S.: 2006, 'Seasonal Variation of
Turbulence Characteristics in and above a Mixed Hardwood Forest at the UMBS
AmeriFlux Site'. American Meteorological Society 27th
Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Paper No. 1.7, San
Diego, CA.
Su,
H.-B., Schmid, H.P., Grimmond,
C.S.B., Vogel, C.S., Curtis, P.S.: 2004, 'Is Flux Divergence in the Tower Layer
Important in Estimating Annual NEE Using Eddy-Covariance Measurements?'. Electronic Abstract in CD-ROM. American
Meteorological Society 26th Conference on Agricultural and Forest
Meteorology, Paper No. 2.7, Vancouver, Canada.
Grimmond, C.S.B., Su, H.-B., Offerle, B., Crawford, B., Scott, S., Zhong,
S., Clements, C.: 2004, 'Variability of Sensible Heat Fluxes in a Suburban Area
of Oklahoma City', Proceedings of Symposium on Planning, Nowcasting,
and Forecasting in the Urban Zone, and Eighth Symposium on Integrated Observing
and Assimilation Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface, American
Meteorological Society, Seattle, WA.
Su,
H.-B.: 2002, 'Large-Eddy Simulation of Diffusion from/to Line and Point
Sources/Sinks inside a Forest'. Preprint, American
Meteorological Society 15th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence,
364-365, Wageningen, the Netherlands.
Su,
H.-B., Grimmond, C.S.B.: 2002, 'Modeling the Local
Climatology of Mixing Layer Heights over Two Midlatitude
Hardwood Forests'. Preprint, American Meteorological Society 15th
Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, 520-523, Wageningen,
the Netherlands.
Su,
H.-B., Schmid, H.P., Grimmond,
C.S.B., Vogel, C.S., Oliphant, A.J.: 2002, 'Spectral Analyses of Long-Term
Eddy-Covariance Measurements over Hardwood Forests'. Preprint,
American Meteorological Society 25th Conference on Agricultural and Forest
Meteorology, 75-76, Norfolk, VA.
Villani, M.G., Schmid,
H.P., Su, H.-B.: 2002, 'Turbulence Statistics and Spectra in and above a
Hardwood Forest Canopy for Lagrangian Stochastic
Model Applications'. Preprint, American Meteorological
Society 25th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 18-19,
Norfolk, VA.
Zutter, H.N., Grimmond,
C.S.B., Oliphant, A.J., Schmid, H.P., Su, H.-B., Ciasto,
L.: 2002, 'Convective Boundary Layer Development over a Mid-Latitude Deciduous
Forest'. Preprint, American Meteorological Society 25th
Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 134-135, Norfolk, VA.
Oliphant,
A.J., Schmid, H.P., Grimmond,
C.S.B., Su, H.-B., Scott, S., Vogel, C.S.: 2002, 'The
Role of Cloud Cover in Net Ecosystem Exchange of CO2, over Two
Mid-Western Hardwood Forests'. Preprint, American
Meteorological Society 25th Conference on Agricultural and Forest
Meteorology, 77-78, Norfolk, VA.
Ciasto, L., Grimmond,
C.S.B., Zutter, H.N., Oliphant, A.J., Su, H.-B.,
Schmid, H.P.: 2002, 'Evaluation of Simple Method to Estimate Surface Heat
Fluxes for a Midwestern Deciduous Forest, USA'. Preprint,
American Meteorological Society 25th Conference on Agricultural and Forest
Meteorology, 183-184, Norfolk, VA.
Su,
H.-B., Schmid, H.P., Grimmond,
C.S.B., Vogel, C.S., Curtis, P.S.: 2000, 'Temporal and Spatial Variability of
Mean Flow and Turbulent Characteristics over a Deciduous Forest'. Preprint, American Meteorological Society 14th Symposium on
Boundary Layers and Turbulence, 318-321, Aspen, CO.
Schmid,
H.P., Su, H.-B., Vogel, C.S., Curtis, P.S.: 2000, 'Nighttime Turbulence
Statistics and Trace Gas Exchange in a Mixed Deciduous Forest'. Preprint, American Meteorological Society 14th Symposium on
Boundary Layers and Turbulence, 555-558, Aspen, CO.
Su,
H.-B., Schmid, H.P., Grimmond,
C.S.B., Vogel, C.S., Curtis, P.S.: 2000, 'Correlation and Structure Function
Analysis in the Quality Assessment of Long-Term Eddy-Covariance Measurement
over a Deciduous Forest'. Preprint, American Meteorological
Society 24th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 215-216,
Davis, CA.
Schmid, H.P., Grimmond,
C.S.B., Cropley, F., Su, H.-B., Vogel, C.S.,
Curtis, P.S.: 2000, 'Variability of Energy Vapor and CO2 Exchange over Two
Midwestern Deciduous Forests'. Preprint, American
Meteorological Society 24th Conference on Agricultural and Forest
Meteorology, 164-165, Davis, CA.
Grimmond, C.S.B., Schmid,
H.P., Hanson, P.J., Wullschleger, S.D., Cropley, F., Su, H.-B., Offerle,
B., Scott, S.: 2000, 'Ecosystem Evaporation, Transpiration and Sub-Canopy Vapor
Fluxes at the Morgan Monroe State Forest, Indiana'. Preprint,
American Meteorological Society 24th Conference on Agricultural and Forest
Meteorology, 138-139, Davis, CA.
Ehman, J.L., Schmid,
H.P., Grimmond, C.S.B., Randolph, J.C., Wayson, C.A., Hanson, P.J., Cropley,
F., Su, H.-B., Scott, S., Offerle, B.: 2000,
'A Preliminary Intercomparison of Micrometeorological
and Ecological Estimates of Carbon Sequestration in a Mid-Latitude Deciduous
Forest for 1998 and 1999'. Preprint, American Meteorological
Society 24th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 140-141,
Davis, CA.
Su,
H.-B., Leclerc, M.Y.: 1999, 'Large-Eddy Simulation of Near-Field Mean
Concentrations and Vertical Fluxes of Passive Tracers Released from Infinite
Crosswind Line Sources inside a Forest'. Preprint, American
Meteorological Society 13th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence,
535-538, Dallas, TX.
Su,
H.-B., Leclerc, M.Y.: 1998, 'Large-Eddy Simulation of Tracer Footprints from
Infinite Crosswind Line Sources inside a Forest'. Preprint,
American Meteorological Society 23rd Conference on Agricultural and Forest
Meteorology, 388-391, Albuquerque, NM.
Su,
H.-B., Paw U, K.T., Shaw, R.H., Moeng, C.-H.: 1998,
'Large-Eddy Simulation of Pressure-Gradient-Velocity Covariance and Its
Parameterization within and above a Forest'. Preprint,
American Meteorological Society 23rd Conference on Agricultural and Forest
Meteorology, 229-232, Albuquerque, NM.
Su,
H.-B., Shaw, R.H., Paw U, K.T.: 1997, 'Two-Point Correlation Analysis of Flow
within and above a Forest from Large-Eddy Simulation'. Preprint,
American Meteorological Society 12th Symposium on Boundary Layers and
Turbulence, 399-400, Vancouver, Canada.
Paw U,
K.T., Vogt, R., Shaw, R.H., Hsiao, T., Moles, A., Su, H.-B., Yang, B.: 1997,
'Coherent Structures and Turbulent Statistics above and within Maize Plant
Canopies: Observations, Analysis and Modeling'. Preprint,
American Meteorological Society 12th Symposium on Boundary Layers and
Turbulence, 391-392, Vancouver, Canada.
Su,
H.-B., Paw U, K.T., Shaw, R.H.: 1996, 'Development of a Coupled Leaf and Canopy
Model for the Simulation of Plant-Atmosphere Interaction'. Preprint,
American Meteorological Society 22nd Conference on Agricultural and Forest
Meteorology, J33-J35, Atlanta, GA.
Su,
H.-B., Shaw, R.H., Paw U, K.T., Moeng, C.-H.,
Sullivan, P.P.: 1996, 'Modeling Forest-Atmosphere Interactions by Coupling a
Large-Eddy Simulation with a Leaf and Canopy Model'. Preprint,
American Meteorological Society 22nd Conference on Agricultural
and Forest Meteorology, J39-J40, Atlanta, GA.
Paw U,
K.T., Su, H.-B., Charlevoix, D., Hsiao, T. C.: 1996, 'Testing of an
Advanced Plant Physiological Leaf Model Linked with a Plant-Atmosphere
Higher-Order Closure Turbulence Model for Response to Elevated CO2
Concentration'. Preprint, American Meteorological Society 22nd
Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, J58-J59, Atlanta, GA.
Paw U,
K.T., Su, H.-B., Braaten, D.A.: 1996, 'The
Usage of Structure Functions in Estimating Water Vapor and Carbon Dioxide
Exchange between Plant Canopies and the Atmosphere'. Preprint,
American Meteorological Society 22nd Conference on Agricultural and Forest
Meteorology, J14-J15, Atlanta, GA.
Paw U,
K.T., Su, H.-B.: 1994, 'The Usage of Structure
Functions in Studying Turbulent Coherent Structures and Estimating Sensible
Heat Flux'. Preprint, American Meteorological Society 21st
Conference on Agricultural and Forest.