David R. Fitzjarrald

Atmospheric Sciences Research Center
University at Albany

State University of New York
Albany, NY 12203
518-437-8700 (voice)
518-437-8711 (fax)
fitz@asrc.cestm.albany.edu

Further Information: http://www.atmos.albany.edu/facstaff/fitzjarrald.html

Academic qualifications

Ph. D. in Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1980.
M.Sc. in Meteorology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1974
B. Sc. in Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1969.

Employment

• 1984 to present: Research Associate, Atmospheric Sciences Research Center (ASRC) [Permanent appointment, 1990]; Adjunct Research Professor, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science, both at University at Albany, State University of New York
• 4/84 - 8/84: Visiting Professor, Department of Meteorology, Institute of Astrogeophysics, University of São Paulo, Brazil. [Lectured on boundary layer meteorology at the undergraduate level, in Portuguese]
• 9/81 - 2/84 Fellow, Advanced Study Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO
• 9/80 - 8/81 Visiting Fellow, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado/NOAA, Boulder, CO
• 1/80-9/80 Visiting Professor, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico [Lectured on meteorological instruments at the undergraduate level, in Spanish.]

Selected list of reviewed publications

1986 "Slope winds in Veracruz", D. R. Fitzjarrald, J. Clim. Appl. Met. 25, 133-144.

1988 "Turbulent transport observed just above the Amazon forest", D. R. Fitzjarrald, B. L. Stormwind, G. Fisch, and O. M. R. Cabral, J. Geo. Res., 93, No. D2, 1571-1582.

1989 "Hudson valley fog environments", D. R. Fitzjarrald and G. G. Lala, J. Appl. Met. 28, 1303-1328.

1990 "Daytime turbulent exchange between the Amazon forest and the atmosphere", D. R. Fitzjarrald, K. E. Moore, O. M. R. Cabral, J. Scolar, A. O. Manzi, and L. D. A. Sá, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 16825-16838.

1992 "Turbulent transports over tundra", D. R. Fitzjarrald and K. E. Moore, J. Geophys. Res., 97, 16717-16729.

1993 "The Amazon river breeze and the local boundary layer: I. Observations", A. P. Oliveira and D. R. Fitzjarrald, Bound.-Layer Met. 63, 141-162.

1994 "Growing season boundary layer climate and surface exchanges in the northern lichen woodland", D. R. Fitzjarrald and K. E. Moore, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 1899-1917.

1995 "Physical mechanisms of heat and mass exchange between forests and the atmosphere", D. R. Fitzjarrald and K. E. Moore, Chapter 3 in Forest Canopies--a Review of Research on a Biological Frontier, ed. M. Lowman and N Nadkarni, Academic Press, in press.

1997 "Investigating the relationships between leaf area index and turbulence exchange in a deciduous forest", R. K. Sakai, D. R. Fitzjarrald, and K. E. Moore, Ag. & Forest Meteor. 84, 273-284.

1999 Observations of Surface to Atmosphere Interactions in the Tropics, M. Garstang and D. R. Fitzjarrald, Oxford Univ. Press, New York, 459pp.

2000 Moore, K. E., D. R. Fitzjarrald, R. K. Sakai, and J.M. Freedman, 2000. "Growing season water balance at a boreal jack pine forest." Water Res. Res., 36, 483-493.

2001 "Boundary-layer clouds and vegetation-atmosphere feedbacks", J. M. Freedman, D. R. Fitzjarrald, K. E. Moore, and R. K. Sakai, J. Climate 14, 180-197.

"Climatic consequences of leaf presence in the eastern United States", D. R. Fitzjarrald, O. A. Acevedo, and K. E. Moore, J. Climate 14, 598-614.

"Post-frontal air mass modification", J. M. Freedman and D. R. Fitzjarrald, J. Hydrometeor. 2, 419-437.

"The early evening surface layer transition: temporal and spatial variability", O. C. Acevedo and D. R. Fitzjarrald, J. Atmos. Sci. 58, 2649-2666.

"Importance of low-frequency contributions to eddy fluxes observed over rough surfaces", R. K. Sakai, D. R. Fitzjarrald, and K. E. Moore, J. Appl. Meteor., 40, 2178-2192.

"Energy balances of curing concrete bridge decks", G. S. Wojcik and D. R. Fitzjarrald, J. Appl. Meteor, 40, 2005-2025.

2003 Boundary layer budgeting, D. R. Fitzjarrald,. Ch B7 in Biospheric Feedbacks in the Climate System and the Hydrological Cycle, ed. J. Gash, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, in press.

A modeling study of the effects of canopy gaps on wind and scalar flux observations, O. C. Acevedo and D. R. Fitzjarrald, submitted to Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.

Recent professional activities

• Reviewer of papers from: J. Hydrology, J. Atmos. Sci., Atmospheric Environment, J. Geophy. Res., Monthly Weather Review, Geophys. Research Letters, J. Appl. Meteorology, Solar Energy, Meteorologishe Zeitschrift, Nature, Global Change Biology, Bull. Am. Met. Soc., and Revista de Geofísica Brasileira
• Principal Investigator, the Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Experiment (BOREAS), 1993-1996
• Principal Investigator, NASA sponsored Large-scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA-Ecology), 1996-present

Fitzjarrald has participated in a number of field observational programs, beginning with thesis work (GATE), through the NASA-supported ABLE series in the Amazon, Alaska, and Canada, BOREAS, and LBA-ECO. Continuous eddy flux and radiation measurements have been recorded at Harvard Forest since 1991. Fitzjarrald has had a longstanding interaction with colleagues in Mexico (UNAM, Universidad Veracruzana) and in Brazil (Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, RS). Three Brazilian students have completed Ph. D. degrees at Albany; two postdoctoral visitors from Brazil and two from Mexico have made extended visits to the ASRC. In collaboration with the NY State Department of Transportation (NYDOT), we have studied the role of weather on the curing of concrete. An ongoing collaborative study with the NYDOT and the National Weather Service aims to extract more useful information from the new network of roadside weather stations in NY state.

Collaborators/Coauthors (last 4 years)

J. M. Freedman, Atmospheric Information Services, Albany, NY
M. Garstang, U. of Virginia
J. W. Munger, Harvard University
G. Parker, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.
J. Quinlan, National Weather Service Forecast Office, Albany NY.
R. K Sakai, ASRC, SUNY Albany
Mark Schwartz, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
S. C. Wofsy, Harvard University
Graduate and Post Doctoral Advisors
Morton Wurtele, (M.S. Advisor, UCLA, 1974)
Michael Garstang (Ph.D. Advisor, UVa., 1980)