Ankur Desai

Position title: Faculty, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Email: desai@aos.wisc.edu

Research Summary

The Ecometeorology Lab studies interactions between the land and atmosphere over short (daily) and long (decadal) time scales. We measure how they exchange heat, water, and carbon, using a global network of flux towers organized by a global network of people. We are particularly interested in plants (i.e. vegetation cover) and their unique role in modifying these exchanges, especially how human changes in vegetation cover, via deforestation, hydrologic modification, and land-use change, modify the intensity and outcomes of land-atmosphere interactions.

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