Corey Markfort

My research generally focuses on environmental fluid mechanics and turbulent transport, in particular land-atmosphere interactions, atmospheric boundary-layer (ABL), large-eddy simulation (LES), and experimental boundary-layer turbulence studies of flows over complex terrain including roughness, thermal and canopy transitions, under variable thermal stability. My goal is to better understand surface fluxes of momentum, heat, water vapor and trace gasses (e.g. CO2 and CH4), and develop physically realistic and reliable parameterizations for models of earth systems including e.g., ecosystem, lake, climate, weather and pollution models, and test LES sub-grid scale and surface boundary parameterizations for ABL simulations over complex terrain. Some examples of landscape heterogeneity which my research has focused includes topographic and canopy sheltering of lakes, wetlands and clearings, and wind farms.