Elizabeth Burakowski
I use climate models, observations, and remote sensing to understand how landscapes interact with surface climate. Specifically, my research focuses on how changes in land cover (i.e. deforestation) influence surface temperature and fluxes of energy and water.
I also seek out interdisciplinary projects with economists to understand how decreases in snow affect the multi-billion dollar winter sports industry and how we might place economic value on albedo as an climate regulating ecosystem service.
I was previously a Visiting Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of New Hampshire in the Terrestrial Ecosystem Analysis Lab.
Follow me on Twitter: @LizBurakowski
Publications by Burakowski
CV (Curriculum Vitae)
Courses Taught
- ESCI 405: Global Environmental Change
- ESCI 514: Introduction to Climate
- ESCI 765: Paleoclimatology
- INCO 790: Adv Rsrch Exp/Earth Sys ResCen
Selected Publications
Burakowski, E., Tawfik, A., Ouimette, A., Lepine, L., Novick, K., Ollinger, S., . . . Bonan, G. (2018). The role of surface roughness, albedo, and Bowen ratio on ecosystem energy balance in the Eastern United States. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 249, 367-376. doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2017.11.030
Amaral, T., Wake, C. P., Dibb, J. E., Burakowski, E. A., & Stampone, M. (2017). A simple model of snow albedo decay using observations from the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow-Albedo (CoCoRaHS-Albedo) Network. JOURNAL OF GLACIOLOGY, 63(241), 877-887. doi:10.1017/jog.2017.54
Contosta, A. R., Adolph, A., Burchsted, D., Burakowski, E., Green, M., Guerra, D., . . . Wollheim, W. (2017). A longer vernal window: the role of winter coldness and snowpack in driving spring transitions and lags. Global Change Biology, 23(4), 1610-1625. doi:10.1111/gcb.13517
Contosta, A. R., Burakowski, E. A., Varner, R. K., & Frey, S. D. (2016). Winter soil respiration in a humid temperate forest: The roles of moisture, temperature, and snowpack. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 121(12), 3072-3088. doi:10.1002/2016jg003450
Burakowski, E. A., Ollinger, S. V., Bonan, G. B., Wake, C. P., Dibb, J. E., & Hollinger, D. Y. (2016). Evaluating the Climate Effects of Reforestation in New England Using a Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model Multiphysics Ensemble. Journal of Climate, 29(14), 5141-5156. doi:10.1175/jcli-d-15-0286.1
Lutz, D. A., Burakowski, E. A., Murphy, M. B., Borsuk, M. E., Niemiec, R. M., & Howarth, R. B. (2016). Trade-offs between three forest ecosystem services across the state of New Hampshire, USA: timber, carbon, and albedo. Ecological Applications, 26(1), 146-161. doi:10.1890/14-2207
Burakowski, E. A., Ollinger, S. V., Lepine, L., Schaaf, C. B., Wang, Z., Dibb, J. E., . . . Martin, M. (2015). Spatial scaling of reflectance and surface albedo over a mixed-use, temperate forest landscape during snow-covered periods. Remote Sensing of Environment, 158, 465-477. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2014.11.023
Burakowski, E., Wake, C. P., Dibb, J. E., & Stampone, M. (2013). Putting the capital ‘A’ in CoCoRAHS: an experimental programme to measure albedo using the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow (CoCoRaHS) Network. Hydrological Processes, 27(21), 3024-3034. doi:10.1002/hyp.9825
Burakowski, E. A., Wake, C. P., Braswell, B., & Brown, D. P. (n.d.). Trends in wintertime climate in the northeastern United States: 1965–2005. Journal of Geophysical Research, 113(D20). doi:10.1029/2008jd009870
Bonan, G. B., Patton, E. G., Harman, I. N., Oleson, K. W., Finnigan, J. J., Lu, Y., & Burakowski, E. A. (n.d.). Modeling canopy-induced turbulence in the Earth system: a unified parameterization of turbulent exchange within plant canopies and the roughness sublayer (CLM-ml v0). Geoscientific Model Development, 11(4), 1467-1496. doi:10.5194/gmd-11-1467-2018
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