Soil Vegetation Atmosphere Transfer (SVAT) Research @ North Carolina State University
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Instrumentation Meteorology   MEA 493J/593Y (offered in Spring) Land Surface Processes   (offered as needed) The Instrumentation Meteorology course was developed as a part of the NSF – Awards for Geoscience Education program. The focus is on developing an understanding of the different surface and remote sensed meteorological instruments used in meteorology and environmental monitoring. The course has field experiments and field exercises, projects, and site visits. The course content builds on basics of ASOS/AWOS and surface meteorological measurements, data logger programming, QA/QC, errors and uncertainty, footprint and source area analysis, field experiment overview (e.g. FIFE, IHOP), and specialized lectures from experts and users in the field. The Land Surface Processes course is offered as a special topic course, depending on the student interests and research requirements. It builds on review of biospheric models (from SiB, BATS, Noilhan Planton, to SiB2, GEMTM, and more recent ecological models). Course content is loosely based on research papers, and projects on topics of recent interest in the literature (e.g. remote sensing of biophysical variables, diffuse radiation feedback on vegetation response, LTER and AmeriFlux data, Carbon and Hydrological Cycle, Nitrogen and Nutrient Processes, Scaling from Point to Regional Analysis). Please contact me if you would like additional information on either of the two courses.