Kenneth Davis

About

Kenneth Davis is a Professor of Atmospheric and Climate Science at Penn State University. His role involves engaging in research that impacts real-world problems related to atmospheric and climate phenomena. As part of Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, his work contributes to the broader mission of the land-grant institution, emphasizing research, education, and extension activities in agricultural and environmental sciences.

Research topics

• Environmental science
• Geology
• Atmospheric sciences
• Geography
• Computer Science
• Meteorology
• Biology
• Chemistry
• Ecology
• Environmental engineering

Selected publications

• The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

  Scientific Data · 2020 · 1726 citations

  , water, and energy exchange between the biosphere and the atmosphere, and other meteorological and biological measurements, from 212 sites around the globe (over 1500 site-years, up to and including year 2014). These sites, independently managed and operated, voluntarily contributed their data to create global datasets. Data were quality controlled and processed using uniform methods, to improve consistency and intercomparability across sites. The dataset is already being used in a number of ap…

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• Confronting the water potential information gap

  Nature Geoscience · 2022 · 150 citations

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• Policy-Relevant Assessment of Urban CO₂ Emissions

  Environmental Science & Technology · 2020 · 140 citations

  emissions, underconstrained despite the inclusion of coemitted species information.

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• Concurrent variation in oil and gas methane emissions and oil price during the COVID-19 pandemic

  Atmospheric chemistry and physics · 2021 · 127 citations

  Abstract. Methane emissions associated with the production, transport, and use of oil and natural gas increase the climatic impacts of energy use; however, little is known about how emissions vary temporally and with commodity prices. We present airborne and ground-based data, supported by satellite observations, to measure weekly to monthly changes in total methane emissions in the United States' Permian Basin during a period of volatile oil prices associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. As oil…

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• Author Correction: The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

  Scientific Data · 2021 · 109 citations

  A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00851-9.

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Recent grants

• RCN: Chequamegon Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (ChEAS)

  NSF · $375k · 2002–2009

Frequent coauthors

• Thomas Lauvaux

  Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne

  280 shared

• N. L. Miles

  Pennsylvania State University

  147 shared

• Colm Sweeney

  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

  89 shared

• J. C. Turnbull

  University of Colorado Boulder

  84 shared

• Sha Feng

  Pennsylvania State University

  67 shared

• Zachary Barkley

  Pennsylvania State University

  67 shared

• Peter S. Bakwin

  66 shared

• A. Karion

  National Institute of Standards and Technology

  65 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Astrophysical, Planetary and Atmospheric Science

  University of Colorado Boulder

  1992

• AB, Physics

  Princeton University

  1987

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