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Alfred K. Blackadar, Ph.D.
Department of Meteorology
428 Walker Building
University Park, PA 16802
Telephone (814) 865-2951
E-mail: akb1@psu.edu
  • (New York University), Professor Emeritus

    • Member of Graduate Faculty
Research Interests: Micrometeorology, planetary boundary layer modeling. 

Dr. Blackadar has developed a computer model of the boundary layer that is available on the department's computer systems. The model treats most of the important processes that occur in the boundary layer: turbulent transfer, convection, surface interfacial transfers of scalar quantities (including deposition); soil, heat, and moisture transports; moisture storage in and transport through vegetation; and transfer of short- and long-wave radiation in the atmosphere. He is working on improving the physical processes represented in this model and he is using the model for real-time prediction.