Penn State Department of Meteorology

	John C. Wyngaard, PhD. Department of Meteorology 627A Walker Building University Park, PA 16802 Telephone: (814) 863-7714 E-mail: wyngaard@ems.psu.edu (The Pennsylvania State University), Professor Member of Graduate Faculty Joint Appointment with Department of Mechanical Engineering Joint Appointment with the GeoEnvironmental Engineering Program Earth System Science Center Faculty

Research Interests: Turbulence, micrometeorology, planetary boundary layer modeling and parameterization, instrumentation.

Teaching Interests: Atmospheric turbulence and diffusion, instrumentation, boundary-layer meteorology.

Dr. Wyngaard studies turbulence in the atmosphere through direct observations and supercomputer simulation. He is interested in new observational approaches, including ground-based remote sensing, as well as measurements from towers and aircraft. He studies the dynamic performance of turbulence sensors. Using the large-eddy-simulation technique, he is developing new representations of turbulence effects in meteorological and oceanographic models of local to global scales.

Selected Publications:

Wyngaard, J.C., and R.A. Brost, 1984: Top-down and bottom-up diffusion of a scalar in the convective boundary layer. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 41, 102-112.

Wyngaard, J.C., 1986: Measurement physics. Probing the Atmospheric Boundary Layer, D. Lenschow, Ed., American Meteorological Society, 5-18.

Wyngaard, J.C., 1988: Structure of the PBL. Lectures on Air-Pollution Modeling, A. Venkatram and J.C. Wyngaard, Eds., American Meteorological Society, 9-61.

Wyngaard, J.C., 1990: Scalar fluxes in the planetary boundary layer -- Theory, modeling, and measurement. Boundary Layer Meteorology, 50, 49-75.

Wyngaard, J.C., 1992: Atmospheric turbulence. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 24, 205-233.