Elahe Tajfar

Elahe is a postdoc in our group, working on synthesis of land surface fluxes from different landscapes in the U.S. Mid-South, following the Delta Flux initiative.
Ph.D., The University of Hawaii at Manoa, Civil Engineering, Estimation of Turbulent Heat Fluxes via the Synergistic Assimilation of Land Surface Temperature, Air Temperature and Specific Humidity into a Variational Data Assimilation Model

M.S., Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Civil Engineering

B.S. University of Guilan, Civil Engineering

PUBLICATIONS

  1. Tajfar, E., Bateni, S. M., Margulis, S. A., Gentine, P., and Auligne, T., (2019). “Estimation of Turbulent Heat Fluxes via Assimilation of Air Temperature and Specific Humidity into an Atmospheric Boundary Layer Model.” Journal of Hydrometeorology, 21(2), 205-225, https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-19-0104.1.
  2. Tajfar, E., Bateni, S. M., Lakshmi, V., and Ek, M., (2020a). “Estimation of Surface Heat Fluxes via Variational Assimilation of Land Surface Temperature, Air Temperature and Specific Humidity into a Coupled Land Surface-Atmospheric Boundary Layer Model.” Journal of Hydrology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.124577.
  3. Tajfar, E., Bateni, S. M., and Xu, T., (2020b). “Evaluating the Information Content of Reference-level Air Temperature and Humidity for Partitioning the Available Energy between the Turbulent Heat Fluxes in Different Vegetative and Climatic Conditions.” Remote Sensing, 12(7), 1065, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12071065.
  4. Parazoo N, Bowman K, Baier B, Liu J, Lee M, Kuai L, Shiga Y, Baker I, Whelan M, Feng S, Krol M, Sweeney C, Runkle BRK, Tajfar E, Davis KJ, 2021. Covariation of airborne biogenic tracers (CO2, COS, and CO) supports stronger than expected growing season photosynthetic uptake in the southeastern US. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 35(10), e2021GB006956. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GB006956.