Michael D. Novak

University of British Columbia — Canada

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics(46), Soil and Unsaturated Flow(27), Aeolian processes and effects(12), Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows(7), Tree Root and Stability Studies(7)

Publications60 total

Effects of Gravity on Evaporation for Soil‐Limited Conditions
Water Resources Research·2022· 3 cited
Interactive comment on “The challenges of an in situ validation of a non-equilibrium model of soil heat and moisture dynamics during fires” by William J. Massman
2020Open Access
Validity of Assuming Equilibrium Between Liquid Water and Vapor for Simulating Evaporation
Water Resources Research·2019· 12 cited
Importance of soil heating, liquid water loss, and vapor flow enhancement for evaporation
Water Resources Research·2016· 17 citedOpen Access
Droughts, heat waves and plant hydraulics: impacts and legacies
ArTS Archivio della ricerca di Trieste (University of Trieste https://www.units.it/)·2014· 10 cited
Vyhodnocení změn v rybniční hrázi monitorovaných metodou EIS
Brno University of Technology Digital Library (Brno University of Technology)·2012Open Access
Comment on “Evaporation from soils under thermal boundary conditions: Experimental and modeling investigation to compare equilibrium and nonequilibrium based approaches,” by Kathleen M. Smits, Abdullah Cihan, Toshihiro Sakaki, and Tissa H. Illangasekare
Water Resources Research·2012· 10 citedOpen Access
Test of an Equation for Evaporation From Bare Soil Water
Open Collections·2011Open Access
Approximate analytical descriptions of evaporation from 1950-1980: how good were they?
29th Conf. on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology/19th Symp. on Boundary Layers and Turbulence/Ninth Symp. on the Urban Environment (1-6 August 2010)·2010
Dynamics of the near-surface evaporation zone and corresponding effects on the surface energy balance of a drying bare soil
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology·2010· 83 cited
The moisture and thermal regimes of a bare soil in the lower Fraser Valley during spring
Open Collections·2010· 27 citedOpen Access
Effect of soil water stress on soil respiration and its temperature sensitivity in an 18‐year‐old temperate Douglas‐fir stand
Global Change Biology·2008· 233 cited
Determination of soil carbon dioxide source-density profiles by inversion from soil-profile gas concentrations and surface flux density for diffusion-dominated transport
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology·2007· 13 cited
Three-dimensional simulations and wind-tunnel experiments on airflow over isolated forest stands
Boundary-Layer Meteorology·2007· 3 cited
Core aeration of sand-based putting greens in the Lower Fraser Valley of British Columbia
Canadian Journal of Soil Science·2007· 9 citedOpen Access
Wind tunnel measurements of crown streamlining and drag relationships for several hardwood species
Canadian Journal of Forest Research·2005· 182 cited
Soil Temperature
Agronomy monograph/Agronomy·2005· 1 cited
Soil respiration source density profiles using steady-state inverse methods
26th Agricultural and Forest Meteorology/13th Air Pollution/5th Urban Environment/16th Biometeorology and Aerobiology·2004
Simple first-order turbulent transfer model to predict canopy momentum, heat, and moisture regimes
26th Agricultural and Forest Meteorology/13th Air Pollution/5th Urban Environment/16th Biometeorology and Aerobiology·2004
A model of the production and transport of CO2 in soil: predicting soil CO2 concentrations and CO2 efflux from a forest floor
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology·2004· 158 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

T. Andrew Black(16), Peter D. Blanken(5), P. C. Yang(5), Zoran Nesic(5), Wenjun Chen(5), H. H. Neumann(4), Xuhui Lee(4), Rachhpal S. Jassal(3), Stephen J. Mitchell(3), Alberto L. Orchansky(3), T. A. Black(3), Mohammad A. Hares(3), G. Den Hartog(2), Ralf M. Staebler(2), D. Gaumont‐Guay(2), Rick Ketler(2), Mark Rudnicki(2), Richard Ketler(2), R. J. Stathers(2), Alex Wu(2)