Post Doctoral Fellow René van Hout
Project supervisors Prof. Joseph Katz
Graduate students Weihong Zhu
Luksa Luznik
Design and Technical support Yury Ronzhes
Stephen King
Outline of Field Experiment July 2003


Field experiments were carried out from the 3rd of July 2003 until the 23rd of July near Hurlock on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. The field experiment was carried out in the center of a circular irrigated field of which half of the circle was planted with corn (120 acres). The other half was planted with potatoes.

Exact location of the field site is shown below.

The aim of the measurements is to determine the distance corn pollen grains are dispersed by wind. Planar PIV measurements were carried out just above and within the corn canopy. Smoke was used as tracer particles.
Experimental Setup



Publications

Zhu, W., van Hout, R., Luznik, L., Katz, J. (2004). PIV measurements in the atmospheric boundary layer within and above a mature corn canopy. To be submitted to Boundary Layer Meteorology.

van Hout, R., Zhu, W., Luznik, L., Katz, J. (2004). PIV measurements of atmospheric turbulence above and within a corn canopy. To be presented at the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics 57th Annual Meeting , 21-23 November, Seattle, WA, USA.

Zhu, W., Luznik, L., van Hout, R., Katz, J., 2004. PIV measurements of atmospheric turbulence above and within a corn canopy. To be presented at the AMS meeting, 16th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, 9-13 August, Portland, ME, USA.


Zhu, W., Luznik, L., van Hout, R., Katz, J., 2003. PIV measurements of atmospheric turbulence and pollen dispersal above a corn canopy. AGU 2003 Fall meeting, 8-12 December, Moscone Center West, San Francisco
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