Research Interests: Boundary-Layer and Mesoscale Meteorology

Active on a broad range of research topics in boundary-layer meteorology and air-sea interaction. Background in Applied Mathematics, Physical Oceanography and Atmospheric Science. Has worked on numerical modelling, wind tunnel and field experiments. Presently co-editor of the journal, Boundary-Layer Meteorology. Specific topics are:

• Atmospheric boundary-layer modelling. Fundamental studies, flow over hills and other terrain complexities, aeolian transport of dust, sand and, especially, snow. Modelling the Martian boundary layer.
• Land surface processes. Modelling (with Canadian Land Surface Scheme) of impacts of snow cover on surface energy budgets.
• Field studies of drifting and blowing snow. Transport and sublimation rate issues.
• Lake breezes and their impact on severe weather (flash floods, tornadoes etc) in SW Ontario. Field studies (ELBOW 2001) and mesoscale modelling.
• Air-Sea interaction, especially airflow over water waves, momentum and mass transfer issues.
• Wind energy. Wind turbine site selection.
• Air quality issues - impacts of lake-breeze circulations on air quality.

It is my practice to put students, research fellows and research associates as first author on most papers. In most cases however I am closely involved in the research and in the writing of the papers. My role has been relatively minor in some papers but I can legitimately claim to be a major contributor to both the research and writing of most of the other journal papers listed.

Weng, W. and Taylor, P.A., 2003, On modelling the 1-D atmospheric boundary layer, Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 107, 371-400.

Zhang, L., Michelangeli, D.V. and Taylor, P.A., 2004, Numerical studies of aerosol scavenging by low-level, warm stratiform clouds and precipitation, Atmospheric Environment, 38, 4653-4665.

Li, P-Y and Taylor, P.A., 2005, Three-dimensional Lagrangian simulation of suspended particles in the neutrally stratified surface boundary-layer, Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 116, 301-311 (special issue to celebrate career of Joost Businger).

Savelyev, S. and Taylor, P.A., 2005, Internal boundary-layers I - modified height formulae in neutral and diabatic conditions; Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 115, 1-25.

Bao, Z.; Ye, H.; Taylor, P. A., 2005, Summer regional rainfall over southern Ontario and its associations with outgoing long wave radiation and moisture convergence, Meteorological Applications, 12, 161-167.

Zhang L., Michelangeli D.V. and Taylor P.A., 2006. Influence of aerosol concentration on precipitation formation in low-level, warm stratiform clouds. Journal of Aerosol Science, 37, 203-217.

J. Cuxart, and 23 co-authors..., P.Taylor, ... W.Weng , 2006, Single column model inter-comparisons for a stably stratified atmospheric boundary layer, Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 118, 273 - 303.

Weng, W. and Taylor, P.A.: 2006, `Modelling the 1D stable boundary layer with an E-l turbulence closure scheme', Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 118, 305-323.

Sergiy Savelyev, Mark Gordon, John Hanesiak, Tim Papakyriakou and Peter A. Taylor, 2006, Blowing Snow Studies in CASES (Canadian Arctic Shelf Exchange Study) 03-04, Hydrological Processes, 20, 817-827.

Taylor, P.A., Baibakov, K., Brown, S., Hecht, M.H., Hudson, T.L., Li, P-Y., Savelyev, S., Lange, C. and Prieto, L., 2006, On the sublimation of ice particles on the surface of Mars; with applications to the 2007/8 Phoenix Scout Mission, Icarus, 181, 375-387.

Leiming Zhang, Diane V. Michelangeli, Rafik Djouad and Peter A. Taylor, 2006, Modelling studies of the sulfur cycle in low-level,warm stratiform clouds, Atmospheric Research 80, pp. 187-217.

Gordon, M, Simon, K, and Taylor, P.A., 2006; On snow depth predictions with the Canadian Land Surface Scheme including a parameterization of blowing snow sublimation, Atmosphere-Ocean, 44, 239-255.

Taylor, P.A., P.Y. Li, D.V. Michelangeli, J. Pathak, and W. Weng, 2007, Modelling dust distributions in the atmospheric boundary layer on Mars, Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 125, 305-328.

Tanentzap, A.J,, P.A. Taylor, N. Yan and J.R.Salmon, 2007, A note on Sudbury area wind speeds - a tale of forest regeneration. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 46, 1645-1654.

Hocking, W., Carey-Smith,T., Tarasick,D., Argall, S., Strong,K., Rochon, Y., Zawadski and Taylor, P.A, 2007, Application of wind profiler radars to identification of stratospheric ozone intrusions and subsequent tropospheric pollution events, Nature, 450, 281-284 (8 November 2007).

Tanentzap, A.J. Yan, N., Keller, B, Girard, R., Heneberry, J., Gunn, J.M. Hamilton, D.P. and Taylor, P.A., 2008, Cooling lakes while the world warms: Effects of forest re-growth and increased dissolved organic matter on the thermal regime of a temperate, urban lake. Limnology and Oceanography, 53, 404-410.

Qiang Huang, John Hanesiak , Sergiy Savelyev , Tim Papakyriakou, and Peter A. Taylor, 2008, Visibility During Blowing Snow Events Over Arctic Sea Ice, Weather and Forecasting 23, 741-751.

Peter A. Taylor, David Catling, Mike Daly, Cameron Dickinson, Haraldur Gunnlaugsson, Ari-Matti Harri and Carlos Lange, 2008, Temperature, Pressure and Wind instrumentation on Phoenix MET. J. Geophys Res.- Planets 113, E00A10, doi:10.1029/2007JE003015.

Gordon, M. and Taylor, P.A. 2009, Measurements of blowing snow, part I: particle size distribution, velocity, number and mass flux at Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Cold Regions Science and Technology. 55, 63-74.

Gordon, M., Savelyev, S.A., and Taylor, P.A., 2009, Measurements of blowing snow, part II: saltation height and mass density profiles at Franklin Bay, NWT, Canada. Cold Regions Science and Technology. 55, 75-85.

Davy, R., P. A. Taylor, W. Weng, and P.-Y. Li , 2009, A model of dust in the Martian lower atmosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D04108, doi:10.1029/2008JD010481. (21 February 2009).

I Gultepe, G Pearson, J A Milbrandt, B Hansen, S Platnick, P Taylor, M Gordon, J P Oakley, S G Cober. (2009). THE FOG REMOTE SENSING AND MODELING FIELD PROJECT. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 90(3), 341-351,353-359.

Gordon, M. and Taylor, P.A. 2009, The electric field during blowing snow. Boundary-Layer Meteorology. in press.

John Hanesiak, Ronald Stewart, Peter Taylor, Kent Moore, David Barber, Gordon McBean, Walter Strapp, Mengistu Wolde, Ron Goodson, Edward Hudson, David Hudak, John Scott, George Liu, Justin Gilligan, Sumita Biswas, Danielle Desjardins, Robyn Dyck, Shannon Fargey, Robert Field, Gabrielle Gascon, Mark Gordon, Heather Greene, Carling Hay, William Henson, Klaus Hochheim, Alex Laplante, Rebekah Martin, Marna Albarran Melzer, Shunli Zhang, 2009, Storm studies in the Arctic: the meteorological field experiment, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, in press.

P. H. Smith, L. K. Tamppari, R. E. Arvidson, D. Bass, D. Blaney, W. V. Boynton, A. Carswell, D. C. Catling, B. C. Clark, T. Duck, E. DeJong, D. Fisher, W. Goetz, H. P. Gunnlaugsson, M. H. Hecht, V. Hipkin, J. Hoffman, S. F. Hviid, H. U. Keller, S. P. Kounaves, C. F. Lange, M. T. Lemmon, M. B. Madsen, M. Malin, W. J. Markiewicz, J. Marshall, C. P. McKay, M. T. Mellon, D. W. Ming, R. V. Morris, N. Renno, W. T. Pike, U. Staufer, C. Stoker, P.Taylor, J. A. Whiteway, A. P. Zent, 2009, H2O at the Phoenix Landing Site, Science, 3 July 2009: Vol. 325. no. 5936, pp. 58 - 61 DOI: 10.1126/science.1172339.

J. A. Whiteway, L. Komguem, C. Dickinson, C. Cook, M. Illnicki, J. Seabrook, V.Popovici, T. J. Duck, R. Davy, P. A. Taylor1, J. Pathak1, D. Fisher, A. I. Carswell, M.Daly, V. Hipkin, A. P. Zent, T. L. Hudson, L. Tamppari, N. Renno, J. Moores, M. T. Lemmon, F. Daerden, P. H. Smith, 2009, Mars Water Ice Clouds and Precipitation, Science 3 July 2009:Vol. 325. no. 5936, pp. 68 - 70 DOI: 10.1126/science.1172344.

Weng, W., Taylor, P.A. and Salmon, J.R., 2009, A 2-D numerical model of boundary-layer flow over single and multiple surface condition changes. Submitted to J. Wind Eng. and Ind. Aerodyn.

Peter A. Taylor, Wensong Weng, Henrik Kahanpää, Ayodeji Akingunola, Clive Cook, Mike Daly, Cameron Dickinson, Ari-Matti Harri, Darren Hill, Victoria Hipkin, Jouni Polkko and Jim Whiteway, 2009, On Pressure Measurement and Seasonal Pressure Variations at the Phoenix landing site, Subm to J.Geophys. Res. (Planets).

C. Holstein-Rathlou, H. P. Gunnlaugsson, J. P. Merrison, K. M. Bean, B. A. Cantor, J. A. Davis, R. Davy, N. B. Drake, M. D. Ellehoj, W. Goetz, S. F. Hviid, C. F. Lange, S. E. Larsen, M. Lemmon, M. B. Madsen, M. Malin, J. E. Moores, P. Nørnberg, P. Smith, L. Tamppari, P. A. Taylor, 2009, Winds at the Phoenix landing site, Subm to J.Geophys. Res. (Planets).

M.D. Ellehøj, H.P. Gunnlaugsson, K.M. Bean, B. A. Cantor, L. Drube, D. Fisher, B.T.Gheynani, A-M. Harri, C. Ø. von Holstein-Rathlou, H. Kahanpää, M.T. Lemmon, M.B. Madsen, M. C. Malin, J. Polkko, P. Smith, L.K. Tamppari, P.A.Taylor and J. Whiteway, 2009, Phoenix Mars Lander: Vortices and Dust Devils at the landing site. Subm to J.Geophys. Res. (Planets).

Gordon, M., Biswas, S., Taylor, P.A., Hanesiak, J., Melzer, M. and Fargey, S., 2009, (Submitted) Measurements of blowing snow at Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada during the STAR project. Atmosphere-Ocean.

Savelyev, S. and Taylor, P.A., 2002, Internal boundary layers and evaporation from lakes, Proc AMS 15th Conference on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, July 2002.

Weng, W. and Taylor, P.A., 2002, On modelling the 1-D atmospheric boundary layer, Proc AMS 15th Conference on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, July 2002.

Sills, D., Taylor, P.A., King, P., Hocking, W. and Nichols, I., 2002, ELBOW 2001 - Studying the relationship between lake breezes and severe weather: Project overview and preliminary results, AMS Severe Local Storms Conference, August 2002.

Weng, W. and Taylor, P.A., 2004 Modelling the Stable Boundary Layer with an E-l Turbulence Closure proceedings of the AMS 16th Symposium on Boundary Layer and Turbulence, 9-13 August 2004, Portland, Maine, USA.

Richard Davy, P. A. Taylor, W. Weng, and P. Y. Li, 2008, Modelling the dust-laden Martian boundary layer, Proceedings, 18th American Meteorological Society Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence.

Babak Tavakoli Gheynani and P. A. Taylor, 2008, Large Eddy Simulation of vertical vortices in highly convective Martian boundary layer. Proceedings, 18th American Meteorological Society Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence.

Xiurong Sun, W. Weng and P. Taylor, 2008, Large Eddy Simulation of vertical vortices in highly convective Martian boundary layers, Proceedings, 18th American Meteorological Society Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence.

Mark Gordon, P. A. Taylor, S. Savelyev, J. Hanesiak, Q. Huang, and S. Biswas, 2008, Drifting and blowing snow field studies in the Canadian North, Proceedings, 18th American Meteorological Society Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence.

Peter A. Taylor, Haraldur P. Gunnlaugsson, Christina Holstein-Rathlou, Carlos F. Lange, John Moores, Clive Cook, Cameron Dickinson, Vlad Popovici, Jeff Seabrook, and James Whiteway. (2008) PHOENIX: SUMMER WEATHER IN GREEN VALLEY (126W, 68N ON MARS) Third International Workshop On THE MARS ATMOSPHERE: MODELING AND OBSERVATIONS November 10-13, 2008 Williamsburg, Virginia.

Davy R., Taylor P. A. Gunnlaugson H. P. Davis J. A. Lange C. F. Weng W. (2008) Temperature and Wind Data from the Phoenix MET Station and Their use in Estimating Turbulent Heat Fluxes,[Third International Workshop On THE MARS ATMOSPHERE: MODELING AND OBSERVATIONS November 10-13, 2008 Williamsburg, Virginia.

Ellehøj, M. D., Taylor P. A., Gunnlaugsson H. P. Gheynani B. T. Holstein-Rathlou C. Drube L. Whiteway J., (2008) Phoenix: Dustless Devils at the Lander Site. Third International Workshop On THE MARS ATMOSPHERE: MODELING AND OBSERVATIONS November 10-13, 2008 Williamsburg, Virginia

Taylor, P A., Cook, C, Daly, M G, Davy, R , Dickinson, C., Drube, L , Ellehoj, M D, Gheynani, B T, Gunnlaugsson, H P, Harri, A, Hipkin, V, Holstein-Rathlou, C, Kahanpaa, H, Lange, C F, Polkko, J, Popovici, V, Renno, N, Weng, W, Whiteway, J , Temperature and Pressure at the Phoenix Landing Site, AGU Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Dec 2008.

Holstein-Rathlou, C , Gunnlaugsson, H P, Taylor, P , Lange, C, Moores, J , Lemmon, M, 2008, Winds at the Phoenix Landing Site, AGU Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Dec 2008.

Ellehøj, M D, Taylor, P A, Gunnlaugsson, H P, Gheynani, B T, Drube, L , Von Holstein-Rathlou, C, Whiteway, J , Lemmon, M , Madsen, M B, Fisher, D , Volpe, R, Smith, P (2008) Phoenix Mars Lander: Vortices and Dust Devils at the Landing Site, AGU Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Dec 2008.

Taylor P. A. Weng W. Cook C. Dickinson C. Akingunola A. Polkko J. Kahanpää H. (2009) Pressure Data from the Phoenix Landing Site LPSC Meeting, Houston Texas, March 2009.

Ellehøj M. D., Gunnlaugsson H. P., Taylor P. A., Gheynani B. T., Whiteway J., Lemmon M. T., Bean K. M. Tamppari L. K. Drube L. Von Holstein-Rathlou C. Madsen M. B. Fisher D. Smith P. (2009) Dust Devils and Vortices at the Phoenix Landing Site on Mars LPSC Meeting, Houston Texas, March 2009.

Alexander, L., Sun, X., Sills, D.M. and Taylor, P.A., 2003, An analysis of the tornado outbreak of Nov 10/11, 2002 in the United States, CMOS Bulletin SCMO, 31, 48-57.

Barber, D., Fortier, L and 26 co-authors, ...P.Taylor, ..., 2004, The Canadian Arctic Shelf Exchange Study, CMOS Bulletin, 32, 131-142.

Gordon, M. and Taylor, P.A. (2008) On blowing snow and sublimation in the Mackenzie River Basin. Cold Region Atmospheric and Hydrologic Studies: The Mackenzie GEWEX Experience. Vol. I: Atmospheric Dynamics. Ed M-K Woo.

Peter Taylor, James Whiteway, Allan Carswell, Cameron Dickinson, Mike Daly, Vicky Hipkin, David Fisher and Carlos Lange, 2009, Phoenix MET - a Weather Station on Mars CMOS Bulletin, Volume 37 43-48.

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