
Gabriel Katul
- Office Location: 318 Lev Sci Res Ctr
- Office Phone: (919) 613-8033
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Email Address:
- Web Page: http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/people/faculty/katul/homepage.html
Research Area(s): Hydrology
Atmospheric Science
Professor Katul's experience lies in Micrometeorology and surface hydrology, Carbon and water cycling, and Environmental fluid dynamics.
TEACHING (Fall 2009)
ENVIRON 234L.001, WATERSHED HYDROLOGY,ENVIRON 234L.01L, WATERSHED HYDROLOGY,
ENVIRON 264.01, APPL DIFF EQUA ENV SCI,
Representative Publications (More Publications)
- Katul, G. G. and Porporato, A. and Poggi, D., Roughness effects on fine-scale anisotropy and anomalous scaling in atmospheric flows, PHYSICS OF FLUIDS, vol. 21 no. 3 (2009) [abs]
- Thompson, Sally and Katul, Gabriel and Terborgh, John and Alvarez-Loayza, Patricia, Spatial organization of vegetation arising from non-local excitation with local inhibition in tropical rainforests, PHYSICA D-NONLINEAR PHENOMENA, vol. 238 no. 13 (2009), ppt. 1061-1067 [abs]
- Siqueira, Mario and Katul, Gabriel and Porporato, Amilcare, Soil Moisture Feedbacks on Convection Triggers: The Role of Soil-Plant Hydrodynamics, JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY, vol. 10 no. 1 (2009), ppt. 96-112 [abs]
- Cava, D. and Katul, G. G., The Effects of Thermal Stratification on Clustering Properties of Canopy Turbulence, BOUNDARY-LAYER METEOROLOGY, vol. 130 no. 3 (2009), ppt. 307-325 [abs]
- Katul, Gabriel G. and Palmroth, Sari and Oren, Ram, Leaf stomatal responses to vapour pressure deficit under current and CO2-enriched atmosphere explained by the economics of gas exchange, PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT, vol. 32 no. 8 (2009), ppt. 968-979 [abs]
- Thompson, Sally and Katul, Gabriel and McMahon, Sean M., Role of biomass spread in vegetation pattern formation within arid ecosystems, WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH, vol. 44 no. 10 (2008) [abs]
- Poggi, D. and Katul, G. G. and Finnigan, J. J. and Belcher, S. E., Analytical models for the mean flow inside dense canopies on gentle hilly terrain, QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY, vol. 134 no. 634, Part A (2008), ppt. 1095-1112 [abs]
- Katul, Gabriel and Porporato, Amilcare and Oren, Ram, Stochastic dynamics of plant-water interactions, ANNUAL REVIEW OF ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS, vol. 38 (2007), ppt. 767-791 [abs]
- Juang, Jehn-Yih and Katul, Gabriel and Siqueira, Mario and Stoy, Paul and Novick, Kimberly, Separating the effects of albedo from eco-physiological changes on surface temperature along a successional chronosequence in the southeastern United States, GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, vol. 34 no. 21 (2007) [abs]
- Nathan, R and Katul, GG and Horn, HS and Thomas, SM and Oren, R and Avissar, R and Pacala, SW and Levin, SA, Mechanisms of long-distance dispersal of seeds by wind, NATURE, vol. 418 no. 6896 (2002), ppt. 409-413 [abs]
Education:
- PhD, University of California at Davis, 1993
- MS, Oregon State University, 1990
- BE, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, 1988
Research Interests:
- Micrometeorology and surface hydrology, Carbon and water cycling, and Environmental fluid dynamics




