Publications

• Brugger P, Carbajo Fuertes F,  Vahidzadeh M, Markfort CD, Porté‐Agel F. 2019. Characterization of wind turbine wakes with nacelle-mounted Doppler lidars and model validation in the presence of wind veer. Energies. Remote Sens. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11192247.

• Vahidzadeh M, Markfort CD. 2019. Modified power curves for prediction of power output of wind farms. Energies. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12091805.

• Carbajo Fuertes F, Markfort CD, Porté‐Agel F. 2018. Wind turbine wake characterization with nacelle-mounted wind lidars for analytical wake model validation. Remote Sensing. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10050668.

• Aghsaee P, Markfort CD. 2018. Effects of flow depth variations on the wake recovery behind a horizontal-axis hydrokinetic in-stream turbine. Renewable Energy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2018.02.137.

• Markfort CD, Zhang W, Porté‐Agel F. 2017. Analytical model for mean flow and fluxes of momentum and energy in very large wind farms. Boundary-Layer Meteorology. https://doi-org.proxy.lib.uiowa.edu/10.1007/s10546-017-0294-6.

• Van Den Hoek J, Read JS, Winslow LA, Montesano P, Markfort CD. 2015. Examining the utility of satellite-based wind sheltering estimates for lake hydrodynamic modeling. Remote Sensing of Environment. 156:551-560. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2014.10.024.

• Read JS, Winslow LA, Hansen GJA, Van Den Hoek J, Hanson PC, Bruce LC, Markfort CD. 2014. Simulating 2368 temperate lakes reveals weak coherence in stratification phenology. Ecological Modelling. 291:142–150. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2014.07.029.

• Markfort CD, Porté‐Agel F, Stefan HG. 2014. Canopy-wake dynamics and wind sheltering effects on Earth surface fluxes. Environmental Fluid Mechanics. 14(3):663-697. doi:10.1007/s10652-013-9313-4.

• Godwin CM, McNamara PJ, Markfort CD. 2013. Evening methane emission pulses from a boreal wetland correspond to convective mixing in hollows. J. Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 118:1-12. doi: 10.1002/jgrg.20082.

• Zhang W, Markfort CD, Porté‐Agel F. 2013. Experimental study of the impact of large-scale wind farms on land-atmosphere exchanges. Focus Issue: “Environmental Impact of Wind Energy” Environmental Research Letters. 8(1) 015002 doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/015002. [Link to the focus issue website]

• Zhang W, Markfort CD, Porté‐Agel F. 2013. Wind-turbine wakes in a convective boundary layer: a wind-tunnel study. Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 146(2):161-179. doi:10.1007/s10546-012-9751-4. 

• Markfort CD, Zhang W, Porté‐Agel F. 2012. Turbulent flow and scalar transport through and over aligned and staggered wind farms. Special Issue: “Turbulence and Wind Energy.” Journal of Turbulence. 13(1) N33:1-36. doi: 10.1080/14685248.2012.709635.

• Zhang W, Markfort CD, Porté‐Agel F. 2012. Near-wake flow structure downwind of a wind turbine in a turbulent boundary layer. Experiments in Fluids. 52(5):1219-1235. doi:10.1007/s00348-011-1250-8.

• Markfort CD, Perez ALS, Thill JW, Jaster DA, Porté‐Agel F, H. G. Stefan. 2010. Wind sheltering of a lake by a tree canopy or bluff topography, Water Resour. Res., 46, W03530. doi:10.1029/2009WR007759.

• Markfort CD, Hondzo M. 2009. Dissolved Oxygen Measurements in Aquatic Environments: The Effects of Changing Temperature and Pressure on Three Sensor Technologies. Journal of Environmental Quality. 38(4):1766-1774. doi: 10.2134/jeq2008.0197. 

Proceedings

• Markfort CD, Zhang W, Porté-Agel F. 2013. A canopy-type model for wind farm-atmosphere interaction. Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Aerodynamics of Offshore Wind Energy Systems and Wakes. DTU, Copenhagen, Denmark. 12 pgs.

• Markfort CD, Resseger EL, Zhang W, Porté-Agel F, Stefan HG. 2012.  Wind sheltering of small lakes by complex terrain. Proceedings of the 20th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, American Meteorological Society, Boston, Mass. Paper number 7.5 published online. 6 pgs.