Jielun Sun, PhD
Senior Research Scientist - Boulder, CO
jielun@nwra.com
(303) 415-9701 x235
Curriculum vitae
Jielun Sun’s current research interests include interconnections among kinetic, thermal, potential energy changes in the stratified atmospheric boundary layer, viscous stress work in air-surface interactions, boundary layer dynamics over complex terrain, turbulent mixing and trace gas transport, and air-land/sea interactions.
She has worked in the areas of dynamic meteorology, mountain meteorology, mesoscale meteorology, satellite meteorology, microscale meteorology, ozone and carbon dioxide transport, air-sea interactions, parameterizations of subgrid variables for numerical models, turbulence transport over heterogeneous and complex surfaces, and forest meteorology. She participated in numerous air-land/sea interaction field experiments.
Jielun's Publications
Bhimireddy,S.R., J. Sun, J. Wang, D.A.R. Kristovich, and A. L. Hixcox, 2024. Effect of small-scale topographical variations and fetch from roughness elements on the stable boundary layer turbulence statistics.. Boundary-Layer Meteorol.,190:3.
Sun, J., S. R. Bhimireddy, D. A. R. Kristovich, J. Wang, and A. L. Hiscox, 2025. Impacts of Terrain Slope and Surface Roughness Variations on Turbulence Generation in the Nighttime Stable Boundary Layer. J. Geo. Res., 130, e2024JD041815.
Sun, J., and J. Tribbia, 2025. Total Energy Conservation for Explaining Discrepancies between Field Observations and the Traditional Thermal Energy Balance.. Quart. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc..
Sun, J. 2026. Atmospheric Surface Layer. In: Robinson, W. A. (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences, vol. 1. Elsevier, Academic Press, pp. 472-477.