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Christiane Jablonowski
Professor
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (734) 763-6238
Fax: (734) 936-0503
Office: CSRB 1541B
ResearcherID: I-9068-2012
Webpage | Curriculum Vitae | Google Scholar Profile | ORCID profile
Research Interests
- Machine learning techniques for atmospheric models
- Great Lakes research: Lake-land-stmosphere interactions and lake-effect snowstorms
- Rossby wave dynamics and its connection to potential vorticity
- Variable-resolution and Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) techniques for atmospheric GCMs
- Development of simpler model hierarchies and test cases for dynamical cores of GCMs, model intercomparisons
- Modern numerical methods and computational grids for dynamical cores of GCMs
- Extending dynamical cores to deep-atmosphere configurations
- Assessments of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO) and Sudden Stratospheric Warmings (SSWs) via a GCM model hierarchy, stratospheric dynamics
- Dynamics of tropical cyclones, tropical cyclones and climate change
- Subgrid-scale processes and diffusion in GCMs
- Parallel and high-performance computing
Close Collaborator
Ayumi Fujisaki-Manome
Assistant Research Scientist (Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR) at UM)
Research Interests
- Polar physical oceanography
- Numerical modeling of sea ice and ocean/lake hydrodynamics
- Lake ice and lake effect snow in the Laurentian Great Lakes region
Contact
Email: [email protected] | CIGLR Webpage
Current Group Members (Students and Postdocs)
Garrett Limon
Ph.D. Student, Climate and Space
Research Interests
- Data science and machine learning
- Machine learning emulators for physical parameterizations
- Simplified modeling frameworks in NCAR’s Community Atmosphere Model (CAM)
Contact
Email: [email protected] | Webpage
Joseph (Joe) Hollowed
Ph.D. Student, Physics
Research Interests
- Computational fluid dynamics and physics
- Idealized volcanic eruptions
- DoE’s E3SM climate model: Impact of Mt. Pinatubo on the atmospheric circulation (CLDERA project)
- Passive and active tracers in E3SM
Contact
Email: [email protected] | Webpage
Anthony Chen
Ph.D. Student, Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics
Research Interests
- Applied Mathematics
- Numerical methods for geophysical flows
- Particle methods and tree codes
Contact
Email: [email protected] | Webpage
Owen Hughes
Ph.D. Student, Climate and Space
Research Interests
- Idealized test cases for General Circulation Models (GCMs) with orography
- Model intercomparisons
- Dynamical Cores of atmospheric GCMs
- Deep-atmosphere equation sets and dynamical cores
Contact
Email: [email protected] | Webpage
Aaron Johnson
Ph.D. Student, Climate and Space
Research Interests
- Atmospheric Dynamics with a focus on the stratosphere
- Quasi-Biennial Oscillation
- Impact of the 2022 Hunga-Tonga volcanic eruption on the atmosphere
Contact
Email: [email protected]
Nick Androski
Ph.D. Student, Climate and Space
Research Interests
- Atmospheric Dynamics
- Kilometer-scale climate modeling
Contact
Email: [email protected]
Nick Forcone
Ph.D. Student, Climate and Space
Research Interests
- Atmospheric Dynamics
- Kilometer-scale climate modeling
Contact
Email: [email protected]
Tim Andrews
Postdoctoral Fellow (from October/14/2024 onwards)
Ph.D. (2024), University of Exeter, Mathematics
Research Interests
- Dynamical cores for weather and climate models
- Applied mathematics
Contact
Email: [email protected]
Group Alumni
Alexander (Alex) Lojko
Postdoctoral Fellow, NCAR Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology (MMM) Laboratory, (since July 2024)
Ph.D. (2024), Climate and Space, University of Michigan
Research Interests
- Mesoscale Convective Systems (MCSs)
- Impact of North-American MCSs on large weather prediction errors (forecast busts) over Europe
- Ensemble simulations
Contact
Email: [email protected] | Webpage
Yuyang (Victor) Rao
Ph.D. Student, Cornell University (Sep. 2024 onward)
B.S. in Physics, University of Michigan, May 2024
Summer research student (May-August 2023)
Research Interests
- Atmospheric dynamics
- Idealized test cases for General Circulation Models (GCMs)
- Model intercomparisons
Contact
Email: [email protected]
Lisa Nguyen
Ph.D. Student, Applied Physics
Group member from 1/2022-12/2023
Research Interests
- Precipitation processes
- Stratospheric circulation in the DoE climate model E3SM / CMIP6 analyses
Contact
Email: [email protected] | Webpage
David Wright
Scientist, NOAA Great Lakes Environbmental Research Laboratory (GLERL, since 9/2022)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2020-2022)
Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR) Postdoctoral Fellowship (2019)
Research Interests
- Lake-effect snow storms in the Great Lakes region
- Land-lake-atmosphere interactions
- Coupling of NOAA’s limited-area forecast system UFS-Short-Range Weather (SRW) Application to the lake model FVCOM
Contact
Email: [email protected] | Webpage
Ash Gilbert
Ph.D. Student, Atmospheric Science, University of Colorado, Boulder (since 8/2022)
B.S.E in Earth System Science (Meteorology), University of Michigan 4/2022
Undergraduate Researcher (Sep. 2021 – Aug. 2022)
Research Interests
- Lake-effect snow storms in the Great Lakes region, weather prediction models
Contact
Email: [email protected]
Ashley Payne
Atmospheric Scientist, tomorrow.io (since 11/2021)
Assistant Professor, UM Climate and Space (since 9/2018-10/2021)
University of Michigan President’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow (9/2016-8/2018)
Research Interests
- Large-scale atmospheric dynamics of landfalling atmospheric rivers
- Dynamical interactions behind extreme precipitation and weather events
- Representation of Mesoscale Convective Systems (MCSs) in variable-resolution climate mode
Contact
Email: [email protected]
Jared Ferguson
Senior Regulatory Analyst, California Public Utilities Commission (since 10/2020)
Legislative Aide, California State Government, Sacramento, CA (10/2019-9/2020)
California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) Science Fellow (11/2018 – 10/2019)
Ph.D. (2018), Applied Physics Program and CLASP, University of Michigan
Research Interests
- Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) techniques, AMR library Chombo
- Dry and ‘moist’ test cases for shallow water models
- Tropical cyclones
Contact
Email: [email protected] | Jared’s LinkedIn page | former UM Webpage
Gregory Tierney
Research Scholar at North Carolina State Climate Office (since 7/2024)
Scientist, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA, 4/2021 – 6/2024)
Postdoctoral Fellow, North Carolina State University (2017-2021)
Ph.D. (2017), University of Michigan
Research Interests
- Extratropical cyclones
- Sensitivity of idealized extratropical cyclones to changes in the background conditions (using the WRF model)
- Effects of latent heat release on extratropical cyclones
Contact
Email: [email protected] | Greg’s LinkedIn page
Malgorzata Winska
Assistant Professor and Researcher, Warsaw University of Technology (WUT), Poland (since 2013)
Visiting Assistant Research Scientist (Oct. 2015 – Sep. 2016) at the University of Michigan
Research Interests
- Geophysical models (atmosphere, ocean, land hydrology) and intercomparisons
- Irregularities of the Earth’s rotation
- Low degree gravity changes as determined via NASA’s GRACE mission (intercomparison and determination of geophysical excitations)
- Excitations of polar motions
Contact
Email: [email protected]
Allison Hogikyan
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago (since 1/2024)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University (2023)
Ph.D. (2023), Princeton University
Undergraduate Researcher (9/2014 – 12/2015), University of Michigan
Research Interests
- Simplified physical parameterizations: Kessler warm-rain scheme
- Moist idealized tests of GCM dynamical cores: Moist baroclinic waves
- Atmospheric Blocking
Contact
Email: [email protected]
Diana Thatcher
Computer Scientist, The MITRE Corporation, Ann Arbor, MI (since Feb. 2016)
M.S. degree (2015), University of Michigan
Research Interests
- Model intercomparisons
- Idealized test cases for GCM dynamical cores: Moist Held-Suarez test
- Variable-resolution modeling with GCMs (CAM Spectral Element model): Extratropical transition of tropical cyclones
Contact
Email: [email protected] | former UM Webpage
James Kent
Scientist, U.K. Met Office, U. K. (since July 2020)
Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science, Lecturer (Mathematics), University of South Wales, U. K. (Jan. 2015 – June 2020)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan (May 2010 – Dec. 2014)
Research Interests
- Subgrid-scale diffusion properties of GCM dynamical cores
- Advection test cases for dynamical cores
- Energy and enstrophy transports, energy backscatter models
- Implicit Large Eddy Simulation for Two-Dimensional Flow
Contact
Email: [email protected]
Weiye Yao
Data Scientist, Google (since Spring 2019)
Data Scientist, Bloomberg, New York City (May 2017 – Spring 2019)
Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), Princeton, NJ (Jan. 2015 – April 2017)
Ph.D. (2014), University of Michigan
Research Interests
- Atmospheric dynamics
- Numerical modelling, GCMs
- Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO) in the stratosphere
- Sudden Stratospheric Warmings
- Wave-mean flow interactions in the stratosphere
- Impact of gravity wave drag parameterizations on QBO simulations
Contact
Email: [email protected]
Erik Kostrzewa
Meteorologist/Reporter for FOX17 West Michigan
BSE in Earth System Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
Undergraduate Researcher, University of Michigan (June – Dec. 2014)
Research Interests
- Moist baroclinic waves with simplified physics and re-evaporation
Contact
Email: [email protected] | FOX17 Webpage
Colin Zarzycki
Assistant Professor, Penn State, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science (since Jan. 2019)
NCAR Project Scientist (CGD & MMM divisions, Sep. 2016 – Dec. 2018 )
NCAR Advanced Study Program (ASP) Postdoctoral Fellow (Sep. 2014 – Aug. 2016)
Ph.D. (2014), University of Michigan
Research Interests
- Tropical cyclones
- Atmospheric General Circulation Models
- Multi-scale modeling with NCAR’s Spectral-Element model: variable-resolution computational grids
- Scale dependencies of physical parameterizations in variable-resolution GCMs
Contact
Email: [email protected] | Penn State Webpage
Peter Bosler
Staff Scientist at Sandia National Laboratories (since spring 2016)
John von Neumann Postdoctoral Fellow at Sandia National Laboratories (Aug. 2014 – spring 2016)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan (Jun. 2013 – July 2014)
Ph.D. (May 2013), University of Michigan
Research Interests
- Geophysical fluid dynamics
- Lagrangian particle/panel methods to solve the equations of fluid motion
- Vortex methods for the shallow water equations on the sphere and 3D incompressible flows
- Algorithms for unstructured mesh generation and remapping.
- Scientific computation
Contact
Email: [email protected] | Sandia Webpage
Paul Ullrich
Professor, Department of Land, Air and Water Resources
University of California, Davis, CA (since 2021) &
Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (since 2023)
Assistant & Associate Professor, Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, UC, Davis, CA (2012-2017, 2017-2021)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan (June 2011 – Aug. 2012)
Ph.D. (May 2011), University of Michigan
Research Interests
- Climate model dynamical cores for atmospheric simulations
- Test cases for atmospheric models, model intercomparisons
- Numerical methods for hydrodynamic flow problems
- Adaptive mesh refinement (AMR)
- Conservative remapping between grids
Contact
Email: [email protected] | UC Davis Webpage
Kevin Reed
Professor (since 9/2023) & Associate Dean for Research (since 2021), School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences Stony Brook University, NY
Associate Professor, Stony Brook University, NY (2020-2023)
Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University, NY (2015 – 2019)
NCAR Advanced Study Program (ASP) Postdoctoral Fellow (Sep. 2013 – Dec. 2014)
AGU Congressional Science Fellow, Washington D.C. (Sep. 2012-2013)
Ph.D. (2012), University of Michigan
Research Interests
- Modeling of idealized tropical cyclones with atmospheric GCMSs
- Impact of GCM dynamical cores and physical parameterizations on tropical cyclone simulations
- Impact of climate change on tropical cylone statistics in high-resolution global models
- Policy impacts of climate change
- Science, technology, and public policy
Contact
Email:[email protected] | Stony Brook Webpage
Jared Whitehead
Ph.D. Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics (2011)
Email: [email protected]
Research Group Member: Summer 2009 – Dec. 2011
Affiliation:
Professor, Department of Mathematics, Brigham Young University, Utah
Brigham Young University web page: Webpage
James Kessler
M.S. in Atmospheric Science (2015), BSE Earth System Science and Engineering (2014), University of Michigan
Email: [email protected]
Research Group Member: May 2013 – December 2013
Affiliation: Physical Scientist, NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL), Ann Arbor, MI (since 2015)
Web page: NOAA GLERL page
Michael Glotter
BSE in Earth System Science and Engineering (2010), University of Michigan
Email: [email protected]
Research Group Member: September 2009 – May 2010
Affiliations: since Jan. 2017: Project Leader & Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Chicago, IL
AGU Congressional Science Fellow, Washington, D.C., Sep. 2015 – Sep. 2016
Ph.D. (2015), Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, IL
Kiran Bhaganagar
Email: [email protected]
Research Group Member: 2008 – 2009 (Assistant Research Scientist)
Affiliations: Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas San Antonio
Web page: Webpage
Catalina Oaida
M.S. in Atmospheric Science (2009), BSE in Earth System Science and Engineering (2008), University of Michigan
Email: [email protected]
Research Group Member: September 2008 – August 2009
Affiliations: Applied Science Systems Engineer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, CA (since 2018)
Postdoctoral Scholar at the California Institute of Technology & JPL, Pasadena, CA (2015-2018)
Ph.D. (2014), Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), CA
Ilissa Ocko
BSE in Earth System Science & Engineering (2008), University of Michigan
Email: [email protected]
Research Group Member: September 2007 – April 2008
Affiliations: Senior Climate Scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)
New York City (since 2013)
Ph.D. (2013), Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University, NJ
Web page: EDF Homepage | Private Homepage
Gus Alaka
BSE in Earth System Science & Engineering (2008), University of Michigan
Email: [email protected]
Research Group Member: January 2008 – April 2008
Affiliations: IT Specialist at the NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory / Hurricane Research Division, Miami, FL (since 12/2018)
Assistant Scientist & Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Miami, Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) Miami, FL (2014-2018)
Ph.D. (2014), Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.
Updated on Aug/15/2024