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Christiane Jablonowski
Assistant Professor
AOSS undergraduate advisor

Email: cjablono@umich.edu
Telephone: (734) 763-6238
Fax: (734) 936-0503
Office: 1541B
Website: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cjablono/
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Education: Ph.D., Atmospheric & Space Sciences and Scientific Computing, AOSS, University of Michigan
M.S., Meteorology, University of Bonn, Germany
B.S., Physics, Aachen University of Technology, Germany
Research:
  • Adaptive mesh refinement techniques for weather and climate models
  • Dynamical cores of General Circulation Models: Numerical methods, test cases, intercomparisons
  • Tropical cyclones
  • Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO)
  • Parallel and high-performance computing
Doctoral Students: Kevin Reed
Paul Ullrich


Specializations and Research Interests
  • Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) techniques for weather and climate models
  • Development of test cases for dynamical cores of General Circulation Models (GCMs)
  • Dynamical core intercomparisons
  • Tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean Basin (hurricanes)
  • Idealized simulations of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation stratospheric dynamics
  • Parallel and high-performance computing
  • Modern numerical methods and computational grids for dynamical cores, finite volume techniques, conservation laws

Honors, Awards and Accomplishments
  • Distinguished Achievement Award, University of Michigan, College of Engineering
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
  • NASA Earth System Science Graduate Student Fellowship
  • Best Project, German National Research Center for Information Technology

Professional Service
  • Associate Editor for the 'Monthly Weather Review' (AMS)
  • Member of the American Geophysical Union
  • Member of the American Meteorological Society
  • Invited participant in the World Modelling Summit for Climate Prediction, held at ECMWF, Reading, U.K., 6-9 May 2008
  • Invited member of the NCAR Earth System Modeling (ESM) Working Group

Publications
  • Williamson, D. L., J. Olson and C. Jablonowski, Two dynamical core formulation flaws exposed by a baroclinic instability test case, submitted to Mon. Wea. Rev.
  • St-Cyr, A., C. Jablonowski, J. M. Dennis, H. M. Tufo and S. J. Thomas (2008), A Comparison of Two Shallow Water Models with Non-Conforming Adaptive Grids, Mon. Wea. Rev., in press
  • Nair, R. D. and C. Jablonowski (2008), Moving Vortices on the Sphere: A Test Case for Horizontal Advection Problems, Mon. Wea. Rev., Vol. 136, 699-711
  • Penner, J. E., N. Andronova, R. C. Oehmke, J. Brown Q. F. Stout, C. Jablonowski, B. van Leer, K. G. Powell and M. Herzog (2007): Three Dimensional Adaptive Mesh Refinement on a Spherical Shell for Atmospheric Models with Lagrangian Coordinates, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 78, 012072
  • Jablonowski, C., M. Herzog, J. E. Penner, R. C. Oehmke, Q. F. Stout, B. van Leer and K. G. Powell (2006), Block-Structured Adaptive Grids on the Sphere: Advection Experiments, Mon. Wea. Rev., Vol. 134, 3691-3713
  • Jablonowski, C. and D. L. Williamson (2006), A Baroclinic Instability Test Case for Atmospheric Model Dynamical Cores, Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc., Vol. 132, October Part C, No. 621C, 2943-2975
  • Jablonowski, C., and D. L. Williamson (2006), A Baroclinic Wave Test Case for Dynamical Cores of General Circulation Models: Model Intercomparisons, NCAR Technical Note NCAR/TN-469+STR, Boulder, CO, 89 pp.
  • Penner, J. E., M. Herzog, C. Jablonowski, B. van Leer, R. C. Oehmke, Q. F. Stout, and K. G. Powell (2005), Development of an atmospheric climate model with self-adapting grid and physics, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 16, 353-357
  • Jablonowski, C., M. Herzog, R. C. Oehmke, J. E. Penner, Q. F. Stout, and B. van Leer (2004), Adaptive Grids for Weather and Climate Models, ECMWF Seminar Proceedings on ‘Recent developments in numerical methods for atmospheric and ocean modeling’, Reading, UK, 6-10 September 2004, pp. 233-250
  • Jablonowski, C. (2004), Adaptive Grids in Weather and Climate Modeling, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic & Space Sciences, 292 pp.
  • Penner, J. E., C. Jablonowski, K.E. Grant and C.C. Chuang (2000), An Examination of the Effects of Aerosols on the Reflected Radiation by Clouds, Tenth ARM Science Team Meeting Proceedings, San Antonio, Texas, March 13-17, 2000
  • Jablonowski, C. (1998), Test der Dynamik zweier globaler Wettervorhersagemodelle des Deutschen Wetterdienstes: Der Held-Suarez Test, Diploma Thesis (Master Thesis), Department of Meteorology at the University of Bonn, Germany, September 1998, 151 pp. (in German)
  • Broeker, O., K. Cassirer, R. Hess, C. Jablonowski, W. Joppich and S. Pott (1998), Activities on Weather Prediction on Highly Parallel Systems, SAMS, Vol.32, pp. 19-29
  • Jablonowski, C. (1998), Test of the Dynamical Core of the new DWD Global Model GME, in: Research Activities in Atmospheric and Oceanic Modelling, CAS/JSC Working Group on Numerical Experimentation, WMO/TD-No. 865, Report No. 27, January 1998, pp.3.12-3.13
  • Broeker, O., K. Cassirer, R. Hess, C. Jablonowski, W. Joppich and S. Pott (1997), Contributions to the Design of a Grid Oriented Global Weather Forecast Model, in: A. Sydow, Editor, Proceedings of the 15th World Congress on Scientific Computing, Modeling and Applied Mathematics - IMACS, Berlin, 1997,published by: Wissenschaft und Technik Verlag.
  • Cassirer, K., R. Hess, C. Jablonowski and W. Joppich (1996), The Shallow Water Test Cases for a Global Model with Documentation of the Results, GMD - Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik GmbH, Technical Report No. 999, June 1996, Sankt Augustin, Germany, 85 pp.


Updated: 2008-03-31




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