Christiane Jablonowski

Office:

1541B

Phone:

(734) 763-6238

Fax:

(734) 936-0503

Email:

cjablono@umich.edu

Web:

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cjablono/

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 and variable-resolution techniques for weather and climate models
• Dynamical cores of General Circulation Models: Numerical methods, test cases, intercomparisons
• Diffusion and subgrid-scale processes in dynamical cores
• Tropical cyclones
• Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO)
• Parallel and high-performance computing

Specializations and Research Interests

• Variable-resolution and Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) techniques for weather and climate models
• Cubed-sphere computational grids: AMR library Chombo and high-order finite volume techniques
• Development of test cases for dynamical cores of General Circulation Models (GCMs)
• Dynamical core intercomparisons
• Subgrid-scale processes in the dynamical cores of GCMs: The impact of diffusion, filters and fixers on climate simulations
• Tropical cyclones: representation in GCMs
• 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
• Global interoperability of models and data: Computational tools for climate modeling, Earth System Curator (model metadata), frameworks

Honors, Awards and Accomplishments

• Recipient of the 2010 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) (awarded in September 2011)
• Department of Energy Early Career Award (April 2010)
• AOSS Faculty Award (March 2010)
• Distinguished Achievement Award, University of Michigan, College of Engineering
• Advanced Study Program 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

• Member of the American Geophysical Union
• Member of the American Meteorological Society
• Lead founder of the Dynamical Core Model Intercomparison Project (DCMIP)
• 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 (Feb. 2008)
• Associate Editor of JAMES (Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems)
  http://adv-model-earth-syst.org/
• Associate Editor of the Monthly Weater Review (in 2008)
• Member of the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Executive Committee
• Core Network Member: International Centre for Earth Simulation (ICES)
  http://www.icesfoundation.org
• Member of the Steering Committe of NOAA's Global Interoperability Program (GIP)
  http://gip.noaa.gov

Publications

• Kent, J., Ullrich, P. A. and Jablonowski, C. (2013): Dynamical Core Model Intercomparison Project: Tracer Transport Test Cases, Quart. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc., in review
• Ullrich, P. A., T. Melvin, C. Jablonowski and A. Staniforth (2013), A baroclinic wave test case for deep- and shallow-atmosphere dynamical cores, Quart. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc., in review
• Whitehead, J. P., C. Jablonowski, J. Kent and R. B. Rood (2013), Potential vorticity: Measuring consistency between GCM dynamical cores and tracer advection schemes, Quart. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc., revised
• Ullrich, P. A., C. Jablonowski and P. H. Lauritzen (2013), A high-order `incremental-remap'-based semi-Lagrangian shallow water model, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids , in review
• Chen, X., N. Andronova, B. Van Leer, J. E. Penner, J. P. Boyd, C. Jablonowski and S.-J. Lin (2013), A Control-Volume Model of the Compressible Euler Equations with a Vertical Lagrangian Coordinate, Mon. Wea. Rev., in press
• Kent, J., C. Jablonowski, J. P. Whitehead and R. B. Rood (2012), Downscale Cascades in Tracer Transport Test Cases, Geoscientific Model Development, Vol. 5, 1517-1530
• Lebonnois, S., C. Covey, A. Grossmann, H. Parish, G. Schubert, R. Walterscheid, P. Lauritzen and C. Jablonowski (2012), Angular Momentum Budget in General Circulation Models of Superrotating Atmospheres: A Critical Diagnostic, Journal of Geophysical Research (Planets), Vol. 117, E12004, doi:10.1029/2012JE004223
• Ullrich, P. A., P. H. Lauritzen and C. Jablonowski (2012), Some considerations for high-order `incremental remap'-based transport schemes: edges, reconstructions and area integration, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, in press (published online in July 2012)
• Reed, K. A., C. Jablonowski and M. A. Taylor (2012), Tropical Cyclones in the Spectral Element Configuration of the Community Atmosphere Model, Atm. Sci. Lett., 13, 303-310, doi:10.1002/asl.399
• Ullrich, P. A. and C. Jablonowski (2012b), MCore: A Non-hydrostatic Atmospheric Dynamical Core Utilizing High-Order Finite-Volume Methods, J. Comput. Phys., Vol. 231, 5078-5108
• Reed, K. A. and C. Jablonowski (2012), Idealized tropical cyclone simulations of intermediate complexity: A test case for AGCMs, J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., Vol. 4, M04001, doi:10.1029/2011MS000099
• Kent, J., C. Jablonowski, J. P. Whitehead and R. B. Rood (2012), Assessing Tracer Transport Algorithms and the Impact of Vertical Resolution in a Finite-Volume Dynamical Core, Mon. Wea. Rev., Vol. 140, 1620-1638
• Ullrich, P. A. and C. Jablonowski (2012a): Operator-split Runge-Kutta-Rosenbrock (RKR) Methods for Nonhydrostatic Atmospheric Models, Mon. Wea. Rev., Vol. 140, 1257-1284
• Reed, K. A. and C. Jablonowski (2011c): Assessing the Uncertainty of Tropical Cyclone Simulations in NCAR's Community Atmosphere Model, J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., Vol. 3, Art. 2011MS000076, 16 pp.
• Whitehead, J., C. Jablonowski. R. B. Rood and P. H. Lauritzen (2011): A Stability Analysis of Divergence Damping on a Latitude-Longitude Grid, Mon. Wea. Rev., Vol. 139, 2976-2993
• Lauritzen, P. H., C. Jablonowski, M. A. Taylor, R. D. Nair (Eds.), 2011, Numerical Techniques for Global Atmospheric Models, Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, Springer, Vol. 80, 556 pp.
• Jablonowski. C. and D. L. Williamson (2011): The Pros and Cons of Diffusion, Filters and Fixers in Atmospheric General Circulation Models. In: Lauritzen, P. H., C. Jablonowski, M. A. Taylor, R. D. Nair (Eds.), Numerical Techniques for Global Atmospheric Models, Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, Springer, Vol. 80, 381-493
• Reed, K. A. and C. Jablonowski (2011b): Impact of physical parameterizations on idealized tropical cyclones in the Community Atmosphere Model, Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 38, L04805
• Reed, K. A. and C. Jablonowski (2011a): An Analytic Vortex Initialization Technique for Idealized Tropical Cyclone Studies in AGCMs, Mon. Wea. Rev., Vol. 139, 689-710
• Ullrich, P. A. and C. Jablonowski (2011): An analysis of finite-volume methods for smooth problems on refined grids, J. Comput. Phys., Vol. 230, 706-725
• Ullrich, P. A., C. Jablonowski, B. van Leer (2010): Riemann-solver-based high-order finite-volume models for the shallow-water equations on the sphere, J. Comput. Phys., Vol. 229, 6104-6134
• Lauritzen, P. H, C. Jablonowski, M. A. Taylor and R. D. Nair (2010): Rotated versions of the Jablonowski steady-state and baroclinic wave test cases: A dynamical core intercomparison, J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., Vol. 2:Art. #15, 34 pp.
• Jablonowski, C., R. C. Oehmke and Q. F. Stout (2009): Block-structured Adaptive Meshes and Reduced Grids for Atmospheric General Circulation Models, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A, Vol. 367, 4497-4522 (Journal cover figure features this research)
• Ullrich, P. A., P. H. Lauritzen, C. Jablonowski (2009), Geometrically Exact Conservative Remapping (GECoRe): Regular latitude-longitude and cubed-sphere grids, Mon. Wea. Rev., Vol. 137, 1721-1741
• Williamson, D. L., J. Olson and C. Jablonowski (2009), Two dynamical core formulation flaws exposed by a baroclinic instability test case, Mon. Wea. Rev., Vol. 137. 790-796
• 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., Vol. 136, 1898-1922
• 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, Systems analysis modeling simulation (now merged with International Journal of Systems Science), Vol. 32, Issue 1-2, 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.