Christiane Jablonowski

Assistant Professor
Undergraduate Advisor, Climate Science Concentration
Head of the Atmospheric Dynamics Modeling Group:
http://esse.engin.umich.edu/admg/

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
• Diffusion and subgrid-scale processes in dynamical cores
• Tropical cyclones
• Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO)
• Parallel and high-performance computing

Doctoral Students:

Kevin Reed
Paul Ullrich
Weiye Yao

Specializations and Research Interests

• 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 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
• Global interoperability of models and data: Computational tools for climate modeling, Earth System Curator (model metadata), frameworks

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

• 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
• 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)

Publications

• Ullrich, P. A., C. Jablonowski, B. van Leer: Riemann-solver-based high-order finite-volume models for the shallow-water equations on the sphere, J. Comput. Phys., submitted in Oct. 2009
• Lauritzen, P. H, C. Jablonowski, M. A. Taylor and R. D. Nair: Rotated versions of the Jablonowski steady-state and baroclinic wave test cases: A dynamical core intercomparison, JAMES, submitted in August 2009
• 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
• 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, 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.