Christiane Jablonowski

Christiane Jablonowski

Professor
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email

cjablono@umich.edu

Location

1541B Climate and Space Research Building
2455 Hayward Street
Ann Arbor, MI
48109-2143

Phone

(734) 763-6238

Primary Website

https://admg.engin.umich.edu/

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

Professional Service

  • Member of the NCAR Community Earth System Model (CESM) Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) (June 2019 – current)
  • Member of the AMS Committee on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science (January 2019 – current)
  • University of Michigan Representative to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) (2018 – current)
  • Co-Chair of NOAA’s Unified Forecast System (UFS) Short-Range-Weather application team (6/2022 – current)
  • Co-Chair of the CESM Atmospheric Model Working Group (AMWG), providing guidance on the future direction of the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM) which is the atmospheric component of the NCAR Community Earth System Model (CESM) (2014-2022)
  • Member of the American Geophysical Union
  • Member of the American Meteorological Society
  • Lead founder of the Dynamical Core Model Intercomparison Project (DCMIP)
  • Associate Editor of JAMES (Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems), 2011-2014
  • Associate Editor of the Monthly Weater Review (in 2008)
  • Member of the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Executive Committee, 2010-2017

Research Interests

Broadly speaking, my research areas are:

  • Atmospheric dynamics: baroclinic waves, tropical cyclones, stratospheric dynamics
  • Great Lakes research: coupling of the NOAA weather and lake models
  • Machine Learning techniques for atmospheric models
  • Convection-allowing, variable-resolution, and Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) techniques for weather and climate models
  • Development of idealized test cases for dynamical cores of General Circulation Models (GCMs)
  • Physics-Dynamics coupling in GCMs
  • Impact of volcanic eruptions on the atmospheric circulation
  • Dynamical core intercomparisons: The Dynamical Core Model Intercomparison Project (see DCMIP-2016and DCMIP-2012)
  • Subgrid-scale processes in the dynamical cores of GCMs: The impact of diffusion, filters and fixers on climate simulations
  • Idealized simulations of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO) and Sudden Stratospheric Warmings (SSWs)
  • Parallel and high-performance computing
  • Modern numerical methods, equation sets (non-hydrostatic, deep-atmosphere), and computational grids for dynamical cores, finite volume techniques, conservation laws

Awards

  • Recipient of the UCAR Outstanding Accomplishment Award in Publication in Nov. 2023 for the paper Lauritzen et al. (2022)
  • AGU EOS publication highlights for the papers Lauritzen et al. (2022) and Lojko et al (2022)
  • 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

Selected Publications (for the full list see https://admg.engin.umich.edu/publications/)

  • Willson, J. L., K. A. Reed, C. Jablonowski, J. Kent, P. H. Lauritzen, R. Nair, M. A. Taylor, P. A. Ullrich, C. M. Zarzycki, D. M. Hall, D. Dazlich, R. Heikes, C. Konor, D. Randall, T. Dubos, Y. Meurdesoif, X. Chen, L. Harris, C. Kühnlein, V. Lee, A. Qaddouri, C. Girard, M. Giorgetta, D. Reinert, H. Miura, T. Ohno, and R. Yoshida (2023), DCMIP2016: The tropical cyclone test case, Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss.,  https://gmd.copernicus.org/preprints/gmd-2023-87, revised
  • Hughes, O. K. and C. Jablonowski (2023), A Mountain-Induced Moist BaroclinicWave Test Case for the Dynamical Cores of Atmospheric General Circulation Models, Geosci. Model Dev., 16, 6805–6831, https://gmd.copernicus.org/articles/16/6805/2023/
  • Tang, Q., Golaz, J.-C., Van Roekel, L. P., Taylor, M. A., Lin, W., Hillman, B. R., Ullrich, P. A., Bradley, A. M., Guba, O., Wolfe, J. D., Zhou, T., Zhang, K., Zheng, X., Zhang, Y., Zhang, M., Wu, M., Wang, H., Tao, C., Singh, B., Rhoades, A. M., Qin, Y., Li, H.-Y., Feng, Y., Zhang, Y., Zhang, C., Zender, C. S., Xie, S., Roesler, E. L., Roberts, A. F., Mametjanov, A., Maltrud, M. E., Keen, N. D., Jacob, R. L., Jablonowski, C., Hughes, O. K., Forsyth, R. M., Di Vittorio, A. V., Caldwell, P. M., Bisht, G., McCoy, R. B., Leung, L. R., and Bader, D. C. (2023): The Fully Coupled Regionally Refined Model of E3SM Version 2: Overview of the Atmosphere, Land, and River, Geosci. Model Dev., 16, 3953–3995, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-3953-2023
  • Limon, G. and C. Jablonowski (2023), Probing the Skill of Random Forest Emulators for Physical Parameterizations via a Hierarchy of Simple CAM6 Configurations, J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 15, e2022MS003395, https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022MS003395?af=R
  • Lojko, A., A. Payne, and C. Jablonowski (2022), The Remote Role of North-American Mesoscale Convective Systems on the Forecast of a Rossby Wave Packet: A Multi-Model Ensemble Case-study, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127, e2022JD037171. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD037171
  • Lauritzen, P.  H., N. Kevlahan, T. Toniazzo, C. Eldred, T. Dubos, A. Gassmann, V. E. Larson, C. Jablonowski, O. Guba, B. Shipway, B. E. Harrop, F. Lemarie, R. Tailleux, A. R. Herrington, W. G. Large, P. J. Rasch, A. S. Donahue, H. Wan, and A. J. Conley (2022), Reconciling and improving formulations for thermodynamics and conservation principles in Earth System Models (ESMs), J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 14, e2022MS003117, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022MS003117
  • Liu, L., S. Davedu, A. Fujisaki-Manome, H. Hu, C. Jablonowski, and P. Y. Chu (2022), Machine Learning Model-Based Ice Cover Forecasting for Vital Waterway in Large Lakes, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 10(8), 1022, https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse10081022
  • Fujisaki-Manome, A., D. M. Wright, G. E. Mann, E. J. Anderson, P. Chu, C. Jablonowski, S. G. Benjamin (2022), Forecasting Lake/Sea-Effect Snowstorms, Advancement, and Challenges, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs), e1594, https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1594
  • Toniazzo, T., M. Bentsen, C. Craig, B. Eaton, J. Edwards, S. Goldhaber, C. Jablonowski, and P. Lauritzen (2020), Enforcing conservation of axial angular momentum in the atmospheric general circulation model CAM6, Geosci. Model Dev., Vol. 13, 685–705
  • Ferguson, J. O., C. Jablonowski, and H. Johansen (2019), Assessing Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) in a Forced Shallow-Water Model with Moisture, Mon. Wea. Rev., Vol. 147, 3673–3692
  • Zarzycki, C. M., C. Jablonowski, J. Kent, P. H. Lauritzen, R. Nair, K. A. Reed, P. A. Ullrich, D. M. Hall, D. Dazlich, R. Heikes, C. Konor, D. Randall, X. Chen, L. Harris, M. Giorgetta, D. Reinert, C. Kühnlein, R. Walko, V. Lee, A. Qaddouri, M. Tanguay, H. Miura, T. Ohno, R. Yoshida, S.-H. Park, J. Klemp, and W. Skamarock (2019), DCMIP2016: The Splitting Supercell Test Case, Geosci. Model Dev., Vol. 12, 879–892
  • Gross, M., H. Wan, P. J. Rasch, P. M. Caldwell, D. L. Williamson, D. Klocke, C. Jablonowski, D. R. Thatcher, N. Wood, M. Cullen, B. Beare, M. Willett, F. Lemarie, E. Blayo, S. Malardel, P. Termonia, P. Bechtold, A. Gassmann, P. H. Lauritzen, H. Johansen, C. M. Zarzycki, K. Sakaguchi and R. Leung (2018), Physics–Dynamics Coupling in weather, climate and Earth system models: Challenges and recent progress, Mon. Wea. Rev., Vol. 146, 3505-3544
  • Ullrich, P. A. C. Jablonowski, J. Kent, P. H. Lauritzen, R. Nair, K. A. Reed, C. M. Zarzycki, D. M. Hall, D. Dazlich, R. Heikes, C. Konor, D. Randall, T. Dubos, Y. Meurdesoif, X. Chen, L. Harris, C. Kühnlein, V. Lee, A. Qaddouri, C. Girard, M. Giorgetta, D. Reinert, J. Klemp, S.-H. Park, W. Skamarock, H. Miura, T. Ohno, R. Yoshida, R. Walko, A. Reinecke and K. Viner (2017), DCMIP2016:  A Review of Non-hydrostatic Dynamical Core Design and Intercomparison of Participating Models, Geosci. Model Dev., Vol. 10, 4477-4509, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-4477-2017
  • Yao, W. and C. Jablonowski (2016), The Impact of GCM Dynamical Cores on Idealized Sudden Stratospheric Warmings and their QBO Interactions, J. Atmos. Sci., Vol. 73, 3397-3421
  • Thatcher, D. R. and C. Jablonowski (2016), A moist aquaplanet variant of the Held-Suarez test for atmospheric model dynamical cores, Geosci. Model Dev., Vol. 9, 1263-1292
  • Ullrich, P. A., K. A. Reed and C. Jablonowski (2015), Analytical initial conditions and an analysis of baroclinic instability waves in f- and beta-plane 3D channel models, Quart. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc., Vol. 141, 2972-2988
  • Walsh, K. J. E., S. J. Camargo, G. A. Vecchi, A. S. Daloz, J. Elsner, K. Emanuel, M. Horn, Y.-K. Lim, M. Roberts, C. Patricola, E. Scoccimarro, A. H. Sobe l, S. Strazzo, G. Villarini, M. Wehner, M. Zhao, J. Kossin, T. LaRow, K. Oouchi, S. Schubert, H. Wang, J. Bacmeister, P. Chang, F. Chauvin, C. Jablonowski, A. Kumar, H. Murakami, T. Ose, K. A. Reed, R. Saravanan, Y. Yamada, C. M. Zarzycki, P. L. Vidale, J. A. Jonas and N. Henderson (2015), Hurricanes and climate: the U.S. CLIVAR working group on hurricanes, Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc, Vol. 96, 997–1017, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00242.1
  • Yao, W. and C. Jablonowski (2015), Idealized Quasi-Biennial Oscillations in an Ensemble of Dry GCM Dynamical Cores, J. Atmos. Sci.,  Vol. 72, 2201-2226
  • Wan, H., P. J. Rasch, M. A. Taylor and C. Jablonowski (2015), Short-term time step convergence in a climate model, J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst.,  Vol 7, 215–225, doi:10.1002/2014MS000368
  • Whitehead, J. P., C. Jablonowski, J. Kent and R. B. Rood (2015), Potential vorticity: Measuring consistency between GCM dynamical cores and tracer advection schemes, Quart. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc.,  Vol. 141, 739-751
  • Zarzycki, C. M. and C. Jablonowski (2014), A multidecadal simulation of Atlantic tropical cyclones using a variable-resolution global atmospheric general circulation, J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst.,  Vol. 6, 805-828
  • Ullrich, P. A., T. Melvin, C. Jablonowski and A. Staniforth (2014), A baroclinic wave test case for deep- and shallow-atmosphere dynamical cores, Quart. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc., Vol. 140, 1590-1602
  • Kent, J., P. A. Ullrich and C. Jablonowski (2014), Dynamical Core Model Intercomparison Project: Tracer Transport Test Cases, Quart. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc., Vol. 140, 1279-1293
  • Yao, W. and C. Jablonowski (2013), Spontaneous QBO-like Oscillations in an Atmospheric Model Dynamical Core, Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 40, 3772–377
  • 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
  • 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 (2011a): An Analytic Vortex Initialization Technique for Idealized Tropical Cyclone Studies in AGCMs, Mon. Wea. Rev., Vol. 139, 689-710
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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