Katelyn Barber
Katelyn Barber Assistant Professor of Meteorology katelyn.barber@valpo.edu 219.464.5517 Kallay-Christopher Hall, 201-F
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Education
Ph.D., Atmospheric Sciences, University of North Dakota (2019)
M.S., Atmospheric Sciences, University of North Dakota (2015)
B.S., Meteorology, State University of New York at Oswego (2013)
Interests
Numerical modeling, Aviation meteorology, Tropical meteorology, Scientific reproducibility and management of large data sets, Instrumentation
Research Interests
- High-resolution simulations of various convective types in midlatitudes and tropics
- Prediction of convectively induced turbulence and convectively induced gravity waves
- Evolution of cloud populations from shallow cumulus to deep convection
- Prediction of convective initiation in modeling frameworks
- Scientific reproducibility
Courses Taught
MET 103 and 103L Introduction to Meteorology Course and Lab
MET 216 Introduction to Meteorological Observation and Analysis
Publications
Ochs, A. M., J. M. Dee, A. Arnold, K. Barber, and E. Zovinka, 2023: Can paint pouring help students learn density and viscosity? Connecting active artwork to chemistry. J. Chem. Educ., https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.3c00277.
Barber, K. A., C. Burleyson, Z. Feng, and S. Hagos, 2022: The influence of shallow cloud populations on transitions to deep convection in the Amazon. J. Atmos. Sci., 79(3), 723-743.
Hagos, S. M., J. Chen, K. A. Barber, K. Sakaguchi, Z. Feng, H. Xiao, and B. Plant, 2022: A machine learning assisted stochastic cloud population model as a parameterization of cumulus convection. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems., 14, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021MS002808.
Barber, K. A., and G. L. Mullendore, 2020: The importance of convective stage on out-of-cloud convectively induced turbulence from high resolution simulations. Mon. Wea. Rev., 148, 4587–4605, https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-20-0065.1.
Barber, K. A., W. Deierling, G. L. Mullendore, C. Kessinger, R. Sharman, and D. Muñoz-Esparza, 2019: Properties of convectively induced turbulence over developing oceanic convection. Mon. Wea. Rev., 147, 3429–3444, https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-18-0409.1.
Barber, K. A., G. L. Mullendore, and M. J. Alexander, 2018: Out-of-cloud convective turbulence: Estimation method and impacts of model resolution. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 57, 121–136, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-17-0174.1