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Mary Barth
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MMM - ACD - TIIMES
Scientist III
UTLS
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PO Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000
Office: FL0 - 2154
Telephone: 303-497-8186
Email: barthm@ucar.edu
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Vita
Research Focus FY08:
Dr. Barth's research focuses on how clouds affect atmospheric chemistry and on how chemistry can affect cloud properties. This research is done using numerical models for different spatial scales.
Most of her recent research has focused on thunderstorms and chemistry. Dr. Barth is conducting numerical simulations with the Weather Research and Forecasting model coupled with gas and aqueous-phase chemistry to elucidate the processes that control the distribution of chemical species in thunderstorms. Further, she is a Principal Investigator of the Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3) field experiment that seeks to characterize the effect of midlatitude, continental convection on the transport and transformation of atmospheric constituents.
Dr. Barth is also examining the influence of boundary layer processes on chemical reaction rates. To do this, Dr. Barth has coupled lumped hydrocarbon chemistry with a large eddy simulation. These studies have been extended to cloud-topped boundary layers so that effects of buoyancy, of aqueous chemistry, and of scattering of solar radiation on chemical species redistribution can be assessed.
Community Service FY08:
- 2007-2008: Co-chair of the International Programme Committee for the 10th International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Conference
- 2006–2008: Secretary of the AGU Atmospheric Sciences Section (Atmos. Chem.)
- SOARS Scientific Mentor
Scientific Talks FY08:
- Relevance of- and challenges in the representation of surface and boundary layer processes in mesoscale chemistry transport models, Expert Workshop on the Relevance of Surface and Boundary Layer Processes for the Exchanges of Reactive- and Greenhouse Gases (Wageningen, Netherlands, 10/2007)
- Current and Future Aerosol Studies Using WRF-Chem (Davis, CA USA, 12/2007)
- On the Use of Ice Mass Fluxes to Estimate Total Lightning in Cloud Resolving Models (San Francisco, CA USA, 12/2007)
- Advances in Cloud Chemsitry (New Orleans, LA USA, 01/2008)
- Effect of Deep Convection on Chemical Species Transport in the Central US (Cancun, MEX, 07/2008)
- Convective Scale Transport of CO and O3 During a 5-day Period over the Southern United States (Annecy, FRA, 09/2008)
Publications FY08: (abstracts)
Barthe, C., W. Deierling, M. C. Barth, 2008: The estimation of total lightning from various thundercloud parameters: A cloud-resolving model study. J. Atmos. Sci.. (Submitted)
Kim, D., C. Wang, A. M. L. Ekman, M. C. Barth, P. J. Rasch, 2008: Distribution and direct radiative forcing of carbonacceous and sulfate aerosols in an interactive size-resolving aerosol-climate model. J. Geophys. Res., 113, D16309, doi: 10.1029/2007JD009756.
Barthe, C., M. C. Barth, 2008: Evaluation of a new lightning-produced NOx parameterization for cloud resolving models and its associated uncertainties. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 8, 4691-4710.
Kim, S.-W., C.-H. Moeng, J. C. Weil, M. C. Barth, 2007: Comment on "Fumigation of pollutants in and above the entrainment zone into a growing convective boundary layer: A large-eddy simulation". Atmos. Environ., 41, 7679-7682, doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2007.07.017.