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Julie Caron
General Information
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CGD & TIIMES
Associate Scientist
Water System
Contact Information:
PO Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000
Office: ML - 320d
Tel: 303-497-1347
Email: jcaron@ucar.edu
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Research Focus FY08:
Differences between the 30-year 1971-2000 SST climatologies (OI.v2 - HadISST1) in °C. The color contours are 0.25°C up to absolute 3°C.
High resolution figure
Julie Caron has been heavily involved in the Nested Regional Climate Model (NRCM). She has been working on data quality control from the channel simulation, as well as in deriving & updating climate fields for diagnostics as the data are ready. She is also analyzing the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) in the NRCM for publication in an upcoming special issue.
Julie has also been helping expand the AMWG diagnostics package to accomodate more analyses for the upcoming CAM 4. This includes converting her code for the MJO analyses & adding more wave filters for inclusion in the diagnostics package. She's also added microphysics diagnostics & is currently adding radiation & sea ice diagnostics to the package. As a result of her work on diagnostics for the NRCM, she was also involved in the conversion & debugging of the Wheeler & Kiladis diagrams in the variability diagnostics to remove shared object dependence, and assure the package works robustly across a variety of horizontal resolutions. She has also helped various efforts for CAM 4 development, such as producing plots of trace constituents for comparison of different boundary layer schemes.
Julie is also wrapping up the analyses for a paper on the diurnal cycle of the Low-Level Jet in CAM compared with the North American Regional Reanalyses.
Julie has been working with Jim Hack, Phil Rasch, John Truesdale, and Dennis Shea on the above activities, & will primarily be working with Jim Hurrell on future activities.
In addition, related to TIIMES, Julie and Bill Large have just started on a project that incorporates the diurnal cycle into stand-alone CAM.
Publications FY08 (abstract):
Hurrell, J. W., J. J. Hack, D. Shea, J. M. Caron, and J. Rosinski, 2008: A new sea surface temperature and sea ice boundary data set for the Community Atmosphere Model, Journal of Climate, 21, 5145–5153.