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Terry Kubar

Education

Ph.D. University of Washington (Atmospheric Sciences), 2008
B.S. San Jose State University, (Major: Meteorology, Minor: Applied Mathematics), 2003

Professional Experience

Postdoctorate Research Associate/NASA Fellow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, (October 2008-Present)
Graduate Research Assistant, University of Washington, Seattle, (2003-October 2008)
Graduate Student Private Tutor, (July 2007-November 2007)
Teaching Assistant, University of Washington, Seattle, (Fall Quarter 2004 and Winter Quarter 2005)
Summer Intern, Weathernews, Sunnyvale, CA, (Summers 2000-2002)

Selected Awards

University of Washington Department of Atmospheric Sciences forecasting competition champion (2005)
Graduate School Top Scholar Award recipient (2003)
Golden Key International Honour Society Member (2001-2003)
Dean’s Scholar, San Jose State University (2001-2003)
President’s Scholar (five awards per year), San Jose State University (1999-2003)

Selected Publications

D. M. Winker, J. Pelon, J. A. Coakley, Jr., S. A. Ackerman, R. J. Charlson, P. R. Colarco, P. Flamant, Q. Fu, R. M. Hoff, C. Kittaka, >b>T. L. Kubar, H. LeTreut, M. P. McCormick, G. Mégie, L. Poole, K. Powell, C. Trepte, M. A. Vaughan, B. A. Wielicki, 2010: The Calipso mission: A global 3D view of aerosols and clouds. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., in press.
Kubar, T. L., D. E. Waliser, and J.-L. Li, 2010: Boundary layer and cloud structure controls on tropical low cloud cover using A-Train satellite data and ECMWF analyses. J. Climate, accepted 2010.
Kubar, T. L., D. L. Hartmann, and R. Wood, 2007: Radiative and convective driving of tropical high clouds. J. Clim., 20, 5510-5526.
Kubar, T. L. and D. L. Hartmann, 2008: The vertical structure of tropical oceanic convective clouds and its relation to precipitation. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L03804, doi: 10.1029/2007GL032811.
Lopez, M. A., D. L. Hartmann., P. N. Blossey, R. Wood, C. S. Bretherton, and T. L. Kubar, 2009: A test of the simulation of tropical convective cloudiness by a cloud-resolving model. J. Climate, 22, 2834-2849.
Kubar, T. L., D. L. Hartmann, and R. Wood, 2009: Understanding the importance of microphysics and macrophysics for warm rain in marine low clouds - Part I: satellite observations. J. Atmos. Sci., 66, 2953-2972.
Wood, R., T. L. Kubar, and D. L. Hartmann, 2009: Understanding the importance of microphysics and macrophysics for warm rain in marine low clouds: Part II. Heuristic models of rain formation. J. Atmos. Sci., 66, 2973-2990.

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