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Marcin J. Kurowski

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Address:

4800 Oak Grove Drive
M/S 233-300

Pasadena, CA 91109

Phone:

818.354.0545

Fax:

818.354.3223

Curriculum Vitae:

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Member of:

Aerosols And Clouds

Education

  • PhD, Physics, Atmospheric Science, University of Warsaw (2010)
  • MS, Physics, Atmospheric Science, University of Warsaw (2003)

Professional Experience

  • 2018: JPL/NASA (technologist)
  • 2018: UCLA/JIFRESSE (project scientist)
  • 2016-2018: UCLA/JIFRESSE (researcher)
  • 2015-2016: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (postdoctoral fellow)
  • 2012-2014: National Center of Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO (postdoctoral fellow)
  • 2010-2012: Institute of Meteorology and Water Management, Warsaw, Poland (specialist/researcher)
  • 2008: TV-Puls, Warsaw, Poland (meteorologist)
  • 2007-2009: Institute of Geophysics, University of Warsaw, Poland (assistant researcher)

Research Interests

  • Geophysical fluid dynamics
  • Meteorology, numerical weather prediction
  • Multi-scale atmospheric flow modeling
  • Entrainment and mixing within clouds
  • Development and evaluation of atmospheric models
  • Scale-aware parameterizations of the boundary layer
  • Boundary layer processes and their measurements from space

Selected Publications

  1. Kurowski M. J., J. Teixeira, C. Ao, S. Brown, A. Davis, L. Forster, K.-N. Wang, M. Lebsock, M. Morris, V. Payne, M. Richardson, R. Roy, D. R. Thompson, R. C. Wilson, 2022: Synthetic Observations of the Planetary Boundary Layer from Space: An Observing System Simulation Experiment Framework (in preparation).
  2. Lebsock M. D., H. Takahashi, R. Roy, M. J. Kurowski, L. Oreopoulos, Understanding Errors in Cloud Water Path Retrievals derived from CloudSat Path Integral Attenuation, J. Appl. Meteor. and Clim. (accepted).
  3. Witte M. K., A. Herrington, J. Teixeira, M. J. Kurowski, Chinita, R. L. Storer, K. Suselj, G. Matheou, J. Bacmeister, Augmenting the double-Gaussian representation of atmospheric turbulence and convection via a coupled stochastic multi-plume mass flux scheme, Mon. Wea. Rev. (accepted).
  4. Richardson, M. T., Thompson, D. R., Kurowski, M. J., and Lebsock, M. D.: New sampling strategy mitigates a solar-geometry-induced bias in sub-kilometre vapour scaling statistics derived from imaging spectroscopy, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 15, 117–129, 2022.
  5. Roy, R. J., Lebsock, M., and Kurowski, M. J.: Spaceborne differential absorption radar water vapor retrieval capabilities in tropical and subtropical boundary layer cloud regimes, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 6443–6468, 2021.
  6. Richardson, M. T., Thompson, D. R., Kurowski, M. J., and Lebsock, M. D.: Boundary layer water vapour statistics from high-spatial-resolution spaceborne imaging spectroscopy, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 5555–5576, 2021.
  7. Suselj K., J. Teixeira, M.J. Kurowski, A. Molod, 2021: Improving the representation of subtropical boundary layer clouds in the NASA GEOS model with the Eddy-Diffusivity/Mass-Flux parameterization, Mon. Wea. Rev., 149, 793-809.
  8. Kurowski M. J., W. W. Grabowski, K. Suselj, J. Teixeira, 2020: The strong impact of weak horizontal convergence on continental shallow convection, J. Atmos. Sci., 77 (9), 3119-3137.
  9. MacDonald M., M. J. Kurowski, J. Teixeira, 2020: Direct Numerical Simulation of the Moist Stably Stratified Surface Layer: Turbulence and Fog Formation, Boundary-Layer Meteorol., 175, 343–368.
  10. Wu E., H. Yang, J. Kleissl, K. Suselj, M.J. Kurowski, J. Teixeira, 2020: On the Parameterization of Convective Downdrafts in Marine Stratocumulus Clouds, Mon. Wea. Rev., 148, 1931–1950.
  11. Kurowski M. J., H. T. Thrastarson, K. Suselj, J. Teixeira, 2019: Towards Unifying the Planetary Boundary Layer and Shallow Convection in CAM5 with the Eddy-Diffusivity/Mass-Flux Approach, Atmosphere, 10, 484.
  12. Suselj K., M. J. Kurowski, J. Teixeira, 2019: A Unified Eddy-Diffusivity/Mass-Flux Approach for Modeling Atmospheric Convection, J. Atmos. Sci., 76, 2505-2537.
  13. Suselj K., M. J. Kurowski, J. Teixeira, 2019: On the Factors Controlling Development of Shallow Convection in Eddy-Diffusivity/Mass-Flux Models, J. Atmos. Sci., 76, 433-456.
  14. Kurowski M. J., K. Suselj, W. W. Grabowski, 2019: Is shallow convection sensitive to environmental heterogeneities? Geophys. Res. Let., 46, 785-793.
  15. Kurowski M. J., K. Suselj, W. W. Grabowski, J. Teixeira, 2018: Shallow-to-deep transition of continental moist convection: cold pools, surface fluxes, and mesoscale organization. J. Atmos. Sci., 75, 4071-4090.
  16. Kurowski M. J., J. Teixeira, 2018: A scale-adaptive turbulent kinetic energy closure for the dry convective boundary layer, J. Atmos. Sci., 75, 675-690.
  17. Kurowski M. J., D. Wojcik, M. Ziemianski, B. Rosa, Z. Piotrowski, 2016: Convection-permitting regional weather modeling with COSMO-EULAG: Compressible and anelastic solutions for a typical westerly flow over the Alps, Mon. Wea. Rev., 144, 1961–1982.
  18. Kurowski M. J., W. W. Grabowski, and P. K. Smolarkiewicz, 2015: Anelastic and compressible simulation of moist dynamics at planetary scales, J. Atmos. Sci., 72, 3975-3995.
  19. Kurowski M. J., W. W. Grabowski, and P. K. Smolarkiewicz, 2014: Anelastic and compressible simulation of moist deep convection, J. Atmos. Sci., 71, 3767–3787.
  20. Kurowski M. J., W. W. Grabowski, and P. K. Smolarkiewicz, 2013: Towards multiscale simulation of moist flows with soundproof equations, J. Atmos. Sci., 70, 3995-4011.
  21. van der Dussen, J. J., S. R. de Roode, A. S. Ackerman, P. N. Blossey, C. S. Bretherton, M. J. Kurowski, A. P. Lock, R. A. J. Neggers, I. Sandu, and A. P. Siebesma, 2013: The GASS/EUCLIPSE model intercomparison of the stratocumulus transition as observed during ASTEX: LES results, J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 5, 483-499.
  22. Wojcik D., M. J. Kurowski, B. Rosa and M. Ziemiański, 2012: A study on parallel performance of the EULAG F90/95 code, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7204/2011, 419-428.
  23. Ziemianski M., M. J. Kurowski, Z. P. Piotrowski, B. Rosa and O. Fuhrer, 2011: Toward very high resolution NWP over Alps: Influence of the increasing model resolution on the flow pattern, Acta Geophysica, 59, 1205-1235.
  24. Kurowski M. J., B. Rosa and M. Ziemiański, 2011: Testing the anelastic nonhydrostatic model EULAG as a prospective dynamical core of a numerical weather prediction model. Part II - simulations of a supercell, Acta Geophysica, 59, 1267-1293.
  25. Rosa B., M. J. Kurowski, and M. Ziemiański, 2011: Testing the anelastic nonhydrostatic model EULAG as a prospective dynamical core of a numerical weather prediction model. Part I: dry benchmarks, Acta Geophysica, 59, 1236-1266.
  26. Kurowski M. J., W.W. Grabowski, and S.P. Malinowski, 2009: Numerical investigation of entrainment and transport within stratocumulus-topped boundary layer, Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc., 135, 77-92.
  27. Haman K., S.P. Malinowski, M. J. Kurowski, H. Gerber and J-L.Brenguier, 2007: Small scale mixing processes at the top of a marine stratocumulus - a case study, Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc., 133, 213-226.