Kara Sulia

Kara Sulia

Associate Director of ASRC, Director of xCITE Lab, Research Faculty
Atmospheric Sciences Research Center
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Contact

ETEC 394E
Education

PhD, Meteorology, Penn State University, 2013
BS, Meteorology, Penn State University, 2009

Kara Sulia
About

xCITE Lab Website

 

Research Interests

Dr. Sulia's work within ice microphysics focuses on crystal growth theory as a means to improve microphysical parameterizations within numerical models. Ice particles grow in interesting and complex fashions, and the mechanisms of vapor diffusional growth are highly dependent on the myriad of ice crystal shapes that occur within the atmosphere. Ice crystal shape can have important impacts on mixed-phase cloud evolution and lifetime, precipitation rates, and surface radiative and energy budgets which can affect surface temperatures, and when in the Arctic, sea-ice extent. Ice particle shape also impacts collection processes, such as riming and aggregation, which enhance surface precipitation. Improving the representation of these processes is critical for accurate predictions of precipitation, especially in winter storms. Recent and continuing upgrades of North American radars to dual-polarization provides.

 

Publications

Sulia, K., J.Y. Harrington, and H. Morrison, 2014: Dynamical and microphysical evolution during mixed-phase cloud glaciation simulated using the bulk adaptive habit prediction model. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, early online release, doi: 10.1175/JAS-D-14- 0070.1.

Ovchinnikov, M., A.S. Ackerman, A. Avramov, A. Cheng, J. Fan, A.M. Fridlind, S. Ghan, J.Y. Harrington, C. Hoose, A. Korolev, G.M. McFarquhar, H. Morrison, M. Paukert, J. Savre, B. Shipway, M.D. Shupe, A. Solomon and K. Sulia, 2014: Intercomparison of large-eddy simulations of Arctic mixed-phase clouds: Importance of ice size distribution assumptions. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 6, doi:10.1002/2013MS000282.

Sulia, K., J. Y. Harrington, and H. Morrison, 2013: A method for adaptive habit prediction in bulk microphysical models: Part III: Applications and studies within a two-dimensional kinematic model. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 70 (10), 3302-3320, doi: 10.1175/JAS-D-12-0316.1.

Harrington, J. Y., K. Sulia, and H. Morrison, 2013: A method for adaptive habit prediction in bulk microphysical models: Part I: Theoretical Development. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 70 (2), 349-364.

Harrington, J. Y., K. Sulia, and H. Morrison, 2013: A method for adaptive habit prediction in bulk microphysical models: Part II: Parcel model corroboration. In press, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 70 (2), 365-376.

Morrison, H., G. de Boer, G. Feingold, J. Y. Harrington, M. Shupe, and K. Sulia, 2012: Self- organization and resilience of Arctic mixed-phase clouds. Nature Geoscience, 5, 11-17.

Sulia, K. and J. Y. Harrington, 2011: Ice Aspect Ratio Influences on Mixed-Phase Clouds. Impacts of Phase Partitioning in Parcel Models. Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, D21309.

Ervens, B., G. Feingold, K. Sulia, and J. Y. Harrington, 2011: The Impact of Microphysical parameters, ice nucleation mode, and habit growth on ice/liquid partitioning in mixed-phase Arctic clouds. Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, D17205.

Sheridan, L., J. Y. Harrington, D. Lamb, and K. Sulia, 2009: Influences of ice aspect ratio on the evolution of particle size spectra during vapor depositional growth. Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 66, 3732-3734.