Email: barthm@ucar.edu
Phone: 303-497-8186
Postal Address: P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO, 80307-3000
Shipping Address: 3450 Mitchell Lane, Boulder, CO, 80307-3000

Research Interests

Clouds and Chemistry Chemistry in and around thunderstorms Weather Research Forecast Model coupled with aqueous chemistry (WRF-AqChem). Simulations of observed case studies help to evaluate model results and to analyze the effect of thunderstorms on ozone precursors. Intercomparison of convective-scale cloud chemistry models in simulating tracer transport in deep convection. This exercise has provided an assessment of how different cloud chemistry models simulate the same case. Planning of the Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3) field campaign. Effects of boundary layer dynamics and physics on chemical reactivity. Large-eddy simulations of shallow cumulus clouds in the convective boundary layer are being conducted. Other research range from global scale simulations of sulfate aerosols to cloud parcel model simulations of gas and aqueous chemistry.

Recent Publications

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Barthe, C., Deierling, W., Barth, M. C., 2008: The estimation of total lightning from various thundercloud parameters: A cloud-resolving model study. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. (Submitted).

Kim, D., Wang, C., Ekman, A. M. L., Barth, M. C., Rasch, P. J., 2008: Distribution and direct radiative forcing of carbonacceous and sulfate aerosols in an interactive size-resolving aerosol-climate model. Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, doi: 10.1029/2007JD009756, D16309.

Barthe, C., Barth, M. C., 2008: Evaluation of a new lightning-produced NOx parameterization for cloud resolving models and its associated uncertainties. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 8, 4691-4710.

Kim, S., Moeng, C., Weil, J. C., Barth, M. C., 2007: Comment on "Fumigation of pollutants in and above the entrainment zone into a growing convective boundary layer: A large-eddy simulation". Atmospheric Environment, 41, doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2007.07.017, 7679-7682.

Barth, M. C., Kim, S., Wang, C., Pickering, K. E., Ott, L. E., Stenchikov, G., Leriche, M., Cautenet, S., Pinty, J., Barthe, C., Mari, C., Helsdon, J. H., Farley, R. D., Fridlind, A. M., Ackerman, A. S., Spiridonov, V., Telenta, B., 2007: Cloud-scale model intercomparison of chemical constituent transport in deep convection. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 7, 4709-4731.


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