Maureen Dunn

Oceanographic Associate II

Education

State University of New York at Cortland, B.S., Biology
State University of New York at Stony Brook, M.S., Marine Environmental Science-Physical Oceanography

Professional Affiliations

American Geophysical Union
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
American Meteorological Society

Areas of Interest

Research interests on air-sea interactions and the role of sea surface temperatures in the development of marine stratocumulus clouds
Testing and evaluation of algorithms for retrieving cloud microphysical properties which incorporate input data from multiple remote sensing instruments
Aerosol indirect effects
Numerical analysis and environmental modeling

Experience

Microbase VAP developer generating cloud microphysical properties based on state-of-the-art empirical parameterizations, for all ARM sites
Analysis of air-sea interactions between buoy measured sea surface temperature and marine stratus clouds at ARM AMF1, Point Reyes CA
Developed 94 GHz cloud radar signal filtration scheme for improved signal to noise ratio of low altitude marine stratus clouds
Developed a numerical tidal model used in the study of ocean currents on Georges Bank for the GLOBEC NW Atlantic program
Processing and spatial analysis of multiyear shipboard acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) data in hierarchical databases using Common Oceanographic Data Archiving System (CODAS)
Backscatter calibrations for biomass determinations
Constructed an MPI based computing cluster to run FVCOM, a parallelized tidal model, and managed usage as the system administrator
Quantification of bacterial rRNA from Gulf Stream waters by in-situ hybridized, single cell oligonucleotide probe fluorescence
Research on nitrogen fixing microorganisms and nutrient distributions in a tropical rainforest
Participated in numerous research cruises at sea and in research expeditions through rainforests of the Amazonas, Venezuela and Costa Rica

Selected Publications

Huang, D., Zhao, C., Dunn, M., Dong, X., Mace, G. G., Jensen, M. P., Xie, S., and Liu, Y. An intercomparison of radar-based liquid cloud microphysics retrievals and implications for model evaluation studies. Atmos. Meas. Tech. 5, 1409-1424, doi:10.5194/amt-5-1409-2012 (2012).

Zhao, C., Xie, S., Klein, S. A., Protat, A., Shupe, M. D., McFarlane, S. A., Comstock, J. M., Delanoë, J., Deng, M., Dunn, M., Hogan, R. J., Huang, D., Jensen, M. P., Mace, G. G., McCoy, R., O’Connor, E. J., Turner, D. D., and Wang, Z. Toward understanding of differences in current cloud retrievals of ARM ground-based measurements. J. Geophys. Res. 117, D10206, doi:10.1029/2011JD016792 (2012).

Dunn, M., Johnson, K., Jensen, M. The Microbase Value-Added Product: A Baseline Retrieval of Cloud Microphysical Properties. DOE/SC-ARM/TR-095 (2011).

Ching, J., Riemer, N., Dunn, M., and Miller, M. In-cloud turbulence structure of marine stratocumulus at Pt.Reyes, CA, during MASRAD. Geophys. Res. Lett. 37, L21808, doi:10.1029/2010GL045033 (2010).

Flagg, C. N., Dunn, M., Wang, D.-P., Rossby, H. T. and Benway, R. L. A study of the currents of the outer shelf and upper slope from a decade of shipboard ADCP observations in the Middle Atlantic Bight. J. Geophys. Res. 111, C06003, doi:10.1029/2005JC003116 (2006).

Flagg, C. N., and M. Dunn. Characterization of the mean and seasonal flow regime on Georges Bank from shipboard acoustic Doppler current profiler data. J. Geophys. Res. 108(C11), 8002, doi:10.1029/2001JC001257 (2003).

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