Karen Lee Johnson

Advanced Applications Engineer

Johnson serves as the data mentor for the scanning and zenith-pointing millimeter cloud radars operated by the DOE Atmospheric Radiation Program. In this role, she contributes to ensuring data quality, facilitates the conversion of raw radar data into ARM-standard form in the ARM Archive and addresses data issues and user inquiries as they arise. In her other major role, she develops value-added products to make ARM instrument observations more readily useable for scientific purposes. She has worked extensively on development and processing of the Active Remote Sensing of CLouds (ARSCL) family of products, which combine cloud radar observations with lidar and other remote sensing measurements to determine cloud boundaries and best-estimate radar moments. She has also developed a user-interface tool to assist ARM data users in Doppler radar spectra data discovery.

Experience

• Advanced Applications Engineer, Environmental Sciences Department, 2001 – Present
• Programmer Analyst, BNL Collider-Accelerator Department, 1997 - 2000
• Meteorology Research Assistant, Florida State University, 1986-1996

External Service

• ARM Reprocessing Advisory Board, 2012-Present.
• Instructor for AMS Radar Short Course, 2011.

Publications (since 2005)

Xie, S., R. B. McCoy, S. A. Klein, R. T. Cederwall, W. J. Wiscombe, M. P. Jensen, K. L. Johnson, E. E. Clothiaux, K. L. Gaustad, C. N. Long, J. H. Mather, S. A. McFarlane, Y. Shi, J.-C. Golaz, Y. Lin, S. D. Hall, R. A. McCord, G. Palanisamy, D. D. Turner, 2010: CLOUDS AND MORE: ARM Climate Modeling Best Estimate Data. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 91, 13–20.doi: 10.1175/2009BAMS2891.1

Huang, D., K. Johnson, Y. Liu, and W. Wiscombe, 2009: High resolution retrieval of liquid water vertical distributions using collocated Ka-band and W-band cloud radars, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L24807, doi:10.1029/2009GL041364.

Luke, E. P., P. Kollias, K. L. Johnson, E. E. Clothiaux, 2008: A Technique for the Automatic Detection of Insect Clutter in Cloud Radar Returns. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 25, 1498–1513. doi: 10.1175/2007JTECHA953.1

Turner, D. D., A. M. Vogelmann, K. Johnson, M. Miller, R. T. Austin, J. C. Barnard, C. Flynn, C. Long, S. A. McFarlane, K. Cady-Pereira, S. A. Clough, J. C. Chiu, M. M. Khaiyer, J. Liljegren, B. Lin, P. Minnis, A. Marshak, S. Y. Matrosov, Q. Min, W. O'Hirok, Z. Wang, W. Wiscombe, 2007: Thin liquid water clouds: their importance and our challenge. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 88, 177-190. doi: 10.1175/BAMS-88-2-177

Kollias, P., M. A. Miller, E. P. Luke, K. L. Johnson, E. E. Clothiaux, K. P. Moran, K. B. Widener, B. A. Albrecht, 2007: The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program Cloud Profiling Radars: Second-Generation Sampling Strategies, Processing, and Cloud Data Products. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 24, 1199–1214. doi: 10.1175/JTECH2033.1

Mather, J. H., S. A. McFarlane, M. A. Miller, and K. L. Johnson, 2007: Cloud properties and associated radiative heating rates in the tropical western Pacific, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D05201, doi:10.1029/2006JD007555.

Kollias, P., E. E. Clothiaux, B. A. Albrecht ,M. A. Miller, K. P. Moran, K. L. Johnson, 2005: The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program cloud profiling radars: an evaluation of signal processing and sampling strategies, J. Atmos. and Oceanic Technol., 22, 930-948. doi: 10.1175/JTECH1749.1

Xie, S., M. Zhang, M. Branson, R. T. Cederwall, A. D. DelGenio, Z. A. Eitzen, S. J. Ghan, S. F. Iacobellis, K. L. Johnson, M. Khairoutdinov, S. A. Klein, S. K. Krueger, W. Lin, U. Lohmann, M. A. Miller, D. A. Randall, R. C. J. Somerville, Y. Sud, G. K. Wallker, A. Wolf, X. Wu, K. Xu, J. J. Yio, G. Zhang, J. Zhang, 2005: Simulations of midlatitude frontal clouds by single-column and cloud-resolving models during the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement March 2000 cloud intensive operational period, J. Geophys. Res., 110, D15S03, doi:10.1029/2004JD005119.