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).