Bell Research Group







Jennifer DeHart

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My current research uses polarimetric radar data to understand the processes controlling tropical cyclone precipitation intensity and duration. My other research interests include the effects of vertical wind shear and passage over complex terrain on TC precipitation processes.


Education

Select Awards

  1. NASA Earth and Space Sciences Fellowship - 2015-2017
  2. 1st Place Student Poster, 17th Conference on Mountain Meteorology - 2016

Publications

  1. DeHart, J. C. , and R. A. Houze, Jr., in preparation: Orographic modification of precipitation processes in a tropical cyclone moving over a continental mountain range.
  2. DeHart, J. C., and R. A. Houze, Jr., 2017: Orographic modification of precipitation processes in Hurricane Karl (2010). Mon. Wea. Rev., 145, 4171-4186.
  3. Houze, R. A., Jr., L. A. McMurdie, W. A. Petersen, M. R. Schwaller, W. Baccus, J. Lundquist, C. Mass, B. Nijssen, S. A. Rutledge, D. Hudak, S. Tanelli, G. G. Mace, M. Poellot, D. Lettenmaier, J. Zagrodnik, A. Rowe, J. DeHart , L. Madaus, H. Barnes, 2017: The Olympic Mountains Experiment (OLYMPEX). Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 98, 2167-2188
  4. DeHart, J. C., R. A. Houze, Jr., and R. F. Rogers, 2014: Quadrant distribution of tropical cyclone inner-core kinematics in relation to environmental shear. J. Atmos Sci., 71, 2713–2732.

Select Presentations

  1. DeHart, J. C. and R. A. Houze, Jr., The Impact of Terrain Height on Precipitation Processes in a Landfalling Tropical Cyclone (April 2018). 33rd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Ponte Vedra, FL, poster.
  2. DeHart, J. C. and M. M. Bell, Polarimetric Radar Analysis of Hurricane Harvey’s (2017) Record-Setting Rainfall (April 2018). 33rd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Ponte Vedra, FL, talk.
  3. DeHart, J. C., Orographic modification of precipitation processes in a tropical cyclone moving over a continental mountain range (August 2017). University of Washington, Doctoral Defense.
  4. DeHart, J. C., A. K. Rowe, J. P. Zagrodnik, H. C. Barnes, L. A. McMurdie, R. A. Houze, Jr., OLYMPEX: A Unique and Comprehensive Dataset for Understanding Precipitation Processes in Complex Terrain (January 2017). 97th AMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, talk.
  5. DeHart, J. C. and R. A. Houze, Jr., Characterizing the Precipitation Processes in Hurricane Karl (2010) Through Analysis of Airborne Doppler Radar Data and Numerical Simulations (December 2016). AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, poster
  6. DeHart, J. C. and R. A. Houze, Jr., Airborne Doppler radar observations of mid-latitude storms during OLYMPEX (June 2016). 17th Conf. on Mountain Meteorology, Burlington, VT, talk.
  7. DeHart, J. C. and R. A. Houze, Jr., Precipitation Processes in Hurricane Karl (2010): Doppler Radar and WRF (June 2016). 17th Conf. on Mountain Meteorology, Burlington, VT, poster.
  8. DeHart, J. C. and R. A. Houze, Jr., Characterizing the Structure of Hurricane Karl (2010): Doppler Radar and WRF (April 2016). 32nd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, San Juan, PR, talk.
  9. DeHart, J. C. and R. A. Houze, Jr., Hurricane Karl’s landfall as seen by high-resolution radar data and WRF (October 2015). 17th Cyclone Workshop, Pacific Grove, CA, talk.
  10. DeHart, J. C. and R. A. Houze, Jr., The Evolution of Hurricane Karl’s Structure (May 2015). HS3 Science Team Meeting, Moffett Field, CA, talk. DeHart, J. C. and R. A. Houze, Jr., Characterizing the Structure of Hurricane Karl (2010) (December 2014). AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, poster
  11. DeHart, J. C., R. A. Houze, Jr., and R. F. Rogers, Quadrant distribution of tropical cyclone innercore kinematics in relation to environmental shear (April 2014). 31st Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, San Diego, CA, talk.
  12. DeHart, J. C., R. A. Houze, Jr., and R. F. Rogers, Organization of Tropical Cyclone Kinematics by Environmental Shear (May 2013). HS3 Science Team Meeting, Moffett Field, CA, poster.
  13. DeHart, J. C. and R. A. Houze, Jr., Vertical Distribution of Radar Reflectivity in Hurricanes in the Presence of Shear (April 2012). 30th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Jacksonville, FL, talk.