Kristen L.
Corbosiero
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic
Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles
7149 Math Sciences Building
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Phone: (310) 825-1751
E-mail: kristen@atmos.ucla.edu,
klc@ucla.edu
Web: http://www.atmos.ucla.edu/~kristen
Ph.D.,
Atmospheric
Science, University at Albany, State University of New York, May 2005.
(Advisor: Dr. John Molinari)
M.S.,
Atmospheric
Science, University at Albany, State University of New York, August
2000. (Advisors: Dr. John Molinari and Dr. Vince Idone)
B.S. with
Distinction,
Atmospheric Science, Cornell University, May 1997.
Assistant
professor, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University
of
California, Los Angeles, 2007-present.
Post doctoral research associate, Advanced Study
Program,
National Center for Atmospheric Research, 2005-2007.
Research
Assistant, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University at
Albany,
State University of New York, 2000-2005.
Teaching
Assistant, Department
of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University at Albany, State
University of
New York, 1997-2000.
Teaching
Assistant,
Department of Soil, Crop, and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University,
1996-1997.
Corbosiero,
K. L., and J.
Molinari, 2002: The effect of vertical wind shear on the distribution
of
convection in tropical cyclones. Mon. Wea. Rev., 130, 2110-2123.
Corbosiero,
K. L., and J.
Molinari, 2003: The relationship between storm motion, vertical wind
shear and
convective asymmetries in tropical cyclones. J. Atmos. Sci., 60,
366-376.
Corbosiero,
K. L., J.
Molinari, and M. L. Black, 2005: The structure and evolution of
Hurricane Elena
(1985). Part I: Symmetric intensification. Mon. Wea. Rev., 133,
2905-2921.
Corbosiero,
K. L., J.
Molinari, A. R. Aiyyer, and M. L. Black, 2006: The structure and
evolution of
Hurricane Elena (1985). Part II: Convective asymmetries and evidence
for vortex
Rossby waves. Mon. Wea. Rev.,
134, 3073-3091.
Corbosiero, K. L., M. J. Dickinson, and L. F. Bosart, 2009: The contribution of eastern North Pacific tropical cyclones to the warm season rainfall climatology of the southwest United States. Mon. Wea. Rev., 137, 2415-2435.
Molinari, J.,
D. Vollaro,
and K. L. Corbosiero, 2004: Tropical cyclone formation in a sheared
environment: A case study. J. Atmos. Sci., 61,
2493-2509.
Molinari, J., P.
Dodge,
D. Vollaro, K. L. Corbosiero, and F. D. Marks, Jr., 2006: Mesoscale
aspects of
the downshear reformation of a tropical cyclone. J. Atmos. Sci.,
63, 341-354.
Abarca, S. F., K. L.
Corbosiero, and T. J. Galarneau, Jr.,
2009: An evaluation of the World Wide Lightning Location Network
(WWLLN) using the National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN) as ground
truth. J. Geophys. Res..
Other Publications
Corbosiero,
K. L., 1999:
Lightning in hurricanes. Preprints of the Twenty-third Conference on
Hurricanes
and Tropical Meteorology, 10-15 January, Dallas, Texas, American
Meteorological
Society, 66-67.
Corbosiero,
K. L., 2000:
Convective asymmetries in tropical cyclones. Preprints of the
Twenty-fourth Conference
on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, 29 May-2 June, Fort Lauderdale,
Florida, American Meteorological Society, 410-411.
Corbosiero,
K. L., J.
Molinari, and L. Bosart, 2001: The distribution of convective
precipitation in
tropical cyclones after landfall. Preprints of the Eighty-first Annual
Meeting
of the American Meteorological Society, Symposium on Precipitation
Extremes:
Prediction, Impacts and Responses, 14-18 January, Albuquerque, New
Mexico,
American Meteorological Society, 350-351.
Corbosiero,
K. L., 2002:
The relationship between storm motion, vertical wind shear and
convective
asymmetries in tropical cyclones.
Preprints of the Twenty-fifth Conference on Hurricanes and
Tropical
Meteorology, 29 April-3 May, San Diego, California, American
Meteorological
Society, 321-322.
Corbosiero,
K. L., 2004:
The structure and evolution of a hurricane in vertical wind shear:
Hurricane
Elena (1985). Preprints of the
Twenty-sixth Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, 3-7
May, Miami
Beach, Florida, American Meteorological Society, 90-91.
Corbosiero,
K. L., and J.
Molinari, 2001: The distribution of rainfall in landfalling tropical
cyclones. Twenty-sixth Northeast Storm Conference,
9-11 March, Saratoga
Springs, New York, American Meteorological Society/National Weather
Association.
Corbosiero, K. L.,
2002:
Can the environment of maritime tropical cyclones support supercell
thunderstorms? Twenty-seventh
Northeast Storm Conference, 8-10 March, Saratoga Springs, New York,
American
Meteorological Society/National Weather Association.
Corbosiero, K. L.,
L. Bosart, M. J. Dickinson, S. Hopsch, K. Lombardo, M. Novak, B. Smith,
and A. Wasula, 2003: Eastern Pacific tropical cyclones and the North
American summer monsoon. Twenty-eighth Northeast Storm Conference, 7-9
March, Saratoga Springs, New York, American Meteorological
Society/National Weather Association.
Corbosiero, K. L., and J.
Molinari, 2003: The structure and evolution of a hurricane in vertical
wind
shear: Hurricane Elena (1985). First Northeast
Tropical
Cyclone Workshop, 2-3 June, Rhinebeck, New York.
Corbosiero,
K. L., 2005: Evidence for vortex Rossby waves in Hurricane Elena
(1985). Second
Northeast Tropical Cyclone Workshop, 6-9 June, Rensselaerville, New York.
Corbosiero,
K. L., J. Molinari, A. R. Aiyyer, and M. L. Black, 2006: Inner core
asymmetries
and vortex Rossby waves in Atlantic basin tropical cyclones. Twenty-seventh
Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, 24-28 April,
Monterey,
California, American
Meteorological Society.
Corbosiero,
K. L., M. J.
Dickinson, and L. Bosart, 2006: The contribution of eastern North
Pacific
tropical cyclones to the warm season rainfall climatology of the
southwestern
United States. Second International Symposium on
Quantitative
Precipitation Forecasting and Hydrology. 5-8
June,
Boulder, Colorado, World Meteorological Organization.
Corbosiero,
K. L., V.
Cheruvu, J. Richter, C. Johnson and T. Eastburn, 2006: Climate and
weather, the
two go together: Girl Scouts at the National Center for Atmospheric
Research
program. Seventh International Conference on
School and
Popular Meteorological and Oceanic Education, 3-7 July, Boulder,
Colorado,
American Meteorological Society.
Corbosiero,
K. L., M. J.
Dickinson, and L. Bosart, 2006: Recurving eastern North Pacific
tropical
cyclones. Thirteenth Cyclone Workshop, 23-26
October, Pacific
Grove, California.
Corbosiero,
K. L., 2007:
The inner core structure and intensity change of Hurricane Elena(1985).
Small Scales and Extreme Events: The Hurricane, 12-16 February, Los
Angeles,
California, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of
California, Los Angeles.
Corbosiero,
K. L., W.
Wang, Y. Chen, J. Dudhia, and C. Davis, 2007: Advanced research WRF
high
resolution simulations of the inner core structure of Hurricanes
Katrina, Rita
and Wilma (2005). Eighth Annual WRF Users
Workshop, 11-15
June, Boulder, Colorado.
Corbosiero, K. L., M. J.
Dickinson, and L. Bosart, 2007: The contribution of eastern North
Pacific
tropical cyclones to the warm season rainfall climatology of the
southwest
United States. Fourth Symposium on Southwest
Hydrometeorology, 20-21 September, Tucson, Arizona.
Corbosiero, K. L., W.
Wang, J. Done, J. Dudhia, and C. Davis, 2007: Inner core structures and
intensity change simulated with the Advanced Hurricane WRF model. AGU Fall Meeting, 10-14
December, San Francisco, California.
Corbosiero,
K. L., W.
Wang, J. Done, J. Dudhia, and C. Davis, 2008: Inner core structures and
intensity change simulated with the Advanced Hurricane WRF model. Twenty-eighth
Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, 28
April-2
May, Orlando, Florida, American
Meteorological Society.
Fovell, R.
G., K. L.
Corbosiero, and H.-C. Kuo, 2008: Cloud
microphysics
impact on hurricane track as revealed in idealized experiments. Ninth Annual WRF Users Workshop, 23-27 June, Boulder,
Colorado.
The effects
of vertical
wind shear on tropical cyclones. CEP
Meteorological Honor Society Induction Ceremony, Valparaiso University,
4 May
2003.
The structure
and
evolution of a hurricane in vertical wind shear: Hurricane Elena
(1985).
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Mesoscale and Microscale
Meteorology
Seminar, 22 September 2005.
Investigating
tropical
cyclone structure and intensity change with the Advanced Hurricane WRF
model. Institute for Geophysics and Planetary
Physics, University of
California, Los Angeles, 19 February 2008.
The
contribution of eastern North Pacific tropical cyclones to the warm
season
rainfall climatology of the southwest United States. Environmental Science and Engineering
Seminar
Series, California Institute of Technology, 20 May 2009.
Corbosiero,
K. L., 2000:
The effects of vertical wind shear and storm motion on the distribution
of
lightning in tropical cyclones. Department of
Earth and
Atmospheric Sciences, University at Albany, State University of New
York, 105
pp.
Corbosiero,
K. L., 2005:
The structure and evolution of a hurricane in vertical wind shear. Department of Earth
and Atmospheric Sciences, University at Albany, State University of New
York,
148 pp.
College
Scholars Teaching Fellowship, University at Albany, State University of
New
York, 1997-2000.
Distinguished
Dissertation Award, University at Albany, State University of New York,
2005.
Narayan
R. Gokhale Distinguished Research Award, University at Albany, State
University
of New York, 2005.
Monthly
Weather Review Editor's Award, "For providing thorough reviews of a
large number of manuscripts and for special assistance to the editors
in evaluating controversial manuscripts.", 2010.
Associate
Editor, Monthly Weather Review, 2008-present.
Chair,
Max Eaton Award Committee, American Meteorological Society 28th Conference
on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, 2008.