Janice Coen

Janice Lynn Coen

 EDUCATION

1992             Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1988             Master of Science, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1986             Bachelor of Science (magna cum laude), Grove City College, Grove City, PA

 PROFESSIONAL RECORD

2004-          Project Scientist II, NCAR.  Co-leader of NCAR'sWildland Fire Program.

2002-2004  Project Scientist II, NCAR.  Scientific lead of NCAR'sWildland Fire Initiative.

2001-2002  Project Scientist I, Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology/Research Applications Laboratory,NCAR

1996-2001   Associate Scientist III, Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division, NCAR

1994-1996   Associate Scientist II, Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division, NCAR

1992-1994   Scientific Visitor, Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division, NCAR        

Professional Activities

2004-           Steering Committee, The Institute for Multidisciplinary Earth Studies (TIMES)

2004-           Steering Committee, NCAR Biocomplexity Initiative

2002-           Natl. Computational Science Alliance Allocations Board / Natl. Resource Allocations Committee

2002-           Natl. interagency Fire Research Coordination Council

 Field Programs

2002             Infrared observations of fire dynamics at Colorado wildland fires. (Lead)

1999             FROSTFIRE Experiment, Fairbanks, AK. (Participant)

1998             WildFire Experiment (WiFE), NCAR.  (Participant)

 

RECENT REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Clark, T. L., J. L. Coen, and D. Latham, 2004: Description of a Coupled Atmosphere-Fire Model. Intl. J. Wildland Fire. 13:49-63.

Clark, T. L., M. A. Jenkins, J. Coen and D. Packham, 1996a: A Coupled Atmospheric-Fire Model: Convective Feedback on Fire Line Dynamics. J. Appl. Meteor., 35, 875-901.

Clark, T. L., M. A. Jenkins, J. Coen and D.Packham, 1996b: A Coupled Atmospheric-Fire Model: Convective Froude number and Dynamic Fingering. Intl. J. of Wildland Fire. 6:177-190.

Clark T., L. Radke, J. Coen, D. Middleton, 1999: Analysis of Small-Scale Convective Dynamics in a Crown Fire Using Infrared Video Camera Imagery.  J. Appl. Meteor. 38:1401-1420.

Coen, J. L. 2005: Simulation of the Big Elk Fire using coupled atmosphere-fire modeling. Intl. J. Wildland Fire. In press. 14(1).

Coen, J. L., 2003: Wildfire Weather.  Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences, J. Holton, J. Pyle, and J. Curry, eds.  Academic Press.

Coen, J. L. and R. T. Bruintjes, 2005:  Convective initiation by colliding boundaries in the United Arab Emirates.  Mon. Wea. Rev. Submitted.

Coen, J. L., S. Mahalingam, and J. W. Daily, 2004:  Infrared imagery of crown-fire dynamics during FROSTFIRE. J. Appl. Meteor. 43:1241-1259.

Jenkins, M. A., T. Clark, and J. Coen, 2001: Coupling Atmospheric and Fire Models. Ch. 7, in Forest Fires: Behavior and Ecological Effects. Academic Press. E. A. Johnson and Kiyoko Miyanishi, Eds. 600 pp.

Mandel, J., M. Chen, J. L. Coen, C. C. Douglas, L. P.  Franca, C. Johns, R. Kremens, A. Puhalskii, A.Vodacek, A.,W. Zhao, 2004: Dynamic data driven wildfire modeling, F. Darema (ed.), Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers. Submitted.

Radke, L. R., T.L. Clark, J. L. Coen, C. Walther, R. N. Lockwood, P.J. Riggin, J.  Brass, and R. Higgins, 2000 :  The WildFire Experiment  (WiFE): Observations with airborne remote sensors.  Canadian J. Remote  Sensing. 26:406-417.

Reinking, R. F., J. B. Snider, and J. L. Coen, 2000: Influences of storm-embedded orographic gravity waves on cloud liquid water and precipitation.  J. Appl. Meteor.  39:733-759.

 

RECENT NONREFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Coen, J. L., 2003: Infrared imagery applied for insights into wildland fire dynamics.  Preprints, 5th Symp Fire & Forest Meteorology/2nd Intl. Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress, Orlando, FL,  American Meteorological Society, CD-ROM, J2.9.

Coen, J. L., 2003: Simulation of wildfire incidents using coupled atmosphere-fire modeling.  Preprints, 5th Symp Fire & Forest Meteorology/2nd Intl. Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress, Orlando, FL,  American Meteorological Society, CD-ROM, J2.4.

Coen, J. L., 2003: Book Review of “Burning Questions: America’s fight with Nature’s Fire, by David Carle”, The Environment.  45:36.

Coen, J. L., 2001: Wildfire Research at NCAR: Wildfire simulations, observations of fire dynamics, and applications to hazard management.  3rd Intl. Conf. Geospatial Information on Agriculture and Forestry.  Denver.  Nov. 5-7. 4 pp.

Coen, J. L., T. L. Clark, and D. Latham, 2001: Coupled Atmosphere-Fire model simulations in various fuel types in complex terrain.  4th. Symp.  Fire and Forest Meteor. Amer. Meteor. Soc., Reno, Nov. 13-15.  4 pp.

Coen, J. L. and T. L. Clark, 2000: Coupled atmosphere-fire model dynamics of a fireline crossing a hill. Preprints 3rd Symp. Fire and Forest Meteor, Jan. 9-12, 2000, Long Beach, Amer. Meteor. Soc. 7-10.

Mandel, J. M. Chen, L. P. Franca, C. Johns, A. Puhalski, J. L. Coen, C. C. Douglas, R. Kremens, A. Vodacek, W. Zhao, 2004: A note on dynamic data driven wildfire modeling.  Intl. Conf. on Computational Science, Krakow. 7 pp.

Patton, E. G and J. L. Coen, 2004: WRF-Fire: A coupled atmosphere-fire module for WRF.  Preprints Joint MM5/Weather Research and Forecasting Model Users' Workshop.  June 22-25. Boulder. 221-223.

Rife, D. L., T. T. Warner, Y. Liu, and J. Coen, 2003: New methods for providing high resolution weather information to wildfire managers. 5th Symp.  Fire & Forest Meteor./2nd Intl.  Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress. Orlando.  Nov. 16-20.