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Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder (CIRES), Research Scientist I
Fundamentally, my research focuses on improving our understanding on convection and improving our ability to represent convection in numerical weather models. I am currently working as part of a team that focuses on the development of the Grell-Freitas Convective Parameterization. Additionally, I support other global model physics developers by creating and running several model verification scripts.
Developing new methods to use observations to validate numerical simulations
Radar meteorology
Education
B.S., Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2010
M.S., Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, 2013
Ph.D., Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, 2016
Experience
Research Scientist I at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder (CIRES), Boulder, CO, 2019 - Present
National Research Council (NRC) Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Boulder, CO, 2018-2019
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Richland, WA, 2016-2018
Radar Research Scientist during the Olympics Mountain Experiment (OLYMPEX), Seattle, WA, 2015
Data Manager during the Dynamics of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (DYNAMO) Experiment, Addu Atoll, Maldives, 2011
University of Washington Graduate Student Research Scientist, Seattle, WA, 2010-2016
Professional Activities
American Meteorological Society (2009 - Present)
American Geophysical Union (2012 - Present)
Reviewer for several AGU and AMS journals
Student poster judge at the 2017 AMS Annual Conference
Co-chair of the Young Scientists Paper Discussion Group at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (2017)
Honors and Awards
2016 Editor’s Citation for Excellence in refereeing JGR - Atmosphere
Barnes, H. C., J. P. Zagrodnik, L. A. McMurdie, A. K. Rowe, and R. A. Houze, Jr., 2018: Kelvin-Helmholtz Waves in Precipitating Mid-Latitude Cyclones. J. Atmos. Sci.,2018, doi: 10.1175/JAS-D-17-0365.1.
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, and H. C. Barnes, 2017: The Olympic Mountains Experiment (OLYMPEX). Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 98, 2167-2188, doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0182.1.
Barnes, H. C., and R. A. Houze, Jr., 2016: Comparison of observed and simulated spatial patterns of ice microphysical processes in tropical oceanic mesoscale convective systems. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 121, 8269-8296, doi:10.1002/2016JD025074.
Barnes, H. C., and R. A. Houze, Jr., 2015: Latent Heating Characteristics of the MJO computed from TRMM Observations. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos,, 120, 1322-1334, doi: 10.1002/2014JD022530
Barnes, H. C., and R. A. Houze, Jr., 2014: Precipitation Hydrometeor Type Relative to the Mesoscale Airflow in Mature Oceanic Deep Convection of the Madden-Julian Oscillation. J. Geophy. Res. Atmos., 119, 13990-14014, doi: 10.1002/2014JD022241.
