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Starting September 2022, Jan will terminate his position as Assistant Professor at CU 麻豆影院, and听take up a new role as Manager of Research Science of the Climate Analytics team at听McKinsey and Company.听听

Biography

Jan is principal investigator and leader of the Ice Sheets and Climate lab, and has started听as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences in August 2017. He is an ice sheet and climate scientist with a specific interest in polar climate, snow-atmosphere and ice-ocean interactions on meso- to global scale. Jan's main tools are climate and snow models, evaluated with remote sensing and in-situ climate observations. He received his PhD听cum laude听in Polar Meteorology at Utrecht University, The Netherlands in 2013. He acts as听co-chair of the Land Ice Working Group of CESM, is editorial board member of Nature Communications Earth & Environment, and member of the NASA Sea Level Change Team and ICESat-2 Science team.听

In his free time, Jan loves road and mountain bike riding, running, hiking, camping and snowboarding.

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Teaching

The following classes are taught regularly by Jan Lenaerts:

ATOC-5050:听Atmospheric Thermodynamics & Dynamics听(Fall 2017, Fall 2019)

Covers atmospheric motion and its underlying mathematical and physical principles. Explores the dynamics of the atmosphere and the mathematical laws governing atmospheric motion. Topics include atmospheric composition and thermodynamics, conservation laws, geostrophic balance, vorticity dynamics, boundary layers, and baroclinic instability. Department enforced prereq., one year of college chemistry and calculus-based physics and math up through differential equations. ATOC graduate core course.听 Typically offered in fall.

ATOC-1050:听Weather and the Atmosphere听(Spring 2019, Fall 2020)

Introduces principles of modern meteorology for nonscience majors, with emphasis on scientific and human issues associated with severe weather events. Includes description, methods of prediction, and impacts of blizzards, hurricanes, thunderstorms, tornadoes, lightning, floods, and firestorms.

ATOC 4780/5780:听Ice Sheets and Climate听(Spring 2020, Spring 2022)

The main topics discussed in this course (鈥淲hat will we cover?鈥�) are:听

• The role of ice sheets in the climate system over a range of temporal and spatial scales
• The formation and evolution of ice sheets in the geological era.
• The interactions between ice sheets, oceans, and the atmosphere.
• Ice sheet climate and related concepts (mass balance, conservation of mass, ice flow, accumulation/ablation, etc.)
• Ice sheet meteorology and climatology: katabatic winds, surface fluxes, radiation, clouds, seasonal variations.
• Ice sheet surface processes: snow, firn, albedo, hydrology.
• Ice sheet mass balance in present and future climate, and methods for observing and modeling ice sheets

ATOC 3600: Principles of Climate听(Fall 2022)

Describes the basic components of the climate system: the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and lithosphere. Investigates the basic physical processes that determine climate and link the components of the climate system. Covers the hydrological cycle and its role in climate, climate stability and global change.

For all courses offered by ATOC, and much more information, visit the ATOC courses page:听

Jan at TEDx (Nov. 2016)