Martin Jucker

After attending (and talking at) the EGU General Assembly in Vienna, I'll be visiting a few great labs in Europe, and give seminar talks at Freie Universität Berlin, Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie Hamburg, and Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique Paris. Thanks to those institutions for their invitation, I am excited and looking forward to lots of interesting discussions!

Just got word that I'll be giving a talk at this year's European Geosciences Union's General Assembly in Vienna. I'll have to get up early though - first talk of the first session of the first day!

Our little son Simon Evan is born! Of course, he's the cutest baby in the world, and I'll take a little time off to dwell in our new life. *Wolke sieben*

Come and see my three talks at the American Meteorological Society's Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona. I'll be explaining (and showing off) my visualization software pv_atmos on Monday, 5 January 4:30PM, Room 129B. On Tuesday, 6 January 9:00AM, Room 212A, I'll be discussing my new simple GCM, MiMA, and my work on stratospheric water vapor. Finally, I'll give my last talk on Thursday, 8 January 2:15PM, Room 212BC, and show idealized climate change simulations about the relative importance of stratospheric versus tropospheric effects in the total atmospheric response. Looking forward to many interesting interactions!

Just like for SPARC 2014, I have created a one minute trailer for my appearance at the Americal Meteorological Society Annual Meeting 2015 in Phoenix, Arizona. One of my three talks will be about my visualization package pv_atmos, and I compiled some of my best visualizations into a movie. You can find it on my visualization page or directly on my YouTube channel. Isn't science beautiful? See you in Phoenix!

I am visiting the University of Exeter, UK, during the first week of December. Beautiful city, beautiful people, beautiful science (and of course, beautiful drinks too). We'll be working on some exciting new projects - stay tuned!

Thanks to everyone at ETH who came to my talk, and also my visualization workshop. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. Happy visualizing!

Our newest paper has been published in Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (JGR Atmospheres). The article describes a realistic way of including stratospheric dynamics in a simple dry GCM with Newtonian damping. More importantly, it discusses the effects of various stratospheric setups in such models on the frequency of Stratospheric Sudden Warmings (SSWs), which are an important feature of stratosphere-troposphere interaction. You can access it here.

My visualization package pv_atmos has received a major facelift.

Version 2.0 introduces new subpackage names pv_atmos.basic and pv_atmos.grids, some re-arrangement between the packages, and new functions. I have made this major update because I think it makes more sense, and it being available to anyone on pypi, I think these changes make a lot of sense. Try it out today! And remember to read and cite my publication about pv_atmos.

One of the students from my ParaView workshop earlier this year in Melbourne, Australia, has created an amazing movie showing the ozone hole. The movie is not only beautiful (including the music), but it shows such important science in such a nice way! Good job Kane Stone, more of this! The movie can be watched on vimeo, and some more description can be found here.

After over three years being a Princeton Tiger, I have arrived in Manhattan to start my new position at Courant Institute, New York University. Thank you very much Princeton and all the people at AOS/GFDL for memorable years full of enjoyable encounters and good science!

My movies section has just been updated to include my newest creation, this time ocean science related. The movie shows anthropogenic (human-made) CO2 concentrations in the worlds' oceans, dives into the deep of the Atlantic, and flies over the top of Mauna Loa to go and take a look at Antarctica.

The pictures and videos of this year's Art of Science competition are online. My contribution is listed in the videos section, and can be watched there, in the 3D part of my movies section, or following the official Princeton Youtube channel here.

Princeton has also created a compilation of all winner movies 2014, which can be seen here.

Today my visualizations make up the cover of Princeton University's website. Also included some of my pictures and movies. Go to the article here.

The guys from The Research Bazaar invited me for a small discussion about the recognition of programming skills in academia, based on my article about pv_atmos earlier this month. The 30 minute interview can be seen here.

My open source paper describing the the visualization routines I have developed for my 3D renderings has been published. It's open access, and includes detailed descriptions of how to make it work, where to get the code, and how to run the example files. Have a look.

After winning last year's Art of Science competition, I will be among the finalists this year as well. This time, instead of a picture, I submitted a video. The winners will be announced at the opening ceremony on May 8th.

Our paper about self-consistent simulations of radio frequency heating of fusion plasmas in very general geometries has been published in Fusion Science and Technology. You can read it here.

I am excited to finally make it to the Southern Hemisphere for the SPARC General Assembly in Queenstown, New Zealand. You can find a 44-second teaser for my poster in the media section.

Our paper about the maintenance of the stratospheric structure in an idealized GCM has been published in Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. It discusses how to improve the Newtonian cooling term in simple GCMs and investigates the origin of the seasonal cycle in temperature in the tropical tropopause layer. You can find it here.

In the October issue of Popular Science, you can find my little visual work on page 30. This comes out of Princeton's Art of Science competition that I won (see earlier news). In this particular article, I am who they refer to as "a scientist from Princeton University"...

My contribution has received the award of best picture, and the prize was presented by Pablo Debenedetti, Dean of Research. My thanks to the distinguished panel of judges: Katherine Bussard, Peter C. Bunnell curator of the Princeton Art Museum; David Dobkin, Dean of the Faculty; Emmet Gowin, Professor of Visual Arts, Emeritus; Paul Muldoon, Howard G.B. Clark '21 University Professor in the Humanities; and Shirley M. Tilghman, President. Visit the official Art of Science gallery.

My latest co-authored paper about sawtooth control in ITER has been published online. It compares results from measurements and various codes, including my code package SCENIC. Check it out.

One of my co-authored articles made it into the Best Articles of the Year 2012 selection of Physics of Plasmas. The paper highlights the importance of finite orbit widths in radio frequency heating scenarios. More information here.

The Swiss National Science Foundation just decided to award me with their Advanced Researcher's fellowship. Ranked highest of six levels, predicate "outstanding". Cheers to that!