Martin Jucker - Publications

Software & Data

During my work, I created some additions to models or useful interfaces, which I decided to share with anyone interested. So I started some GitHub repositories, which mean that anyone can not only go ahead and benefit from work already done, but maybe even decide to improve or extend it. In so doing, maybe some parallelisms and lost working hours can be avoided, and croud sourcing of useful tools in our research encouraged.

Climate Model: Model of an idealized Moist Atmosphere (MiMA)
- - As described in Jucker and Gerber, J. Clim. (2017) (see publications), I have developed an intermediate-complexity General Circulation Model with full moist processes and radiation, but without any cloud effects and very simple surface. The paper shows much details of the model, but extensive information can be found on GitHub. Free of charge, just don't forget to cite my work.
  - Get documentation here: MiMA.
    See the file repository here: MiMA GitHub.
    Or, for version specific citation (doesn't replace the reference to my paper, but complement it), follow the DOI badge next to the title.
Climate Model: Newtonian cooling in dry dynamical cores
- - As described in M Jucker, S Fueglistaler, and GK Vallis (2013), J. Atmos. Sci. 70, 3341-3358 (see publications), I have been working on adding a realistic stratosphere to idealized General Circulation Models. The above mentioned paper describes how this can be achieved technically and theoretically. In addition, and as support for the paper, I have created a GitHub repository to make it easy and practical for others to benefit from this work. At github.com/mjucker/JFV-strat, you can find the raw input files from those studies, as well as MATLAB scripts and the FORTRAN code needed to reproduce my work easily. Free of charge, just don't forget to cite my work.
  - Download the files here: JFV-strat_master.zip.
    See the file repository here: JFV-strat.
    Or, for version specific citation (doesn't replace the reference to my paper, but complement it), follow the DOI badge next to the title.
Visualization with ParaView
- - As indicated by many of the images on this website, and the journal articles, workshops, public talks, and awards sections below, I have developed a skill for scientific visualization. In the spirit of the open source software I have been using for this, mainly ParaView and Blender, I have created another GitHub repository which will hopefully grow with the addition of the community. The package located at github.com/mjucker/pv_atmos includes python scripts to interact directly with the GUI of ParaView and read in and manipulate netCDF files from geophysical fluid dynamics. In addition to converting coordinates into log-pressure or an actual sphere, it can also add grid boxes, lines, and labels. The package is described in detail in M Jucker, Scientific visualisation of atmospheric data with ParaView, Journal of Open Research Software 2(1):e4. Feel free to use it, just don't forget to cite my work.
  - Download the latest version here: pv_atmos_latest.
    See the file repository here: pv_atmos.
    Or, for version specific citation (doesn't replace the reference to my paper, but complement it), follow the DOI badge next to the title.
Climate data postprocessing and I/O file operations
- - Working extensively with climate data and model output, many derived quantities and averages have to be performed routinely. The aostools suite on GitHub unites most of the functions I use for my work. This software is still very much a work in progress, and not yet ready to be called a package, as there is still a lot of documenting to be done. But I have already used it for work I am publishing, which is why I made it completely available as is.
  - Download the latest version here: aostools_latest.
    See the file repository here: aostools.
    Or, for version specific citation, follow the DOI badge next to the title.
3D self-consistent integrated modeling of radio-frequency heating in fusion devices
- - The major product of my PhD thesis is the 3D self-consistent integrated modeling package SCENIC. The package unites three codes to model the interactions between electromagnetic radio-frequency waves, single charged particles, and the global equilibrium of a plasma-filled fusion device. Each of the codes is highly specialized to model its part of the process, and coupling all of them together into one package allows to include the full effects of RF heating in an arbitrary fusion device.
400m resolution ACCESS limited-area simulation over Australia
- - Scott Wales, Chun-Hsu Su, Charmaine Franklin, Christian Jacob, Martin Jucker, Todd Lane and Clare Vincent: (2020), DOI: 10.25914/5f1e4e3e3de2e
    
    I was fortunate enough to be part of this first-of-a-kind weather simulation over the entire Australian continent. It was a huge challange for hard and software and several solutions had to be found to get around limitations. It was done and it produced an incredibly rich dataset open to anyone liking to do something with it. Want to look at it yourself? Go ahead, it's there for everyone!

1^st & presenting author conference participations

Oral presentations
- - M Jucker and T Reichler (invited): Stratosphere-troposphere coupling in the Southern Hemisphere beyond the polar vortex breakdown, Dynamics and Variability Model Intercomparison Project (DynVarMIP) workshop on Atmospheric circulation in a changing climate, Madrid, Spain, October 25, 2019
  - M Jucker and TP Lane: A Study of Locally Forced Convection in the UM, WRF and CPOL, 3^rd Convective Scale Modelling Workshop, Darwin, Australia, November 15, 2018
  - M Jucker: MiMA: Closing the Gap between Simple and Comprehensive General Circulation Models, Understanding and Modelling Atmospheric Processes, 2nd Pan-GASS meeting, Lorne, Australia, February 27, 2018
  - M Jucker: 3D Visualisation for Research (invited), ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science Annual Workshop, Canberra, Australia, October 31, 2017
  - M Jucker and TP Lane: Diurnal Cycle of Convection over Darwin, 2^nd Convective Scale Modelling Workshop, UK MetOffice, Exeter, UK, June 12, 2017
  - M Jucker and EP Gerber: The Role of the Maritime Continent in Setting the Tropical Cold Point Structure, AMOS Conference, Canberra, Australia, February 8, 2017
  - M Jucker and EP Gerber (presenting): Untangling the tropical tropopause layer with an idealized moist model: Tropical vs. extratropical control (invited), AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, December 12, 2016
  - M Jucker and EP Gerber (presenting): Untangling the tropical tropopause layer with an idealized moist model: Tropical vs. extratropical control (invited), WCRP Model Hierarchies Workshop, Princeton University, Princeton, USA, November 3, 2016
  - M Jucker and EP Gerber (presenting): The tropical tropopause layer in an idealized moist model: Tropical vs. extratropical control, SPARC workshop SHARP2016, Berlin, D, February 17, 2016
  - M Jucker and EP Gerber: Coupling between moisture and circulation above the clouds: The annular cycle of stratospheric water vapor, 20th AMS Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics, Minneapolis, MN, USA, June 17, 2015
  - M Jucker and EP Gerber: What regulates the annual cycle of stratospheric water vapor?, European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 13, 2015
  - M Jucker, C Cairns, and GK Vallis: Stratospheric vs. tropospheric effects on circulation changes in a simple GCM, 27th AMS Conference on Climate Variability and Change, Phoenix AZ, USA, January 8, 2015
  - M Jucker, M Lytle, DMW Frierson, and EP Gerber: Stratospheric water vapor feedbacks in a simple GCM, 18th AMS Conference on the Middle Atmosphere, Phoenix AZ, USA, January 6, 2015
  - M Jucker: pv_atmos: Atmospheric and oceanic data visualization with ParaView, 5th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python, Phoenix AZ, USA, January 5, 2015
  - M Jucker, S Fueglistaler, and GK Vallis: Interplay between radiative base state and dynamics in a dry GCM, 19th AMS Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics, Newport RI, USA, June 19, 2013
  - M Jucker, S Fueglistaler, and GK Vallis: Brewer-Dobson Circulation and Stratospheric Water Vapor in an Idealized GCM, SPARC workshop on Brewer-Dobson Circulation, Grindelwald, Switzerland, June 29, 2012
  - M Jucker, JP Graves, WA Cooper, and T Johnson: Integrated modeling for Ion Cyclotron Resonance Heating in toroidal systems, Joint Varenna-Lausanne international workshop, Varenna, Italy, September 3, 2010
  - M Jucker, JP Graves, GA.Cooper and WA Cooper: Impact of ICRH heating on particle motion in anisotropic toroidal magnetic confinement systems, Annual meeting of the Swiss Physical Society, Geneva, Switzerland, March 26, 2008
Poster presentations
- - M Jucker and J Evans: Cross-equatorial wave propagation over the Pacific, 22nd AMS Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics Conference, Portland, Maine, USA, June 24, 2019
  - M Jucker and T Reichler: Using Dynamical Precursors for Statistical SSW Prediction, SPARC General Assembly, Kyoto, Japan, October 4, 2018
  - M Jucker and T Reichler: Increased Probability of Sudden Stratospheric Warmings, European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 10, 2018
  - M Jucker, CL Vincent, H Nguyen, and TP Lane: Cloud System Resolving Nested Simulations of Maritime Continent Convection with the Unified Model, AMOS Conference, Canberra, Australia, February 8, 2017
  - M Jucker: Generic Evolution and Downward Coupling of Sudden Stratospheric Warmings in an Idealized GCM, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, December 13, 2016
  - CL Vincent, TP Lane, and M Jucker (presenting): Diurnal and MJO-scale variations in rain-rate in the Maritime Continent: Modelled and observed, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, December 14, 2016
  - M Jucker and TP Lane: High Resolution Nested Modelling of Tropical Convection Over Darwin, ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science Workshop, Lorne, Australia, November 21, 2016
  - M Jucker, C Cairns, and GK Vallis: Radiative vs Dynamical Effects in Abrupt Climate Change Simulations, 20th AMS Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics, Minneapolis, MN, USA, June 18, 2015
  - M Jucker: Life Cycle of Stratospheric Sudden Warmings, 20th AMS Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics, Minneapolis, MN, USA, June 16, 2015
  - M Jucker, S Fueglistaler, and GK Vallis: Importance of the radiative base state for the dynamical variability of the stratosphere, SPARC General Assembly, Queenstown, New Zealand, January 14, 2014
  - M Jucker, S Fueglistaler, and GK Vallis: Stratospheric radiation, dynamics, and trace gases in an idealized GCM, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco CA, USA, December 7, 2012
  - M Jucker, JP Graves, WA Cooper, S Brunner, N Mellet, and T Johnson: Self-consistent ICRF simulations in fully shaped anisotropic plasmas, European Fusion Theory Conference, Riga, Latvia, October 14, 2009
  - M Jucker, JP Graves, WA Cooper, N Mellet, and S Brunner: Monte Carlo ICRH simulations in fully shaped anisotropic plasmas, Joint-Varenna-Lausanne International Workshop, Varenna, Italy, August 28 2008
  - M Jucker, JP Graves and WA Cooper: ingle particle orbits in anisotropic fully shaped plasmas, European Fusion Theory Conference, Madrid, Spain, September 2007
  - M Jucker, and VP Pavlenko: Generation and Stability of Large Scale Magnetic Structures in Electron Drift Turbulence European Fusion Theory Conference, Madrid, Spain, September 26, 2007
  - M Jucker, ZhA Andrushchenko and VP Pavlenko: Large scale magnetic field structures in nonuniform unmagnetized plasma, 33rd European Physical Society conference on Plasma Physics, Rome, Italy, June 19-23, 2006

Invited talks and workshops

Invited talks
- - M Jucker, EP Gerber, GK Vallis, and S Fueglistaler: Stratosphere vs Troposphere: A Dance of Scales, Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, July 26, 2017
  - M Jucker: Large Ensemble Analysis of Stratosphere-Troposphere Coupling on the Seasonal Time Scale, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia, March 22, 2017
  - M Jucker and EP Gerber: The Stratosphere and its coupling to the surface, School of Earth, Atmosphere, and Environment, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, August 26, 2016
  - M Jucker: The Stratosphere - Far Beyond and Still So Close, School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, August 17, 2016
  - M Jucker, EP Gerber, and GK Vallis: Model of an idealized Moist Atmosphere (MiMA): The role of water vapor in atmospheric dynamics, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK, March 10, 2016
  - M Jucker, S Fueglistaler, GK Vallis, and EP Gerber: Radiation, Dynamics, and the Stratosphere: An Idealized Model Framework, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Paris, France, April 28, 2015
  - M Jucker, S Fueglistaler, GK Vallis, EP Gerber, O Pauluis, and C Cairns: Modeling an Idealized Atmosphere: Dynamics, Radiation, and All That, Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Hamburg, Germany, April 21, 2015
  - M Jucker, S Fueglistaler, GK Vallis, EP Gerber, O Pauluis, and C Cairns: Modeling an Idealized Atmosphere: Dynamics, Radiation, and All That, Institut für Meteorologie, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany, April 20, 2015
  - M Jucker, S Fueglistaler, GK Vallis, EP Gerber, O Pauluis, and C Cairns: Modeling an idealized atmosphere: Linking large scale dynamics and radiation in simplified models, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland, November 25, 2014
  - M Jucker, S Fueglistaler, and GK Vallis: Stratospheric variability and stratosphere-troposphere coupling in an idealized GCM, Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, January 29, 2014
  - M Jucker, S Fueglistaler, and GK Vallis: Stratosphere-troposphere coupling in a new dry GCM, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, January 24, 2014
  - M Jucker, S Fueglistaler, and GK Vallis: Stratosphere-troposphere coupling in a new dry GCM, School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, January 21, 2014
  - M Jucker, S Fueglistaler, and GK Vallis: Stratosphere-troposphere coupling in a new dry GCM, School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, January 20, 2014
  - M Jucker, S Fueglistaler, and GK Vallis: Stratosphere-troposphere coupling in a new dry GCM setup, CAOS Colloquium, New York University, New York, USA, October 2, 2013
  - M Jucker, S Fueglistaler, and GK Vallis: Newtonian Cooling 2.0: A new dry GCM setup for a more realistic stratosphere, SEAS Colloquium in Climate Science, Columbia University, New York, USA, January 31, 2013
  - M Jucker, JP Graves, and WA Cooper: Self-consistent ICRH modelling, School of Electrical Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, August 26, 2009
Workshops
- - M Jucker: A very introductory introduction to 3D visualisation with ParaView (see YouTube recording), ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes webinar, Sydney, Australia, August 29, 2018
  - M Jucker: Introduction to visualisation with ParaView and pv_atmos, Department of Environmental Systems Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland, November 25, 2014
  - M Jucker: Workshop on Scientific Visualisation: Initiation to visualisation techniques and software, School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, January 22, 2014
  - M Jucker: Workshop on Scientific Visualisation: Initiation to visualisation software, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, USA, March 3, 2012

Books, Public talks, Media coverage, and Awards

Book chapters
- - Todd P Lane, Claire L Vincent, M Jucker, M Bergemann, and S Narsey, Diurnally Forced Convection in the Australian Monsoon in The Multiscale Global Monsoon System, edited by CP Chang, KJ Ha, RH Johnson, D Kim, GNC Lau, and B Wang, World Scientific, ISBN 978-981-1216-59-6
Public talks
- - M Jucker, Wet Side Story – Why is the stratosphere the sunniest place on Earth?, Princeton Research Symposium, Princeton NJ, USA, November 17, 2012
  - M Jucker, A General Introduction to the Stratospheric Overturning Circulation, Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Days, Princeton NJ, USA, June 7, 2012
  - M Jucker, A General Introduction to Stratospheric Dynamics and Water Vapor Distribution, Fluid Dynamics & the Global Environment Symposium, Princeton NJ, USA, May 22, 2012
Media coverage and Awards
- - Climate Surprise: Closing the Ozone Hole, Research feature of the Australian Academy of Sciences, December 6, 2019.
  - A truly exceptional weather event is happening right now in the Southern Hemisphere , published on Medium via Iceberg, September 15, 2019.
  - Making climate models open source makes them even more useful , The Conversation, March 7, 2018.
  - World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) nomination for the WMO Young Scientist Award 2017 and promotion as promising future leader in climate science.
  - Visualising the weather: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science Newsletter article about how to visualise data, and in particular, how I got to create my weather page.
  - Flight over Earth's Solid Surface: Feature on Paraview's main Home page showing the capabilities of Paraview. The video is also on Kitware's main Vimeo stream.
  - M Jucker and L Roberts: The Warming, Weekly featured image on the European Geosciences Union (EGU) GeoLog. August 3, 2015.
  - Feature of Princeton University's main Home page: "Thinking out of the flat box: Software renders Earth's atmosphere in 3-D splendor".
  - Official video selection of Princeton University's 2014 Art of Science Competition to increase public interest in science. The selected video "Fly Me" illustrates the resolution of climate models in full 3D. July 2014
  - Preparation of multiple scientific visualisations for the second edition of the geophysical fluid dynamics book G.K. Vallis (2006): “Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics”, ISBN 9780521849692, Cambridge University Press, 2014
  - Winner of Princeton University’s 2013 Art of Science Competition to increase public interest in science. Various appearances in print and online, including National Geographic, New York Times, Huffington Post, NBCNews, CNN, New Scientist, Wired, PhysOrg, Popular Science. May 10, 2013
  - Inclusion of my figure in the popular science book “Faszinierende Physik”, ISBN 978-3-642-37811-9, Springer, Berlin, 2013
  - European Fusion Development Agreement (EFDA) selects my scientific visualization for their newsletter and awards it Picture of the Week in their multimedia section, March 26, 2012
  - "Optimisation et parallelisme avec OpenMP": Case study of implementing OpenMP parallelization in High Performance Computing. Article published in internal newspaper of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL). March 2007.

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Books, Public talks, Media coverage, and Awards