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Janice Coen

Project Scientist
Directorate
303-497-8986
janicecucar.edu

Job Duties

Main duties are co-lead of Wildland Fire Initiative and fire behavior modeling & observations (internally and externally supported projects)

Research Areas

Coupled Atmosphere-Wildland Fire Modeling

Analysis of Infrared Imagery of Wildland Fire Dynamics

Numerical modeling of precipitation formation over complex terrain

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Master of Science, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Bachelor of Science (magna cum laude), Grove City College, Grove City, P

Selected 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., L. F. Radke, J. L. Coen, D. Middleton, 1999: Analysis of Small-Scale Convective Dynamics in a Crown Fire Using Infrared Video Camera Imagery. Journal of Applied Meteorology: Vol. 38, No. 10, pp. 1401-1420.

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

Coen, J.L., 2004: Simulation of the Big Elk wildfire using coupled atmosphere-fire modeling. Intl. Journal of Wildland Fire. 14(1):49-59. .

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

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

Coen, J. L., 2003: Simulation of wildfire incidents using coupled atmosphere-fire modeling. 5th Symp. Fir e & Forest Meteor./2nd Intl. Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress. Orlando. Nov. 16-20.

Coen, J. L., 2003: Infrared Imagery Applied for Insights into Wildland Fire Dynamics. 5th Symp. Fire & Forest Meteor./2nd Intl. Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress. Orlando. Nov. 16-20.

Coen, J. L., 2001: Wildfire Research at NCAR: Wildfire simulations, observations of fire dynamics, and applications for hazard management. 3rd Intl. Conf. Geospatial Information in Agriculture and Forestry. Denver, November 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. 39-42.

Coen, J. L. and R. T. Bruintjes, 2001: Summer convective precipitation during monsoon flow against Mexico's Sierra Madres: effects of hygroscopic seeding. Preprints 15th Conf. on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification. Amer. Meteor. Soc. Albuquerque, January. 91-94.

Coen, J. L., T. L. Clark, and W. D. Hall, 1998: Effect of atmospheric winds and shear on fire behavior: Experiments using a coupled atmosphere-fire model. Preprints 2nd Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology, Jan. 11-16, Phoenix, Arizona, Amer. Meteor. Soc. 81-86.

Coen, J. L., T. L. Clark, and W. D. Hall, 1998: Simulations of the effect of terrain on fire behavior: Experiments using a coupled atmosphere-fire model. Preprints 2nd Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology, Jan. 11-16, Phoenix, Arizona, Amer. Meteor. Soc. 87-90.

Daily, J. W., S. Mahalingam, J. Milford, Y. Khunatorn, T. L. Clark, J. Coen, L. Radke, 1999: Visible and IR Imaging and UV-Visible Spectral Analysis of the Frostfire Controlled Burn near Fairbanks, Alaska, July 1999. Preprints, Spring Meeting Western States Section/The Combustion Institute. March13-14. Golden, CO. 12 pp.

Jenkins, M. A., T. Clark, and J. Coen, 2001: Coupling Atmospheric and Fire Models. Chapter 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,, W. Zhao, 2004: Dynamic data driven wildfire modeling, F. Darema (ed.), Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers. Submitted.

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.

Mandel, J. L. S. Bennethum, M. Chen, L. P. Franca, C. Johns, J. L. Coen, C. C. Douglas, M. Kim, A. V. Knyazev, R. Kremens, V. Kulkarni, G. Qin, A. Vodacek, J. Wu, W. Zhao, A. Zornes, 2005: Towards a dynamic data driven application for wildfire simulation. 5th Intl. Conf. on Computational Science - ICCS'05. Atlanta, GA. May 22-25. 8 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.

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

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

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