Katherine J. Evans (Kate Evans) Professional Home Page
Technical Staff Member, Computational Earth Sciences Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory . Research interests: fully implicit solution methods for climate modeling, high resolution climate model development, ice sheet model development.
Current projects:
High Resolution Atmospheric Modeling
LDRD: Prediction of the Earth System after major volcanoes
Ice Sheet Modeling
SEACISM Project which is part of a new initiative from DOE's office of science, ISICLES.
Climate Model Development
Modeling the Earth System
Recently I have been implementing a fully implicit solver capability within a global atmospheric model, CAM-HOMME using Trilinos . Right now, this option is only applied to the shallow water test cases. HOMME is a spectral element discretization dycore option in the community atmosphere model (CAM), which is part of the CCSM. Among other things, this capability will provide a basis for parameter continuation calculations. There is still lots of work to do, so stay tuned.
My background explains my current interests; I got a B.S. in Physics from Haverford College performing fracture mechanics experiments under Jerry Gollub. I have a Ph.D. from Georgia Tech in Atmospheric Science performing diagnostics of persistent large scale weather systems using potential vorticity under Rob Black, and I did a postdoc at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the Theoretical Division under Dana Knoll developing fully implicit methods for convection models with phase transition.
There is no relation between me and the Kate Evans on the other side of the pond who has written a cartoon book about climate. Isn't it neat there are two 'Kate Evans' with an interest in the complex Earth system?
Pictures of clouds taken over the years, both strange and classic (click to enlarge):
Definitely Clickable Websites:
NOAA's Visualization of Hurricanes
The first, the best, weather site.
David Keyes's fantastic collection of quotations
Best introduction to all things Knoxville, TN
Earth Science Picture of the Day (thanks for discovering, Wilbert)
Site of the Month (or when I get around to updating):
Click here to write your next academic paper. Thanks to my Dad for discovering this time saver!Selected Refereed articles:
Evans, K.J. D. W. I. Rounson and A. G. Salinger and M. A. Taylor and W. Weijer and J. B. White III (2009)."A Scalable and Adaptable Solution Framework within Components of the Community Climate System Model" Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 5545:332-341. DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-01973-9Archibald, R.K. and K.J. Evans and J.B. Drake and J.B. White III (2009). "Time acceleration methods for advection on the cubed sphere." Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 5545:253-262. DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-01973-9
Evans, K.J. and D.A. Knoll, and Michael Pernice (2007). "Enhanced algorithm efficiency for phase change convection using a multigrid preconditioner with a SIMPLE smoother." J. Comp. Phys. 223:121-126. DOI 10.1016/j.jcp.2006.09.003
Evans, K.J., D.A. Knoll, and Michael Pernice (2006). "Development of a 2-D algorithm to simulate convection and phase transition accurately." J. Comp. Phys. 219:404-417. DOI 10.1016/j.jcp.2006.03.025
Evans, K.J., and R.X. Black (2003). "Piecewise Tendency Diagnosis of Weather Regime Transitions." J. Atmos. Sci., 60:1941-1959. Black, R.X., and K.J. Evans, (1998). "The Statistics and Horizontal Structure of Anomalous Weather Regimes in the Community Climate Model." Mon. Wea. Rev. 126:841-859.Contact info:
Kate Evans
1 Bethel Valley Road
P.O. Box 2008, MS 6016
Bldg. 5600, C315
Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6015
Phone: (865) 576-6517
Fax: (865) 576-5491
Email: evanskj at ornl dot gov
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