Carmen Nicole Moelders

Carmen Nicole Moelders
Born	Duisburg, Germany
Residence	United States
Nationality	American
Fields	Meteorology, Geophysics
Institutions	University of Alaska Fairbanks
Alma mater	University of Cologne (B.S., 1983; M.S., 1988; Ph.D., 1993), University of Leipzig (Habilitation, 1999)
Doctoral advisor	Adolf Ebel
Doctoral students	Zhao Li, Debasish Pai Mazumder, Huy N. Q. Tran
Known for	Hydrometeorology, Mesoscale meteorology, Land-atmosphere interactions, Cloud physics, Air pollution and wildfire modeling
Notable awards	Scholarship by Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand, France (1985), Habilitanden scholarship of the DFG (1996), Heisenberg Fellowship of the DFG for Physical Hydrology (1999), Extraordinary Performance Award for excellence in soil moisture research, by Geophysical Institute, UAF (2003), CNSM Outstanding Graduate Student Mentor and Advisor Award, UAF (2009)

Carmen Nicole Moelders (publishing name Nicole Mölders) is an American atmospheric scientist. Her work is mainly focused on hydrometeorology, mesoscale meteorology, cloud physics, land-atmosphere interaction, air pollution and wildfire modeling.^[1]

Background

Moelders earned a B.S. and a M.S, in Meteorology and a Ph.D. in Geophysics at University of Cologne, Germany, in 1983, 1988, and 1992, respectively.^[2] She earned a habilitation in meteorology at University of Leipzig, Germany, in 1999.^[3] From 1999 to 2001 she has served as a Heisenberg Fellow for Physical Hydrology. The Heisenberg Fellowship is a prestigious award conferred by the DFG (German Research Foundation). In 2001 she joined the Atmospheric Science Group of the Geophysical Institute and the Department of Atmospheric Sciences of the College of Natural Science and Mathematics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) as an associate professor of atmospheric science. In 2006 she was promoted to full professor.^[4] Since 2005 she has served as the Chair of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at UAF^[5] and as one of the two representatives of UAF at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). Currently, she serves as a member of UCAR's Membership Committee.^[6] Furthermore, she serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Swiss journal Climate. This journal is an independent, international and multi-disciplinary open access journal covering all aspects of the global climate system.^[7]

Awards

• 1985 - Scholarship by Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand, France
• 1996 - Habilitanden scholarship of the DFG
• 1999 - Heisenberg Fellowship of the DFG for Physical Hydrology
• 2003 - Extraordinary Performance Award for excellence in soil moisture research, by Geophysical Institute, UAF
• 2009 - CNSM Outstanding Graduate Student Mentor and Advisor Award, UAF

Selected publications

Moelders has published more than 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals and books.^[8][9]

• Mölders, N., Kramm, G., 2014. Lectures in Meteorology. Springer, 591 pp.^[10]
• Ross, H.K., Cooney, J., Hinzman, M., Smock, S., Sellhorst, G., Dlugi, R, Mölders, N., Kramm, G., 2014: Wind power potential in Interior Alaska from a micrometeorological perspective. Atmospheric and Climate Sciences 4,100-121.
• Mölders, N., 2011: Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes: Impact on Climate and Air Quality. Springer, 210 pp.^[11]
• Mölders, N., Tran, H.N.Q., Cahill, C.F., Leelasakultum, K., Tran, T.T., 2012: Assessment of WRF/Chem PM2.5-forecasts using mobile and fixed location data from the Fairbanks, Alaska winter 2008/09 field campaign. Atmos. Pol. Res. 3, doi: 10.5094/APR.2012.018.

• Mölders, N., Porter, S.E., Cahill, C.F., Grell, G.A., 2010: Influence of ship emissions on air quality and input of contaminants in southern Alaska National Parks and Wilderness Areas during the 2006 tourist season. Atmos. Environ. 44, 1400-1413.
• Mölders, N., Kramm, G., 2010. A case study on wintertime inversions in Interior Alaska with WRF. Atmos. Res. 95, 314-332,
• PaiMazumder, D., Miller, J., Li, Z., Walsh, J.E., Etringer, A., McCreight, J., Zhang, T., Mölders, N., 2008. Evaluation of Community Climate System Model soil temperatures using observations from Russia. Theor. Appl. Climatol. 94, 187-213.
• Mölders, N., 2008. Suitability of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF^[12]) model to predict the June 2005 fire weather for Interior Alaska. Weather Forecast. 23, 953-973.
• Li, Z., Mölders, N., 2008. Interaction of impacts of doubling CO2 and changing regional land-cover on evaporation, precipitation, and runoff at global and regional scales. Int. J. Climatol.
• Mölders, N., Kramm, G., 2007. Influence of wildfire induced land-cover changes on clouds and precipitation in Interior Alaska - A case study. Atmospheric Research 84, 142-168.
• Narapusetty, B., Mölders, N., 2006. Evaluation of the soil module of HTSVS by observations and a theoretically advanced numerical scheme. Mon. Wea. Rev. 134, 2927-2942.
• Mölders, N., Walsh, J.E., 2004. Atmospheric response to soil-frost and snow in Alaska in March. Theor. Appl. Climat. 77, 77-105.
• Mölders, N., Haferkorn, U., Döring, J., Kramm, G., 2003. Long-term numerical investigations on the water budget quantities predicted by the hydro-thermodynamic soil vegetation scheme (HTSVS) - Part I: Description of the model and impact of long-wave radiation, roots, snow, and soil frost. Meteor. Atmos. Phys. 84, 115-135.
• Mölders, N., Rühaak, W., 2002. On the impact of explicitly predicted runoff on the simulated atmospheric response to small-scale land-use changes - An integrated modeling approach. Atmospheric Research 63, 3-38.
• Mölders, N., 2001. On the uncertainty in mesoscale modeling caused by surface parameters. Meteor. Atmos. Phys. 76, 119-141.
• Mölders, N., 2000. Application of the principle of superposition to detect nonlinearity in the short-term atmospheric response to concurrent land-use changes associated with future landscapes. Meteor. Atmos. Phys. 72, 47-68.
• Mölders, N., 1999. On the atmospheric response to urbanization and open-pit mining under various geostrophic wind conditions. Meteor. Atmos. Phys. 71, 205-228.
• Mölders, N., 1998. Landscape changes over a region in East Germany and their impact upon the processes of its atmospheric water-cycle. Meteor. Atmos. Phys. 68, 79-98.
• Mölders, N., Raabe, A., 1997. Testing the effect of a two-way-coupling of a meteorological and a hydrologic model on the predicted local weather. Atmospheric Research 45,81-108.
• Mölders, N., Raabe, A., Tetzlaff, G., 1996. A comparison of two strategies on land surface heterogeneity used in a mesoscale beta meteorological model. Tellus 48A, 733-749.
• Mölders, N., Laube, M., Kramm, G., 1995. On the parameterization of ice microphysics in a mesoscale alpha weather forecast model. Atmospheric Research 38, 207-235.
• Mölders, N., Hass, H., Jakobs, H.J., Laube, M., Ebel, A., 1994. Some effects of different cloud parameterizations in a mesoscale model and a chemistry transport model. J. Appl. Meteor. 33, 527-545.

References

External links

• Atmospheric Science Group of the Geophysical Institute at UAF
• Curricula of the American Meteorological Society and the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research