Contact Information
1301 W. Green St.
Urbana, IL 61801
Biography
I am currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences here at the University of Illinois. I received my B.S. in Atmospheric Sciences with a minor in Geography and GIS from UIUC in 2018. I joined Professor Rauber’s research team as an undergraduate and analyzed airborne radar data from the SNOWIE field campaign which took place in 2017 over Idaho.
As a M.S. student, I analyzed radar, lidar, and thermodynamic data collected during the SOCRATES field campaign which took place in 2018 over the Southern Ocean. My M.S. research primarily focused on Southern Ocean cloud top phase characterization and ice production at warm cloud top temperatures. I am currently working with data from the NASA-EPSO IMPACTS field campaign as part of my Ph.D. research. The hope is to eventually better understand the evolution and structure of mesoscale snow bands within extratropical cyclones. I also participated in the Propagation, Evolution, and Rotation in Linear Storms (PERiLS) field campaign which sampled quasi-linear convective systems throughout the Southeast U.S. Outside of meteorology, I enjoy fishing, skiing, reading, hiking, and watching sports.
Research Interests
My current research interests include radar meteorology, lidar phase identification, weather modification, orographic precipitation, boundary layer clouds, Southern Ocean clouds, atmospheric rivers, extratropical cyclones, mesoscale snow bands, and quasi-linear convective systems.
Education
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 2018 - B.S. Atmospheric Sciences - Minor Geography & GIS
- 2020 - M.S. Atmospheric Sciences
Courses Taught
Teaching Assistant
- Fall 2018: ATMS 100 - Introduction to Meteorology
- Spring 2019: ATMS 313 - Synoptic Weather Forecasting
- Fall 2021: ATMS 410 - Radar Remote Sensing
- Summer 2022: ATMS 324 - Field Studies of Convection
Recent Publications
Varcie, M. M., T. J. Zaremba, R. M. Rauber, G. M. McFarquhar, J. A. Finlon, L. A. McMurdie, A. Ryzhkov, F. Waitz, M. Schnaiter, E. Järvinen, D. J. Delene, M. R. Poellet, M. McLinden, and A. Janiszeski, 2022: Precipitation Growth Processes in the Comma Head Region of the 7 February 2020 Northeast Snowstorm: results from IMPACTS, J. Atmos. Sci., https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0118.1
Zaremba, T. J., R. M. Rauber, S. Haimov, B. Geerts, J. R. French, C. Grasmick, K. Heimes, S. A. Tessendorf, K. Friedrich, L. Xue, R. M. Rasmussen, M. L. Kunkel, and D. R. Blestrud, 2022: Vertical Motions in Orographic Cloud Systems over the Payette River Basin. Part 1: Recovery of Vertical Motions and their Uncertainty from Airborne Doppler Radial Velocity Measurements, J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-21-0228.1
Zaremba, T. J., K. Heimes, R. M. Rauber, B. Geerts, J. R. French, C. Grasmick, S. A. Tessendorf, L. Xue, K. Friedrich, R. M. Rasmussen, M. L. Kunkel, and D. R. Blestrud, 2022: Vertical Motions in Orographic Cloud Systems over the Payette River Basin. Part 2: Fixed and Transient Updrafts and their Relationship to Forcing, J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-21-0229.1
Heimes, K., T. J. Zaremba, R. M. Rauber, S. A. Tessendorf, L. Xue., K. Ikeda, B. Geerts, J. R. French, K. Friedrich, R. M. Rasmussen, M. L. Kunkel, and D. R. Blestrud, 2022: Vertical Motions in Orographic Cloud Systems over the Payette River Basin, Part 3: Evaluation of the Impact of Transient Vertical Motions on Targeting During Orographic Cloud Seeding Operations, J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-21-0230.1
Lulin, X., C. Weeks, S. Chen, S. A. Tessendorf, R. M. Rasmussen, K. Ikeda, B. Kosovic, D. Behringer, J. R. French, K. Friedrich, T. J. Zaremba, R. M. Rauber, C. P. Lackner, B. Geerts, D. Blestrud, M. Kunkel, N. Dawson, and S. Parkinson, 2022: Comparison between observed and Simulated AgI seeding impacts in a well observed case from the SNOWIE field program, J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-21-0103.1
