Biographical Sketch Ralf Bennartz, PHD

Biographical Sketch –Ralf Bennartz, PHD

Professional Preparation  The Free University of Berlin, Institute for Space Sciences. Ph.D. at. Subject: Retrieval of rain, cloud, and humidity parameters from passive microwave data in coastal regions. May 1997 (Advisor: J. Fischer)  University of Hamburg/Max-Planck-Institute für Meteorologie, Hamburg, Germany. Diploma (equiv. M.S. degree) in Meteorology obtained at the Subject: A simulation study on cloud/radiation interaction in stratocumulus clouds. April 1994 (Advisor: H. Grassl)  University of Cologne, Germany, Undergraduate studies in Atmospheric Sciences, 1988-1990 Appointments  June 2013 – Current: Professor, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt University and Affiliate Faculty Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UW-Madison.  October 2012 – current: Professor at the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and Principal Investigator Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.  June 2007 – September 2012: Associate Professor at the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and Principal Investigator Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.  September 2002 – May 2007: Assistant Professor at the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin - Madison.  January 2001 – August 2002: Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas. Associate Scientist at Free University of Berlin, Institute for Space Sciences.  June 1997 – December 2000: Research Scientist at the Institute for Space Sciences, Free University of Berlin, Germany. Selected Peer-reviewed Publications (10) Bennartz, R., M. Shupe , D. Turner , V. Walden , K. Steffen , C. Cox , M. S. Kulie , N. Miller , C. Pettersen, 2013: July 2012 Greenland melt extent enhanced by low- level liquid clouds. Nature, 496, 83-86, doi:10.1038/nature12002. Bennartz, R., 2014: Remote Sensing of Snowfall. Book chapter in: Encyclopedia of Remote Sensing. Njoku, Eni G. (Ed.), 2014, 1000 p. 350. ISBN 978-0-387-36698-2. Shupe, M.D., D. D. Turner, V. P. Walden, R. Bennartz, M. P. Cadeddu, B. B. Castellani, C. J. Cox, D. R. Hudak, M. S. Kulie, N. B. Miller, R. R. Neely III, and W. D. Neff, 2013: High and Dry: New Observations of Tropospheric and Cloud Properties above the Greenland Ice Sheet. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00249.1. Bennartz, R. and M. Schroeder, 2012: Convective activity over Africa and the tropical Atlantic inferred from 20 years of geostationary satellite observations. J. Climate, doi: 10.1175/2011JCLI3984.1. Bennartz, R., A. Lauer, J.-L. Brenguier, 2011: Scale-aware integral constraints on autoconversion and accretion in regional and global climate models. Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L10809, doi:10.1029/2011GL047618. Biographical Sketch –Ralf Bennartz, PHD

Hiley, M., M. Kulie, and R. Bennartz, 2011: Uncertainty analysis for CloudSat snowfall retrievals. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 50, 2, 399-418. Kulie, M., R. Bennartz, T. Greenwald, Y. Chen, F. Weng, 2010: Uncertainties in microwave optical properties of frozen precipitation: Implications for remote sensing and data assimilation, J. Atmos. Sci., 67, 11 (November 2010) pp. 3471-3487 Bennartz, R., P. Watts, J. F. Meirink, and R. Roebeling, 2010: Rain water path in warm clouds derived from combined visible/near-infrared and microwave satellite observation. J. Geophys. Res. doi: 10.1029/2009JD013679. Kulie, M. and R. Bennartz, 2009: Utilizing space-borne radars to retrieve dry snowfall from a global and regional perspective. J. Applied. Meteorology and Climatology. 48,12,2564-2580. Evan, A. T. , D. J. Vimont, A. K. Heidinger, J. P. Kossin, R. Bennartz, 2009: The role of aerosols in the evolution of tropical North Atlantic Ocean temperature anomalies. Science, doi:10.1126/science.1167404. Synergistic Activities  Member, NASA GPM, CloudSat, and OCO-2 science Team.  Co-organizer 2014 AMS Radiation Conference, Boston, 7-11 July 2014.  Co-organizer Cloud Retrieval and Evaluation Workshop, Grainau, Germany, 4-7 Mar 2014.  Expert Reviewer Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group 1, Fifth Assessment Report  Member, Radiation Committee, American Meteorological Society.  Chair and organizer of the ‘Fourth International Workshop on Space-based Snowfall Measurements’, held 5-8 May 2013, Mammoth, Mtn. California.  Member American Geophysical Union, American Meteorological Society