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Education
Ph.D., Atmospheric Sciences (2024)
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
(Dissertation)
M.S., Atmospheric Sciences (2020)
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
(Thesis)
B.S., Physics (2017)
Emphasis in Astronomy and Astrophysics
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
B.S., Atmospheric Sciences (2016)
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Publications
Selected First-Authored
Rees, K.N., Garrett, T.J, DeWitt, T.D., Bois, C., Krueger, S.K., and J. C. Riedi (2024) A global analysis of the fractal properties of clouds revealing anisotropy of turbulence across scales, Nonlin. Processes Geophys., 31, 497-513, (link)Rees, K.N., Singh, D.K., Pardyjak, E.R., and Garrett, T.J., (2021) Mass and Density of Individual Frozen Hydrometeors, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 14235-14250, (link)
Rees, K.N. & Garrett, T.J., (2021) Idealized Simulation Study of the Relationship of Disdrometer Sampling Statistics with the Precision of Precipitation Rate Measurement, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 7681-7691, (link)
Rees, K.N. & Garrett, T.J., (2019) Analytical Estimation of the Widths of Hadley Cells in the Solar System, Astrophys. J., 879, 126-130, (link)
Co-Authored
DeWitt, T.D., Garrett, T.J, Rees, K.N., Bois, C., Krueger, S.K., and N. Ferlay (2024) Climatologically Invariant Scale Invariance seen in Distributions of Horizontal Cloud Sizes, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 24, 109-122, (link)In Progress and Under Review
Spatial and temporal variation of cloud geometries (in progress)The fractal dimension of clouds on Jupiter (in progress)
Presentations
Selected
Rees, K., Garrett, T., Singh, D., Pardyjak, E., Szczerbinski, R., Morrison, T., Reaburn, A., Silberman, B. (2024) New Technologies for Precision Measurement of Winds and Hydrometeor Mass, Density, and Type AGU Fall Meeting, DecemberRees,K., Garrett, T., DeWitt, T., Bois, C. Krueger, S (2024) Evaluating the Global Spatial and Temporal Variability of the Ensemble Fractal Dimension of Clouds Using DSCOVR EPIC Cloud Masks AGU Fall Meeting, December
Garrett, T., Krueger, S., DeWitt, T., Rees, K., Bois, C., Riedi, J., Glenn, I. (2023) Are the impacts of aerosols on convective cloud fields constrained by bulk tropospheric thermodynamics?, 103rd AMS Annual Meeting, January
DeWitt, T., Garrett, T., Krueger, S., Rees, K., Bois, C. (2022) The ensemble fractal dimension of clouds, AGU Fall Meeting, December
Rees, K., Singh, D., Pardyjak, E., Garrett, T., (2021) Continuous measurements of individual frozen hydrometeor mass and density, AGU Fall Meeting, December
Rees, K.N., (2020) Hadley Cells in the Solar System, Utah Chapter of the AMS Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, January 29
Singh, D.K., Rees, K.N., Reaburn, A., Deshmukh, S., Garrett, T.J., Pardyjak, E., (2020) A New Particle-by-particle Hotplate Technique for Measurement of Precipitation Rate, Snow Density and Visibility, AMS 100th Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, January 12-16
Rees, K.N. & Garrett, T.J., Reichler, T., Staten, P.W., (2016) Evaluation of a Simple Theoretical Expression for Hadley Cell Width, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 12-16