Julia Kukulies
Research positions
Oct 2023–Oct 2025 ASP Postdoctoral Fellow, Meso- and Microscale Meteorology Lab,
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado..
Mar–Jul 2023 Research assistant in Mesoscale Meteorology, Regional Climate Group,
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Education
2018–2023 Ph.D. in Natural Sciences, Advisor: Prof. Deliang Chen,
Regional Climate group, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden,
Project: Observing and Modeling Precipitation in the Tibetan Plateau region.
2017–2018 M. Sc. in Atmospheric Sciences, Final grade: VG (Excellent),
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden,
Project: Temporal and spatial variability of convection, clouds and precipitation over the Tibetan
Plateau derived from recent satellite retrievals.
2013–2016 B. Sc. in Earth Sciences with Major in Climatology, Final grade: VG (Excellent),
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden,
Project: Major ion deposition in the accumulated winter snowpack in northern Sweden.

Research visits
Oct 2021–May 2022 National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA,ASP Graduate visitor program, Host: Dr. Andreas Franz Prein,
Project: Ensemble-based convection-permitting simulations in the Third Pole region.
Sep–Dec 2017 School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, China,
Research visit in Aerosol-cloud research group, Host: Prof. Minghuai Wang,
Project: Satellite observations of convective clouds over the Tibetan Plateau.
Jun–Sep 2016 Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany,Internship in Hydrological group, Host: Dr. Tobias Stacke,
Project: Validation of a global dynamical wetland scheme in land-atmosphere coupled simulations.
Jun–Aug 2014 Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, Germany,Internship in Paleoclimatology and Natural Resources, Host: Dr. rer. nat. Warner Brückmann.

Awards and Grants
2023 Faculty of Science Doctoral Thesis Award,
Gothenburg, Sweden.
2022 SciPy Financial Aid Scholarship,
Texas, USA.
2021 NCAR Advanced Study Program for graduate visitors,
Colorado, USA.
2019 Travel fund to International Conference on Regional Climate-CORDEX 2019,
China.
2018 Research Fund Adlerbertska Stiftelse,
Sweden.
2018 Sven Lindqvists forskningsstiftelse,
Sweden.

Github: JuliaKukulies, Personal webpage: juliakukulies.github.io, Email: kukulies@ucar.edu

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Outreach and Engagement
2018–2021 Coordinator in GAC (Gothenburg Air and Climate Network) Board.
2018–2021 Executive Secretary of APECS (Association of Polar and Alpine Early Career Scientists).

Contributions to research community
Reviewer for the following scientific journals,
JGR Atmosphere, Journal of Climate, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, International
Journal of Climatology.

Presentations at conferences
2022 Process-oriented evaluation of kilometer-scale simulations of mesoscale convective systems,
Swedish Climate Symposium, Sweden.
2022 The Role of Mesoscale convective systems in Precipitation in the Tibetan Plateau region,
American Meteorological Society Annual meeting, Texas, USA.
2021 Mesoscale weather systems and their interaction in the Tibetan Plateau region,
European Geoscience Union, Austria.
2019 Convective precipitation cells over the Tibetan Plateau in a high-resolution regional reanalysis,
International Conference on Regional Climate-CORDEX, China.
2019 Spatial and temporal dynamics of convective precipitation cells on the Tibetan Plateau,
European Meteorological Society, Denmark.
2019 Vertical cloud structures over the Tibetan Plateau as seen by spaceborne cloud radarmeasurements,
8th Third Pole Environment workshop, Sweden.

International research schools
Jan 2020 ERCA: European Research School on Atmospheres,Grenoble, France.
Sep 2019 Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modeling,Hamburg, Germany.
Mar 2019 Arctic in a changing climate (ClimbEco course),Gothenburg, Sweden.
Oct 2018 NEGI course on E-Science tools for Climate Research,Andoya, Norway.
Aug 2018 Helsinki Summer school on Air quality in China,
Helsinki, Finland.
Jun 2018 ITPCAS Summer School on Climate Modeling,Beijing, China.
Sep 2016 Baltic Earth Summer school on Atmosphere-Ocean climate models,Asko, Sweden.

SkillsComputer
Utilities
Languages
Numerical Models

Python (Advanced), Linux and Bash scripting (Good), NCO/CDO (Good), R (Basic), Matlab (Basic)
Anaconda, Git, Jupyter Notebook, Slurm
German (Mothertongue), English (Fluent), Swedish (Fluent), French (Good), Spanish (Basic)
Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model, Model Prediction Across Scales (MPAS)

Research Interests
Convective storms and their impact on precipitation
Climate change effects on mesoscale atmospheric processes
Process-oriented model evaluation

Github: JuliaKukulies, Personal webpage: juliakukulies.github.io, Email: kukulies@ucar.edu

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Publications
Minola, L., Zhang, G., Ou, T., Kukulies, J., Curio, J., Guijarro, J. A. and Chen, D. (2023). Climatologyof near-surface wind speed from observational, reanalysis and high-resolution regional climate model
data over the Tibetan Plateau. Climate Dynamics, 1-21.
Freeman, S. W., Brunner, K., Jones, W. K., Kukulies, J., Senf, F., Stier, P. and van den Heever, S. C.,(2023). Advancing our Understanding of Cloud Processes and Their Role in the Earth System throughCloud Object Tracking. Bulletin of the AMS.
Kukulies, J., Prein, A. F., Curio, J., Yu, H. and Chen, D. (2023). Kilometer-scale multi-model andmulti-physics ensemble simulations of a mesoscale convective system in the lee of the Tibetan Plateau:
Implications for climate simulations. Journal of Climate, 1-56.
Kukulies, J., Lai, H. W., Curio, J., Feng, Z., Lin, C., Li, P., Sugimoto, S., and Chen, D. Mesoscaleconvective systems in the Third Pole region: Characteristics, mechanisms and impact on precipitation.
Frontiers in Earth Science, 11, 469.
Ou, T., Chen, D., Tang, J., Lin, C., Wang X., Kukulies, J. and Lai, H (2023). Wet bias of summer
precipitation in the northwestern Tibetan Plateau in ERA5 is linked to weakened lower-level southerly
wind over the plateau. Climate Dynamics, 1-1Prein, A. F., Ban, N., Ou, T., Tang, J., Sakaguchi, K., Collier, E., Jayanarayanan, S., Sobolowski, S.,
Li, L., Chen, X., Zhou, X., Lai, H., Sugimoto, S., Zhou, L., Hasson, S., Ekstrom, M., Pothapakula, P.,
Ahrens, B., Stuart, R., Steen-Larsen, H. C., Leung, R. Belusic, D., Kukulies, J. , Curio, J. and Chen,
D. (2022). Towards Ensemble-Based Kilometer-Scale Climate Simulations over the Third Pole region.
Climate Dynamics, 1-27.
Kukulies, J., Chen, D. and Curio, J. (2021). The Role of Mesoscale Convective Systems in Precipitationin the Tibetan Plateau Region.Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126(23), e2021JD035279.
Zhang, X., Yin, Y., Kukulies, J., Li, Y., Kuang, X., He, C., and Chen, J. (2021). Revisiting Lightning
Activity and Parameterization Using Geostationary Satellite Observations. Remote Sensing, 13(19).
Lai, H. W., Chen, H. W., Kukulies, J., Ou, T. and Chen, D. (2020). Regionalization of seasonal
precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau and associated large-scale atmospheric systems. Journal ofClimate, 1-45.
Kukulies, J., Chen, D. and Wang, M. (2020). Temporal and spatial variations of convection andprecipitation over the Tibetan Plateau based on recent satellite observations. Part II: Precipitation
climatology derived from GPM. International Journal of Climatology.
Kukulies, J., Chen, D. and Wang, M. (2019). Temporal and spatial variations of convection andprecipitation over the Tibetan Plateau based on recent satellite observations. Part I: Cloud climatology
derived from CloudSat and CALIPSO. International Journal of Climatology.

Github: JuliaKukulies, Personal webpage: juliakukulies.github.io, Email: kukulies@ucar.edu

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