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Ben C. Bernstein

 

Associate Scientist
Applied Science Group
303-497-8424
bernsteiucar.edu

Job Duties

Research Areas

  • In-flight Icing (developing automated diagnosis and forecasting techniques/algorithms)
  • Icing Physics and Freezing Precipitation (basic research on mechanisms, climatology)
  • Road Weather (highway maintenance decicion support system development)

 

Education

M.S. Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, 1990
B.S. Meteorology, Pennsylvania State University, 1988

Selected Publications

Bernstein, B.C., 2000: Regional and local influences on freezing drizzle, freezing rain, and ice pellet events. Weather and Forecasting, 15, 485-508.

Bernstein, B.C. and R.H. Johnson, 1994: A dual-Doppler radar study of an OK PRE-STORM heat burst event. Mon. Wea. Rev., 122, 259-273.

Bernstein, B.C., T.A. Omeron, M.K. Politovich and F. McDonough, 1998: Surface weather features associated with freezing precipitation and severe in-flight aircraft icing. Atmospheric Research, 46, 57-74.

Bernstein, B.C., T.A. Omeron, F. McDonough and M.K. Politovich, 1997: The relationship between aircraft icing and synoptic scale weather conditions. Wea. and Forecasting, 12, 742-762.

Marwitz, J.D., M.K. Politovich, B.C. Bernstein, F.M. Ralph, P.J. Neiman, R. Ashenden and J. Bresch, 1997: Meteorological conditions associated with the ATR-72 aircraft accident near Roselawn, Indiana on 31 October 1994. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 78, 41-52.

Politovich, M.K. and B.C. Bernstein, 1995: Production and depletion of supercooled liquid water in a Colorado winter storm. J. Appl. Meteor., 34, 2631-2648.

Rasmussen, R.M., B.C. Bernstein, M. Murakami, G. Stossmeister, J. Reisner and B. Stankov, 1995: The 1990 Valentine's Day arctic outbreak, Part I: Mesoscale and microscale structure and evolution of a Colorado front range shallow upslope cloud. J. Appl. Meteor., 34, 1481-1511.

Wesley, D.A., R.M. Rasmussen and B.C. Bernstein, 1995: Snowfall associated with a terrain-generated convergence zone during the Winter Icing and Storms Project. Mon. Wea. Rev., 123, 2957-2977.

 

 

 

 

 

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