Email: katherine.fodor@mpimet.mpg.de
Phone: +49 40 41173 207
Office: 430
Address: Bundesstr. 53, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
Research Group: Turbulent Mixing Processes in the Earth System
Education:
2015-2016 MSc Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics, University of Leeds
MSc Thesis: "A New Way To Describe The Madden-Julian Oscillation".
Supervisor: Dr. Juliane Schwendike
Considered the role of equatorial waves in the MJO and its relationship to the Matsuno-Gill model. Used ERA-Interim data and a method of partitioning the vertical motion and associated mass flux into zonal and meridional components in order to study the zonally- and meridionally-orientated circulation cells that comprise the MJO. The method lends itself to interpreting the MJO in terms of its effect on the Hadley and Walker circulations and thereby quantifying the impact of the MJO on the tropical general circulation.
2013-2014 Erasmus Year Abroad, University of Vienna
2011-2015 BSc Mathematics and Music (Int.), University of Leeds
Bachelor Project: "Computational Modelling of Nonlinear Dynamics".
Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Griffiths
Used analytical techniques from nonlinear dynamics (fixed-point analysis, bifurcation theory) to study the Lorenz equations (a reduced model of Rayleigh-Bénard convection) and numerical solutions to consider the limits of predictability in a chaotic system.