Susan van den Heever

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Susan Claire Van den Heever
Born
South Africa
Alma materColorado State University
University of the Witwatersrand
Scientific career
InstitutionsColorado State University
ThesisThe impact of several hail parameters on simulated supercell storms (2001)

Susan Claire Van den Heever is a South African atmospheric scientist who is a professor at Colorado State University. Her research considers cloud physics and mesoscale modelling. She is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society and the editor of the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.

Early life and education[]

Van den Heever is from South Africa. She earned her bachelor's degree at the University of the Witwatersrand, where she studied mathematics and physical geography. She remained at the University for a further year, where she completed an honorary diploma in education.[citation needed] She then worked as a mathematics teacher at a high school in Johannesburg. She eventually returned to university, where she worked toward a graduate degree in geography. Her master's research involved modelling on tropical-temperate troughs in South Africa.[1] Specifically, she studied El Niño–Southern Oscillation and south African drought.[2] Van den Heever eventually moved to the United States as a doctoral researcher. She completed her PhD at Colorado State University, where she investigated supercell storms.[3] After earning her doctorate, van den Heever worked as a postdoctoral scholar and then research scientist at Colorado State University.[2]

Research and career[]

In 2008, van den Heever joined the faculty at Colorado State University.[2] She developed the cloud-resolving numerical model Regional Atmospheric Modeling System.[4] She was named the Monfort Professor in 2015.[5] In 2020 she moved the University of Oxford as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Physics.[6]

Van den Heever's research considers storm systems and the impacts of air pollution on cloud formation.[5] She was part of the NASA Cloud, Aerosol and Monsoon Processes Philippines Experiment (CAMP2Ex), which flew over the oceans close to the Philippines and collected data on the aerosols and cloud microphysics.[7] She partnered with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to deploy a radar system on board the International Space Station.[citation needed]

Awards and honours[]

Selected publications[]

  • Susan C. van den Heever; Gustavo G. Carrió; William R. Cotton; Paul J. DeMott; Anthony J. Prenni (July 2006). "Impacts of Nucleating Aerosol on Florida Storms. Part I: Mesoscale Simulations". Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 63 (7): 1752–1775. doi:10.1175/JAS3713.1. ISSN 0022-4928. Wikidata Q58412063.
  • Susan C. van den Heever; William R. Cotton (June 2007). "Urban Aerosol Impacts on Downwind Convective Storms". Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 46 (6): 828–850. doi:10.1175/JAM2492.1. ISSN 1558-8424. Wikidata Q58412061.
  • A. P. Khain; K. D. Beheng; A. Heymsfield; et al. (23 May 2015). "Representation of microphysical processes in cloud-resolving models: Spectral (bin) microphysics versus bulk parameterization". Reviews of Geophysics. 53 (2): 247–322. doi:10.1002/2014RG000468. ISSN 8755-1209. Wikidata Q56429403.

References[]

  1. ^ Van den Heever, Susan Claire (1995). Modelling tropical-temperate troughs over southern Africa (Thesis) (in undetermined language).
  2. ^ a b c d "ARM Research Facility". www.arm.gov. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
  3. ^ Van den Heever, Susan Claire (2001). The impact of several hail parameters on simulated supercell storms (Thesis).
  4. ^ "VAN DEN HEEVER RESEARCH GROUP - DEPT OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE - COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY". vandenheever.atmos.colostate.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
  5. ^ a b "Celebrate! Colorado State Award winners". CSU Ventures. 2015-04-22. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
  6. ^ "Susan van den Heever". University of Oxford Department of Physics. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
  7. ^ "Sue van den Heever | CAMP2Ex". espo.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
  8. ^ a b "Susan C. van den Heever – Professor – Department of Atmospheric Science | Colorado State University". Retrieved 2021-09-13.
  9. ^ "Van den Heever Receives 2016 Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Award". Honors Program. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
  10. ^ "Search Past Award & Honors Recipients". American Meteorological Society. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
  11. ^ "Houghton Lectures | MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences". eapsweb.mit.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
  12. ^ "List of Fellows". American Meteorological Society. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
  13. ^ "Three professors earn prestigious American Meteorological Society honors". Colorado State University. 6 August 2020. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
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