Petra Klein

Title: Assistant Professor
Phone:(405) 325-1631
E-Mail:pkklein@ou.edu
URL: http://weather.ou.edu/~pkklein/bio/
Building: National Weather Center (NWC)
Room number: 5339

Dr. Kastner-Klein's research interests are concerned with environmental fluid dynamics with special emphasis on urban meteorology and dispersion in the atmospheric boundary layer. Dr. Kastner-Klein started her career at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany, where her research focused on physical modeling of atmospheric processes in boundary-layer wind tunnels. During her Post-Doc studies at the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science at the ETH Zurich in Switzerland, she gained experience in numerical modeling and full-scale measurements of flow and dispersion characteristics in the atmospheric boundary layer. She was part of a research network of 10 European teams coming from different disciplines (academic units from natural sciences and engineering, as well as consulting companies) and contributed to a number of publications. The active interdisciplinary and international collaboration formed the basis for new insights regarding dispersion modeling for urban areas. In 2001, Dr. Kastner-Klein took a position as Visiting Assistant Professor at the School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science at OU. She successfully taught graduate courses in the area of air pollution control and air-quality management and initiated research concerned with ozone pollution in the Southern Great Plains.