CHRISTOPHER W. FAIRALL

Supervisory Physicist/Chief

Clouds, Radiation, and Surface Processes Division

NOAA Environmental Technology Laboratory

Boulder, CO

PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION:

NRC Postdoctoral Research Associate, Naval Postgraduate School, 1971

Ph.D., Solid State Physics, Michigan State University, 1970.

B.S., Physics and Mathematics, Florida State University, 1966.

RESEARCH AREAS:

Air-sea interaction, measurements of fluxes, remote sensing of boundary layer and cloud properties, atmospheric turbulence, cloud-radiative coupling, parameterizations of turbulent and cloud properties, atmospheric dispersion.

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS:

1971-1977������������������������������ Adjunct Professor of Physics, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA.

1978-1983������������������������������ Principal Staff Member, BDM Corporation, Monterey, CA.

1982��������������������������������������������������� Visiting Scientist, RISO National Laboratory, Denmark.

1983-1985������������������������������ Assistant Professor of Meteorology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.

1986-1989������������������������������ Associate Professor of Meteorology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.� Tenure awarded, 1988.

1988��������������������������������������������������� Visiting Scientist, Naval Environmental Prediction Research Facility, Monterey, CA.

1989-Pres.������������������������������ NOAA/ERL Environmental Technology� Laboratory, Boulder, CO.

RECENT and RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS:

Fairall, C. W., J. E. Hare, and J. B. Snider, 1990: An eight-month sample of marine stratocumulus cloud fraction, albedo, and integrated liquid water.� J. Clim., 3, 847-864.

Chertock, B., C. W. Fairall, and A. B. White, 1993: Surface-based measurements and satellite retrievals of broken cloud properties in the equatorial Pacific.� J. Geophys. Res., 98, 18,489-18,500.

Frisch, A. S., D. H. Lenschow, C. W. Fairall, W. H. Schubert, and J. S. Gibson, 1995: Doppler radar measurements of turbulence in marine stratocumulus cloud during ASTEX.� J. Atmos. Sci., 52, 2800-2808.

White, A. B., C. W. Fairall, and J. B. Snider, 1995: Surface-based remote sensing of marine boundary layer cloud properties.� J. Atmos. Sci., 52, 2827-2838.

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Fairall, C.W., E.F. Bradley, D.P. Rogers, J.B. Edson, and G.S. Young, 1996: Bulk parameterization of air-sea fluxes for TOGA COARE.�� J. Geophys. Res.,101, 3747-3767.

White, A. B., C W. Fairall, A. S. Frisch, B. W. Orr, and J. B. Snider, 1996: Recent measurements of turbulence and microphysical parameters in marine boundary layer clouds.� Atmos. Res.,� 40, 177-221.

Fairall, C.W., A.B. White, J.B. Edson, and J.E. Hare, 1997: Integrated shipboard measurements of the marine boundary layer.� J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech., 14, 338-359.

Fairall, C. W.,� J. E. Hare, J. B. Edson, and W. McGillis, 2000: Parameterization and measurement of air-sea gas transfer.� Bound.-Layer Meteorol., �96, 63-105

Cronin, M. F., N. Bond, C. W. Fairall, J. E. Hare, M. J. McPhaden, and R. A. Weller, 2002: Enhanced oceanic and atmospheric monitoring for the Eastern Pacific Investigation of Climate Processes (EPIC) experiment.� EOS, Transactions of AGU, 83, 205-211.

Fairall, C. W., E. F. Bradley, J. E. Hare, A. A. Grachev, and J. B. Edson, 2002: Bulk parameterization of air-sea fluxes: Updates and verification for the COARE algorithm.� J. Clim., to appear.

SCIENCE COMMITTEES, AWARDS, ASSOCIATIONS:

SHEBA, FIRE, TOGA COARE, ARM Science Team member

Member The Oceanography Society, American Meteorological Society, and American Geophysical Union

Chairman, AMS Committee on Boundary Layers and Turbulence: 1987-1990; member, 1984-1992

Member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Coastal Meteorology: 1990-1993

General Co-Chairman of the 3rd International Symposium on Tropospheric Profiling: Hamburg, Germany, August, 1994

Associate Editor of Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences: 1991-1994

Member of the NSF Coastal Ocean Processes (CoOP) advisory committee: 1991-1994

Chairman, ARM Tropical Western Pacific Science Advisory Committee, 1995-Present

Member, International Geophysical Union International Climate Dynamics and Meteorology Working Group A (Boundary Layers and Air-Sea Interaction), 1996-Present.

NOAA outstanding paper award 1997

Fellow, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, 1999

Fellow, American Meteorological Society, elected 2000

COLLABORATORS AND AFFILIATIONS:

Peter Webster - University Colorado/Georgia Tech������������������������������ James Edson -WHOI

Chris Bretherton - University of Washington ���������������������������������������� Bjorn Stevens - UCLA

Robert Weller -WHOI������������������������������������������������������������������������ Mike Banner - UNSW, Australia