CHRISTOPHER W. FAIRALL
Supervisory Physicist/Chief
Clouds, Radiation, and Surface Processes Division
NOAA Environmental Technology Laboratory
PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION:
NRC Postdoctoral Research
Associate, Naval
Ph.D.,
B.S., Physics
and Mathematics,
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
1978-1983 Principal
Staff Member, BDM Corporation,
1982 Visiting
Scientist, RISO National
1983-1985 Assistant
Professor of Meteorology,
1986-1989 Associate
Professor of Meteorology,
1988 Visiting
Scientist, Naval Environmental Prediction Research Facility,
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.
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:
Member The
Oceanography Society, American Meteorological Society, and American Geophysical
Chairman, AMS Committee on Boundary Layers and Turbulence: 1987-1990; member, 1984-1992
Member of the
General Co-Chairman of the 3rd International Symposium on Tropospheric Profiling:
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 -
Robert Weller -WHOI Mike
Banner - UNSW,