Christopher S. Bretherton

About

Deconinck, Bernard Boeing Professor of Applied Mathematics, Adjunct Professor of Mathematics, is a faculty member at the University of Washington. His role indicates a distinguished position within the department, emphasizing his expertise and leadership in applied mathematics. The page does not provide specific details about his research focus, background, or key contributions, only his titles and contact information.

Research topics

• Environmental science
• Meteorology
• Climatology
• Geology
• Physics
• Geography
• Atmospheric sciences
• Oceanography
• Computer Science
• Astrobiology

Selected publications

• An Assessment of Earth's Climate Sensitivity Using Multiple Lines of Evidence

  Reviews of Geophysics · 2020 · 1275 citations

  , in particular using comprehensive models and process understanding to address limitations in the traditional forcing-feedback paradigm for interpreting past changes.

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• Clouds and Aerosols

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2020 · 446 citations

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• Observations of Clouds, Aerosols, Precipitation, and Surface Radiation over the Southern Ocean: An Overview of CAPRICORN, MARCUS, MICRE, and SOCRATES

  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 2020 · 311 citations

  Abstract Weather and climate models are challenged by uncertainties and biases in simulating Southern Ocean (SO) radiative fluxes that trace to a poor understanding of cloud, aerosol, precipitation, and radiative processes, and their interactions. Projects between 2016 and 2018 used in situ probes, radar, lidar, and other instruments to make comprehensive measurements of thermodynamics, surface radiation, cloud, precipitation, aerosol, cloud condensation nuclei (CCN), and ice nucleating particle…

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• Influences of Recent Particle Formation on Southern Ocean Aerosol Variability and Low Cloud Properties

  Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2021 · 105 citations

  Abstract Controls on pristine aerosol over the Southern Ocean (SO) are critical for constraining the strength of global aerosol indirect forcing. Observations of summertime SO clouds and aerosols in synoptically varied conditions during the 2018 SOCRATES aircraft campaign reveal novel mechanisms influencing pristine aerosol‐cloud interactions. The SO free troposphere (3–6 km) is characterized by widespread, frequent new particle formation events contributing to much larger concentrations (≥1,000…

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• Tropical Cyclones in Global Storm-Resolving Models

  Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II · 2021 · 88 citations

  Recent progress in computing and model development has initiated the era of global storm-resolving modeling, and with it the potential to transform weather and climate prediction. Within the general theme of vetting this new class of models, the present study evaluates nine global-storm resolving models in their ability to simulate tropical cyclones (TCs). Results indicate that, broadly speaking, the models produce realistic TCs and remove longstanding issues known from global models such as the…

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Recent grants

• Collaborative Research: EaSM-3: Understanding the Development of Precipitation Biases in CESM and the Superparameterized CESM on Seasonal to Decadal Timescales

  NSF · $480k · 2014–2019

• Collaborative Research: Using SOCRATES Datasets to Improve Simulations of Clouds, Aerosols and their Climate Impacts

  NSF · $531k · 2017–2021

• Collaborative Research: Climate Process Team on Low-Latitude Cloud Feedbacks on Climate Sensitivity

  NSF · $159k · 2003–2007

Frequent coauthors

• Robert Wood

  University of Washington

  135 shared

• Peter N. Blossey

  Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence

  130 shared

• Spencer K. Clark

  NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

  93 shared

• Jeremy McGibbon

  Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence

  63 shared

• Noah Brenowitz

  58 shared

• Oliver Watt‐Meyer

  Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence

  56 shared

• Isabel L. McCoy

  56 shared

• K. Comstock

  University of Washington

  52 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Mathematics

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  1984

Awards & honors

• Jule G. Charney Award (2012)
• Fellow of the American Meteorological Society
• Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
• Bernhard Haurwitz Memorial Lecturer (2018)

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