Christopher W. Fairall
Ph.D. Physics, Michigan State University, 1970
Supervisory Physicist
NOAA/ESRL, Physical Sciences Division
E-mail: chris.fairall@noaa.gov
Office: David Skaggs Research Center 3B141
Phone: 303-497-3253
Research Interests
Dr. Fairall's current research includes air-sea-ice interactions, boundary-layer processes, clouds, optical/radio propagation in the atmosphere, and instrumentation/measurement techniques.
Current Research Projects
Measuring, parameterizing, and modeling atmospheric surface fluxes in the Arctic; Shipboard measurements of cloud-radiative properties in the Eastern Pacific: The VOCALS2008 experiment; Toward a definitive determination of air-sea gas exchange; Air-Sea interaction in hurricanes including sea spray and waves
Selected Publications
Fairall, C.W., 1991: The humidity/temperature sensitivity of clear-air radars in the convective boundary layer. J. Appl. Meteor. 30, 1064-1074.
Ruffieux, D. P.O.G. Persson, C.W. Fairall, and D.E. Wolfe, 1995: Ice pack and lead surface energy budgets during LeadEx 92. J. Geophys. Res., 100, 4593-4612.
Fairall, C.W., J. Kepert, and G.J. Holland, 1995: The effect of sea spray on surface energy transports over the ocean. The Global Atmospheric Ocean System, 2, 121-142.
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.
Fairall, C. W., J. E. Hare, J. B. Edson, and W. McGillis, 1999: Parameterization and measurement of air-sea gas transfer. Bound.-Layer Meteorol., 96, 63-105.
Fairall, C. W., E. F. Bradley, J. E. Hare, A. A. Grachev, and J. B. Edson, 2003: Bulk parameterization of air-sea fluxes: Updates and verification for the COARE algorithm. J. Clim., 16, 571-591.
Fairall, C. W., J. E. Hare, T. Uttal, D. Hazen, Meghan Cronin, Nicholas A. Bond, and Dana Veron, 2008: A seven-cruise sample of clouds, radiation, and surface forcing in the Equatorial Eastern Pacific. J. Clim., 21, 655-673.
Honors and Awards
- Member of the NOAA CPPA Science Steering Committee
- Fellow of the American Meteorological Society
- AMS Sverdrup Gold Medal winner
