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Christopher S. Bretherton

Christopher S. Bretherton

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Environmental Sciences
USA
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
105
Citations
49610
World Ranking
262
National Ranking
121

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2019 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2015 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Christopher S. Bretherton is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a substantial number of publications contributing to these fields.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Their research subfields cover:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Oceanography
  • Plant Science
  • Artificial Intelligence

Major topics of research addressed by Christopher S. Bretherton are:

  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Climate variability and models
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Key recent papers include:

  • "An Assessment of Earth's Climate Sensitivity Using Multiple Lines of Evidence", 2020, Reviews of Geophysics
  • "Observations of Clouds, Aerosols, Precipitation, and Surface Radiation over the Southern Ocean: An Overview of CAPRICORN, MARCUS, MICRE, and SOCRATES", 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Simulating Observations of Southern Ocean Clouds and Implications for Climate", 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "Correcting Weather and Climate Models by Machine Learning Nudged Historical Simulations", 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Influences of Recent Particle Formation on Southern Ocean Aerosol Variability and Low Cloud Properties", 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Frequent co-authors of Christopher S. Bretherton include:

  • Spencer K. Clark
  • Peter N. Blossey
  • Oliver Watt-Meyer
  • Jeremy McGibbon
  • Michael S. Pritchard

Among their recognitions, Christopher S. Bretherton was named a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2019 and was awarded the status of Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Clouds and Aerosols

    Olivier Boucher;David Randall;Paulo Artaxo;Christopher Bretherton

  • The Community Climate System Model Version 3 (CCSM3)

    William D. Collins;Cecilia M. Bitz;Maurice L. Blackmon;Gordon B. Bonan

  • An Intercomparison of Methods for Finding Coupled Patterns in Climate Data

    Christopher S. Bretherton;Catherine Smith;John M. Wallace

  • The Effective Number of Spatial Degrees of Freedom of a Time-Varying Field

    Christopher S. Bretherton;Martin Widmann;Valentin P. Dymnikov;John M. Wallace

  • How Well Do We Understand and Evaluate Climate Change Feedback Processes

    Sandrine Bony;Robert Colman;Vladimir M. Kattsov;Richard P. Allan

  • An assessment of Earth's climate sensitivity using multiple lines of evidence

    S C Sherwood;M J Webb;J D Annan;K C Armour

  • On large-scale circulations in convecting atmospheres

    Kerry A. Emanuel;J. David Neelin;Christopher S. Bretherton

  • Clouds and Aerosols

    O. Boucher;D. Randall;P. Artaxo;C. Bretherton

  • Toward a Minimal Representation of Aerosols in Climate Models: Description and Evaluation in the Community Atmosphere Model CAM5

    Xiaohong Liu;Richard C. Easter;Steven J. Ghan;Rahul A. Zaveri

  • Improving our fundamental understanding of the role of aerosol−cloud interactions in the climate system

    John H. Seinfeld;Christopher Bretherton;Kenneth S. Carslaw;Hugh Coe

  • Singular value decomposition of wintertime sea surface temperature and 500-mb height anomalies

    John M. Wallace;Catherine Smith;Christopher S. Bretherton

  • A Large Eddy Simulation Intercomparison Study of Shallow Cumulus Convection

    A. Pier Siebesma;Christopher S. Bretherton;Andrew Brown;Andreas Chlond

  • On the Relationship between Stratiform Low Cloud Cover and Lower-Tropospheric Stability

    Robert Wood;Christopher S. Bretherton

  • Relationships between Water Vapor Path and Precipitation over the Tropical Oceans

    Christopher S. Bretherton;Matthew E. Peters;Larissa E. Back

  • A New Moist Turbulence Parameterization in the Community Atmosphere Model

    Christopher S. Bretherton;Sungsu Park

  • Evaluation of Large-Eddy Simulations via Observations of Nocturnal Marine Stratocumulus

    Bjorn Stevens;Chin-Hoh Moeng;Andrew S. Ackerman;Christopher S. Bretherton

  • The University of Washington Shallow Convection and Moist Turbulence Schemes and Their Impact on Climate Simulations with the Community Atmosphere Model

    Sungsu Park;Christopher S. Bretherton

  • An Energy-Balance Analysis of Deep Convective Self-Aggregation above Uniform SST

    Christopher S. Bretherton;Peter N. Blossey;Marat Khairoutdinov

  • DYAMOND: the DYnamics of the Atmospheric general circulation Modeled On Non-hydrostatic Domains

    Bjorn Stevens;Masaki Satoh;Ludovic Auger;Joachim Biercamp

  • A New Parameterization for Shallow Cumulus Convection and Its Application to Marine Subtropical Cloud-Topped Boundary Layers. Part I: Description and 1D Results

    Christopher S. Bretherton;James R. McCaa;Hervé Grenier

  • The Atlantic Stratocumulus Transition Experiment - ASTEX

    Bruce A. Albrecht;Christopher S. Bretherton;Doug Johnson;Wayne H. Scubert

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Wood
Robert Wood University of Washington
Bjorn Stevens
Bjorn Stevens Max Planck Society
Marat Khairoutdinov
Marat Khairoutdinov Stony Brook University
Andrew Gettelman
Andrew Gettelman Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Adrian Lock
Adrian Lock Met Office
Sandrine Bony
Sandrine Bony Université Paris Cité
Paquita Zuidema
Paquita Zuidema University of Miami
Mark J. Webb
Mark J. Webb Met Office
Sandra E. Yuter
Sandra E. Yuter North Carolina State University
George Tselioudis
George Tselioudis Goddard Institute for Space Studies

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