2026 Christopher W. Fairall: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	91	559	526	252	230	388	29884

Overview

Christopher W. Fairall is affiliated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a strong emphasis on Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, and Global and Planetary Change. Additional work covers Earth-Surface Processes and Environmental Engineering.

Their research topics include:

Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
Climate Variability and Models
Atmospheric Aerosols and Clouds
Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols

Representative recent papers authored or coauthored by Fairall include:

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
EUREC ⁴ A, 2021, Earth System Science Data
JOANNE: Joint dropsonde Observations of the Atmosphere in tropical North atlaNtic meso-scale Environments, 2021, Earth System Science Data
Continuous observations of the surface energy budget and meteorology over the Arctic sea ice during MOSAiC, 2023, Scientific Data
Measurements from the RV Ronald H. Brown and related platforms as part of the Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign (ATOMIC), 2021, Earth System Science Data

Their frequent coauthors include:

Elizabeth Thompson
Robert Pincus
Andrey A. Grachev
Gijs de Boer
Sébastien Bigorre

Publication venues where Fairall's contributions appear regularly include:

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Earth System Science Data
Frontiers in Marine Science
Boundary-Layer Meteorology
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Best Publications

Bulk Parameterization of Air–Sea Fluxes: Updates and Verification for the COARE Algorithm

C. W. Fairall;E. F. Bradley;J. E. Hare;A. A. Grachev

3055
Citations
Bulk parameterization of air‐sea fluxes for Tropical Ocean‐Global Atmosphere Coupled‐Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment

C. W. Fairall;E. F. Bradley;D. P. Rogers;J. B. Edson

2692
Citations
Cool-skin and warm-layer effects on sea surface temperature

C. W. Fairall;E. F. Bradley;J. S. Godfrey;G. A. Wick

991
Citations
On the exchange of momentum over the open ocean

James B. Edson;Venkata Jampana;Robert A. Weller;Sebastien P. Bigorre

870
Citations
Production flux of sea spray aerosol

Gerrit de Leeuw;Gerrit de Leeuw;Edgar L Andreas;Magdalena D. Anguelova;C. W. Fairall

703
Citations
Measurements near the Atmospheric Surface Flux Group tower at SHEBA: Near-surface conditions and surface energy budget

P. Ola G. Persson;Christopher W. Fairall;Edgar L. Andreas;Peter S. Guest

593
Citations
An annual cycle of Arctic surface cloud forcing at SHEBA

J. M. Intrieri;C. W. Fairall;M. D. Shupe;P. O. G. Persson

546
Citations
Rain in Shallow Cumulus Over the Ocean: The RICO Campaign

R. M. Rauber;B. Stevens;B. Stevens;H. T. Ochs;C. Knight

523
Citations
Direct Covariance Flux Estimates from Mobile Platforms at Sea

J. B. Edson;A. A. Hinton;K. E. Prada;J. E. Hare

440
Citations
Measurement of Stratus Cloud and Drizzle Parameters in ASTEX with a Kα-Band Doppler Radar and a Microwave Radiometer

A. S. Frisch;C. W. Fairall;J. B. Snider

425
Citations
The Epic 2001 Stratocumulus Study

Christopher S. Bretherton;Taneil Uttal;Christopher W. Fairall;Sandra E. Yuter

417
Citations
Direct covariance air‐sea CO2 fluxes

W. R. McGillis;J. B. Edson;J. E. Hare;C. W. Fairall

392
Citations
FIRE Arctic Clouds Experiment

J. A. Curry;P. V. Hobbs;M. D. King;D. A. Randall

364
Citations
Outlook for research on subtropical marine stratiform clouds

D. A. Randall;J. A. Coakley;D. H. Lenschow;C. W. Fairall

347
Citations
The VAMOS Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study Regional Experiment (VOCALS-REx): goals, platforms, and field operations

R. Wood;C. R. Mechoso;C. S. Bretherton;R. A. Weller

335
Citations
Advancing Polar Prediction Capabilities on Daily to Seasonal Time Scales

Thomas Jung;Neil D. Gordon;Peter Bauer;David H. Bromwich

316
Citations
The Critical Richardson Number and Limits of Applicability of Local Similarity Theory in the Stable Boundary Layer

Andrey A. Grachev;Edgar L Andreas;Christopher W. Fairall;Peter S. Guest

280
Citations
SHEBA flux–profile relationships in the stable atmospheric boundary layer

Andrey A. Grachev;Andrey A. Grachev;Edgar L Andreas;Christopher W. Fairall;Peter S. Guest

279
Citations
Year on ice gives climate insights

Don K. Perovich;E. L. Andreas;J. A. Curry;H. Eiken

277
Citations
Stratocumulus cloud properties derived from simultaneous satellite and island-based instrumentation during FIRE

Patrick Minnis;Patrick W. Heck;David F. Young;C. W. Fairall

276
Citations
Observations of clouds, aerosols, precipitation, and surface radiation over the southern ocean

Greg Michael McFarquhar;Christopher S. Bretherton;Roger Marchand;Alain Protat

264
Citations
Corrigendum : On the exchange of momentum over the open ocean

James B. Edson;Venkata Jampana;Robert A. Weller;Sebastien P. Bigorre

2
Citations
An annual cycle of Arctic surface cloud forcing at SHEBA : The surface heat budget of arctic ocen (SHEBA)

J. M. Intrieri;C. W. Fairall;M. D. Shupe;P. O. G. Persson

0
Citations
Measurements near the atmospheric Surface Flux Group tower at SHEBA: Near-surface conditions and surface energy budget : The surface heat budget of arctic ocen (SHEBA)

P. Ola G. Persson;Christopher W. Fairall;Edgar L. Andreas;Peter S. Guest

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrey A. Grachev Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

J. E. Hare Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

Byron Blomquist University of Colorado Boulder

P. Ola G. Persson University of Colorado Boulder

James B. Edson Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Robert A. Weller Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Edgar L. Andreas Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

Allen B. White National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Søren Ejling Larsen Technical University of Denmark

Paquita Zuidema University of Miami

External Links

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