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  • 2020 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Greg M. McFarquhar is affiliated with the University of Oklahoma in the United States. Their research focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with particular expertise in Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. Their scholarly work encompasses study areas such as Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Precipitation Measurement and Analysis, Cryospheric studies and observations, and Icing and De-icing Technologies.

The scientist has published extensively in several key venues, including:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Notable recent papers by Greg M. McFarquhar include:

  • "An overview of the ORACLES (ObseRvations of Aerosols above CLouds and their intEractionS) project: aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions in the southeast Atlantic basin," 2021, published in Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • "Observations of Clouds, Aerosols, Precipitation, and Surface Radiation over the Southern Ocean: An Overview of CAPRICORN, MARCUS, MICRE, and SOCRATES," 2020, published in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Opportunistic experiments to constrain aerosol effective radiative forcing," 2022, published in Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • "The COMBLE Campaign: A Study of Marine Boundary Layer Clouds in Arctic Cold-Air Outbreaks," 2022, published in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Simulating Observations of Southern Ocean Clouds and Implications for Climate," 2020, published in Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Robert M. Rauber
  • Paul J. DeMott
  • Alain Protat
  • Thomas C. J. Hill
  • Wei Wu

Greg M. McFarquhar's research contributes to a deeper understanding of atmospheric processes, particularly the interactions between aerosols and clouds, as well as their implications for climate and weather phenomena. The scientist was recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Indian Ocean Experiment: An integrated analysis of the climate forcing and effects of the great Indo-Asian haze

    V. Ramanathan;P. J. Crutzen;J. Lelieveld;A. P. Mitra

  • Mixed-Phase Clouds: Progress and Challenges

    A. Korolev;G. McFarquhar;P. R. Field;P. R. Field;C. Franklin

  • The Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment.

    J. Verlinde;J. Y. Harrington;G. M. McFarquhar;V. T. Yannuzzi

  • Intercomparison of model simulations of mixed-phase clouds observed during the ARM Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment. I: single-layer cloud

    Stephen A. Klein;Renata B. McCoy;Hugh Morrison;Andrew S. Ackerman

  • Microphysical Characteristics of Three Anvils Sampled during the Central Equatorial Pacific Experiment

    Greg Michael McFarquhar;Andrew J. Heymsfield

  • Thin and Subvisual Tropopause Tropical Cirrus: Observations and Radiative Impacts

    Greg M. McFarquhar;Andrew J. Heymsfield;James Spinhirne;Bill Hart

  • Secondary Ice Production: Current State of the Science and Recommendations for the Future

    P. R. Field;P. R. Field;R. P. Lawson;P. R. A. Brown;G. Lloyd

  • Parameterization of Tropical Cirrus Ice Crystal Size Distributions and Implications for Radiative Transfer: Results from CEPEX

    Greg M. McFarquhar;Andrew J. Heymsfield

  • Indirect and semi-direct aerosol campaign: The impact of Arctic aerosols on clouds

    Greg M. McFarquhar;Steven Ghan;Johannes Verlinde;Alexei Korolev

  • Ice properties of single‐layer stratocumulus during the Mixed‐Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment: 1. Observations

    Greg M. McFarquhar;Gong Zhang;Michael R. Poellot;Gregory L. Kok

  • The 2015 Plains Elevated Convection at Night Field Project

    Bart Geerts;David Parsons;Conrad L. Ziegler;Tammy M. Weckwerth

  • Cloud Ice Properties: In Situ Measurement Challenges

    D. Baumgardner;S. J. Abel;D. Axisa;R. Cotton

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

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

  • Chapter 2: Cirrus Clouds, In: Ice Formation and Evolution in Clouds and precipitation: Measurement and Modeling Challenges

    Andrew J. Heymsfield;Kristof Van Tricht;Paul Lawson;Phil Brown

  • Ice properties of single-layer stratocumulus during the Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment: 2. Model results

    Ann M. Fridlind;A. S. Ackerman;Greg Michael McFarquhar;G. Zhang

  • Importance of small ice crystals to cirrus properties: Observations from the Tropical Warm Pool International Cloud Experiment (TWP‐ICE)

    Greg M. McFarquhar;Junshik Um;Matt Freer;Darrel Baumgardner

  • An overview of the ORACLES (ObseRvations of Aerosols above CLouds and their intEractionS) project: aerosol–cloud–radiation interactions in the southeast Atlantic basin

    Jens Redemann;Robert Wood;Paquita Zuidema;Sarah J. Doherty

  • The Bow Echo and MCV Experiment: Observations and Opportunities

    Christopher A. Davis;Nolan Atkins;Diana Bartels;Diana Bartels;Lance Bosart

  • The Tropical Warm Pool International Cloud Experiment

    Peter T. May;James H. Mather;Geraint Vaughan;Christian Jakob

  • High albedos of cirrus in the tropical Pacific warm pool: microphysical interpretations from CEPEX and from Kwajalein, Marshall Islands

    A.J. Heymsfield;G.M. McFarquhar

  • Vertical Motions in Arctic Mixed-Phase Stratiform Clouds

    Matthew D. Shupe;Pavlos Kollias;P. Ola G. Persson;Greg Michael McFarquhar

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert M. Rauber
Robert M. Rauber University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Andrew J. Heymsfield
Andrew J. Heymsfield National Center for Atmospheric Research
Michael R. Poellot
Michael R. Poellot University of North Dakota
Paul J. DeMott
Paul J. DeMott Colorado State University
Ann M. Fridlind
Ann M. Fridlind Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Alexei Korolev
Alexei Korolev Environment and Climate Change Canada
Andrew S. Ackerman
Andrew S. Ackerman Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Hugh Morrison
Hugh Morrison National Center for Atmospheric Research
Beat Schmid
Beat Schmid Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Alain Protat
Alain Protat Bureau of Meteorology

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