Emeritus Faculty

Thomas Ackerman

Professor Emeritus, Atmospheric Sciences

Ph.D., Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington

Research Areas

Climate engineering – science and ethics, marine cloud brightening as a means of climate engineering, ocean-atmosphere coupling and the effects of cloud feedbacks, use of satellite and ground-based data to evaluate climate model cloud properties, and understanding the maintenance and formation of thin tropical tropopause cirrus

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Marcia Baker

Professor Emeritus

Joint Professor in Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences

Ph.D., University of Washington

Research Areas

Cloud microphysics; electrification.

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Christopher Bretherton

Professor Emeritus, Atmospheric Sciences

Senior Director of Climate Modeling, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence

Ph.D. Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research Areas

Role of clouds in atmospheric convection and climate, Boundary layer meteorology, Numerical modeling, and Tropical meteorology

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Robert A. Brown

Research Professor Emeritus

Ph.D., University of Washington

Research Areas

Geophysical fluid dynamics; planetary boundary layers; air-sea interaction; turbulence; satellite remote sensing.

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David S. Covert

Research Professor Emeritus

Ph.D., University of Washington

Research Areas

Atmospheric chemistry; aerosol physics, chemistry and optics; aerosol instrumentation; climate effects and global distributions of aerosols.

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Thomas C. Grenfell

Research Professor Emeritus

Ph.D., University of Washington

Research Areas

Atmospheric radiation; radiative transfer; microwave remote sensing; sea ice and snow optics; microwave theory.

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Halstead Harrison

Associate Professor Emeritus

Ph.D., Stanford University

Research Areas

Atmospheric chemistry; dispersion modeling; radiative transfer.

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Dennis Hartmann

Professor Emeritus, Atmospheric and Climate Science

Ph.D., Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Princeton University

Research Areas

Climate change, dynamic meteorology, radiation and remote sensing

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Dean A. Hegg

Research Professor Emeritus

Ph.D., University of Washington

Research Areas

Atmospheric chemistry; cloud physics.

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Robert Houze

Professor Emeritus

Laboratory Fellow of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research Areas

Mesoscale meteorology, cloud physics and dynamics; radar meteorology; tropical and mountain meteorology

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Edward S. Sarachik

Professor Emeritus

Ph.D., Brandeis University

Research Areas

Atmospheric dynamics; large-scale atmosphere-ocean interactions; greenhouse warming; equatorial dynamics; El Niño/Southern Oscillation; climate change.

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John M. Wallace

Professor Emeritus

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research Areas

Atmospheric general circulation; climate variability.

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Stephen G. Warren

Professor Emeritus

Professor, Geophysics

Ph.D., Harvard University

Research Areas

Atmospheric radiation; radiative properties of clouds, snow, and sea ice; Antarctic climate.

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