Greg McFarquhar

mcfarq@ou.edu
NWC 2104, National Weather Center
(405) 325-3041
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• B.Sc., Mathematics & Physics, University of Toronto, Canada, 1987
• M.Sc., Atmospheric Physics, University of Toronto, Canada, 1989
• Ph.D., Atmospheric Physics, University of Toronto, Canada, 1993

• Microphysical structure of snow bands in winter cyclones
• Role of cloud microphysical processes in mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) and storms
• Properties of tropical clouds generated by deep convection
• Role of cloud microphysical processes in the rapid intensification of tropical cyclones
• Processes controlling the amount of supercooled water and freezing drizzle in clouds
• How aerosols and other synoptic conditions affect the evolution of clouds in the Arctic and over the Southern Oceans
• Transmission of radiation through the cloudy atmosphere
• Representation of clouds in climate and weather models, and especially the development of a stochastic framework for representing cloud processes
• Impact of aerosol particles on the water and energy budgets of clouds
• Impact of biomass burning on cloud properties
• Retrieval of cloud properties from space-, air- and ground-based remote sensors
• Use of air and ship-based instrumentation for measuring the properties of clouds