Christopher S. Bretherton Professor Joint with Atmospheric Science
Address:	University of Washington Department of Atmospheric Science Box 351640 Seattle, WA 98195-1640 USA
Phone:	206-685-7414
Secretary:	206-685-8396 (Shirley Joaquin)
Fax:	206-685-9302
Office:	710 Atmospheric-Geophysics (ATG)
E-mail:	breth@amath.washington.edu

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Biographical information

Professor Bretherton completed his undergraduate work at the California Institute of Technology in 1980. He continued on to receive his doctorate in 1984 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A personable and well-liked instructor, his teaching interests include ordinary and partial differential equations, dynamical systems, fluid dynamics, cloud physics, and mesoscale meteorology. Professor Bretherton has a variety of research interests, including numerical fluid dynamics applied to atmospheric convection and cloud-topped boundary layers, applications of fractals to fluid dynamics, and linear and nonlinear wave propagation in geophysical contexts. Professor Bretherton holds a number of honors including being a Presidential Young Investigator, 1988-1994; a member of the American Meteorological Society's Committee on Mesoscale Processes; and of FIRE, the First ISCCP Regional Experiment Science Team. He is also an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences and of the Monthly Weather Review. Professor Bretherton receives support for his research from the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research.

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