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Member Since 2002
Chris Stephen Bretherton
Senior Director of Climate Modeling, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Chair, Climate Communication Prize Committee
Chris Bretherton is an atmospheric scientist who studies cloud formation and turbulence and improves their simulation in global climate and weather forecast models. He leads a climate modeling group at AI2 in Seattle to use machine learning trained on global cloud-resolving model output to improve climate model simulations, and is an Emeritus Professor of Atm. Sci. and Applied Math at Univ. Washington. He is an AMS Charney Award winner, AMS and AGU Fellow, and member of the NAS.
Professional Experience
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Senior Director of Climate Modeling
2021 - Present
Vulcan Inc.
Senior Director of Climate Modeling
2019 - 2021
University of Washington Seattle
Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and Applied Mathematics
1985 - 2021
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Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctorate
1984
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2026 - 2027
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Climate Communication Prize Committee
2025 - 2025
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Climate Communication Prize Committee
2024 - 2024
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Climate Communication Prize Committee
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Union Fellow
Received December 2015
Citation
For fundamental contributions to the understanding of cloud processes and their role in the climate system.
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Outstanding Reviewer Award - Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
Received December 2014