Mark Flanner

Assistant Professor

Education:

Ph.D., Earth System Science, University of California at Irvine
B.S., Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin

Research:

• Climate forcing of black carbon particles
• Cryosphere-climate interaction and feedback
• Ice sheet energy balance
• Snowpack microphysics
• Radiative transfer
• Climate model development

Honors, Awards and Accomplishments

• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Advanced Study Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research
• NASA Earth System Science Graduate Student Fellowship
• Outstanding Student Presentation Award (oral), American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
• UC - Irvine Medal Award (student)

Publications

Flanner, M. G., C. S. Zender, P. G. Hess, N. M. Mahowald, T. H. Painter, V. Ramanathan, and P. J. Rasch (2009), Springtime warming and reduced snow cover from carbonaceous particles, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 2481-2497 (pdf © 2009 by the authors).

Flanner, M. G. (2009), Integrating anthropogenic heat flux with global climate models, Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L02801, doi:10.1029/2008GL036465 (pdf © 2009 by AGU).

Quinn, P. K., T. S. Bates, E. Baum, N. Doubleday, A. M. Fiore, M. Flanner, A. Fridlind, T. J. Garrett, D. Koch, S. Menon, D. Shindell, A. Stohl, and S. G. Warren (2008), Short-lived pollutants in the Arctic: Their climate impact and possible mitigation strategies, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 8, 1723-1735 (pdf © 2008 by the authors).

McConnell, J. R., R. Edwards, G. L. Kok, M. G. Flanner, C. S. Zender, E. S. Saltzman, J. R. Banta, D. R. Pasteris, M. M. Carter, and J. D. W. Kahl (2007), 20th Century industrial black carbon emissions altered Arctic climate forcing, Science, 317, 1381-1384 (pdf © 2007 by AAAS).

Flanner, M. G., C. S. Zender, J. T. Randerson, and P. J. Rasch (2007), Present day climate forcing and response from black carbon in snow, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D11202, doi:10.1029/2006JD008003 (pdf © 2007 by AGU).

Painter, T. H., N. P. Molotch, M. Cassidy, M. Flanner, and K. Steffen (2007), Contact spectroscopy for determination of stratigraphy of snow grain size, J. Glaciol., 53, 180, 121-127 (pdf © 2007 by IGS).

Randerson, J. T., H. Liu, M. G. Flanner, S. D. Chambers, Y. Jin, P. G. Hess, G. Pfister, M. C. Mack, K. K. Treseder, L. R. Welp, F. S. Chapin, J. W. Harden, M. L. Goulden, E. Lyons, J. C. Neff, E. A. G. Schuur and C. S. Zender (2006), The impact of boreal forest fire on climate warming, Science, 314, 1132-1134 (pdf © 2006 by AAAS).

Flanner, M. G., and C. S. Zender (2006), Linking snowpack microphysics and albedo evolution, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D12208, doi:10.1029/2005JD006834 (pdf © 2006 by AGU).

Flanner, M. G., and C. S. Zender (2005), Snowpack radiative heating: Influence on Tibetan Plateau climate, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L06501, doi:10.1029/2004GL022076 (pdf © 2005 by AGU).