Penn State Department of Meteorology

	Craig F. Bohren, Ph.D. Department of Meteorology 428 Walker Building University Park, PA 16802 Telephone: (814) 865-2951 E-mail: bohren@ems.psu.edu (University of Arizona), Distinguished Professor Emeritus Member of Graduate Faculty

Research Interests: Absorption and scattering of electromagnetic radiation, from ultraviolet to radio, by particles.

Teaching Interests: Atmospheric physics, radiative transfer, meteorological observations, atmospheric thermodynamics.

Dr. Bohren studies scattering by atmospheric particles and optical phenomena in the atmosphere. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, and the first recipient of the American Meteorological Society's Louis J. Battan Award for Authors.

Selected Publications:

Bohren, C.F., and E. E. Clothiaux, 2006: Fundamentals of Atmospheric Radiation (VCH-Wiley)

Bohren, C.F., and B.A. Albrecht, 1998: Atmospheric Thermodynamics. Oxford University Press.

Bohren, C.F., 1995: Optics, Atmosphere. Encyclopedia of Applied Physics, 12, 405-434.

Bohren, C.F., and A.B. Fraser, 1993: Green thunderstorms. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 70, 2185-2193.

Bohren, C.F., 1991: What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks? (Wiley, New York).

Bohren, C.F., 1987: Clouds in a Glass of Beer (Wiley, New York).

Bohren, C.F., and D.R. Huffman, 1983: Absorption and Scattering of Light by Small Particles (Wiley-Interscience, New York).