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Marcia Bourgin Baker
Birth Name:Marcia Bourgin
Birth Date:1938
Alma Mater:University of Washington
Thesis Title:Ion transport through nerve membranes
Thesis Url:https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/
Thesis Year:1971
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Marcia Baker is a retired professor known for her research on cloud physics which informs global climate models and defines the processes leading to the formation of lightning from clouds.

Education and career

Baker graduated in 1955 from Urbana High School in Illinois.[1] [2] She earned a scholarship on the basis of "scholastic achievement and promise of effective participation and leadership" to attend Cornell University from which she earned a B.S. in 1959. She earned an M.S. from Stanford University in 1960[3] and a Ph.D. in physics in 1971 from the University of Washington.[4] She remained at the University of Washington following her Ph.D., initially as a research associate. She was promoted to professor of geophysics and atmospheric sciences in 1988. She retired in 2004[5]

Research

Baker's research on cloud physics informs climate change models.[6] Her early research examined how atmospheric particles absorb energy[7] and the formation of droplets within cumulus clouds.[8] Her modeling of turbulent mixing within clouds[9] [10] and the connections between cloud thickness and precipitation[11] [12] play a role in modeling of global climate. She has also used a combination of modeling and satellite observations to establish the processes that lead to the formation of lightning.[13] [14]

Selected publications

Awards and honors

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Uni Graduating Classes 1951-1960 University of Illinois Laboratory High School. 2021-08-20. www.uni.illinois.edu.
  2. Web site: June 27, 1955. Urbana High Girl Gets Scholarship. 2021-08-20. idnc.library.illinois.edu.
  3. Chen. Deliang. March 2004. International evaluation of meteorology.
  4. Ion transport through nerve membranes.. 1971. English. Marcia Bourgin. Baker. 19767248.
  5. Web site: Fall 2005. Atmospheric Circulation - newsletter of the University of Washington Atmospheric Sciences Department.
  6. Web site: October 27, 2007. Like It Or Not, Uncertainty And Climate Change Go Hand-in-hand. 2021-08-20. ScienceDaily. en.
  7. 1976-01-01. Energy absorption by volatile atmospheric aerosol particles. Atmospheric Environment. en. 10. 3. 241–248. 10.1016/0004-6981(76)90097-4. 0004-6981. Baker. M.B..
  8. Baker. M. B.. Latham. J.. 1979-08-01. The Evolution of Droplet Spectra and the Rate of Production of Embryonic Raindrops in Small Cumulus Clouds. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. EN. 36. 8. 1612–1615. 10.1175/1520-0469(1979)036<1612:TEODSA>2.0.CO;2. 1979JAtS...36.1612B. 0022-4928. free.
  9. Baker. M. B.. Breidenthal. R. E.. Choularton. T. W.. Latham. J.. 1984-01-15. The Effects of Turbulent Mixing in Clouds. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. EN. 41. 2. 299–304. 10.1175/1520-0469(1984)041<0299:TEOTMI>2.0.CO;2. 1984JAtS...41..299B. 0022-4928. free.
  10. Baker. M. B.. Dash. J. G.. 1994. Mechanism of charge transfer between colliding ice particles in thunderstorms. Journal of Geophysical Research. en. 99. D5. 10621. 10.1029/93JD01633. 1994JGR....9910621B. 0148-0227.
  11. Pincus. Robert. Baker. Marcia B.. 1994. Effect of precipitation on the albedo susceptibility of clouds in the marine boundary layer. Nature. en. 372. 6503. 250–252. 10.1038/372250a0. 1994Natur.372..250P. 4356466. 0028-0836.
  12. Baker . M. B. . Cloud Microphysics and Climate . Science . 16 May 1997 . 276 . 5315 . 1072–1078 . 10.1126/science.276.5315.1072.
  13. Baker . M.B . Blyth . A.M . Christian . H.J . Latham . J . Miller . K.L . Gadian . A.M . Relationships between lightning activity and various thundercloud parameters: satellite and modelling studies . Atmospheric Research . July 1999 . 51 . 3–4 . 221–236 . 10.1016/S0169-8095(99)00009-5. 1999AtmRe..51..221B .
  14. Baker . Marcia B. . Christian . Hugh J. . Latham . John . A computational study of the relationships linking lightning frequency and other thundercloud parameters . Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society . October 1995 . 121 . 527 . 1525–1548 . 10.1256/smsqj.52702.
  15. Web site: Baker. Honors Program.
  16. Web site: List of Fellows. 2021-08-20. American Meteorological Society. en.

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