George Lynn Cross Research Professor, OU School of Meteorology
mcfarq@ou.edu
Gregory.McFarquhar@noaa.gov
National Weather Center 2100
Greg McFarquhar is the Director of the Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations (CIWRO) and a George Lynn Cross Research Professor in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. He completed his B.Sc. in Mathematics & Physics at the University of Toronto, and a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Atmospheric Physics at the University of Toronto. He has worked as a faculty member at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, a project scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.
He has completed sabbaticals at the Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique in Clermont-Ferrand, France, and at NCAR. He is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and American Geophysical Union, President of the International Commission on Clouds and Precipitation, former President of the American Meteorological Society on Cloud Physics, and is a George Lynn Cross Research Professor at the University of Oklahoma.
His research is making fundamental advances in understanding the properties of clouds and the processes occurring in clouds in order to improve the ability to represent clouds in weather and climate models. His work uses field observations, satellite retrievals and numerical modeling studies. He has conducted 37 field campaigns measuring clouds using aircraft in locations such as Sweden, Alaska, Oklahoma, Newfoundland, Australia, Namibia, Săo Tomé, French Guyana, Costa Rica, Malaysia, Fiji, the Maldives and elsewhere.
He is Chief Editor of the American Meteorological Society Monograph Collection, Associate Editor of the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society and of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, and Special Editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research. He has 242 refereed journal publications, and he and his group have made 787 presentations at national and international conferences. He has received over $10 Million of research funding from agencies such as the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, NASA and NOAA.