William O. J. Brown

William O. J. Brown received the B.Sc. degree in 1984, the M.Sc. degree (hons) in 1986, and the Ph.D. degree in 1993 from the Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. He did post-doctoral fellowships at Kyoto University's Radio Atmospheric Science Center in Uji, Japan and at the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, WC, Canada. Since 1998 he has been at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. He is a Project Scientist in the Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL) and leads the Atmospheric Profiling Group in the In-situ-Sensing Facility (ISF). This group deploys ISS (Integrated Sounding System) and GAUS (GPS Advanced Upper-air Sounding) facilities including wind profilers, radiosondes, and other sensors for the meteorological research community at locations all around the world. His research focus is on development and applications of wind profiler radars.