Greg Thompson
Associate Scientist
Research Applications Program
National Center for Atmospheric Research
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, Colorado 80301-3000
Foothills Laboratory
(303) 497-2805
e-mail: gthompsn@ucar.edu

Brief Bio
I grew up in Charm City - Baltimore, Maryland. I received a Bachelor's Degree in Meteorology from Penn State in 1990 and a Master's Degree in Atmospheric Science from Colorado State Univ in 1993. I am a member of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and the National Weather Association (NWA). Within the NWA, I am a member of the Aviation Weather Committee. Basically, I'm a "weather weenie".

Main Research
The core of my research relates to development & improvement of in-flight aircraft icing diagnosis and prediction. At this time, this primarily involves numerical modeling of microphysical processes using the MM5 model. I also maintain a suite of Realtime Weather data pages which led to the creation of an aviation weather data site.

Publications
Thompson, G., T.F. Lee, R.T. Bruintjes, and R. Bullock, 1997: Using satellite data to reduce area extent of diagnosed icing. Weather & Forecasting, 12, 185-190.
Thompson, G., R. Bruintjes, B. Brown, and F. Hage, 1997: Intercomparison of in-flight icing algorithms. Part I: WISP94 real-time icing prediction and evaluation program. Weather & Forecasting, 12, 878-889.
Brown, B., G. Thompson, R. Bruintjes, R. Bullock, and T. Kane, 1997: Intercomparison of in-flight icing algorithms. Part II: Statistical verification results. Weather & Forecasting, 12, 890-914.
Cotton, W., G. Thompson, and P. Mielke, 1994: Real-time mesoscale prediction on workstations. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 75, 349-362.

   On a lighter note, I enjoy
   Photographing weather phenomenon (and nature in general).
   Chasing storms, particularly tornado-producing storms.
   Hiking in the Colorado mountains.
   Making and drinking homebrew.