| Roy Gordon Grainger | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 19, 1962 Thames, New Zealand |
| Nationality | New Zealander |
| Fields | Remote Sensing, Atmospheric Physics |
| Institutions | University of Oxford, St Hugh's College |
| Alma mater | University of Auckland |
| Known for | aerosol and cloud remote sensing |
Roy Gordon Grainger is head of the Earth Observation Data Group[1] at the University of Oxford's Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Sub-Department and a Tutorial Fellow in Physics at St Hugh's College, Oxford [2]. He is the Principal Investigator of the Optimal Retrieval of Aerosol and Cloud (ORAC) project[3] (which is a community code to optimally estimate aerosol and cloud properties from satellite imagery), and was principally responsible for starting this project.
Grainger lives in Oxford, England and is the great-grandson of Alfred Henry Grainger after whom Grainger Falls is named.