Roy W. Spencer | |
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| Born | December 20, 1955 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan (BS) University of Wisconsin–Madison (MS, PhD) |
| Awards | NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (1991), AMS Special Award (1996) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Meteorology |
| Institutions | NASA, University of Alabama in Huntsville |
| Thesis | A case study of African wave structure and energetics during Atlantic transit (1981) |
| Doctoral advisor | Verner E. Suomi |
| Website | Official website |
Roy Warren Spencer (born December 20, 1955)[1] is an American meteorologist.[2] He is a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and the U.S. Science Team leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E) on NASA's Aqua satellite.[3][4] He has served as senior scientist for climate studies at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.[3][4] He is known for his satellite-based temperature monitoring work, for which he was awarded the American Meteorological Society's Special Award.[4] Spencer disagrees with the scientific consensus that most global warming in the past 50 years is the result of human activity, instead believing that anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions have caused some warming, but that influence is small compared to natural variations in global average cloud cover.
- ^ "ISNI 0000000122132141". isni.org. Retrieved June 21, 2016.
- ^ Fong, Jocelyn (January 27, 2011). "Fox Tries To Debunk Global Warming, Fails Miserably". Media Matters for America. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
- ^ a b "Aqua Project Science". NASA. Archived from the original on February 16, 2013. Retrieved August 27, 2012.
- ^ a b c Spencer, Roy W. (March 19, 2007). "STATEMENT TO THE COMMITTEE" (PDF). United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 28, 2007. Retrieved March 7, 2007.