Gary McManus -- Staff Climatologist Gary McManus has been with OCS since 1999, joining the Climate
Information Group in 2000. Gary has taken on the position of focal
point for incoming data requests, freeing up other members of CIG
for other projects. Gary also has taken on the task of writing the
majority of the monthly summaries which are produced by CIG. Gary's
other tasks include: designing and implementing climate product display
tools; writing press releases; acting as .backup. to Cerry Leffler in press release duties.
Gary has M.S. and B.S. degrees in Meteorology from the University of Oklahoma. Selected Publications Conference Presentations: McManus, Gary D.:
The quality assurance and dissemination of soil
moisture data from the Oklahoma Mesonet. Preprints, 13th Conference on Applied
Climatology, American Meteorological Society, Portland,
OR. (PDF) McManus, Gary D., Jessica M. Thomale, and Kenneth C. Crawford:
The quality assurance and dissemination of soil
moisture data from the Oklahoma Mesonet. Preprints, 18th Conference on
Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology,
Oceanography and Hydrology, American Meteorological
Society, Orlando, CA. (PDF) Johnson, Howard L., Derek S. Arndt, Gary D. McManus and
Mark Shafer, 2002: The Oklahoma
Mesonet: A Mesoscale Tool for Drought Recognition and
Monitoring. Preprints, 18th Conference on
Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology,
Oceanography and Hydrology, American Meteorological
Society, Orlando, CA. (PDF) Thesis: McManus, Gary D., 1999: A cloud and Global Solar Radiation Climatology for the U.S.
Great Plains 1952-1991. M.S. Thesis, University of Oklahoma, 155 pp. McManus, Gary (contributor), 2002: A Return to the Ice Age: The
Ice Storms of 2000 and 2002. Virginia Beach, VA: The Donning Company Publishers (by
Oklahoma Living Magazine) Event Summaries:
McManus, Gary D., 2002: Oklahoma Ice Storm: February, 2002. OCS Event Summary 2002-01,
Oklahoma Climatological Survey, 11 pp.
January 28-30, 2002: Oklahoma Ice Storm