A meteorological expert born in Devon, Timothy Oke emigrated in 1963 and came to UBC to teach in 1970. He became Head of the geography department and co-editor of Vancouver and its Region, an overview by 19 UBC geographers. As the author of Boundary Layer Climates and The Climate of Vancouver, Oke is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Canadian Geographic Society.

Bibliography:

The Climate of Vancouver (Tantalus, 1976)
Boundary Layer Climates (M. and J. Wiley, 1978)
Vancouver and its Region (UBC Press, 1992)
Surface Climates of Canada (McGill-Queens University Press, 1997)
Biometeorology and Urban Climatology at the Turn of the Millenium, co-written with A. Auliciems, R.J. De Dear and J.D. Kalma (Geneva, World Meteorological Organization, 2000)

[BCBW 2003]

Review of the author's work by BC Studies:
Vancouver and Its Region