Meteorologist
Water Management, Forestry, Environment

Description of job position

• Recording and analyzing data from world-wide weather stations, satellites, radars and remote sensors.
• Interpreting observations from the land, sea and upper atmosphere.
• Providing customers (such as civil aviation companies, broadcast companies and military units) with weather reports/forecasts.
• Employing mathematical and physical formulae and using specialist computer modelling applications to help make long and short range weather predictions.
• Researching and predicting climate change such as global warming.
• Helping to improve weather prediction models.
• Writing research papers, reports, reviews and summaries.
• Keeping up to date with relevant scientific and technical developments.