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WeatherPod is a unique podcast exploring the value of weather and climate information in addressing the mounting challenges and impacts of extreme weather and climate change. Its central theme is the importance of national and international co-operation involving organisations from the public, private and academic sectors which share the common goal of developing timely and accurate weather information and related services to save lives, protect critical infrastructure and enhance economic efficiency.
In this episode of the WeatherPod, hosts David and Alan talk to Dr Shipra Jain and Dr Marisol Osman about their experience as early career scientists of working within the global weather enterprise. Both Shipra and Marisol are members of the Young Earth System Scientists (YESS) community.
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About the guests
Dr Shipra Jain (University of Edinburgh - climate science) is a physicist by training and particularly interested in how society can benefit from improved knowledge of extremes. She conducts research to advance the physical understanding and early prediction of weather and climate extremes. For the last five years, she is working on the development of physical-mathematical frameworks that can be used to quantify the chance of record-breaking rainfall for the next season to next decades. Shipra has worked on diverse climate science-related topics including seasonal predictions, monsoon dynamics, stratospheric tropospheric processes, climate change and variability, climate extremes, and air pollution. She has collaborated with > 60 co-authors across different countries, organizations, and career stages. Very recently, she has joined the Centre for Climate Research Singapore, where she works on the seasonal and subseasonal forecasting and development of forecast products for Singapore and South-East Asia.
Dr Marisol Osman (research scientist at CIMA/University of Buenos Aires - Meteorology/climatology) is a postdoctoral researcher working at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Coming from a town of farmers, she was always interested in how climate variability affects agricultural activity. During her Diploma and PhD, which she completed in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she worked on climate predictability and prediction on seasonal timescales over the Southern Hemisphere and South America. During her postdoc, she developed a probabilistic seasonal forecasting system for South America that is now used by the Argentinian Weather Service. As a researcher, she worked on interdisciplinary projects with anthropologists, economists as well as farmers to co-design and co-produce forecasting tools for the agricultural sector on subseasonal and seasonal timescales. Now at KIT she studies the predictability of different variables relevant for the energy sector on weather and subseasonal timescales.
Theme music by John Cockram
Hosts David Rogers & Alan Thorpe interview two leading figures about how their own organisations ar contributing to the decarbonisation of Singapore and elsewhere. The huests are Prof. Dale Barker, Director, Centre for Climate Research Singapore (CCRS), and Dr Thomas Reindl, Deputy CEO, Solar Energy Research Institute Singapore (SERIS)
Please send your feedback on The WeatherPod to us at: support@gweforum.org
Please send your feedback on The WeatherPod to us at: support@gweforum.org
In this special video episode of The WeatherPod, hosts Alan Thorpe & David Rogers take stock of the 17 episodes of The WeatherPod to date. They examine the key issues that have emerged which suggest how - and why - the Global Weather Enterprise could provide better and more useful products to support a growing number of weather affected activities and to help address climate change.
Theme music by John Cockram