About The WeatherPod
Alan Thorpe is an atmospheric scientist who has worked as a Professor of Meteorology, as head of the UK Met Office’s Hadley Centre and, most recently, as Director General of the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts.
David Rogers is an oceanographer turned meteorologist, a former Chief Executive of the UK Met Office and now a consultant with the World Bank helping countries improve their weather, hydrological and disaster management systems and services.
Weather information is an international resource critical to saving lives, making business and society more efficient, and building resilience to the growing impacts of extreme weather & climate change.
Each month, WeatherPod will explore how the public, private and academic sectors – which make up what’s informally called the Global Weather Enterprise – co-operate to produce weather information and make it widely available. It will also examine how weather affected public and private enterprises actually use it.
To listen or watch the podcasts click on the episode or scroll down to the 'published content' below:
WEATHERPOD EPISODES & GUESTS
Episode 1: The academic sector contribution to weather research
Guests: Dr. David Parsons, Professor Emeritus, Oklahoma University Department of Meteorology
Episode 2: The world of the broadcast meteorologist
Guest: Gerald Fleming, Former head of the forecast division of Met Éireann
Episode 3: Partnerships in the Global Weather Enterprise
Guest: Christoph Ramshorn, Chief Cooperations Officer, meteoblue
Episode 4: Inside a commercial national met service
Guest: Peter Lennox, former CEO, Meteorological Service of New Zealand
Episode 5: Forecast-based Financing
Guest: Cataline Jaime, Senior Risk Adviser, Red Cross-Red Crescent Climate Centre
Episode 6: Public and private weather services in Austria
Guest: Michael Staudinger, Director, Central Institute of Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG)
Episode 7: Forging a successful European partnership at ECMWF
Guest: Florence Rabier, Director-General, ECMWF
Episode 8: Climate change and public health
Guest: Dr Madeleine Thomson, Interim Head of Our Planet, Our Health, the Wellcome Trust
Episode 9: Insuring weather risks
Guest: Rebecca Leonardi, Managing Partner, WX Risk Global
Episode 10: Growing Africa’s science capability for weather prediction
Guests: Prof Doug Parker, Professor of Meteorology, University of Leeds & Mariane Diop-Kane,Programme Manager, WMO Africa Regional Office
Episode 11: The challenge of flooding
Guest: Professor Hannah Cloke, Department of Geography and Environmental Science & Department of Meteorology, Reading University
Episode 12: Prospects & opportunities for weather & climate services in Africa
Guests: Jerry Lengoasa, formerly Deputy Secretary General, WMO & Makoto Suwa, Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist, World Bank GFDRR
Episode 13: Enhancing early warning systems in Africa and Asia
Guest: Dr. A R Subbiah, Operationally Responsible operational responsibility for RIMES Program Unit and Regional Early Warning Center, Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System for Africa and Asia (RIMES).
Episode 14: Machine learning and artificial intelligence in weather and climate research
Guests: Yuhan (Douglas) Rao, a Postdoctoral Research Scholar, North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies and Chen Chen, Senior Research Scientist at the Centre for Climate Research Singapore
Episode 15: Building urban resilience to compound extreme weather events and risks
Guests: Dr Nina Ridder, Research Associate, Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales & Dr Faith Taylor, Lecturer in Physical Geography Education, King’s College London
Episode 16: Economics of weather information
Guest: Thomas Frei, CEO, Research and Consulting, Zurich
Episode 17: Energy & meteorology
Guest: Prof Alberto Troccoli, Managing Director, World Energy & Meteorology Council
Episode 18: The WeatherPod Special Report – Key issues facing the Global Weather Enterprise
WeatherPod hosts Prof Alan Thorpe & Dr David Rogers
Episode 19: WeatherPod Special for Asia Climate Forum 2022
Guests: Prof. Dale Barker, Director, Centre for Climate Research Singapore (CCRS), and Dr Thomas Reindl, Deputy CEO, Solar Energy Research Institute Singapore (SERIS)
Episode 20: Public Weather Services, Part 1
Guest: Haleh Kootval, Chief Public Weather Services Programme, WMO
Episode 21: Public Weather Services, Part 2
Guests: Haleh Kootval, Chief Public Weather Services Programme, WMO & Gerald Fleming, Broadcast Meteorologist formerly of Met Éireann & Kevin O’Loughlin Meteorologist formerly of Bureau of Meteorology
Episode 22: Perspectives from early career scientists on the evolution of the GWE
Guests: Dr Shipra Jain, Research Scientist, Centre for Climate Research Singapore & Dr Marisol Osman, Climate Researcher, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Episode 23: Predicting the Uncertain World
Guest: Prof Tim Palmer, Research Scientist, University of Oxford
Episode 24: What next for Weather Forecasting?
Guest: Paul Davies, Chief Meteorologist & Principal Research Fellow at the UK Met Office
