Science in Meteorology - Job Description

Meteorologists study the earth’s atmosphere – particularly climate and weather – in order to forecast weather conditions.

The main duties of meteorologists include:

• recording and analyzing data from worldwide 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 computer modelling applications to help make long and short range weather predictions
• researching and predicting climate change
• helping to improve weather prediction models
• writing research papers, reports, reviews and summaries
• keeping up to date with relevant scientific and technical developments