Is it possible to understand dynamic meteorology? 

by

Anders Persson 

European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts

In the 1960's Anders Persson passed the university exams in maths and theoretical physics, but claims rather modestly that he had enormous problems with meteorology. But he wanted to become a forecaster, so he (again claims) learned everything by heart and passed in the last minute. Since then he has, apart from forecasting for all scales, from TREND forecasts at Malmo airport to ten day forecasts for the Swedish ice breaking fleet, been trying to understand 'what he learnt by heart'. This drew him into educational activities, both at SMHI and ECMWF, having one foot with the practitioners, and one foot with the theoreticians, a rather demanding position, but rewarding if you can stand the cross-fire!

Room G32 Earlsfort Terrace, NUI Dublin

8p.m. Friday 16th February, 2001