Weather Forecasting: from Woolly Art to Solid Science

by

Dr Peter Lynch Assistant Director, Met Éireann.

I will sketch the development of forecasting from the days when it was a primitive, empirical process (a woolly art) to today, where it is based on firm physical principles (solid science), and discuss some of the key people involved in this development.

Dr Peter Lynch is Assistant Director of Met Éireann, the Irish Meteorological Service. He has responsibility for the Scientific and Technical Divisions of the Service. He has been active for many years in the development of computer models for weather prediction. He holds a PhD in meteorology from Trinity College. He is also an honorary lecturer at the Mathematics Department in Trinity. He is a member of several National Committees and Chairman of the National Committee for Geodesy and Geophysics.

Room G38 Earlsfort Terrace, NUI Dublin

7p.m. Friday 5th December, 2003