Weather Forecasting by Computer

by Professor Fedor Mesinger

University of Maryland, College Park, MD, and University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

Venue and Time: Custom House, Dublin, 6.15pm, April 14th 2011

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Brief Biography:

Fedor Mesinger is a Visiting Senior Research Scientist at the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) of the University of Maryland, and is the PI of the long-term Numerical Simulation of Weather and Climate project of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade. He is one of the two main designers of the NCEP's Eta model (e.g., http://etamodel.cptec.inpe.br/), and in the early two-thousands at NCEP was the lead PI of the five-year North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR) project. He is active in numerical modeling, model verification, and regional climate studies.

Previously, Fedor worked at the University of Belgrade, where he spent about half of his career in various academic positions; and during that time also had longer-term visiting positions at NCAR, Boulder CO, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, and GFDL, Princeton, NJ. He is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society, and is the recipient of the Vilhelm Bjerknes medal of the European Geophysical Society (EGS) for 2001. He has a doctorate in meteorology from the University of Belgrade, and is a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade.

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