Ashano Maro

I am an innovative & goal driven team player, with the ability to learn quickly and work effectively under varying situations and environmental conditions.

As a Principal Meteorologist with 10 years working experience in the government sector, my job responsibilities two main categories of Forecasting and Research.

In weather forecasting, common tasks include:

• Basic real time observation of weather parameters;
• Collecting data from satellite images, radar, remote sensors and weather stations across the country;
• Measuring factors such as air pressure, temperature and humidity at various atmospheric levels;
• Analyzing and presenting this information to customers in the form of weather briefings/bulletins;
• Coding weather reports for transmission over international networks;
• Applying physical and mathematical relationships and sophisticated computer models to make short and long-range weather forecasts;
• Liaising with colleagues and clients from around the country and worldwide.
• Supervision of junior staff and students on attachment to the agency
• In research, work that may be carried out includes:
• Investigating subjects such as airflow in the lowest kilometer of the atmosphere, the physics of clouds and precipitation, or global climate change;
• Developing and improving numerical and computer models to predict atmospheric processes and improve the accuracy of forecasts;
• Monitoring climate variability and change;
• Researching seasonal forecasting, ocean forecasting and climate prediction;
• Monitoring and investigating changes in the stratosphere (10-50km above the Earth), including the ozone layer;
• Applying the results of research in order, for example, to give flood warnings or estimate the likely effects of global warming.

• PgD. (Hons) Meteorology

• B.Sc. (Hons) Geology and Mining