https://www.oceanexpert.net/expert/noorazam75

ORCID : 0000-0003-3846-2481

Master of Technology in Satellite Meteorology and Global climate

Research
Operational Support (technical)
Extension Services (Public Awareness)

Climatology, Meteorology

Job Description:  Weather monitoring, analyzing and forecasting

This meteorologist position is responsible for monitoring and making weather forecast for state government, public, air force and aviation industries. Scope weather monitoring covers inland and ocean. The job will ensure that all key parties receive updated weather forecast to support the critical decision crucial for the national disaster management process.

Key responsibilities:

(a)  Continuously observing and monitoring the current weather phenomena such as thunderstorm, heavy rain, haze, fog or any precipitation that is potentially harmful to public and airport operations in Sarawak. Working in shift and responsible for preparing and updating the 7 days’ weather forecasts for the entire Sarawak region.

(b)  The actual weather phenomena is closely monitored and observed from the monitoring system developed such as METAR/SPECI report in Automated Weather System (AWS), real-time satellite image interpretation from Himawari (Japan) and Feng-Yun (China), surface observation from Weather Radar and Wind Shear Detection System (WSDS).

(c)   Analyzing the potential meteorological phenomena induced from wind at each atmospheric geopotential height 1000mb, 850mb, 500mb and 200mb. Wind parameters at each height are obtain from the Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) model by European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) and Global Forecast System (GFS). The weather and wind forecast will be counter-analyzed with MMD-GFS, the local NWP product developed by Malaysian Meteorological Department (MET) specifically for Malaysian region. Analyzing other meteorological parameters that may triggers significant weather from eMet, the official web base system developed by MET.

(d)  Assessing and monitoring the severity of the meteorological phenomena occurring at each specific division in Sarawak including issuance of severe weather warning for the public and agencies involved.

(e)  Responsible for the issuance of significant meteorological weather warning Aerodrome (AD), Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAFOR) and Trend-Type Landing forecast (TREND) for each airport, and for it to be published globally in the Aviation Briefing Terminal (ABT) system. The job also responsible for the issuance of Meteorological Warning (Met Warning) for Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) when the significant weather approaches.

 Other activities: Satellite meteorological research work

(a)  Actively participating in scientific research activities using satellite data or any related meteorological datasets available to understand the weather phenomena over the region and to improve forecasting skills among forecasters. Well-versed and able to translate large datasets at each data format (netcdf/hdf/ascii/grib) from the satellites GPM/DPR/TRMM(NASA), Himawari (JAXA), GSMaP(JAXA) and INSAT (ISRO).

(b)  Currently participating in research work in developing and improving new rainfall estimation algorithm Malaysian Convective Rainfall Algorithm (MCRA) for Malaysian region using the hybrid technique between the thermal infrared channel from Himawari’s satellite and the near-surface rainfall estimation from the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) of Dual Precipitation Radar (DPR).

South China Sea
Indian Ocean

Microsoft Office   > 20 years  (Advanced)

GRADS Programming  > 5 years  (Intermediate)

Fortran  > 6 years (Intermediate)

Python Programming  > 6 years (Advanced)

Basic GIS (QGIS) > 2 years (Beginners)

LINUX   > 6 years (Intermediate)

Weather Forecasting skills > 13 years (Advance)

English

https://www.met.gov.my/

Experienced meteorologist with Malaysian Meteorological Department for more than 13 years and currently active in research work in satellite meteorological application. Very passionate and enthusiasm in rainfall estimation and algorithm studies and looking forward to expand the skills in big data application particularly in satellite data for both ocean and land.