About The WeatherPod
The WeatherPod is a unique series of almost 40 podcasts exploring the value of weather and climate information in addressing the mounting challenges and impacts of extreme weather and climate change.
Its central theme is the importance of national and international co-operation involving organisations from the public, private and academic sectors which share the common goal of developing timely and accurate weather information and related services to save lives, protect critical infrastructure and enhance economic efficiency.
The WeatherPod AI series aims has a specific focus on the evolution, development, use and implications of AI and related technologies across the weather enterprise.
Both the standard and AI editions are hosted by David Rogers and Alan Thorpe. In each episode they invite an expert guest into the studio to discuss a key development impacting the global weather enterprise.
The WeatherPod is available in video and audio-only formats.
- Using AI to improve weather information: featuring Shruti Nath of Oxford University.
- Met Éireann: we examine how one met service is approaching the use of AI in its operations.
- Digital Twins of Planet Earth: featuring Irina Sandu, Director of Destination Earth at ECMWF.
- ECMWF’s strategy for using AI predictions: with Florian Pappenberger, Deputy-Director General & Director of Forecasts at ECMWF.
- Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence: hosts Alan Thorpe and David Rogers invite Amy McGovern into the studio to discuss the meaning of “trustworthy AI”.
- Using Artificial Intelligence for weather forecasting: our hosts invite Professor Kirstine Dale of the UK Met Office into the studio.
- The academic sector contribution to weather research: co-presenters Alan Thorpe and David Rogers talk to Dr. David Parsons – Professor Emeritus of the Oklahoma University Department of Meteorology – about the role of the academic sector.
- The world of the broadcast meteorologist: we talk to hugely experienced broadcast meteorologist, Gerald Fleming.
- Partnerships in the Global Weather Enterprise: Christoph Ramshorn is invited into the studio to discuss how the public and private sectors can work together.
- Inside a commercial national met service: Peter Lennox – formerly Chief Executive of the New Zealand Meteorological Service – discusses the operation of a national meteorological service as a commercial enterprise.
- Forecast-based Financing: Catalina Jaime, Senior Risk Adviser at the Red Cross-Red Crescent Climate Centre, is in the studio.
- Public and private weather services in Austria: we talk to Michael Staudinger – Director of the Central Institute of Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) – which is Austria’s national meteorological & hydrological service.
- Forging a successful European partnership at ECMWF: Florence Rabier is invited into the studio to discuss ECMWF and the recent publication of its 10-year strategy 2021 to 2030.
- Climate change and public health: featuring Dr. Madeleine Thomson, the Interim Head of ‘Our Planet, Our Health’ at the Wellcome Trust
- Insuring weather risks: in this episode of The WeatherPod, it’s our pleasure to welcome into the studio Rebecca Leonardi, Managing Partner of WX Risk Global.
- Growing Africa’s science capability for weather prediction: we feature two guests who have considerable experience in scientific research on tropical weather systems and in operational weather forecasting in Africa – Professor Doug Parker from the University of Leeds, UK and Dr Mariane Diop-Kane from the WMO Africa Regional Office, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
- The challenge of flooding: Professor Hannah Cloke of Reading University joins us in the studio.
- Prospects & opportunities for weather & climate services in Africa: two colleagues – Jerry Lengoasa and Makoto Suwa – discuss the role played by government, development partners, national meteorological and hydrological services and private sector weather services in reducing the risks on business and society of extreme weather & climate change.
- Enhancing early warning systems in Africa and Asia: hosts Alan Thorpe & David Rogers meet Dr. A R Subbiah of the The Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System for Africa and Asia (RIMES).
- Machine learning and artificial intelligence in weather and climate research: we talk to Douglas Rao, a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies, and Chen Chen, a Senior Research Scientist at the Centre for Climate Research Singapore.
- Building urban resilience to compound extreme weather events and risks: Dr Nina Ridder, of the University of New South Wales, and Dr Faith Taylor, of King’s College London, discuss the huge impact extreme weather & climate events are having on urban areas and human settlements.
- The economics of weather information: we meet Thomas Frei to explore the economics of weather information, the increasing sensitivity of business and society to the weather, and the evolving roles of the public, private and academic sectors in the global weather enterprise.
- Energy & meteorology: Alan and David welcome into the studio Alberto Troccoli, Managing Director of the World Energy & Meteorology Council. As more of our energy requirements are met by renewables, weather data products have an increasingly important role to play in ensuring continuity of supply.
- Key issues facing the Global Weather Enterprise: hosts Alan Thorpe & David Rogers take stock of the 17 episodes of The WeatherPod to date.
- WeatherPod Special – Weather & climate information and the transition to a decarbonised global economy: hosts David Rogers & Alan Thorpe interview Prof. Dale Barker, Director, Centre for Climate Research Singapore (CCRS), and Dr Thomas Reindl, Deputy CEO, Solar Energy Research Institute Singapore (SERIS)
- Public Weather Services, Part 1: in the first episode of this two-part programme, hosts David and Alan interview Haleh Kootval, formerly of the WMO and now with the World Bank, about the development of Public Weather Services.
- Public Weather Services, Part 2: in this second episode, hosts David and Alan invite Haleh Kootval, Gerald Fleming and Kevin O’Loughlin into the studio to discuss how the landscape for the provision of public weather services is changing with the growth of the private sector.
- Perspectives from early career scientists on the evolution of the Global Weather Enterprise: featuring Dr Shipra Jain and Dr Marisol Osman about their experience as early career scientists of working within the global weather enterprise.
- Predicting the Uncertain World: hosts David Rogers and Alan Thorpe talk to Tim Palmer to explore some of the thoughts developed in his new book ‘The Primacy of Doubt’ (Basic Books) and their potential implications for weather forecasting.
- What next for Weather Forecasting?: We meet Paul Davies, Chief Meteorologist and Principal Research Fellow of the UK Met Office, to discuss the implications of ‘impact-based forecasting’ for the future of weather forecasting and of the weather forecaster.
- The ECMWF Copernicus Climate Change Service: hosts Alan Thorpe and David Rogers invite Dr. Carlo Buentempo into the studio. Carlo is the Director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).
- Anticipatory Action: hosts Alan and David talk to Irene Amuron of the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, Paul Davies of the UK Met Office, and Terrence Fernando the University of Salford, to debate the question: “How do we improve outcomes for everyone at risk from the impact of hydrometeorological hazards?”
- A Global Interactive Forecasting System: we invite David Richardson of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts – the ECMWF – into the studio.
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