Speakers
Low Frequency Modes and Madden-Julian Oscillation [science talk]
Dr Hanh Nguyen
Dr. Hanh Nguyen is a senior climate scientist at the Bureau of Meteorology, Australia. She completed her PhD on Equatorial Africa synoptic rainfall variability and its link to equatorial convectively coupled Kelvin waves at University Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris, France. Her research interests include tropical climate variability and climate change, the science of droughts and seasonal climate prediction. She currently works on flash droughts as part of the Northern Australian Climate Program (NACP) and the relationship between equatorial waves and Sumatra squall lines in partnership with Centre for Climate Research Singapore (CCRS). Her publication record can be accessed via Researchgate or Google Scholar.
Low Frequency Modes and Madden-Julian Oscillation [practical session]
Mr Fadhlil Rizki Muhammad
Fadhlil is a PhD student from the University of Melbourne. His research mainly focuses on the impacts on tropical rainfall and circulation due to intraseasonal variabilities such as Madden-Julian oscillation, boreal summer intraseasonal oscillation, and convectively coupled equatorial waves. His current research quantifies the impacts of equatorial waves on tropical Australian rainfall and their characteristics in the S2S models.
Convectively Coupled Equatorial Rossby Waves [science talk]
Prof. Adrian Matthews
Adrian Matthews' research interests cover tropical meteorology, oceanography and climate. He is particularly interested in the interactions between weather systems and modes of variability such as convectively coupled equatorial waves, the Madden-Julian Oscillation and the diurnal cycle, and how they can trigger extreme precipitation.
Convectively Coupled Equatorial Rossby Waves [practical session]
Dr Philippe Peyrillé
Dr Philippe Peyrillé research is focused on the mechanisms that drive precipitation in the tropics from subseasonal to seasonal timescales with a specific interest for the interaction between tropical waves, large-scale forcing and deep convection in various areas like the West Africa, the the Indian Ocean and the Maritime Continent.
He has been involved in studies showing the role of tropical waves in the occurrence of extreme precipitation events and tropical cyclone over Indonesia. An important aspect of his work is the transfer from research work to operational applications with close interaction with forecasters in West Africa and Overseas French territories in the tropics.
Convectively Coupled Equatorial Kelvin Waves [science talk]
Dr Natasha Senior
Natasha is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of East Anglia, UK on the FORSEA project. This is a collaborative project between several UK institutions and partner countries in southeast Asia to improve forecasts of extreme weather in the Maritime Continent.
Natasha's current research interests involve studying the mechanisms through which equatorial waves can lead to rainfall extremes and how these may be better represented in forecast models.
Convectively Coupled Equatorial Kelvin Waves [practical session]
Dr Dariusz Baranowski
Darek Baranowski is a tropical meteorologist working mainly on multi-scale and atmosphere-ocean interactions within the Indo-Pacific domain. His core interest are on how large-scale atmospheric and oceanographic processes interact with a local environment within the Maritime Continent region, especially during hazardous weather events, on a time scale of several days to several weeks.
Mixed Rossby-Gravity Waves [science talk]
Dr Ida Pramuwardani
Ida Pramuwardani finished her Doctoral Degree From Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia in 2019. Currently, she works in BMKG as Head of the Production and Dissemination Team in BMKG Headquarters Jakarta. Her background is in tropical meteorology, especially the role of atmospheric phenomena in the Indonesian region. Her research commonly focuses on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves in Indonesia.
Mixed Rossby-Gravity Waves [pracical session]
Dr Muhamad Rezza Ferdiansyah
Muhammad Rezza Ferdiansyah holds a Doctoral degree from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. His career has been devoted to roles in meteorology and climate-related fields. He worked as an operational forecaster at the Center for Public Weather Service, BMKG in Indonesia, for over a decade. Currently, starting from June 2023, he has been contributing his expertise as operational staff at the Center for Applied Climate Information and Services, BMKG, Indonesia.
Interaction of waves with cold surges [science talk]
Mr Jeong-Yik Diong
Diong Jeong Yik is a Meteorology Officer at Malaysian Meteorological Department (MET Malaysia) with 15 years of experience. Specializing in monsoon research, he uses that experience to help forecasters in the MET Malaysia to understand the monsoon better. Over the years, Jeong Yik has successfully translated most of his research works for operational forecasting needs.
Jeong Yik got his first degree in Physics from University Putra Malaysia and earned a Master Degree in Oceanography from the National University of Malaysia.
Interaction of waves with cold surges [practical session]
Dr Donaldi Permana
Donaldi is a climate scientist at BMKG. He has broad interests in tropical atmospheric variability at multiple timescales over the Maritime Continent and past climate in tropical high mountain regions in Indonesia. To be specific, his research recently includes the impact of equatorial waves (S2S) in extreme events in Indonesia, Asia - Australia monsoon, and seasonal prediction. He is currently involved in activities related to numerical modeling such as NWP with data assimilation, dynamical-statistical regional climate downscaling, and future climate projections. Since 2018, he has been a member of the WMO WGNE MJO Task Force.
Daily weather briefings
Mr Thierry Lefort
Thierry Lefort is currently a national forecaster at Météo-France; he previously worked as a trainer at the Ecole Nationale de la Météorologie (specialized in tropical meteorology), and earlier as a tropical forecaster in New Caledonia, Southwest Pacific Ocean.
Thierry Lefort has been involved in numerous international activities of capacity building of SMN staff in the Tropics through WMO projects like CREWS (West African SMNs), Public-Private Partnerships projects (through Meteofrance International with BMKG, IMD, INAMET Angola, SMN Argentina).
He has been a member of the WMO/WWRP expert team on Severe Monsoon Weather. He has been involved in studies showing the role of equatorial waves in the occurrence of extreme precipitation events and tropical cyclones over Indonesia.
Besides shift work, Thierry is very active in various international testbeds that explore subseasonal prediction methods and the use of Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves in short and medium-range forecasts.