Meteorology?????????

Question

Who is a meteorologist? I am researching this science and was wondering if anyone has the folowing: A definition, required education, what they do, connected careers, and daily activities. Thanks!

Answer 1

I'm a retired meteorologist with a BS in mathematics, an MS in meteorology (Penn State), and a PhD in atmospheric science from Colorado State. As far as education is concerned you will require mathematics through differential equations and vector analysis. Tensor analysis is also desirable. A meteorology student takes courses in his major in dynamics and kinematics of the atmosphere, numerical weather prediction models, physical meteorology, climatology, statistics, perhaps radar and/or satellite meteorology courses, tropical meteorology, a course in meteorological analysis of data, perhaps a few laboratory classes, and there are many others depending on the direction of your specialty. Some schools emphasize TV weathercasting, while some specialize in tropical meteorology, or severe weather, or theoretical meteorology. Once you have graduated many meteorologists spend a tour or more as an officer in either the Air Force or the Navy. Air Force meteorologists may spend a tour in a weather forecast detachment briefing pilots on enroute weather and destination weather and preparing forecasts for the Air Force Base itself. They may teach pilots their weather courses, or work in a large weather central producing global model forecasts on some of the country's largest and most powerful computers, or they could spend a tour forecasting Typhoons in the Pacific or working as the meteorologist on board an aircraft flying into storms. In the civilian arena there are many, many positions for meterologists such as working in the aerospace industry with weather satellite instrument developement. Or you could work for NOAA and the National Weather Service in all of the kinds of jobs I've mentioned above and more. Hope this helps a little. You could write for a catalog at a University like Maryland or Pennsylvania State Univ., or Texas A&M, or Oklahoma University, or Florida State University, etc. and get a little better idea of what the core courses for a BS degree are at one of those schools.

Answer 2

Meteorologist is someone who studies the weather and the atmosphere

Answer 3

they study the weather