RDG Conference Report of Ronald C. Macatangay

Write up about the Conference

The conference will bring together the entire weather science and user communities for the first time to review the state-of the-art and map out the scientific frontiers for the next decade and more.

Feedback on paper presented

Use a mean layer wind from 850 – 200 hPa with pressure weighting

Future directions of research presented

Consider writing up the paper for publication

Potential foreign collaborators

  • Dr. Carolyn Reynolds, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, USA
  • Dr, Suzana Camargo, LDEO, Columbia University, NY, USA
  • Dr. Johnny Chan, School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong
  • Lydia Gates, Maritime Climate Research, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Germany

Short write-up of one’s participation (to be used to feature/publicize the grantee’s participation in the conference)

I was one out of only three Filipino participants in the conference. I presented a poster on the post-analysis of Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) using numerical weather prediction models,satellite and ground-based data.