I’ve always been advocating for a change in severe weather warning system in Brazil, which is poorly designed and inneficient. Between 2021 and 2023, I participated in a comittee of researchers and meteorologists to establish the guidelines for implementing an effective warning system in the country. These guidelines were published in a document that will hopefully give federal and state governments an opportunity to improve the warning system. I also participated in a smaller group within the comittee that discussed specifically the implementation of operational modeling to support forecasting and nowcasting.
Between 2018 and 2019, I conducted training on convective weather nowcasting techniques at various locations in Brazil and at the National Institute of Meteorology in Uruguay. The course primarily targeted operational forecasters and covered topics such as the identification of severe storm ingredients, interpretation of models and observed data, and the detection of severe storms using radar and satellite imagery, among others. The final activity involved simulating a real severe storm outbreak, requiring participants to draw polygons for severe thunderstorm warnings.
I also had the opportunity to engage with students in several oportunities to talk about career perspectives in the field and science in general. Here, I am discussing my work and the potential opportunities within the field of geosciences in Brazil.
Bruno Zanetti Ribeiro 