Meteorologist

Responsibilities As a Meteorologist, you will perform the following duties:

Serve as a technical authority on validating various tools and models pertinent to the Analysis and Nowcast .

Collect, process and analyze forecast field’ needs and help develop them into requirements to identify and fill gaps in analysis and short-term (0-18 hour) forecasting.

Develop and implement validation algorithms for 0-18 hour forecasting tools and innovations in order to improve critical forecasting capabilities to meet the needs of NWS forecasters.

Communicate with state/local officials, policy experts, and the media to negotiate technical approaches to problems, further preparedness programs, and negotiate and explain service levels.