Director

Prof Dale BARKER
Research/Professional Interests
- Numerical Weather Prediction
- Data Assimilation
- Climate Science
- Reanalysis
- Weather/Climate Impacts
DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH MASTERPLANNING

Ms SEE Shu Wei
Deputy Director
Research/Professional Interests
- Strategy formulation and reviews
- Communication of Strategies
- Resourcing
- Performance reporting
- Organisational development
CLIMATE SCIENCE RESEARCH PROGRAMME OFFICE

Ms Michelle CHNG
Head
Research/Professional Interests
- Climate change impact
- Project Management
- Communication
- Stakeholder engagement

Mr NEO Jia Wei
Manager
Research/Professional Interests
- Climate change impact
- Project management
- Stakeholder engagement
RESEARCH SUPPORT SECTION

Ms Tammy CHIN
Manager
Research/Professional Interests
- Science communication and visual communication
- Stakeholder engagement
- Education and public outreach

Ms CHONG Hooi Yan
Manager
Research/Professional Interests
- Public administration
- Stakeholder engagement
DEPARTMENT OF CLIMATE RESEARCH

Dr Aurel MOISE
Deputy Director
Research/Professional Interests
- Project management
- Climate model evaluation
- Monsoons and tropical processes
- Communication, stakeholder engagement
CLIMATE PROJECTIONS AND EXTREMES BRANCH

Dr Sandeep SAHANY
Research Interests
- Climate model validation and development
- Understanding precipitation processes in observations and models
- Climate change science
- Climate change impact assessment
- Monsoons

Dr Chen CHEN
Research Interests
- Geophysical fluid dynamics
- Climate change projection
- Climate variability and modelling
- Climate informatics and statistics

Dr CHUA Xin Rong
Research Interests
- Extreme precipitation and temperature
- Tropical weather and climate
- Cloud processes
- Aerosol-climate interactions

Dr Muhammad Eeqmal HASSIM
Research Interests
- Atmospheric moist convection and its multiscale interactions
- Tropical meteorology and climate variability
- Drivers of rainfall extremes
- Regional climate-aerosol interactions

Dr Prasanna VENKATRAMAN
Research Interests
- Regional climate modelling and dynamical downscaling
- Climate variability and change
- Tropical weather and climate processes
- Temperature and precipitation extremes

Dr Pavan Harika RAAVI
Research Interests
- Extreme weather events
- Climate modelling
- Tropical cyclones
- Climate extremes
- Climate variability
SEASONAL AND SUBSEASONAL PREDICTION BRANCH

Dr Thea TURKINGTON
Research Interests
- Subseasonal/seasonal predictions
- Tropical weather and climate processes
- Rainfall extremes

Mr TAN Wee Leng
Research Interests
- Subseasonal/seasonal predictions
- Weather and climate extremes
- Remote sensing

Dr Shipra JAIN
Research Interests
- Subseasonal to decadal prediction
- Monsoon
- Climate variability and change

Mr Chen SCHWARTZ
Research Interests
- Subseasonal-to-seasonal predictions
- Tropical-extratropical teleconnections
- Tropical variability

Dr Paromita CHAKRABORTY
Research Interests
- Ensemble prediction
- Model evaluation
- Seasonal forecast products
CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS BRANCH
Prof Jeff OBBARD
Research/Professional Interests
- Biogeochemical & earth system science
- Renewable energy, carbon capture
- Project management
- Communication, stakeholder engagement

Ms Trina NG
Research Interests
- Vertical land movement in Singapore
- Local sea level rise
- Future projections of sea level

Dr Anupam KUMAR
Research Interests
- Climate change impacts
- Extreme weather events
- Catastrophe risk modelling
- Renewal energy

Dr YU Jianjun
Research Interests
- Urban hydrology and water resources management
- Environment hazard risk assessment
- Biodiversity and ecosystem modelling
- Geographic information system

Dr Nidheesh GANGADHARAN
Research Interests
- Physical oceanography
- Sea-level changes
- Climate dynamics
- Geodesy
DEPARTMENT OF WEATHER RESEARCH

Dr Hugh (Huqiang) ZHANG
Deputy Director
Research Interests
- Weather and climate modelling
- Tropical monsoons and teleconnections
- Land-surface and hydrological modelling and applications
- Climate variability, predictability and climate change projections
ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION MODELLING BRANCH

Dr CHEW Boon Ning
Research Interests
- Air quality and dispersion modelling
- Physical, chemical and optical properties of biomass burning smoke
- Remote sensing of the environment

Mr CHIA Zhong Yi
Research Interests
- Paleomonsoon dynamics
- Extratropical cyclogenesis with deep convection
- Solar energy forecasting
- Dispersion of aerosols in Southeast Asia

Dr TEO Chee Kiat
Research Interests
- Diurnal cycle in the tropical atmosphere
- Multi-scale interactions in the tropical atmosphere
- Organisation of tropical deep convection
- Satellite meteorology & numerical weather predictions and their applications

Dr Shovan Kumar SAHU
Research Interests
- Regional and local air quality modelling
- Estimation of air pollutant related health burden
- Development of air quality models
- Source apportionment of air pollutants
- Satellite based data to study ground level air pollutants
- Effect of future climate change on air pollutants
- Application of machine learning in air quality modelling
CORE MODELLING DEVELOPMENT BRANCH

Dr Kalli FURTADO
Research Interests
- Numerical weather prediction
- Climate variability and change
- Monsoons
- Cloud physics

Dr Song CHEN
Research Interests
- Atmospheric boundary layer and urban modelling
- Computational Fluid Dynamics: RANS, LES, and DES methods
- Numerical weather and climate modelling
- Aviation meteorology

Dr Byoung Woong AN
Research Interests
- Numerical Ocean and sea ice modelling
- Geophysical fluid dynamics
- Climate dynamics
- Sea level change

Dr Rajesh KUMAR
Research Interests
- Air-Sea-Ice interaction
- Coupled atmosphere-ocean-wave modelling
- Regional and global wave modelling
- Wave climate studies
NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION BRANCH

Mr Joshua LEE
Research Interests
- Data assimilation
- Ensemble prediction
- Sub-seasonal/Seasonal predictions
- Madden-Julian Oscillation

Mr Erik BECKER
Research Interests
- Nowcasting and very short range forecasting
- Weather radar data processing and quality control
- Remote sensing of precipitation
- Machine learning algorithms

Dr Robert HUVA
Research Interests
- Short-term numerical prediction
- Data assimilation
- Renewable energy
HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING BRANCH

Dr Jeff LO
Research Interests
- Global and regional weather/climate modelling and downscaling
- Atmosphere-vegetation-land interactions and modelling
- Air pollution and environmental problems in urban and coastal areas

Mr LIU Jianyu (Jerry)
Research Interests
- Operational application research and development in meteorology
- Technical support for high performance computing application in meteorology
- Operational management for HPC centres for education and research
- Development and maintenance of the mesoscale numerical weather prediction system

Mr YAN Hailin
Research Interests
- Data assimilation
- Atmosphere-ocean coupled modeling framework
- Unified Model software environment
- Rose & Cylc workflow engine development
- Operational numerical weather prediction systems
- Next generation modelling systems