Mr TAN Wee Leng
Senior Research Scientist
Department of Climate Research
Seasonal and Subseasonal Prediction Branch
- tan_wee_leng@nea.gov.sg
Mr TAN Wee Leng
Mr Tan Wee Leng is part of the team that works on seasonal and subseasonal climate prediction. His work in CCRS is on the development of platforms and products on seasonal and subseasonal climate prediction to Singapore and the region, with focus on the usage of the prediction outcome for potentially new area of applications. He is also involved in the usage of remote sensing products, with interest in satellite-based estimates of rainfall for weather and climate extremes.
Education
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- 2019-2020
- MSc, Applied Meteorology, University of Reading, UK
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- 2008-2012
- BSc, Physics, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Working Experience
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- 2018-present
- Senior Research Scientist / Research Scientist, Centre for Climate Research Singapore, MSS, Singapore
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- 2013-2018
- Signal Processing Engineer, DSO National Laboratories, Singapore
Research Interests
- Subseasonal/seasonal predictions
- Weather and climate extremes
- Remote sensing
Dunn, R. J. H., Alexander, L. V., Donat, M. G., Zhang, X., Bador, M., Herold, N., et al. 2020.
Development of an updated global land in-situ-based dataset of temperature and precipitation extremes.
HadEX3. J. Geophys.Res. Atmos., 125, doi:10.1029/2019JD032263.
Tan, W.L., Kang, R., Turkington, T. 2019.
Subseasonal rainfall forecast skill in Southeast Asia: comparing the land and sea regions around Singapore.