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 AND WEATHER RESEARCH PROGRAMME OFFICE
Ms Michelle CHNG
Head
Research/Professional Interests
- Climate change impact
- Project Management
- Communication
- Stakeholder engagement
Ms LIM Kiah Eng
Assistant Manager
Research/Professional Interests
- Climate change impact
- Project management
- Stakeholder engagement
Ms Elaine CHAN
Assistant Manager
Research/Professional Interests
- Climate change impact
- Project management
- Stakeholder engagement
Mr Marcus GOH
Manager
Research/Professional Interests
- Strategy formulation and review
- Project management
- Climate change impact
- Stakeholder engagement
RESEARCH SUPPORT SECTION
Ms Tammy CHIN
Science Communicator
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
Ms Fei LUO
Research Interests
- Atmospheric dynamics
- Climate modeling and development
- Large ensemble simulations
- Climate sciences
- Extreme events
Dr Byoung Woong AN
Research Interests
- Numerical Ocean and sea ice modelling
- Geophysical fluid dynamics
- Climate dynamics
- Sea level change
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
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
Dr Simon PEATMAN
Research Interests
- Subseasonal-to-seasonal prediction
- Tropical variability
- Scale interactions
- Tropical weather and climate processes
CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS BRANCH
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
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
CORE MODELLING DEVELOPMENT BRANCH
Dr Kalli FURTADO
Research Interests
- Numerical weather prediction
- Climate variability and change
- Monsoons
- Cloud physics
Dr Rajesh KUMAR
Research Interests
- Air-Sea-Ice interaction
- Coupled atmosphere-ocean-wave modelling
- Regional and global wave modelling
- Wave climate studies
Dr Danielle SU
Research Interests
- Sub-mesoscale ocean dynamics
- Monsoonal variability
- Regional ocean modelling
Dr Yi WANG
Research Interests
- Urban meteorology and climatology
- Urban resilience and sustainability
- Atmospheric pollutant dispersion
- Boundary layer meteorology
- Energy efficient building systems and AC systems
Dr Yanyan CHENG
Research Interests
- Earth system modelling
- Nature-based climate solutions
- Tropical ecohydrology
- Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage
- Modern optimisation algorithms
Dr I-Han CHEN
Research Interests
- Numerical Weather Prediction
- Data assimilation
- Ensemble forecasting
NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION BRANCH
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 Robert HUVA
Research Interests
- Short-term numerical prediction
- Data assimilation
- Renewable energy
Dr Pratiman PATEL
Research Interests
- Numerical weather prediction
- Verification
- Urban climate
- Land surface feedback
Dr Htet NAING
Research Interests
- Nowcasting
- Deep learning
- Physics-informed machine learning
- Deep reinforcement learning
Dr Arun RAMANATHAN
Research Interests
- Aviation weather forecasting
- Atmospheric predictability
- Scaling
- Multifractal cascade dynamics
Dr Zhihuo XU
Research Interests
- Polarisation weather radar
- Radar system and signal processing
- Synthetic aperture radar
- Millimetre-wave radar
- Machine learning
- Nowcasting
DATA ASSIMILATION AND ENSEMBLES BRANCH
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
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 Chong Jun CHEW
Research Interests
- Machine learning
- Parallel and distributed computing
- Code optimisation
- Climate science
- Numerical weather prediction
Mr CHUI Ka Wing Pluto
Research Interests
- Data driven modelling in extreme weather forecasts
- Turbulent atmospheric dispersion in planetary boundary layer
- Semantic segmentations of computer vision in remote sensing imagery
- Urban and microscale weather and air quality modelling