INTER-AMERICAN WORKSHOP ON ENVIRONMENTAL DATA ACCESS

REINALDO SILVEIRA

Reinaldo Bomfim da Silveira is a Meteorologist and he pursed his Bachelor and MSc degree at University of São Paulo, on 1989 and 1993 respectively. In 1999, he got his PhD in Applied Mathematics at University of Essex, UK. Since then he has been at the Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia, as a leader of the Numerical Weather Prediction project. His past experiences include 14 years at the Brazilian Air Force with duties on Aeronautic Meteorology and weather radar activities at the Fundação Cearense de Meteorologia e Recursos Hídricos. Currently he is serving as a focal point of the World Meteorological Organization's commission on Instruments and Observations. He was also recently nominated by the Brazilian Foreign Relations Ministry as Co-chair of the Subgroup on Data Utilization of the international ad-hoc Group on Earth Observation for the preparation of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems. He has been an active researcher in Meteorology and his interests include numerical weather prediction, data analysis, statistical Meteorology and weather radars.

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