Andrea Celeste Saulo (born 6 May 1964) is an Argentine meteorologist and educator. She has served as director of the Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (SMN) since 8 July 2014, and first vice president of the

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(WMO) since 24 April 2018. She is the first woman to hold the latter office.

Biography

Celeste Saulo was born in

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on 6 May 1964. She earned a licentiate in meteorological sciences at the

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(UBA), and a doctorate in atmospheric sciences there in 1996. left, Saulo and two others at COP27 in Eqypt in 2022 She has been a researcher at UBA since 2000, and is a '' profesora asociada'' at its Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences. Since 2002, she has been a researcher at the , a joint venture of UBA and the

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(CONICET). She has been an SMN researcher since 2016. Her specialties are

atmospheric model An atmospheric model is a mathematical model constructed around the full set of primitive dynamical equations which govern atmospheric motions. It can supplement these equations with parameterizations for turbulent diffusion, radiation, moist ...

ing, the representation of uncertainty in forecasts, and the generation of products oriented to decision making. She was the director of undergraduate and doctoral theses, director of doctoral and post-doctoral scholarships, and a doctoral thesis juror at UBA. She was elected to two consecutive terms as director of the Department of Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences. She has been a member of the World Meteorological Research Program's scientific steering committee since 2011, and joined WMO's Executive Council in 2015. In July 2014, she was appointed director of SMN. In April 2018, the WMO appointed her second vice president, and interim first vice president to fill the vacancy left by Rob Varley. She was elected first vice president the following year.

Selected publications

* 2000: ''Assessment of a regional climate for South America: a dynamical downscaling approach'' * 2017: ''Joint Assessment of Soil Moisture Indicators (JASMIN) for southeastern South America''

References

External links

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