Speech Title：Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) – Regional and National Perspective
Executive Level 1,
Climate Monitoring and Prediction section,
National Climate Centre,
Bureau of Meteorology,
Melbourne, Australia
Australia
E-mail: Y.Kuleshov@bom.gov.au
Education
PhD (1992) PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Institute of Radio Physics & Electronics, Academy of Sciences, Kharkiv, Ukraine, the USSR .
BSc (1981) Institute of Radio Engineering, Kharkiv, Ukraine, the USSR .
EXPERIENCE
Strengthening National Meteorological & Hydrological Services in the most vulnerable and least- developed countries in the Asia-Pacific region and leading international and national programs with a goal to establish effective weather and climate services (2010- present).
Development of statistical and dynamical model-based seasonal climate forecasting, including tropical cyclone seasonal forecasting, for the Australian region and the Western Pacific (2007 – present).
Development of high-quality tropical cyclone archive and the first tropical cyclone climatology for the Southern Hemisphere including the Australian region (1997 – present).
Development of the first lightning climatology and updated thunderstorm climatology for Australia (1999- present).
Development of space- and ground-based remote sensing methodologies (GPS Radio Occultation and GPS Precipitable Water Vapour retrieval) for weather and climate applications (2006-present).
Development of algorithms for retrieval of air temperature and moisture profiles for the Advanced Infrared Radiation Sounder (AIRS), Advanced Earth Observing Satellite(ADEOS) Interferometric Monitor for Greenhouse ases (IMG) and for theGeosynchronous Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer(GIFTS) (1995-1997).
Development of algorithms for processing and interpretation of satellite remote sensing data for marine environment (sea ice and iceberg observations, oil spill detection, near-surface wind speed retrieval and investigations of tropical cyclones) and terrestrial environment (fresh-water ice, glaciers and vegetation monitoring) (1981-1994).
Design of satellite and aircraft microwave remote sensing systems including the first Soviet space X- band radar and K-band radiometer of microwave remote sensing system of the “Cosmos/Ocean” satellite series, and aircraft-laboratory multi-frequency microwave remote sensing system (1981-1994).
SPECIALTY
Climatology of severe weather phenomena (tropical cyclones, thunderstorms and lightning); seasonal climate forecasting; satellite remote sensing for application to climate studies; radio physical methods of retrieval of characteristics of the atmosphere, marine and terrestrial environment.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Academician, Prokhorov Academy of Engineering Sciences, Russian Federation (elected as a Foreign Member of the Academy on 15 December 2011)
Professor, School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University (adjunct appointment, January 2011)
Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology (adjunct appointment, November 2013)
The USSR Government Prize in the Field of Science and Technology:Lenin Komsomol Prize for the development of radio physical instruments and methods for environmental remote sensing from aircraft and Cosmos-1500/Ocean satellite series (1985, Moscow, the USSR)
