Where the national meteorological and hydrological centres have capacity to produce weather forecasts, theirs should be considered first, ahead of those generated by private firms. This is because national bodies’ forecasts are based on the observed historical and observed data which they are custodians of rather than private institutions that rely mainly on model data.
AuthorVictor Ongoma
Victor Ongoma is as Assistant Professor, Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique.
He is a meteorologist with specialty in climatology and climate change. He holds a PhD (Meteorology) from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China, attained in 2017. His PhD thesis focused on variability of extreme climate events over East Africa. Victor earned his MSc and BSc (Meteorology) from the University of Nairobi in Kenya in 2012 and 2009, respectively.
Before joining Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Victor worked for the University of the South Pacific, Fiji as a lecturer of Physical Geography. He had been an assistant then lecturer in Meteorology at South Eastern Kenya University, Kenya. He also worked for the Kenyan government as a meteorologist prior to joining academia.
His career objective is to be a competent and life driven researcher, trainer, and author who is conscious of and responsive to environmental challenges. He has taken part in a number of collaborative research activities, through which he has managed to publish widely in his area of expertise.