Ashford Reyes

• Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology, Lecture meteorology courses at both the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH) and the University of the West Indies (UWI)
• Courses taught:

Introduction to Physical Meteorology

• Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology
• Meteorological Observations, Instruments and Basic Analysis
• Atmospheric Dynamics
• Radar Meteorology
• Numerical Weather Prediction and Computational Methods
• Applications of Numerical Weather Prediction
• Developed two new courses (MET3420 – Radar Meteorology and MET3600 – Numerical Weather Prediction and Computational Methods) at UWI within the Bachelor of Science for Meteorology Program to ensure the program complies with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) competencies for meteorologist
• Advisory Committee member for Graduate Students pursuing MPhil degrees at UWI
• Represent the institute and region at various international workshops and conferences
• Represent the institute on the UWI Faculty of Science and Technology Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Advisory Sub-Committee
• Compiled, setup and manage the WRF coupled with chemistry (WRF-Chem) to run operationally to establish CIMH as the Pan-American node of the WMO Sand and Dust Storm Warning Advisory and Assessment System (SDS-WAS)
• Compiled, setup and managed the WRF non-hydrostatic mesoscale model (WRF-NMM) to run operationally to provide numerical weather prediction (NWP) support and guidance to stake holders across the sixteen member states of the region
• Conduct research utilizing data assimilation techniques to improve air quality predictability
• Conduct research utilizing advanced data assimilation techniques to understand and improve the predictability of mesoscale weather events
• Provide numerical modeling support to members of staff and students for a wide variety of projects
• Provide training support for various regional and international meteorological projects as part of CIMH role as a leading WMO Regional Training Center (RTC).

• Installed and ran the Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS) to simulate organized convection over the Eastern Caribbean
• Ported the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) double moment 6-class (WDM6) microphysics scheme from WRF into MPAS to better simulate rainfall produced by organized convective systems within MPAS
• Installed and ran the Joint Effort for Data Assimilation Integration (JEDI) for MPAS (JEDI-MPAS).

• Center for Advanced Data Assimilation and Predictability Techniques, (PSU) ensemble Kalman filter (PSU-EnKF) on the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) high performance computing supercomputer
• Assimilated routine ground based and upper-air observations, together with satellite, radar, dropsondes, ships and buoy data into WRF using a variety of data assimilation techniques to study the genesis of Hurricane Karl and Tropical Storm Mathew from the 2010 hurricane season for my dissertation research
• Summarized project results and presented them at international conferences and workshops
• Conducted literature reviews and wrote summary reports to my advisor every semester.

• Supported research for the following grant: Understanding the Northern Hemisphere (NH) Summer Season Tropospheric Ozone Variability across the Northern Tropical Atlantic, funded through NSF Grant # 1013179
• Conducted literature reviews and wrote summary reports to my advisor every semester
• Supervised and mentored undergraduate students working on my advisor’s projects
• Collected, analyzed, and managed all data related to the project
• Summarized project results and presented them at international conferences and workshops
• Setup and managed WRF, WRF-Chem and RegCM 4 models
• Provided forecasts to the University during functions and severe weather events.

• Performed hourly meteorological observations and measurements
• Plot and analyzed meteorological synoptic charts
• Performed routine quality control of meteorological instruments
• Performed daily upper air radiosonde launches
• Managed climate database and records
• Prepared climate summaries (monthly, quarterly, and seasonal)
• Supervised and trained junior staff in the above-mentioned duties
• Assisted in the preparation and dissemination of daily and seasonal forecasts for various stakeholders
• Quality controlled all Meteorological Technicians work and data, ensuring they complied with both the WMO and International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) regulations and standards
• Managed the daily operations at the Crown Point Meteorological Office

• Voluntarily conducted remedial sessions where necessary with students from the Senior-Level Meteorological Technician course and University Meteorology students in Mathematics, Physical Meteorology, Dynamic Meteorology and Synoptic Meteorology
• Worked with setting up of the first high performance computing cluster at the Institute to conduct short-term climate modeling and research for the region
• Performed maintenance on the WRF and MM5 meteorological models
• Build and maintained the institute’s computers and staff network
• Setup and managed a separate network for students and visitors on the campus.