Subject Matter Expert
Hello, I am Jeral Estupiñán, the Science and Operations Officer (SOO) at the National Weather Service (NWS) Weather Forecast Office (WFO) in Brownsville, Texas. I have been the SOO at WFO Brownsville since June 2007. Prior to that, I worked at the Weather Channel starting in 1999 where I served as Forecast Systems/Forecast Quality Scientist. In that role, I served as a training officer as well as a development and forecast verification meteorologist. I have a B.S. and M.S. in meteorology from North Carolina State and a Ph.D. from Georgia Tech.
COMET and I collaborated in the creation of this lesson and we hope that you will find it useful in your work. The role of the human operational forecaster will be key during this time of continuous improvement in numerical weather prediction guidance.