Professor Gabe Vecchi - Professor of Geosciences and The High Meadows Environmental Institute, Director, Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System

Jatin Singh, Founder & Managing Director, Skymet Weather, Pvt Ltd in conversation with Dr. Jessica Seddon. 

 

2020 was one of the most active global hurricane and cyclone seasons on record, setting records for the size, speed of intensification, and economic impact of storms. The North Indian Ocean was no exception. This episode delves into the historical record and emerging scientific understanding of storm formation to put the 2020 weather in the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea into a longer-run context. Speakers discuss the evolving business and social interest in weather and climate data, as well as the underlying collaboration and public investments to understand a region as complex as the North Indian Ocean.