The meteorologist: a professional scientist

Nowadays a flood of people is emerging who is taking an interest in the meteorology, amateurs who are interested in atmospheric phenomena and try to capture them using sophisticated cameras or simply like to observe them.

children interested in meteorological instruments

However, do not forget that the meteorology it is a science with a foundation very strongly linked to physics. We can say that it is an applied science and, in this sense, there are many processes and phenomena that are still unknown, therefore a science subject to new research that gives us keys to discover the behavior that has not yet been explained about it. tiempo and weather.

When people hear the term «meteorologist»Think of the people who present the weather forecasts on television. However, most of the "men and women of the time" are only presenters of the mass media, and they lack the required conditions to call themselves meteorologists.

Although in other countries the term is extended, being able to benefit from it professionals who have obtained a university degree in Faculties or Schools that have a Department of Meteorology or Atmospheric Sciences, in our country this word is reserved exclusively for the officials of the Superior Body who have joined the Administration, and specifically in the AEMET (State Meteorological Agency), formerly INM, after fulfilling the legal requirements and passing the periodically convened public selective tests.

organizational chart of the state meteorological agency

In any case, they are called meteorologists, scientists of the atmosphere or physicists of the air, we are talking about people with a higher university education, highly specialized, who «use scientific principles to understand, explain, observe or predict the phenomena of the earth's atmosphere and the way in which they affect life on the planet ”, according to a definition taken from a manual of the American Meteorological Society.

Source AEMET


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