The main duties of meteorologists include:
- recording and analysing data from worldwide weather stations, satellites, radars and remote sensors
- interpreting observations from the land, sea and upper atmosphere
- providing customers (such as civil aviation companies, broadcast companies and military units) with weather reports/forecasts
- employing mathematical and physical formulae and using computer modelling applications to help make long and short range weather predictions
- researching and predicting climate change
- helping to improve weather prediction models
- writing research papers, reports, reviews and summaries
- keeping up to date with relevant scientific and technical developments
