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ocean wave model that will output spatial plots and time-series data for significan t wave height, peak wave period, peak and mean wave direction, and swell and wind wave data around Aus tralia and other locations. Her study and career journe y hasn’t been without its challenges, not the least of which has been managing a debilitating chronic illness (narcolepsy). But Corine says working on weather and climate models is great, and that coding always makes her feel a bit like Samuel L. Jackson in Jurassic Park. “Any big weather event always gets me excited, although the impact that our work has on people isn’t lost on me,” she says. She also loves that her weath er risk analysis work can help facilitate optimised usage of solar and wind power for some of her bigges t business clients and the general public. “Being par t of the renewabl e energy revolution helps me feel like I’m doing someth ing of substance to avert the climate crisis.” – Louise Meers
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weather risks such as For her job, Corine assesses limetres in a period of heavy rainfall (number of mil ly gusts exceeding 80 km/ time), damaging winds (usual centimetres in 24 hours). hr) and snowfall (number of and interpreting data “Doing this requires assessing erical weather prediction output from a number of num models,” she explains. st systems development She’s also par t of the foreca implementing a new team working on testing and
Big weather events always get me excite although the impact d, of our work isn’t lost on me”
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e, but in high school orine has always loved scienc lude music, art and her interests expanded to inc drama too. she says. “My teenage “I wanted to be everything,” an astronomer, chasing dreams boiled down to being Twister and being tornadoes like Helen Hunt in a successful musician!” a STEM path, Eventually, Corine jumped on ence (Astronomy / completing a Bachelor of Sci e) and a Master of Astrophysics, Climate Scienc at Macquarie University. Research (Mars Climatolog y) forecast systems She is now a meteorologist and developer at Weatherzone.
Master of Research (Mars Climatology), Macquarie University
Meteorologist and forecast systems developer, Weatherzone
t oved to be the perfec Working in weather pr Corine Brown, who uses path for meteorologistevery single day maths and data