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Curriculum Vitae

Lionel Peyraud

 

Address: Av. Choiseul 8, 1290 Versoix, Switzerland

E-mail: l.peyraud@bluewin.ch

Tel: +41 79 373 92 85

Work experience

 

Weather Forecaster - MeteoSwiss National Weather Service, Geneva, Switzerland

2001 - present

 

Weather forecast at the Geneva regional forecasting office. 24 hr forecasting/nowcasting operational duties, responsible for lake weather warnings, participate in severe thunderstorm research, active in implementation of new model forecasting fields

 

 

Ground Handling Agent - Jet Aviation, Geneva, Switzerland

1994 - 1998

 

Responsible for organizing turnaround logistics of aircraft for various airlines. Load & balance information, providing pilots with weather and flight information (passengers, luggage, cargo).

 
 
Languages

 

English

French

Hobbies

 

Playing saxophone

Sports (tennis, golf, curling)

Nature/weather photography

Education

 

Met Office College, Reading, UK

2001

 

6 week Advanced Forecasting Course aimed at reviewing meteorological dynamics basics and honing skills in European weather forecasting

 
Texas A&M University , College Station, TX

1998 - 2001

 

Master of Science degree in Atmospheric Sciences

 
Rutgers University - The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ

1988 - 1992

 

Bachelor of Science degree in Meteorology

 

 

Conferences & Publications

 

4th European Conference on Severe Storms, ECSS 2007, Trieste, Italy, 10-14 Sept. 2007

Oral presentation : Analysis of the 18 July 2005 tornadic supercell over the Lake Geneva region

Extended Abstract    Article

 

6th European Conference on Severe Storms, ECSS 2011, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 3-7 Oct. 2011

 

Oral presentation : Severe convection checklist for warning operations at the MeteoSwiss forecasting offices 

Extended Abstract
 

7th European Conference on Severe Storms, ECSS 2013, Helsinki, Finland, 3-7 June 2013

 

Oral presentation : August 1st 2012 convective episode over eastern France and western Switzerland: observations, forecasts and model deficiencies

Abstract

 

 

Workshops

 

1st European Severe Storms Laboratory ESSL Testbed 2012, Wiener Neustadt, Austria, June 2012

Forecaster training, evaluation of forecast tools, a platform for interaction between researchers, forecasters and product developers

 

4th European Severe Storms Laboratory ESSL Testbed 2015, Wiener Neustadt, Austria, June 2015

Forecaster training, evaluation of forecast tools, a platform for interaction between researchers, forecasters and product developers

2010 - present

2010 - present

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