Job titles
Sometimes I find it hard to explain to people (or future employers) what kind of work I do, as I explained in one of my previous posts in other blog. It involves working with weather data in some capacity, generating, processing or piping the data somewhere. I have used titles like computational physicist and software developer or geospatial analyst and mathematical modeller or the more generic scientific software developer.
I subscribed to a the Met Jobs email list at the University of Reading many years ago, and I've come across a wide variety of different job titles through the years, slight variations of the same thing involving the key words "weather" and "meteorology". This has given me some inspiration on other ways to describe my professional background. I am listing below a list of job titles that match my skill set (at least in my personal opinion!).
Quantitative meteorologist. I saw this one advertised once by a company that does power trading. Not sure what the quantitative part adds (meteorology being a quantitative science AFAIK). But it sounds kind of cool nevertheless.
Atmospheric modeller. This one is one of the more general ones, since that is essentially what I do, although these days I mostly analyse the output from other modellers.
Meteorological specialist. I guess the point of this title is to say you kind work with meteorological data or have worked with it. But specialist on what? There is a lot aspects and scales involved in meteorological modelling. This makes it sound more general that specific, in my opinion.
Senior Climate Data Analyst. I saw this job advertised by a "climate tech" company. It turned to be a little title for someone like me who worked with climate data. In the climate tech sphere such job is related to carbon accounting and related financial services. When I looked at the requirements it turned out they aren't looking for a climate scientist or someone who has knowledge of the numerical modelling of climate. What they wanted was someone who knows the protocols and ISO norms of what counts as "green" to advise companies if they are being "net zero" in the eyes of the current "green" regulations.
Senior Climate Data Specialist. Similar to the one above.
Meteorological analyst, Weather Analyst. Probably two of the most generic ones.
Weather strategist. Advertised once by a company that produces renewable energy.
Trying to come out with a completely different title I thought weather linguist had a more creative ring to it, so I named this blog after it!