speaker: Francesca Di Giuseppe(ECMWF, UK) has a background in modelling radiation interaction within clouds. She holds a permanent position at the regional weather service in Bologna (Italy) as group leader of the diagnostic and applications section. She has recently moved to Reading to work at ECMWF on the QWeCI project where a new EOF-based spatial bias correction was designed to allow the monthly and seasonal forecast systems to be joined seamlessly.
Her effort is now devoted in setting up a pilot malaria forecasting system that uses these forecasts to drive the malaria model VECTRI developped at ICTP (Trieste, Italy). The model will be tested over Malawi, Uganda and Rwanda with ministry of health partners from the QWeCI and HEALTHY FUTURES projects.