Kamoru Abiodun LAWAL

African Centre for Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD) • Climate Change Expert

Dr Lawal, is an atmospheric scientist, computational meteorologist, expert in numerical weather and climate prediction, and climate change and attribution processes. He studied meteorology at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria and obtained his PhD in atmospheric science (with a specialization in Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP), Seasonal Climate Prediction and Regional Climate Modelling) at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa. He was the pioneer General Manager of the NWP unit in the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet). Presently, he is a Research Associate the UCT’s African Climate and Development Initiatives (ACDI) and also a Climate Change Thematic Expert at the African Centre of Meteorological Application for Development (ACMAD), Niamey, Niger Republic. Recently, he was appointed as an adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Meteorology, African Aviation and Aerospace University, Abuja, Nigeria. Lawal’s research interests range from seasonal climate prediction, synoptic and computational meteorology to numerical weather prediction; he has many peer-reviewed scientific publications to his credit.

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