Arlene Laing
Dr. Arlene Laing is the Coordinating Director of the Caribbean Meteorological Organization (CMO), a specialized agency of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) that coordinates joint scientific and technical activities in weather, climate and water-related sciences in 16 English-speaking Caribbean countries.
Dr. Laing is a member of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Executive Council, Research Board, and Panel on Socio-economic Benefits. She is known for studying tropical and mesoscale meteorology; large thunderstorm systems; flash floods and mitigation; satellite meteorology; lightning and El Niño; tropical cyclone rainfall and genesis; weather, climate, and meningitis; climate and armed conflict; and volcanic ash fall modelling. She is the lead author of “Introduction to Tropical Meteorology”, a peer-reviewed online textbook used globally. She is also a co-author and Editorial Committee member of the award-winning, “Meteorology of Tropical West Africa; The Forecasters’ handbook”. In 2021, she was recognized as a 125th Anniversary Fellow by the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences of The Pennsylvania State University.
The CMO is an admitted Inter-Governmental Organization of the UNFCCC.
