Youth in Meteorology in Camaguey: A Vital Force

by Lianet Leandro Lopez

Photo: Rodolfo Blanco Cué

Frank and Jorge with Arredondo

Recently graduated as Bachelor in Meteorology, Frank García and Jorge Rosas are two young men that  see their childhood dreams come true in the center of that specialty, in the province of Camaguey.

 

Besides a deep friendship strengthened through high school and the university, the passion for nature, the laws of physics and weather unites them, what led them to work in the Group of Atmospheric Optics of that institution.

For Frank and Jorge clouds, sunlight and atmosphere were not a secret of poets and romantics anymore, to become a tangible reality that can be measured with scientific methods, and although they kept some unpublished secrets, day to day both young men are determined to unravel them.

When he was trying to predict the global solar radiation in the territory, we find Garcia, who goes by the right way, because data paid to an early warning system to predict the degree of heat stress affecting agricultural activities.

In addition, the mater was his graduation thesis, at the Superior Institute of Technology and Applied Sciences of Cuba.

Up to this university his friend Rosas followed him, to continue together those child games  with maps and simulated storm, or the forecasts about the hurricanes´ paths they discussed with their classmates in the Máximo Gómez Báez Vocational Institute of Exact Sciences.

Rosas said at this time are low clouds which occupy their interest, to determine their effect on the arrival of the Sun´s rays to the Earth, because there are few measurements on the optical properties of these formations in the tropical zone, at the international level.

Both young men pointed out as the main professional motivation the constant evolution of meteorology, which force them to research and improve constantly, because there are still some issues that have not been studied deeply.

In addition, they said all the theoretical deployment of researches undertaken on the team they belong pretends to give a better service from science to economic and social activities in the country.

When referred to Frank and Jorge´s work, René Esteban Arredondo, leader of the Atmospheric Optics Group in Camagüey, noted that they show independence and responsibility performing the tasks assigned, and he hopes they to be a worthy relay of meteorologists with great experience in the province.

For this boss, their trainees are a vital force in the development of science.