Dr Franklin Joseph Opijah is a Senior lecturer in the Department of Meteorology of the University of Nairobi specialising in dynamic meteorology and modelling of processes and systems in the tropics that define and control weather and climate on all time and space scales, including weather and climate transforms consequential to land use/cover and global changes in the tropics, to better the understanding and uptake of weather and climate information and products in Africa, as well as to foster links and data exchanges among climate service providers, while striving for academic excellence and assisting others acquire knowledge and competencies to reach their full academic potential.
Dr Opijah has a distinctive interest in tropical weather/climate and prediction on all spatiotemporal scales; ensemble prediction system techniques; weather/climate transforms consequential to regional and global forcing, land use/cover change, urbanisation and surface heterogeneity.
