The weather forecasts displayed in this web page are produced by Dr Vassiliki Kotroni and
Dr. Kostas Lagouvardos, researchers at the Institute for Environmental Research, National Observatory of Athens.

Dr. V. Kotroni has a PhD in Dynamic Meteorology (University of Clermont-Ferrand, France, 1993). She has acted as researcher in the Lab. of Meteorology of the Athens University (Physics Dept.) during the period 1993-1998, while since 1999 acts as a researcher in the National Observatory of Athens. She has more than 12 years of experience on meteorological modelling, has participated in many European and National Research Programs as coordinator, principal investigator and has authored or co-authored more than 35 papers published in international journals in the fields of radar meteorology, mesoscale modelling and study of severe weather events in the Mediterranean. She is member of the Science Committee formed for MEDEX, an international project for cyclones and high impact weather in the Mediterranean. MEDEX has been endorsed as an R&D Project in the frame of World Weather Research Programme of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO).

Dr. K. Lagouvardos has a PhD in Dynamic Meteorology (University PARIS 6, 1992). He has acted as a Research Associate in the Lab. of Meteorology of the Athens University (Physics Dept.) during the period 1993-1998, while since 2002 works as researcher in the National Observatory of Athens. He has participated in many European and National Research Programs as coordinator, principal investigator and authored or co-authored more than 35 papers published in international journals in the fields of radar meteorology, mesoscale modelling and study of severe weather events in the Mediterranean.