NOAA THORPEX Science Planning Meeting on Weather-Climate Links
27 April, 2006
Camp Springs, MD
Room 209
Breakout groups in rooms 505, 701, 802
Our meeting will follow the outline of
Section 9 in the international THORPEX Implementation Plan
(TIP), and focus on the following areas:
a)
Coordinate development of observing systems for
weather and climate prediction
b) Develop
unified weather-climate data assimilation and
prediction systems
c) Develop
tools for seamless socio-economic applications
of weather and climate forecasts
For further details, see the p. 41-45 of the
TIP document at:
http://www.wmo.int/thorpex/pdf/CD_ROM_implementation_plan_v1.pdf
(http://www.wmo.int/thorpex/publications.html)
Additional information on THORPEX links to
climate can be found on p. 6-12 of the THORPEX International Science
Plan: http://www.wmo.int/thorpex/pdf/CD_ROM_international_science_plan_v3.pdf
By the end of the meeting the participants will
have
devised a list of
open science questions, that if solved during the course of THORPEX (in
the next 8-9
years), they believe would contribute most to the development of a
unified weather-climate numerical forecast system, leading to
improvements in both weather and climate prediction with positive
effects especially in the 10-60 day time range.
The results of the meeting will be used to
formulate a new section on
weather-climate linkages in the NOAA THORPEX Science and Implementation
Plan, to include science questions, research and development tasks, and
implementation related issues. The focus areas in the NOAA THORPEX
program related to 1-14 day weather forecasting (see
Science
and Implementation Plan at http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/gmb/ens/THORPEX.html)
were developed at a meeting similar to this one, held
in 2003 at NCEP.