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About THORPEX
THORPEX: A Global Atmospheric Research program is an international research and development program responding to the weather related challenges of the 21st century to accelerate improvements in the accuracy of 1-day to 2- week high impact weather forecasts for the benefit of society, the economy and environmental stewardship. THORPEX research topics include: global-to-regional influences on the evolution and predictability of weather systems: global observing system design and demonstration; targeting and assimilation of observations; societal, economic and environmental benefits of improved forecasts.
The program establishes an organizational framework that addresses weather research and forecast problems whose solutions will be accelerated through international collaboration between academic institutions, operational forecast centres and users of forecast products.
THORPEX contributes to the development of a future global, interactive, multi-model, ensemble forecast system, which would generate numerical probabilistic products, available to all WMO Members including developing countries. The purpose is to provide accurate, timely, specific and definite weather warnings in a form that can be readily used in decision support tools, to improve and demonstrate such tools in order to reduce the impact of natural hazards and to realize societal and economic benefits of improved weather forecasts. THORPEX research will contribute to the design and the next generation global observing system from the perspective of weather. Thus, THORPEX will contribute to the goals of such programs as GOESS (the Global Earth Observing System of Systems).
THORPEX will advance our basic knowledge of the atmosphere through a focus on the global-to-regional processes that lead to high impact weather. THORPEX will also advance our knowledge of the predictability of such weather systems.
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