Members of the NA THORPEX Regional Committee

According to the WMO THORPEX Implementation Plan, the regional committee membership is now open to all interested North American researchers. The following scientists were the founding members of the North American THORPEX Regional Committee.

Co-chairs

• Dr. David Parsons
  The Institute for Integrative and Multidisciplinary Earth Studies,
  National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
  
  
• Pierre Gauthier
  Data Assimilation and Satellite Meteorology Division,
  Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC)

US REPS

NOAA

• Dr. Mel Shapiro
  Member Ex-Officio
  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Oceanic and Atmospheric Research(NOAA/OAR) and co-chair of the THORPEX International Scientific Committee

• Dr. Zoltan Toth
  National Centers for Environmental Prediction/Environmental Modeling Center (NCEP/EMC) (NOAA team leader)

NASA

• Dr. Tim Miller
  NASA Team Leader & Weather Roadmap Coordinator
  Marshall Space Flight Center

• Dr. Bob Atlas
  Data Assimilation and Assessment
  Goddard Space Flight Center

US Department of Defense

• Dr. John Murray
  Applications Aspects of THORPEX
  Langley Research Center (LaRC)

Naval Research Lab (NRL)

• Dr. Carolyn Reynolds
  Marine Meteorology Division
  Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)

NCAR

• Dr. Joe Tribbia
  Climate and Global Dynamics Division
  National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

• Dr. Rebecca Morss
  Environmental and Societal Impacts Group and Mesoscale and Microscale
  Meteorology Division
  National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

University Community

• Professor Eugenia Kalnay
  Department of Meteorology
  University of Maryland

• Professor Berrien Moore
  Director of The Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space
  University of New Hampshire

• Professor Daniel Keyser
  Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  University at Albany, State University of New York

CANADIAN REPS

• Mr. Jim Abraham
  Director of Meteorological Research Branch
  Meteorological Service of Canada,
  MSC     Dorval,   Québec
  
• Dr. Mark Buehner
  Research scientist
  Data assimilation and satellite meteorology division
  MSC     Dorval,   Québec
  
• Prof. John Gyakum
  Head of the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
  McGill University,     Montréal,   Québec
  
• Mr. Laurie Neil
  MSC Program Manager (Marine)
  Pacific region, MSC
  Vancouver,   British Columbia