North American THORPEX meeting
April 12th – 13th
Mexico City
Place: Mexican Weather Service (Servicio Meteorológico Nacional)
Av. Observatorio 192, Col. Observatorio, México, D.F.
Tel. (+52 55) 2636 4600
Thursday April 12th
9:00 am Welcome - Dr. Ricardo Prieto Gonzalez and Dra. Valentina Davydova (Mexican Weather Service)
9:20 am Update on National Efforts for Canada - Pierre Gauthier
9:50 am Update on National Efforts for US - David Parsons
10:20 am El Salvador: High impact weather, research and societal needs - Director El Salvadoran Weather Service
10:50 am Coffee break
Focus on Mexico as the host nation
11:10 am Overview of THORPEX within Mexico – Ricardo Prieto
11:30 am Observing System – Fernando Oropeza
12:00 pm Data assimilation and observing strategy – Juan M. Caballero
12:20 pm TIGGE
12:40 pm Lunch
2:30 pm Societal research and applications – Jorge L. Vázquez
2:50 pm Data policy – Valentina Davydova
Presentations and open discussion on Weather, warning systems and societal needs
3:10 pm The need for advanced warning systems for tropical cyclones and cold air outbreaks - Mexican Civil Defense Rep.
3:30 pm Infrastructure modeling - Brian Bush (as a back-up: Barb Brown or David Parsons)
3:50 pm Defining societal and economic research and applications priorities for the North American THORPEX – Brian Mills
4:10 pm Coffee break
4:30 pm User driven, object oriented and ideas from TIGGE - Barb Brown
4:50 pm Societal demonstration projects for the international THORPEX effort: a model for Mexico, the Caribbean and central America – David Parsons
5:10 pm Discussion
Friday April 13th
9:00 am The NAEFS operational system: Products, plans and related activities at NCEP - Malaquías Peña
9:30 am Possible SERA projects for the North American region
10:10 am T-PARC
10:50 am Coffee break
11:10 am Status of the regional plan
12:00 pm Next meeting
12:20 pm Open discussion and final remarks
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