This week, scientists released the TEPEX Science Plan, a blueprint for implementing the Tropical Pacific Observing System (TPOS) Equatorial Pacific Experiment (TEPEX). TEPEX is an international effort to improve the understanding and prediction of processes in the tropical Pacific. The TEPEX Science Plan describes the project’s scientific motivation, background, and goals, underscoring the importance of the project to better understand processes that are central to global weather and climate. The project will use both field observations and modeling studies to achieve its objectives.
Researchers from various institutions working on the TEPEX effort, including NOAA laboratories, developed the TEPEX Science Plan, incorporating feedback from other members of the scientific community. The Climate Program Office’s Climate Variability and Predictability (CVP) Program supports TEPEX through modeling and pre-field planning. TEPEX builds on a decade of investments across NOAA and advances NOAA’s Precipitation Grand Challenge and contributes to the WCRP/GEWEX Global Precipitation EXperiment.
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