Weather and Environmental Prediction (WEP): Aims
Vision
To advance the science and technology needed to deliver accurate weather, climate and environmental predictions.
Principles
- People: WEP attracts, retains and empowers top scientists and technologists, building the capacity necessary to meet difficult goals.
- Common Effort: WEP staff collaborate across team boundaries and maintain a flow of new ideas through involvement in external research programs.
- Science and Technology Leadership: WEP is a world leader in conducting high level environmental research and developing state-of-the-art forecasting systems.
- Real Outputs: WEP translates new research into technologies that deliver improved services for the public good.
Aims
- Advance our understanding, and ability to predict, short term weather events that affect Australia on both weather and climate time scales,
- Provide the environmental forecasting systems needed to manage and mitigate the impact of weather and air pollution hazards on Australia,
- Assess and predict environmental resources such as precipitation and wind.