Dr. Kevin E. Trenberth

Chair, GEWEX SSG
Head, Climate Analysis Section
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Boulder, Colorado USA
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Areas of Interest:  Global energy and water cycle, climate variability and climate change.

Prof. Howard S. Wheater

Vice-Chair, GEWEX SSG
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Water Security
University of Saskatchewan
National Hydrology Research Centre
Saskatoon, Canada
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Areas of Interest: Hydrological processes; hydrological and precipitation modelling; flood risk, water resources and water quality management; arid zone hydrology.

Dr. Peter Bauer

Head of Satellite Section
Research Department
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
Shinfield Park
Reading, Berkshire UK
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Areas of Interest: Satellite data assimilation in NWP models, moist atmospheric processes, radiative transfer modeling.

Dr. Eleanor M. Blyth

Head, Land Surface Processes Group
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
UK
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Areas of Interest:  Land surface modelling, using data for benchmarking land-surface model performance, linking hydrological and meteorological models, land-atmosphere interactions and arctic land surface processes.

Prof. Amadou T. Gaye

Associate Professor
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Ocean Physics
University Cheikh Anta Diop
Dakar, Senegal
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Areas of Interest:  Atmospheric sciences; West African monsoon processes.

Dr. William K.-M. Lau

Chief
Laboratory for Atmospheres
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, Maryland USA
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Areas of interest: Monsoon climate and variability, aerosol and atmospheric water cycle interaction, climate variability and change.

Dr. Xin Li

Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China
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Areas of Interest: Land data assimilation, remote sensing of hydrology and cryosphere.

Dr. Paolo M. Ruti

Head
Climate and Impact Modeling Laboratory
Environmental and Energy Modeling Department
ENEA
Rome, Italy

Areas of Interest: Mid-latitude low frequency variability, regional climate processes, linking large-scale flow and regional climate variability, Mediterranean and African climates.

Prof. Ronald Stewart

Department Head
Department of Environment and Geography
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Areas of Interest: Water cycle, extreme events, regional climate, precipitation, and clouds.

Prof. Minghua Zhang

Dean
School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS)
Stony Brook University / SUNY
Stony Brook, NY USA
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Areas of Interest:  Climate modeling and climate feedback processes.

New member effective January 2012.

Dr. Olga Zolina

Associate Professor (UJF-CNRS Chair of Excellence)
Laboratory of Glaciology and Environmental Geophysics
CNRS/University Joseph Fourier
Grenoble, France

P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology
Moscow, Russia

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Areas of Interest: Atmospheric extratropical cyclone dynamics and their interaction with the ocean, estimation of extreme precipitation and analysis of its variability from NWP products and station data.