Dr. Thomas P. Ackerman

Chair, GEWEX SSG
Director
Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington USA
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Areas of Interest:  Atmospheric radiation transfer and remote sensing.

Dr. Anton Beljaars

Head, Physical Aspects Section Research Department
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Reading, United Kingdom
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Areas of Interest: Numerical weather prediction, subgrid parameterization, the hydrological cycle and the use of observations in model validation.

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.

Prof. Jun Matsumoto

Associate Professor
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
University of Tokyo
Japan
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Areas of interest:  Monsoon climatology, climatic impacts on ecosystems and agriculture.

Dr. Jan Polcher

Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique du CNRS
Paris, France
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Areas of interest: Land-surface modelling and the land-surface/atmosphere interactions.

Dr. Kapil Dev Sharma

Director
National Institute of Hydrology
New Delhi, India
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Areas of Interest:  Modeling and prediction of the water budget.

Prof. Ronald Stewart

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.

Dr. Kevin E. Trenberth

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

Professor of Hydrology and
Director, Imperial College Environment Forum
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Imperial College London, England
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Areas of Interest: Hydrological processes; hydrological and precipitation modelling; flood risk, water resources and water quality management; arid zone hydrology.

Prof. Rucong Yu

Deputy Administrator
China Meteorological Administration
Professor
Institute of Atmospheric Physics
Chinese Academy of Sciences
P.R. China
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Areas of Interest:  Numerical modelling in atmospheric and oceanic sciences, and climate and weather dynamics.

Dr. Olga Zolina

Staff Associate, Meteorological Institute
University of Bonn
Germany
Staff Member, 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.