Amy Doherty (co-Chair)

Affiliation: UK Met Office, UK

Background: PhD in atmospheric remote sensing Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich UK/CIMSS University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Research interests: Observations for climate and meteorology, remote sensing, co-development of climate services

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Yuhan Douglas Rao (co-Chair)

Affiliation: North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies, USA

Background: PhD in Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, United States

Research interests: Statistical modeling for data fusion, climate data records, machine learning for climate monitoring and modeling

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Haftu Abrha Mengesha

Affiliation: Institute of Climate and Society (ICS), Mekelle University, Ethiopia

Background: PhD in Climate Change, Biodiversity, and Sustainable Agriculture | Associate Professor

Research interests: Climate modeling, Drought mentoring, Forest Ecology and Carbon Stock Estimation, Remote Sensing and GIS Applications

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Kunal Chakraborty

Affiliation: MoES-Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), India

Background: Ph.D. in Science (Ecological Modelling) from the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur, India

Research interests: Ocean Modelling, Physical-Biological Interactions in the Ocean, Biogeochemical Cycling of Carbon, Ocean's Role in Climate Variability, Predictability, and Change

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Dora Hegedus

Affiliation: UK Research and Innovation, UK

Background: Integrated Masters in Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Edinburgh, UK

Research interests: Remote sensing, retrieval algorithms for atmospheric composition, cross-ECV research, observations for climate model evaluation, complex citation and data standards, observation-modelling interface

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Yuexiao (Selina) Liu

Affiliation: China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR), China; Research Center on Flood&Drought Disaster Prevention and Reduction, Ministry of Water Resources (CDPR), China; International conferences on flood management (ICFM)

Background: PhD in Hydro-informatics in University of Bristol,UK; Postdoc in ECI and E-research center at University of Oxford, UK

Research interests: Climate change, Landslide, Flash flood, Flood models, Attribution study; transport risk and resilience.


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Christina McCluskey

Affiliation: NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA

Background: PhD, Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

Research interests: Aerosol-cloud microphysics, earth system modeling, integrating models and field observations

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Samar Minallah

Affiliation: NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA

Background: PhD in Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering University of Michigan Ann Arbor, US

Research interests: Earth system modeling; Atmosphere-Cryosphere-Hydrosphere assessments; Complex terrain hydroclimates; Climate variability and predictability; GIS applications in ESM

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Pallav Ray

Affiliation: Florida Institute of Technology (FIT), USA

Background: PhD in Meteorology and Physical Oceanography, RSMAS, University of Miami, FL, USA

Research interests: Tropical Meteorology, Madden-Julian Oscillation, Regional Climate Modeling, Land-Air-Sea Interactions

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Marc Schröder

Affiliation: Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), Germany

Background: PhD from the Institute of Space Sciences, Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Research interests: Observations for climate and process studies, satellite-based remote sensing, data record assessments, support to climate services and analysis


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Gerard van der Schrier

Affiliation: Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, the Netherlands

Background: PhD from the Institute of Marine and Atmospheric research Untrecht (IMAU), Utrecht University, Netherlands

Research interests: In situ observations of the ECVs for Europe and the production of gridded datasets based on thee observations. Drought monitoring. Monitoring extreme climatic events and producing a historical perspective for htese events.

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Emma Woolliams

Affiliation: National Physical Laboratory, UK

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Chunxue Yang

Affiliation: Institute of Marine Sciences, National Research Council, Italy

Background: Ph.D in Physical Oceanography, Texas A&M University, US

Research interests: Ocean and climate dynamics, ocean reanalyses, ocean climate datasets evaluation for marine and climate service