U.S. Institutions

Dr. Michael B. EK

Research Meteorologist, Land-Hydrology Team Leader, Environmental Modeling Center (EMC), National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)

Dr. C. Roberto Mechoso

Distinguished Professor, Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences at UCLA
Chairman of VOCALS, a research program focused on the climate system of the eastern tropical Pacific
Co-Chair of US CLIVAR group that aims to better understand the coupled atmosphere-ocean dynamics in the eastern part of the tropical oceans

Research Expertise: climate simulation by general circulation models of the coupled atmosphere-ocean system

Dr. Jim Kinter

Director, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies
Professor, Dept. of Atmospheric, Oceanic & Earth Sciences George Mason University

Research Expertise: Climate predictability, El Niño, the extratropical climate, general circulation models of the Earth’s atmosphere, oceans and land surface

Dr. Shunlin Liang

Professor, Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland

Research expertise: Remote sensing of land surface variables, surface energy balance, impacts of afforestation in China.

Dr. Rongqian Yang

Environmental Modeling Center (EMC), National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)

Mr. Larry Marx

Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies

Research Expertise: Climate modeling, codes and porting

Chinese Institutions

Dr. Renhe Zhang

Vice Chair, Science and Technology Committee of China Meteorological Administration

Research Expertise: Large-scale tropical air-sea interaction; Variability of the Asian monsoon

 

Dr. Yaoming Ma

Director, Department of Scientific and Cooperation; Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research; Chinese academy of Science

Research Expertise: Atmospheric boundary layer observation and satellite remote sensing application

Dr. Congbin Fu

Professor, Academician of Chinese Academy of science; Director of Institute for Climate and Global Change Research, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University

Research Expertise: Climatology, Development of the Regional Integrated Environmental Modeling System (RIEMS), Monsoon Asia integrated regional study

Dr. Xiede Xu

Professor, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering; Chinese Academy of meteorological Sciences, CMA

 

Dr. Anmin Duan

Institute of Atmospheric Physics

Research Expertise: The Tibetan Plateau meteorology, Asian monsoon, Climate change, air-sea interaction

 

Dr. Shaoqian Wang

Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research; Chinese Academy of Science

Research expertise: Ecosystem ecology, biogeochemical cycles, global change, ecological model

Dr. Fengge Su

Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research; Chinese academy of Science

Research Expertise: Cold region hydrology; Multi-scale hydrologic modeling; hydrologic response to climate changes

Dr. Weidong Guo

Professor, Assistant Director of Institute for Climate and Global Change Research, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University

Research Expertise: Land surface processes, Land-atmosphere interaction

Dr. Jie Zhang

Associate Professor, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology

Research Expertise: Land atmosphere interaction and climatic simulation, remote sensing

 

Dr. Tianjun Zhou

Deputy-director and Professor, LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Research Expertise: Ocean-Atmosphere coupled modeling; Variability of the Asian monsoon; Detection, attribution and projection of East Asian Climate Change

Japanese Institutions

Dr. Toshio Koike

Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, School of Engineering The University of Tokyo

Research Expertise: Cold region hydrology; Multi-scale hydrologic modeling; hydrologic response to climate changes

Kenichi Ueno

Associate Professor, Institute of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Tsukuba

Research Expertise: land-atmosphere interaction and precipitation system over mountainous areas

Tomonori Sato

Associate Professor, Regional Climate System Research Group, Graduate School of Environmental Science Hokkaido University

Research Expertise: regional climate and atmosphere-land interaction

Dr. Shiori Sugimoto

Project Assistant Professor, Graduate school of Urban Environmental Sciences at Tokyo Metropolitan University

Korean Institution

Dr. Song-You Hong

Director, Korea Institute of Atmospheric Prediction Systems (KIAPS)

Research Expertise: Asian summer monsoon and Tibetan Plateau