MONSOONS PANEL

REGIONAL WORKING GROUP ON AMERICAN MONSOONS: MEMBERS

	Michelle Simões Reboita,Co-chair Universidade Federal de Itajubá, Brazil Dr Reboita is a Professor at Universidade Federal de Itajubá. Her research focuses on the South America Monsoon System (SAMS) and in the different types of cyclones near the South America coast. She is a member of the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Climate Studies Group and Interdisciplinary Climate Investigation Center (INCLINE) at the University of São Paulo, and a coordinator of the Research and Extension Group in Social and Environmental Policies (GPEPSA-UNIFEI-CNPQ). She is one of the WCRP Regional Focal Points for South America. She is also currently serving as a member of WWRP Working Group on Tropical Meteorology Research. Read more...
	Caio Augusto dos Santoa Coelho,Co-chair Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), Brazil Dr Coelho is a senior research scientist at Centro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos Climáticos (CPTEC) of INPE and has research interests in the evaluation of how climate models represent the main features of the South American monsoon system. He has research and operational experience in sub-seasonal and seasonal predictions produced with numerical global climate models, including procedures for calibration, combination, and verification of these predictions. He has actively involved in a number International Projects, namely, EUROBRISA, ENSEMBLES, CLIMAX, CLARIS LPB, DEMETER, SPECS and S2S. Read more...
	Leila Carvalho (Co-Chair, CLIVAR/GEWEX Monsoons Panel) University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), USA Dr Carvalho is a Professor of Meteorology and Climatology in the Department of Geography and Researcher at the Earth Research Institute, UCSB. She has a B.S., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Meteorology from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Her research interests are in regional and large-scale climate variability and modeling, global climate change and scaling processes in geophysics. These topics include (but are not limited to) climate variation and change in monsoon regions, tropical-extratropical interactions, extreme precipitation and temperature, and regional modeling. Read more...
	Moetasim Ashfaq Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), USA Dr Ashfaq is a Research Scientist at ORNL. Monsoons have remained the central topic of his research throughout the research career. While his primary research-focus has been the South Asian summer monsoon, more recently he has broadened his focus on other regional monsoons, including the American and African monsoons. He led a CORDEX-based study that focused on South and North American monsoons, in addition to other seven monsoons across the globe. He has expertise in the use of global and regional climate models, and hydrological models for understanding climate variations in response to natural and anthropogenic forcing at varying timescales, and their implications for natural and human systems. Read more...
	Robin Chadwick Met Office & University of Exeter, UK Dr Chadwick holds a joint position as an Expert Scientist at the Met Office and as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter. His primary research focus is on tropical climate and its response to climate change. In particular, he is interested in how the tropical water cycle is changing on the regional scales relevant to climate change impacts, and how this is related to the dynamics of monsoons and circulations over tropical forests. He is a work package lead for the CSSP-Brazil project, which has improving the understanding and modelling of precipitation variability and change over South America as one of its main overarching objectives. He is PI of a current NERC project (ImPOse) examining the discrepancy between observed and modelled historical SST trends in the tropical Pacific, and co-I on a new NERC project (Bridge) which will examine the fundamental dynamics of regional monsoon circulations. Read more...