CLIVAR/GEWEX MONSOONS PANEL: MEMBERS

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REGIONAL WORKING GROUPS:

ASIAN-AUSTRALIAN MONSOONS ☼ AFRICAN MONSOONS ☼ AMERICAN MONSOONS

	Leila Carvalho, Co-Chair 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...
	Suryachandra Rao Anguluri, Co-Chair Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, India Dr Suryachandra A. Rao is a senior scientist at IITM, and leads the "Monsoon Mission" program of Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Government of India, which involves researchers from across the world to work on operational dynamical models in India. He also leads the high-performance computing program of MoES. His research interests include dynamical model developments and diagnosis for improved Indian monsoon simulation and prediction. Climate applications is one of the areas he is actively pursuing in recent times by employing Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) techniques. Dr Rao had earlier worked at the Frontier Research System for Global Change, Tokyo, Japan, from 1999 to 2007. Read more...
	Rondrotiana Barimalala Norwegian Research Center, Bergen, Norway Dr Barimalala is a senior researcher at the Norwegian Research Center, Bergen, Norway. Her research interests include climate variability, modeling and change; air-sea interaction and African climate. She is a lead author for the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the IPCC, Working Group I: The Physical Science Basis. Read more...
	Annalisa Cherchi National Research Council, Institute of the Atmospheric Science and Climate (CNR-ISAC), Italy Dr Cherchi, senior scientist at ISAC-CNR since April 2020, got her PhD in Geophysics at Bologna University (2004). She has experience in studies of climate variability and climate change with specific focus on the tropics and the monsoons, and related teleconnections. More recently, she has been involved in studies of the Arctic climate and its influence on mid-latitudes. She has contributed to the IPCC AR6 report as Lead Author of Chapter 8 on “Water cycle changes” and to the Technical Summary, the Summary of Policymakers. Previously, at Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC) Foundation, she had led EU projects like CLARIS-LPB, INDO-MARECLIM and Blue-Action, and was in charge of the Earth System Modelling activities (2015-2019). Read more...
	Shabeh ul Hasson Institute of Geography, University of Hamburg, Germany Dr Hasson is currently serving as an Interim Professor for Terrestrial Remote Sensing at the Institute of Geography, University of Hamburg. Since 2019, he is also serving as a postdoc in the A4-theme “African Asian Monsoon Margins” of the cluster of excellence project CLICCS. His research focuses on assessing and improving the fidelity of South Asian summer monsoon as simulated by global to kilometer scale models and understanding the impact of climate change on the mean and extreme states of the hydrological cycle particularly over the monsoon margin regions, High Asia and its dependent major river basins. He has a multidisciplinary educational and professional background holding an M.Sc. in the field of geoinformatics from the COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan, and a Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from the University of Hamburg, Germany. Earlier, he served the Ministry of Climate Change, Government of Pakistan. Read more...
	Salvatore Pascale University of Bologna, Italy Dr Pascale is Junior Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Bologna. He is also Junior Assistant Professor of Climate Dynamics and Climate Change at the Bologna Business School. His research activity focuses on understanding the impact of climate change and variability on weather and climate extreme events, with a particular emphasis on climate dynamics, monsoons and mediterranean climates. He holds a M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Naples “Federico II” and a Ph.D. in Meteorology awarded by the University of Reading, UK. Before joining the University of Bologna and the Bologna Business School, he was research fellow at the Hamburg University, Germany (2011-2014), the California Institute of Technology (2015-2017), associate research scholar at Princeton University and NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (2017-2019) and research scientist at Stanford University (2019-2021). Read more...
	Ajaya Mohan Ravindran Abu Dhabi Polytechnic, United Arab Emirates Dr Ravindran is an associate professor of meteorology at the Abu Dhabi Polytechnic, UAE. His research interests include climate variability at sub-seasonal to seasonal time scales, the role of synoptic-scale systems and their variability, representation of south Asian summer monsoon in climate models, vagaries of monsoon in a changing climate. He holds a PhD from the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru and has worked in various leading research centres. Read more...
	Thea Turkington Centre for Climate Research Singapore (CCRS), Singapore Dr Turkington is the Head of the Subseasonal and Seasonal Prediction Section at CCRS, with a background in both weather and climate timescales. She worked as a weather forecaster in New Zealand, before shifting her focus to climate. In 2016 she obtained her PhD from the University of Twente, Netherlands, on the topic of climate change and natural hazards. Her current research work includes working with users to develop subseasonal and seasonal predictions for Singapore and Southeast Asia, as well as the underlying research in understanding the effects and impacts of weather and climate processes. Read more...
	Ruth Cerezo-Mota Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico Dr Cerezo-Mota is a Researcher at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico. She has been doing research on the North American Monsoon (NAM). As a Lead Author of the IPCC WG1 AR6, she directly participated in assessing the regional monsoons and actively participated in discussions over the extension of the NAM and its depiction on the Atlas and the regional maps of the monsoon. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Oxford. Read more...
	Hui Su The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong, China Prof. Hui Su is a Global STEM Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, HKUST. She was a principal scientist and weather discipline program manager at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory before joining the HKUST. She has extensive research experience in atmospheric sciences with primary interests on convection, clouds, precipitation, large-scale circulation, energy and water cycles, and aerosol-cloud interactions. She received NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal in 2010 and 2022, and a few awards at JPL. She is an Editor of Geophysical Research Letter and a fellow of American Meteorological Society. Read more...
	Hiroshi Takahashi Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan Dr. Takahashi works in Tokyo Metropolitan University. He studies long-term,decadal, and interannual variability in precipitation over the Asian monsoon regions using satellite observations, numerical models, and model outputs. He also works on the intra-seasonal oscillations over the monsoon regions associated in part with interannual variability. In particular, he adopts high-resolution modelling approach to understand severe meteorological phenomenon, such as heavy precipitation and tropical cyclones. Recently he has been investigating the roles of land-atmosphere and ocean-atmosphere interactions in monsoon variability. He also serves a member of GEWEX subcommittee in Science Council of Japan. Read more...
	Jhan-Carlo Espinoza Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD), Peru Dr. Espinoza holds a Doctorate in Environmental Sciences from Pierre et Marie Curie University in Paris, France. He is a tenured Research Director position at the French Research Institute for sustainable development (IRD) and serves as a professor of Climatology in the Pontifical Catholic University (PUCP) in Peru. His research interests lie in regional and large-scale climate variability and change in tropical South America, particularly in the Andes and Amazonia. These topics include extreme hydroclimate events, tropical-extratropical interactions, statistical modeling, and more. Currently he is also a co-chair of the Regional Hydroclimatic Program for the Andes, ANDEX, supported by GEWEX/WCRP. Read more...
	Samson Hagos Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Dr. Hagos earned his bachelor's degree in physics in 2000 from University of Asmara, Eritrea, and PhD in Atmospheric Sciences in 2008 from Cornell University. He served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences before joining Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in 2009 where he is a senior scientist. His research interests are focused on understanding and modeling of precipitation processes over a wide range of spatio-temporal scales, from the life cycles of individual convective cells to tropical intra-seasonal oscillations, atmospheric rivers and inter-annual to multi-decadal variations of monsoon systems. He is the recipient of the 2019 Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award from American Meteorological Society for his contribution to the field of tropical climate variability. Read more...
	Satyaban Bishoyi Ratna India Meteorological Department, Pune, India Dr. Ratna is a senior scientist in the office of Climate Research and Services, India Meteorological Department (IMD), Pune. He has a M.Sc. in Oceanography, a M.Tech. in Atmospheric Sciences, and a Ph.D. in Meteorology. His research interest is in the role of the ocean on climate variability ranging from interannual to multidecadal time scales and diagnosing the physical mechanisms. Some of the examples of his research include ocean-atmosphere interactions through the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, the El Ninõ-Southern Oscillation, the Indian Ocean Dipole, and their influence on the Asian summer monsoon. More recently, as part of the IMD and WMO Regional Climate Centre (RCC Pune), he contributes to operational climate predictions and services, which include seasonal climate forecasts, monthly ENSO/IOD forecast bulletins, the National Framework for Climate Services (NFCS), etc. He had earlier worked at the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom; the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan; and the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC), Italy. Currently he is also a member of the CLIVAR's Climate Dynamics Panel (CDP). Read more...