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...
	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...
	Hui Su The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong, China Dr. 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...
	Hanh Nguyen Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia Dr. Hanh Nguyen is a senior climate scientist at the Bureau of Meteorology, Australia. She completed her PhD on Equatorial Africa synoptic rainfall variability and its link to equatorial convectively coupled Kelvin waves at University Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris, France. Her research interests include tropical climate variability and climate change, the science of droughts and seasonal climate prediction. She currently works on flash droughts as part of the Northern Australian Climate Program (NACP) and the relationship between equatorial waves and Sumatra squall lines in partnership with Centre for Climate Research Singapore (CCRS). Read more...
	Vasubandhu Misra Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University, USA Dr. Misra is a Professor of Meteorology in the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science and the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies at Florida State University. His research interests are in tropical meteorology and climate modeling which has led to studies in monsoons, tropical ocean variability, easterly waves, and tropical cyclones. He is also involved in climate application studies in hydrology, and regional and urban planning. Read more...
	Fengfei Song Ocean University of China, Qingdao Dr. Fengfei Song is a Professor at the Ocean University of China. He earned his bachelor degree in Sun Yat-sen Univerisity, China and PhD degree in the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He previously worked at the University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory before joining the Ocean University of China. His research interests include tropical climate and atmospheric convection, including monsoons, ITCZs, tropical cyclones and mesoscale convective systems. He is an Editor of Advances in Atmospheric Sciences and Associate Editor of Geophysical Research Letter. Read more...
	Luis Brito-Castillo Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste S.C. (CIBNOR), Mexico Dr. Brito-Castillo is a Senior Researcher, assigned to the Environmental Planning and Conservation Program of the Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste S.C. (CIBNOR) where he obtained his Ph.D. in the Use, Management and Preservation of Natural Resources, specializing in Ecology, in 2003. He graduated as a Hydrologist engineer and Master of Engineering from the Russian State Institute of Hydrometeorology in St. Petersburg, Russia, graduating with honors from this institute in 1994. He is the author and co-author of 41 scientific publications, and 15 book chapters on various topics such as extreme events, drought and floods. He has supervised four Ph.D. theses, eleven M.Sc. theses and ten B.Sc. theses. He was an honorary member of the commission of experts on climate change, natural phenomena and risk prevention in 2013 and 2014, and of the commission of experts on earth sciences in 2012, 2014 and 2017 of CONACYT; of the Binational Consortium for Regional Scientific Development and Innovation with the University of Arizona, USA and National Council for the Humanities Science and Technology (CONAHCYT) of Mexico in 2014. At the invitation of SEMARNAT he was an honorary member of the evaluating jury to choose the Ecological Merit Award 2016, 2017 and 2018. He was a founding member of the Network of Disasters Associated to Hydrometeorological and Climatic Phenomena of CONAHCYT. He is a member of the Mexican National System of Researchers since 2001. His areas of interest are hydroclimatology, environmental impact and climate variability. Read more...