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	Affiliation	European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)

	Homepage	http://www.ecmwf.int

	E-mail	david.anderson@ecmwf.int

Dr. Anderson's interests are concerned with coupled atmosphere ocean processes, including developing comprehensive General Circulation Models, for the purpose of making forecasts from weeks to years. He is also interested in ocean data assimilation, including variational techniques and strategies for using satellite altimetery. Dr. Anderson is a Head of Seasonal Forecast Section in ECMWF.

	Affiliation	Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

	Homepage	http://weather.cityu.edu.hk/

	E-mail	johnny.chan@cityu.edu.hk

Professor Chan's two main research areas are in tropical cyclones and monsoons. In the area of tropical cyclones, his current research foci include numerical and observational studies of tropical cyclone landfall, tropical cyclone genesis and tropical cyclone climate. In the area of monsoons, he is currently engaged in the following research topics: regional climate modeling to study the East Asia monsoons, especially over South China and the South China Sea, and observational studies of the summer and winter monsoons in South China on time scales from intraseasonal to interdecadal.

	Affiliation	National Climate Centre Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology, Australia

	Homepage	http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/

	E-mail	m.coughlan@bom.gov.au

Dr. Coughlan is the Head of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology’s National Climate Centre, which is responsible for the maintenance of Australia’s climate record, carries out routine monitoring and seasonal predictions of Australia’s varying and changing climate, and provides a wide range of climate data, information and consultative services to Australian government, industry, the media and the public at large.

	Affiliation	Department of Meteorology, Florida State University, USA

	Homepage	http://www.met.fsu.edu/index.pl/personnel/faculty/jin

	E-mail	jff@met.fsu.edu

Professor Jin's research interests are on the understanding the dynamics of large-scale atmospheric and oceanic circulations, large-scale ocean-atmospheric interactions in the tropics and middle latitudes, predictability of seasonal-to interannual variability.

	Affiliation	Hydrometeorological Center of Russia, Russia

	Homepage	http://meteoinfo.ru

	E-mail	kiktev@rhmc.mecom.ru

Dr. Kiktev's research interests include statistical methods in climatology, predictability, long-range weather forecasting, climate model validation, and climate change detection. Dr. Kiktev is currently a Deputy Director of Hydrometeorological Center of Russia.

	Affiliation	Division of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography Rosenstiel School for Marine and Atmospheric Science University of Miami

	Homepage	http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/divs/mpo/People/Faculty/Kirtman/

	E-mail	bkirtman@rsmas.miami.edu

Dr. Kirtman's research interests include ElNino prediction, dynamics and low frequency variations, impact of atmospheric stochastic forcing on coupled climate variability, ElNino-Monsoon interactions, the maintenance of the inter-tropical convergence zone.

	Affiliation	Department of Meteorology Florida State University, USA

	Homepage	http://www.met.fsu.edu/

	E-mail	tnk@io.met.fsu.edu

Professor Krishnamurti has specialized in studies of monsoon, hurricanes and numerical weather prediction and more recently on multimodel superensemble forecasts for global weather (including hurricanes) and climate. He has published over 250 papers and two textbooks. He has worked closely with the World Meteorological Organization and is a member of several of its committees especially on tropical meteorological and numerical weather prediction. He is active in teaching, research and national and international activities related to his field of interest. He is a member of the newly formed NOAA Hurricane Intensity Research Working Group. He has been an active member of AMS publications and is currently on the editorial board of the Monthly Weather Review.

	Affiliation	Climate Prediction Center National Centers for Environmental Prediction, NOAA, USA

	Homepage	http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/

	E-mail	arun.kumar@noaa.gov

Dr. Kumar's research interests are on the understanding and assessment of seasonal climate predictability, development of application models for seasonal prediction, analysis of low-frequency trends, ENSO variability and predictions, multi-model ensembles, etc. He has published more then 60 papers in peer reviewed journals. Dr. Kumar is currently the Deputy Director of the Climate Prediction Center (CPC).