Atmospheric Sciences

AS01 - Climate Change and Tropical Climatic Hazards in Asia Oceania
*Prof. Yuriy Kuleshov (Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre, Australia)

AS03 - Impact of Urbanization on the Regional Air Pollution and Climate
*Dr. Xuexi Tie (The National center for Atmospheric Research, United States)
Dr. Junji Cao (Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

AS05 - Dynamics of Coupled Micrometeorological and Biological Processes and Linkages to Climatic Fluctuation at the Land-Ocean Boundary
*Prof. Tapan Kumar Jana (University of Calcutta, India)

AS08 - Asian Dust and Air Pollution: Climate Impact and Biogeochemical Feedbacks Over the Pacific Ocean
*Dr. Yan Feng (Argonne National Laboratory, United States)
Dr. Akinori Ito (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan)

AS12 - Modeling and Observation of Water and Energy Cycle Components: Cloud, Convection, Precipitation and Radiation
*Dr. Kuan-Man Xu (NASA Langley Research Center, United States)
Dr. Jui-Lin (Frank) Li (JPL/CalTech, United States)
Dr. Kazuaki Kawamoto (Nagasaki University, Japan)
Dr. Shaocheng Xie (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States)

AS14 - Numerical Modelling of Weather and Regional Climate in the Tropics
*Prof. Tieh-Yong Koh (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Prof. Shigeo Yoden (Kyoto University, Japan)

AS15 - Middle Atmosphere Science
*Prof. Shigeo Yoden (Kyoto University, Japan)
Prof. Zeyu Chen (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Prof. Hye-Yeong Chun (Yonsei University, Korea, South)
Dr. S. K. Dhaka (University of Delhi, India)

AS16-42 - Extreme Climate and Severe Weather Events
*Prof. Xiquan Dong (University of North Dakota, United States)
Dr. Bing Lin (NASA Langley Research Center, United States)
Dr. Yaocun Zhang (Nanjing University, China)
Prof. Dev Niyogi (Purdue University, United States)
Prof. U. C. Mohanty (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India)
Mr. Krishna Kishore Osuri (CAS, Indian Institute of Technology, India)

AS17 - Air Quality Monitoring/Measurement at Offshore, Islands, and Coastal Region
*Prof. C.S. Yuan (Xia-men University/National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan)

AS18 - Precipitation Science and Application of Satellite Data in Asia
*Prof. Kenji Nakamura (Nagoya University, Japan)
Dr. Arthur Hou (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States)
Dr. Mi-Lim Ou (National Institute of Meteorological Research, Korea, South)

AS19 - Cooperative Indian Ocean Experiment on Intraseasonal Variability in the Year 2011 (CINDY2011) and the Dynamics of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (DYNAMO)
*Dr. Kunio Yoneyama (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan)
Dr. Eric Maloney (Colorado State University, United States)
Dr. Prasanna Kumar S (National Institute of Oceanography, India)

AS20 - Asian Aerosols and Their Impacts on Regional and Global Climate
*Dr. Hui Su (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States)
Dr. Xiaohong Liu (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States)
Dr. Santo Salinas (National University of Singapore / CRISP, Singapore)
Dr. James Campbell (Naval Research Laboratory, United States)

AS21 - Recent Advances in the Science and Prediction of Tropical Cyclones
*Prof. Yuqing Wang (University of Hawaii at Manoa, United States)
Prof. Chun-Chieh Wu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Dr. Yihong Duan (National Meteorological Centre, China)
Dr. Zhemin Tan (Nanjing University, China)
Dr. Kevin Cheung (Macquarie University, Australia)
Prof. Ming-Jen Yang (National Central University, Taiwan)

AS22 - Climate Model Evaluation and Assessment for IPCC AR5
*Dr. Jonathan Jiang (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States)
Prof. Masahiro Watanabe (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Dr. Hui Su (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States)
Prof. Jozef Syktus (Queensland Climate Change Centre of Excellence, Australia)

AS23 - 5th Sasaki Symposium on Data Assimilation for Atmospheric, Oceanic and Hydrological Applications
*Prof. Seon Ki Park (Ewha Womans University, Korea, South)
Dr. Liang Xu (Naval Research Laboratory, United States)
Mr. Boon Chua (Science Applications International Corporation, United States)
Prof. François-Xavier Le Dimet (Lab.Jean-Kuntzman/Université Joseph Fourier, France)

AS26 - Mesoscale Assimilation and Prediction of Tropical Cyclones
*Prof. U. C. Mohanty (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India)
Prof. Dev Niyogi (Purdue University, United States)
Ms. Sujata Pattanayak (CAS, Indian Institute of Technology, India)

AS29 - Theory and Methodologies of Climate Monitoring and Detections
*Prof. Er Lu (Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China)
Dr. Tomohiko Tomita (Kumamoto University, Japan)
Dr. Jinsong Wang (Institute of Arid Meteorology, China)
Mr. Chunlin Wang (Guangdong Climate Center, China)
Dr. Yanling Song (China Meteorological Administration, China)

AS31 - State of the Science and New Perspctives in Weather & Climate for Energy
*Dr. Raffaele Salerno (EMC - Epson Meteo Centre, Italy)

AS32 - Mesoscale Meteorology and Typhoon
*Prof. GyuWon Lee (Kyungpook National University, Korea, South)
Dr. Taro Shinoda (Nagoya University, Japan)
Prof. Cheng-Ku Yu (Chinese Culture University, Taiwan)

AS33 - Applications of High-resolution Predictions and Analyses in the Asia Pacific Region
*Prof. Saji Hameed (University of Aizu, Japan)
Dr. Robert Field (NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, United States)
Dr. Jin Ho Yoo (APEC Climate Center, Korea, South)

AS35 - AMY 2007-2012 – A coordinated Asian Monsoon Experiment
*Prof. Jun Matsumoto (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan)
Prof. Jianping Li (LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Prof. Kyung-Ja Ha (Pusan National University, Korea, South)
Prof. Tieh-Yong Koh (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

AS37 - Climate Change: Regional Uncertainties and Challenges
*Prof. Jai-Ho Oh (Pukyong National University, Korea, South)
Prof. Sushil Kumar Dash (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)
Dr. Ramesh Kripalani (Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, India)

AS39 - Predictability of Weather and Climate: Theory, Methodology and Applications
*Prof. Wansuo Duan (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Prof. Peter Jan Vanleeuwen (University of Reading, United Kingdom)
Dr. Florian Sevellec (Yale University, United States)

AS40 - Decadal and Long-term Changes in Global and Regional Precipitation
*Prof. Bin Wang (University of Hawaii, United States)
Prof. Jian Liu (Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Dr. Aiguo Dai (National Center for Atmospheric Research, United States)

AS41 - Application of Cloud-Resolving Model Simulations for studying Cloud-Related Processes in Climate Simulation
*Prof. Chung-Hsiung Sui (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Dr. Wei-Kuo Tao (NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, United States)
Prof. Masaki Satoh (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Dr. Shouting Gao (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

AS44 - Interaction Between Air Pollution and Climate : Observations and Multi-scale Modeling of Air Pollutants, Aerosols, Cloud Formation
*Prof. Richard Ramaroson (ONERA, France)

AS45 - Dynamics and Impacts of Regional Climate Change: Observations, Models, and Synthesis
*Prof. Yan Du (South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, China)
Dr. Hiroki Tokinaga (IPRC/University of Hawaii, United States)
Dr. Xiao-Tong Zheng (Ocean University of China, China)
Dr. Yu Kosaka (University of Hawaii, United States)

AS46 - Remote Sensing and Modeling of Dust Storms
*Dr. Anup Prasad (Chapman University, United States)
Dr. Hesham El-Askary (Chapman University, United States)
Dr. William Sprigg (University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States)
Dr. Menas Kafatos (Chapman University, United States)

AS47 - Adapting to Impacts of Climate Change and Sea Level Rise in Small Island States for Sustainable Livelihood of Communities
*Prof. Elisabeth Holland (University of the South Pacific, Fiji)
Prof. Murari Lal (USP, Fiji)

AS48 - Aerosol, BC mass concetration and Asian Climate
*Prof. Harilal Menon (Goa University, India)
Dr. Suresh Babu S (Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, India)

AS-OS11 - Regional Climate and Ocean Modeling of Southeast Asia and Surrounding Regions
*Prof. Elfatih Eltahir (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States)
Dr. Paola Rizzoli (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States)
Dr. Chien Wang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States)

OS-AS01 - Analysis and Predictability of Climate Variations for Developing Societal Applications
*Prof. Toshio Yamagata (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Dr. BN Goswami (Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, India)
Prof. Guoxiong Wu (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Prof. Shang-Ping Xie (University of Hawaii, United States)
Dr. Antonio Navarra (INGV/CMCC, Italy)
Dr. Swadhin Behera (Research Institute for Global Change/Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan)

OS-AS03 - Physical and Biogeochemical Interactions Between Tropical Cyclone and Ocean
*Prof. I-I Lin (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Dr. DanLing Tang (South China Sea Institute of Oceanology,Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Dr. Dongxiao Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Prof. Chun-Chieh Wu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)