Atmospheric Sciences

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

AS02 - Mesoscale Meteorology and Typhoon
*Prof. Chung-Chieh Wang (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan)
Prof. Tieh-Yong Koh (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Prof. Cheng-Ku Yu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

AS03 - The Science and Prediction of Tropical Cyclones
*Prof. Chun-Chieh Wu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Prof. Kosuke Ito (University of the Ryukyus, Japan)
Dr. Jeff Kepert (The Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research, Australia)
Prof. I-I Lin (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Dr. Akiyoshi Wada (Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, Japan)
Prof. Yuqing Wang (University of Hawaii at Manoa, United States)
Prof. Qinghong Zhang (Peking University, China)

AS06 - Air Quality Modeling and Monitoring
*Prof. Hyo Choi (Gangneung-Wonju National University, Korea, South)
Dr. Milton Speer (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Prof. Tao Wang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China)
Dr. Ales Kapicka (Institute of Geophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic)
Dr. S.M. Shiva Nagendra (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
Prof. Selahattin Incecik (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)

AS08 - Atmospheric Electricity
*Prof. Cheng-Liing Kuo (National Central University, Taiwan)
Prof. Tai-Yin Huang (Penn State Lehigh Valley, United States)
Dr. Alfred Chen (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)

AS10 - Monsoon Climates over South, East and Southeast Asia
*Dr. Ramesh Kripalani (Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, India)
Prof. Jaiho Oh (Pukyong National University, Korea, South)
Prof. Kyung-Ja Ha (Pusan National University, Korea, South)
Dr. June-Yi Lee (Pusan National University, Korea, South)

AS11 - Regional Climate Downscaling in Asia and Australasia Regions
*Prof. Fredolin T. Tangang (National University of Malaysia, Malaysia)
Dr. Krishnan Raghavan (Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, India)
Dr. Hyun-Suk Kang (Korea Meteorological Administration, Korea, South)
Prof. Jason Evans (University of New South Wales, Australia)

AS13 - Middle Atmosphere Science
*Prof. Zeyu Chen (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Mr. S. K. Dhaka (University of Delhi, India)
Prof. Hye-Yeong Chun (Yonsei University, Korea, South)
Prof. Shigeo Yoden (Kyoto University, Japan)

AS14-33 - Toward Reducing Systematic Errors in Weather and Climate Models; Evaluation, Understanding, and Improvements
*Dr. Shaocheng Xie (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States)
Dr. Jui-lin (Frank) Li (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States)
Prof. Huang-Hsiung Hsu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Prof. Tongwen Wu (Beijing Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration, China)
Dr. Sandeep Sahany (Centre for Climate Research Singapore, Singapore)
Dr. Saroj Kanta Mishra (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)
Dr. Muhammad Eeqmal Hassim (Centre for Climate Research Singapore, Singapore)

AS16 - Cloud, Convection, Radiation, Water and Energy Cycles and Variability
*Dr. Kuan-Man Xu (NASA Langley Research Center, United States)
Dr. Jui-lin (Frank) Li (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States)
Prof. Masahiro Watanabe (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Dr. Yongxiang Hu (NASA Langley Research Center, United States)
Prof. Chien-Ming Wu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

AS17 - Dynamics and Predictability of Intra-seasonal, Inter-annual and Synoptic Variability in the Asia-Pacific region
*Dr. Tim Li (University of Hawaii, United States)
Dr. Wenju Cai (CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere Flagship, Australia)
Prof. Chun-Chieh Wu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Dr. Tomoe Nasuno (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan)
Dr. Wen Chen (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Dr. Melinda Peng (Naval Research Laboratory, United States)

AS18 - Global Climate Change and Variations of Southeast Asian Climate
*Prof. Song Yang (Sun Yat-sen University, China)
Prof. Renguang Wu (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Prof. Jiangyu Mao (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

AS19 - Volatile Organic Compounds and Their Relationship with Ozone in the Atmosphere
*Dr. Hai Guo (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR)
Dr. Sandra Saunders (University of Western Australia, Australia)
Dr. XM Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

AS21 - Theory, Observations and Modelling of Maritime Continent Convection
*Dr. Muhammad Eeqmal Hassim (Centre for Climate Research Singapore, Singapore)
Dr. Hanh Nguyen (Bureau of Meteorology, Australia)
Dr. Sandeep Sahany (Centre for Climate Research Singapore, Singapore)
Dr. Masaki Katsumata (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan)
Prof. Christian Jakob (Monash University, Australia)
Dr. John McBride (Centre for Climate Research Singapore, Singapore)

AS22 - Asian Haze: Interdisciplinary Science from Regional to Global Scales
*Dr. Jason Cohen (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Dr. Yi Ming (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States)
Dr. Tzung-May Fu (Peking University, China)
Dr. Hsiang-He Lee (Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Center, Singapore)

AS24 - Hydroxyl Layer on Earth and Other Planets
*Dr. Mykhaylo Grygalashvyly (Leibniz-Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Germany)
Prof. William Ward (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
Dr. Grandhi Kishore Kumar (Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere (RISH), Japan)
Prof. Orhan Sen (Istanbul Technical University (ITU) Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Turkey)

AS25 - Aerosol and Cloud Processes in the Maritime Continent and Mainland South-East Asia
*Dr. Santo Salinas (Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing (CRISP), National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Dr. Jeffrey Reid (Naval Research Laboratory, United States)
Mr. Brent Holben (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States)
Prof. Neng-Huei Lin (National Central University, Taiwan)

AS27-23 - Recent Advances in Regional Climate Modeling: Development Challenges and Applications
*Dr. Eun-Soon Im (Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, Singapore)
Dr. Ho-Jeong Shin (Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Korea, South)
Dr. Chan Joo Jang (Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Korea, South)
Dr. Srivatsan Raghavan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Prof. Hung Soo Kim (Inha University, Korea, South)

AS28 - Predictability of Weather and Climate: Theory, Methodology and Applications
*Prof. Wansuo Duan (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Dr. Stéphane Vannitsem (Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium, Belgium)
Prof. Tieh-Yong Koh (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

AS29 - The Maritime Continent Monsoon
*Prof. Shigeo Yoden (Kyoto University, Japan)
Dr. Tri Wahyu Hadi (Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia)
Prof. Tieh-Yong Koh (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

AS31 - Application of Cloud-Resolving Model Simulations for Studying Cloud-Related Processes in Numerical Weather Prediction and Climate Models
*Prof. Masaki Satoh (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Prof. Chung-Hsiung Sui (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Dr. Wei-Kuo Tao (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States)
Prof. Pay-Liam Lin (National Central University, Taiwan)
Mr. Zhiming Kuang (Harvard University, United States)

AS32 - Amy 2015: a Coordinated Asian Monsoon Experiment
*Prof. Kyung-Ja Ha (Pusan National University, Korea, South)
Prof. Jun Matsumoto (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan)
Prof. Jianping Li (Beijing Normal University, China)

AS34 - Energy Meteorology
*Prof. Selahattin Incecik (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
Dr. Alberto Troccoli (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Org (CSIRO), Australia)
Dr. Wilfred Walsh (Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore-SERIS-National University of Singapore, Singapore)

AS35 - Anthropogenic and Aeolian Aerosols
*Prof. Cheol-Hee Kim (Pusan National University, Korea, South)
Dr. Mizuo Kajino (Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, Japan)
Prof. Soon-Ung Park (Center for Atmospheric and Environmental Modeling, Korea, South)
Dr. Fan Meng (Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, China)
Dr. Sunhee Lee (CSIRO, Australia)

AS37 - Precipitation Science and Application of Satellite Data in Asia
*Prof. Yukari Takayabu (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Dr. Gail Jackson (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States)
Prof. Kenji Nakamura (Dokkyo University, Japan)
Dr. Kusuma Rao (Indian Space Research Organization, India)
Dr. Jinho Shin (National Institute of Meteorological Research, Korea, South)

AS39 - 8th Sasaki Symposium on Data Assimilation for Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Hydrologic Applications
*Prof. Seon Ki Park (Ewha Womans University, Korea, South)
Dr. Liang Xu (Naval Research Laboratory, United States)
Prof. François-Xavier Le Dimet (Université Joseph Fourier, France)
Dr. Takeshi Enomoto (Kyoto University, Japan)

AS40 - Stratosphere-Troposphere Coupling: Dynamics and Predictability
*Prof. Seok-Woo Son (Seoul National University, Korea, South)
Dr. Yuhji Kuroda (Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, Japan)
Dr. Gregory Roff (Bureau of Meteorology, Australia)
Dr. Andrew Charlton-Perez (University of Reading, United Kingdom)
Dr. Om Tripathi (University of Reading, United Kingdom)

AS41 - 3rd Young Scientists Forum (YSF): Challenging the Atmospheric Sciences
*Dr. Tetsuo Nakazawa (Korea Meteorological Administration, Korea, South)
Prof. Chun-Chieh Wu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Prof. Seon Ki Park (Ewha Womans University, Korea, South)
Prof. Shigeo Yoden (Kyoto University, Japan)

OS16-AS42 - Seasonal Climate Prediction and Its Rich Applications
*Dr. Swadhin Behera (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan)
Dr. Wenju Cai (CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere Flagship, Australia)
Dr. Antonio Navarra (CMCC - Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Italy)
Mr. Yuhei Takaya (Japan Meteorological Agency, Japan)
Dr. Krishnan Raghavan (Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, India)
Prof. Toshio Yamagata (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan)