WGCM Members

Greg Flato (co-Chair)

Affiliation: Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Canada

Background: PhD in Engineering (Computational Geophysical Fluid Dynamics)

Research interests: Earth System modelling, seasonal to decadal prediction, climate prediction, sea-ice and polar climate

Tatiana Ilyina (co-Chair)

Affiliation: University of Hamburg, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany

Background: PhD in Oceanography, University of Hamburg

Research interests: Modeling the carbon cycle in the Earth system

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Barbara Früh

Affiliation: Deutscher Wetterdienst, Germany

Background: PhD in Meteorology, Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany

Research interests: Earth System Modeling, seasonal & decadal climate predictions, climate services based on climate forecasts and projections, climate change and climate adaptation

Brian O'Neill

Affiliation: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), USA

Background: PhD in Earth Systems Science, New York University

Research interests: Integrated assessment modeling, socioeconomic scenario development, climate change risks

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Swapna Panickal

Affiliation: Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), India

Background: Ph.D. in Marine Sciences, National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India

Research interests: Earth System Modeling, Monsoon and Teleconnections, Climate Variability and Change

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David Salas y Melia

Affiliation: Météo-France, France

Background: Ph.D in ocean and atmospheric physics, Toulouse University, France

Research interests: Earth System Modelling, ice sheet-climate interactions, sea ice-climate interactions, climate change and climate adaptation.

Masahiro Watanabe

Affiliation: University of Tokyo, Japan

Research interests: Climate modeling, Climate variability and change, Earth system prediction

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Shuting Yang

Affiliation: Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), Denmark

Background: PhD in Dynamical Meteorology, Stockholm University, Sweden

Research interests: Earth System Modelling, ice sheet-climate interactions and modelling, decadal climate predictions and predictability, Arctic climate change and remodel impacts

Tianjun Zhou

Affiliation: Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Background: PhD in Meteorology, Peking University, China

Research interests: Climate modeling and climate dynamics, global monsoon, climate extremes, decadal climate prediction and predictability

Tilo Ziehn

Affiliation: CSIRO, Australia

Background: PhD in Environmental Modeling, University of Leeds, UK

Research interests: Earth System Modeling, carbon cycle and feedbacks, land based mitigation, climate stabilisation and overshoots

Cath Senior (Emeritus member)

Affiliation: Visiting Professor, University of Leeds, UK

Background: Retired Principal Fellow, Hadley Centre, UK Met Office

Research interests: Climate feedbacks and sensitivity, Seamless Earth-system prediction, Global and Regional Km-scale modelling