The Director General of Meteorology, India Meteorological Department, New Delhi Dr. Mrutyunjay Mohapatra is the Director General of Meteorology, India Meteorological Department and Permanent Representative of India with WMO & Member of Executive Council, WMO. With a Ph. D in Physics and 28 years of experience in meteorology, he has made significant contributions in improvement…
Department of Economics on Sustainability, Faculty of Economics in Dokkyo University, Japan Kenji Nakamura is Professor at Department of Economics on Sustainability, Faculty of Economics in Dokkyo University, Japan. Before Dokkyo University, he was a professor at Nagoya University, Japan, and he was the Director of the Hydrospheric-Atmospheric Research Center, Nagoya University during 2001-2005 and…
Senior meteorologist, NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, Florida, USA Dr. Gopal is a senior meteorologist in the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Hurricane Research Division (HRD) of AOML and principal architect of NOAA’s Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting (HWRF) system. He simulates complex, non-linear, scale interacting systems starting from dry thermals…
Grantham Professor of Climate Science, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading Ted Shepherd is a large-scale dynamical meteorologist. Trained at MIT and Cambridge University, Ted worked at the University of Toronto from 1988-2012, where he initiated and led the Canadian national climate modelling effort focused on ozone-climate coupling. Since moving to the University of Reading…
Director, National Remote Sensing Centre, ISRO, Hyderabad Dr. Prakash Chauhan is currently Director, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing,Dehardun, India. He joined Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in year1991 as scientist and since than working for the applications of remote sensingtechnology for natural resources management for ocean and land resources. Heinitiated research activities for planetary remote…
Director, Institute for Advanced Research in Science, Bangalore Kusuma G Rao, a Doctorate in Atmospheric Sciences from Department of Aerospace, IISc, Bangalore, is currently the Director of IARSc, Bangalore. Her research interests are Mesoscale convective systems, monsoons, atmospheric boundary layer and mesoscale modelling for short term weather prediction. She currently works with Global Precipitation Mission…
Scientist-E & Head, Aerodrome Meteorological Office, Regional Meteorological Centre, IMD Chennai Dr. B. Amudha is currently the Head of the Aerodrome Meteorological Office at IMD, Chennai. She obtained her Doctorate in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Madras. Her doctoral thesis brought out the characteristics of Indian northeast monsoon using INSAT satellite derived products and…
Head, The Atmospheric Dynamics Division, Space Physics Laboratory, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Trivandrum Dr. K. Kishore Kumar, a University Gold Medallist in Engineering Physicsdiscipline did his Ph.D. in Physics on the topic of radar remote sensingof Tropical Mesoscale Convective Systems from National AtmosphericResearch Laboratory, Gadanki. His areas of research include Verticalcoupling processes in the atmosphere,…
Senior Professor Space and Atmospheric Sciences Division Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India. Prof. S. Ramachandran is a Senior Professor in Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad. His area of research includes characterization of aerosols as well as modeling their impacts on radiation budget, and climate. He is a lead author of the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate…
Scientist-SF, Space Applications Centre, ISRO, Ahmedabad. Dr.Neerja Sharma obtained her Ph.D in Ionospheric Physics from National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi in 2008. She is having 12 years of experience in the field of satellite meteorology in ISRO.Dr. Sharma is currently a Scientist in Geophysical parameter retrieval division of Space Applications Centre, ISRO Ahmedabad. Her major…
