Project Scientist for GPM, AOS, and TROPICS. Laboratory for Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD Dr. Scott A. Braun, a research meteorologist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, is the project scientist for NASA’s Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM), TROPICS, and Atmosphere Observing System (AOS) missions. He was previously project scientist for…
President Emeritus, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR),Boulder, Colorado, USA Richard Anthes is President Emeritus of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). He received in PhD degree in meteorology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has published over 120 peer-reviewed articles in atmospheric sciences. He was President of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) in…
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…
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…
Senior-scientist, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune Dr. Suryachandra Rao is a senior-scientist at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, and is leading “Monsoon Mission” program of India as Associate Mission Director. “Monsoon Mission” is an ambitious mission mode program to improve the skill of Indian Summer Monsoon weather and climate. As a result of this…
Former Director, National Remote Sensing Centre, ISRO, Hyderabad Dr Raj Kumar, presently as Director, National Remote Sensing Centre, ISRO, is leading the team of scientists and engineers from various disciplines, with the mandate of satellite data acquisitions by establishment of ground stations, generation of data products, dissemination to the users, development of techniques for remote sensing…
Project Director and Scientist F Cloud Aerosol Interaction and Precipitation Enhancement Experiment (CAIPEEX) /Physics and Dynamics of Tropical CloudsIndian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, PuneDr. Thara Prabhakaran is the Project Director of Cloud Aerosol Interaction and Precipitation Enhancement Experiment (CAIPEEX) /Physics and Dynamics of Tropical Clouds Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune. She obtained her MSc…
