Editorial Board

is a professor emeritus in the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of British Columbia. Known as a pioneer in introducing machine learning to environmental science, he has written over 100 peer-reviewed journal papers on climate variability, machine learning, atmospheric science, oceanography, hydrology, and agricultural science. He is the author of two books, ‘Machine Learning Methods in the Environmental Sciences’ (2009, Cambridge University Press), the first single-authored textbook on machine learning for environmental scientists, and ‘Introduction to Environmental Data Science’ (2023, Cambridge University Press), which was awarded the President’s Prize (2023) by the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society. He is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, and is a recipient of the Patterson Medal.

MARCUS RECKERMANN

is head of the International Baltic Earth Secretariat at Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht in Germany near Hamburg. He is a biological oceanographer by education, with research activities in the North and Baltic Seas, the North Atlantic and the Arabian Sea. Since 2005 he has been in the coordination office of Baltic Earth (before 2013: BALTEX), which is an international and interdisciplinary research network for the Baltic Sea region (www.baltic.earth). Next to supporting the Baltic Earth network of researchers and research institutions, he is responsible for organizing conferences, workshops, summer schools and other meetings and is active in editing various publications on Baltic Earth related subjects; like the recent effort to summarize the available knowledge on climate change in the Baltic Sea region in the so-called BACC reports (Baltic Earth Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea region), and the current Oxford Research Encyclopedia on Climate Science.

FIONA WILLIAMSON

is Assistant Professor in Science, Technology and Society at the School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University. Williamson’s background is in social and environmental history and she is especially interested in intersections between climate & urban society in colonial Asia, the history of the meteorology and nature-induced disasters. She has published on history of the meteorological services of British Malaya, Singapore and Hong Kong, as well as historical floods. She also works across a variety of multi-disciplinary projects which explore long-term trends in climate and extremes of weather, especially floods and, most recently, urban heat. She is also very heavily involved recovering historical documental instrumental weather observations with the international Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (ACRE) initiative. She is Fellow of the Royal Historical Society; Area Representative (Southeast Asia) for the International Commission of the History of Meteorology (ICHM), and regional lead (Southeast Asia) for the ACRE project.

ANJULI BAMZAI

is currently Senior Science Advisor, Global Climate Change in the Office of the Assistant Director Geosciences at the National Science Foundation (NSF) U.S.A.  She has provided scientific oversight and management of science programs and facilities in the area of climate and earth system science. She has developed, coordinated and/or provided scientific oversight to several pioneering interdisciplinary initiatives, e.g., Earth System Modeling at Regional and Decadal scales with U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and U.S. Department of Agriculture, Harnessing the Data Revolution, and Navigating the New Arctic. Through her tenure at NSF, NOAA, and DOE she has served on various task forces, interagency Working Groups, and committees. She was a member of the U.S. Government review team for the IPCC Third Assessment Report, and the Designated Federal Official at for three Synthesis and Assessment Products that U.S. Department of Energy took the lead in developing for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program.  She is currently co-chair of the Joint Action Group on Earth System Predictability in the Interagency Council for Advancing Meteorological Services. She holds an undergraduate degree in Physics from Fergusson College, Pune India and doctoral degrees from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay India, and George Mason University U.S.A.  She received the Distinguished Alumna award from the College of Arts and Sciences George Mason University for exemplary achievement, dedication, of service to the profession and the community.

RASMUS BENESTAD

is a senior scientist at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute. His research interests include climate change and variations, analysis, and bridging the gap between model calculations and observations. He is one coordinating lead author for the report Adaptive Actions in a Changing Arctic commissioned by AMAP/The Arctic Council, and has served as a council member of European Meteorological Society as well as in the CORDEX Task Force on Regional Climate Downscaling. He also assisted with editorial work on the European Academies Science Advisory Council report on extreme weather in Europe, and been a part of influential blog RealClimate.org.

RUDOLF BRÁZDIL

is a Professor of Physical Geography at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. His areas of research interest include historical climatology, climatology of the instrumental period, homogenization and analysis of long-term climatological series, historical hydrology, and hydro-meteorological extremes. He was and is a principal investigator of many scientific projects supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic. He is also an author or co-author of 330 reviewed scientific articles, books or book chapters.

HAROLD BROOKS

is a Senior Research Scientist in the Forecast Research and Development Division at NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory. He has published over 90 peer reviewed papers and been a contributing author to the IPCC Third and Fifth Assessment Reports, as well as the US Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Product on Extreme Weather and Climate Change. He has authored several review papers in journals on the impact of climate change on extreme weather. In addition, he co-organized the Weather Ready Nation Workshop to set multidisciplinary research priorities to reduce the impact of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes on life and property. He received the US Department of Commerce Silver Medal for work on the climatology of severe thunderstorms, the NOAA Administrator’s Award, NOAA’s Daniel L. Albritton Award for Outstanding Science Communication, and is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society.

HAN DOLMAN

is a Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at VU University Amsterdam. His research focus developed from pure hydrometeorology and ecohydrology to land-surface-atmosphere interactions and the global water and carbon cycles. He originally pioneered the use of the eddy-covariance technique for continuous, long term measurement and monitoring of water (evaporation) and carbon fluxes. His research currently focuses on the interaction of the hydrological cycle with the global biogeochemical cycles (e.g. carbon, nitrogen). Since 2014, he has served as a member of the UN Global Climate Observing System (GCOS). Dolman has contributed to over 200 publications, including his 2019 book Biogeochemical Cycles and Climate.

ANNE GRAHAM

is the Librarian of Civil & Environmental Engineering and GIS at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She works with faculty and student researchers to discover and provide literature and data for projects encompassing the fields of Energy and Environment, Transportation and Mechanics and Materials, Geographic Information Systems, and Patent Literature. Previous to her appointment in the MIT Libraries, Anne was a hydrogeologist working at the intersection of agriculture, water conservation and land use, leading field operations for groundwater investigation and remediation. Anne is a member of American College & Research Libraries, a division of the American Libraries Association.

SILVIO GUALDI

is Senior Scientist at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) and head of the Climate Simulations and Predictions Division at the Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change (CMCC). His research interests focus primarily on investigating the mechanisms of climate variability and climate change through numerical simulations. The broad aim of his research is to improve our capability to predict climate variations, and produce and evaluate climate change projections through future scenarios. He is Member of the International Scientific Steering Committee of HyMex (Hydrological Cycle in the Mediterranean Experiment), member of the MedCLIVAR Programme. Along with other colleagues, he has received the Norbert Gerbier-MUMM International Award for 2006. Since February 2008 he is convener of the ASI4-Session on “Coastal Meteorology and Oceanography” at the Annual Meeting of the European Meteorological Society (EMS). Dr. Gualdi teaches in the “Climate Change Science and Management” Ph.D program at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. During his career, he has published more than 70 peer-reviewed publications, including book chapters.

SERGEY GULEV

is the Head of Sea-Air Interaction and Climate Laboratory of P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences (IORAS) and professor of oceanography and meteorology at Moscow State University. His expertise covers ocean-atmosphere interactions and climate variability, ocean and atmospheric dynamics, ocean wind waves and storminess, atmospheric water cycle. He published about 100 peer reviewed papers on different aspects of climate science and served as the lead author of IPCC 4th and 5th Assessment Reports. He is deeply involved in different projects of the World Climate Research Programme. Sergey is elected corresponding member of Russian Academy of Sciences.

GABRIELE HEGERL

is a Professor of Climate System Science at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include methods for detecting, attributing and understanding observed climate variability and change, with a focus on climatic extremes and precipitation, climate sensitivity, and variability and change during the last millennium. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a recipient of their Wolfson Research Merit Award.

EIGIL KASS

is Professor of Meteorology and Climate Dynamics at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His interests are in general climate physics, climate dynamics, meteorology, numerical methods used in geophysical fluid dynamics and climate modeling, and methods for integrating atmospheric dynamics and chemistry.

NEVILLE NICHOLLS

is a Professor in the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment at Monash University His research has included using the El Niño – Southern Oscillation to predict climate variations including droughts and seasonal tropical cyclone activity, documenting climate and weather impacts on agriculture, ecosystems, and human health, and developing and analyzing data sets for monitoring climate variations and change. Prior to joining Monash University in 2006, Nicholls spent 35 years in climate research in the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. In 2005 he was awarded the FitzRoy Prize of the Royal Meteorological Society. He is an elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (of which he is also a past-president).

SHARON NICHOLSON

Sharon Nicholson is a Professor of Meteorology in the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at Florida State University. Her research focuses on the earth's drylands generally and on Africa in particular. It encompasses climate dynamics and variability, historical climatology, remote sensing, hydrology, and plant-water relationships. She has published over 110 articles in high impact journals and over 40 chapters in books. She is also the author of a book on dryland climates and environments and a volume in the Oxford Bibliographies series on Semi-Arid Environments. Nicholson is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and a recipient of their Anderson Award. She was also a recipient of the Robert Hugh Mill Medal of the Royal Meteorological Society and a Fulbright Fellowship for study and research in Africa.

RICHARD B. NORGAARD

is Professor Emeritus of Energy and Resources at the University of California, Berkeley. One of the founders of the field of ecological economics, his research interests include climate change and the rights of future generations; environment, equity, and development; the coevolution of social and environmental systems; and the history of science, especially economics. Norgaard was an invited expert to the scoping meeting of the 5th IPCC Assessment and a lead author in Working Group 3 (Mitigation of Climate Change).

ROGER PIELKE, JR.

is a Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado and a Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES). His research focuses on science, innovation, and politics. Pielke is a recipient of the Public Service Award from the Geological Society of America (2012) and has an honorary doctorate from Linköping University in Sweden. He is also author, co-author or co-editor of seven books, including The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics, The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell you About Global Warming, and The Rightful Place of Science: Disasters and Climate Change.

ERIC WOOD

works in the areas of hydroclimatology with an emphasis on land atmospheric interactions, terrestrial remote sensing, and seasonal hydrologic climate forecasts, including land-climate teleconnections. His modeling focuses on the terrestrial water and energy balances and fluxes over a range of spatial and temporal scales, and his remote-sensing research focuses on estimating the hydrologic and energetic states of the terrestrial system, and on validating satellite retrievals on land surface states. These modeling and remote sensing activities are complemented through several field experiments in the U.S. and Canada.

TOSHIO YAMAGATA

is Director of the Applications Laboratory at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at the University of Tokyo. His research interests include modeling and analysis of ocean-atmosphere coupled phenomena including ENSO, recently discovered IOD; simulation of ocean variability using a high-resolution ocean general circulation; and modeling of nonlinear planetary vortices. Yamagata is a fellow member of American Meteorological Society, American Geophysical Union, and Japan Geoscience Union.

TIANJUN ZHOU

is a professor at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is the Assistant Director of IAP and the Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (LASG). He leads the development of the FGOALS climate system model at LASG/IAP. His personal research focuses on coupled atmosphere-ocean modelling, climate dynamics, climate change and variability, with particular emphasis on East Asia and the monsoons. Tianjun Zhou was co-chair of the CLIVAR Asian-Australian Monsoon Panel (AAMP) from 2013 to 2014 and is currently a member of the GEWEX/CLIVAR Monsoons Panel, a member of CLIVAR/SPARC SSG, and member of GEWEX Data and Assessment Panel (GDAP). He also served as Lead Author of the IPCC WG1 AR5. He received AMS Journal of Climate Editors’ award in 2012. He has published about 150 papers in international SCI(E) journals. His Web of Science Core Collection H-index is 32.

FRANCIS ZWIERS

is Director, President, and CEO of the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium at the University of Victoria. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Victoria and in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science of Simon Fraser University. His expertise is in the application of statistical methods to the analysis of observed and simulated climate variability and change. Zwiers is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the American Meteorological Society, a recipient of the Patterson Medal, has served as an IPCC Coordinating Lead Author of the Fourth Assessment Report, and is an elected member of the IPCC Bureau.

SILKE BECK

is senior researcher at the Department of Environmental Politics, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany. Her research focuses on the relationship between science and governance in global environmental change. Beck has contributed to set up the UFZ Science-Policy Expert Group. This interdisciplinary group has established a leading role in research on science-policy interactions and actively designed and supported such activities in the field of biodiversity and ecosystem services, such as national (stakeholder) contributions to the IPCC and Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).

ANDERS OMSTEDT

is Professor emeritus at Department of Marin Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His research interest is in process oriented modelling of lakes and coastal seas related to climate change (energy, water and carbon cycles), environmental change (oxygen and nutrients cycles) and anthropogenic changes. He has been in leading positions in the BALTEX-Baltic Earth programs and the BACC (BALTEX Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin) program. Anders Omstedt has written about 250 articles, books and book chapters, more than 100 of which have been published in reviewed international journals and books. His professional experience involves project/scientific leader for many research programs, reviewer and guest editor, chairmen and convener, invited speaker, opponent for Ph. D. thesis, member of examination committees, tutor for M. Sc and Ph. D. thesis, member of international unions and working groups.

JIN-SONG VON STORCH

is a Senior Scientist at the Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology and Professor at the University of Hamburg (Germany). Her research covers multiple areas in theoretical meteorology and physical oceanography with foci on scale interactions, energetics, oceanic mesoscale eddies, internal waves, climate response to external forcing factors. Her work aims at achieving a better understanding of climate dynamics and climate sensitivity using stochastic concepts and climate models. She has played a leading role in establishing high-resolution climate modeling in Germany. During her career, she has published more than 70 peer-reviewed publications, including book chapters.