I am an Associate Professor in the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. My primary research area is land-atmosphere interactions. Currently, I am involved in several collaborative projects to build dynamic vegetation models that can simulate the feedbacks between the land surface and the atmosphere. My secondary research area is renewable energy meteorology where I am investigating the interactions between wind turbines and the boundary layer.

I am an Associate Professor in the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. My primary research area is land-atmosphere interactions. Currently, I am involved in several collaborative projects to build dynamic vegetation models that can simulate the feedbacks between the land surface and the atmosphere. My secondary research area is renewable energy meteorology where I am investigating the interactions between wind turbines and the boundary layer.

I have been working in the field of NH for 20 years with a specific focus on hazardous wave dynamics in the coastal zone, including studies on tsunamis, rogue waves, flash floods, etc. In 2010 I was awarded Plinius medal by EGU for my research on waves dynamics in the coastal zone and in 2016 - the L'Oreal-UNESCO "For Women in Science" International Rising Talents. In the last years I was a deputy president of NH (2015-2018) and a EGU scientific officer for Sea & Ocean Hazards (2011-2018). Since 2019 I am the president of NH.

I have been working in the field of NH for 20 years with a specific focus on hazardous wave dynamics in the coastal zone, including studies on tsunamis, rogue waves, flash floods, etc. In 2010 I was awarded Plinius medal by EGU for my research on waves dynamics in the coastal zone and in 2016 - the L'Oreal-UNESCO "For Women in Science" International Rising Talents. In the last years I was a deputy president of NH (2015-2018) and a EGU scientific officer for Sea & Ocean Hazards (2011-2018). Since 2019 I am the president of NH.

Axel Kleidon studied physics and meteorology at the University of Hamburg and Purdue University. He received his Ph.D. in 1998 in meteorology from the University of Hamburg. After his PostDoc at Stanford University he joined the faculty of the University of Maryland in 2001. Since 2006 he leads an independent research group at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany. In his research, he uses thermodynamics to quantify natural energy conversions within the Earth system and their limits, and applies this approach to understand atmosphere-biosphere interactions, Earth system responses to global change, and the natural limits of renewable energy.

Axel Kleidon studied physics and meteorology at the University of Hamburg and Purdue University. He received his Ph.D. in 1998 in meteorology from the University of Hamburg. After his PostDoc at Stanford University he joined the faculty of the University of Maryland in 2001. Since 2006 he leads an independent research group at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany. In his research, he uses thermodynamics to quantify natural energy conversions within the Earth system and their limits, and applies this approach to understand atmosphere-biosphere interactions, Earth system responses to global change, and the natural limits of renewable energy.

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Ning Zeng is a professor at the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science and the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland. He is also affiliated with Geology and the Maryland Energy Center. He earned a BS degree in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China, MS degree in Astrophysics and Ph.D in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Arizona. He worked at MIT, University of California, Los Angeles, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and the Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology. His research and teaching interest includes climate change and variability from seasonal-interannual to geological timescales, carbon cycle and ecosystem, carbon sequestration and other technical solutions and policy implications of climate change, and the development of city environmental monitoring networks. He has been a contributing author to the IPCC reports and the Global Carbon Project. He served on the US CLIVAR PPAI panel and the US Carbon Cycle Science Working Group, served as the conference chair of the 9th International CO2 Conference. He is a co-founder and current co-chief editor of the EGU journal Earth System Dynamics. He has published more than 100 SCI papers, including five in Science, three in Nature, and is a Clarivate/Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher.

Ning Zeng is a professor at the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science and the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland. He is also affiliated with Geology and the Maryland Energy Center. He earned a BS degree in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China, MS degree in Astrophysics and Ph.D in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Arizona. He worked at MIT, University of California, Los Angeles, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and the Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology. His research and teaching interest includes climate change and variability from seasonal-interannual to geological timescales, carbon cycle and ecosystem, carbon sequestration and other technical solutions and policy implications of climate change, and the development of city environmental monitoring networks. He has been a contributing author to the IPCC reports and the Global Carbon Project. He served on the US CLIVAR PPAI panel and the US Carbon Cycle Science Working Group, served as the conference chair of the 9th International CO2 Conference. He is a co-founder and current co-chief editor of the EGU journal Earth System Dynamics. He has published more than 100 SCI papers, including five in Science, three in Nature, and is a Clarivate/Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher.

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I am an Associate Professor in the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. My primary research area is land-atmosphere interactions. Currently, I am involved in several collaborative projects to build dynamic vegetation models that can simulate the feedbacks between the land surface and the atmosphere. My secondary research area is renewable energy meteorology where I am investigating the interactions between wind turbines and the boundary layer.

I am an Associate Professor in the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. My primary research area is land-atmosphere interactions. Currently, I am involved in several collaborative projects to build dynamic vegetation models that can simulate the feedbacks between the land surface and the atmosphere. My secondary research area is renewable energy meteorology where I am investigating the interactions between wind turbines and the boundary layer.

Prof. G. Bala is a well-known climate and carbon cycle scientist who has made seminal contributions to the understanding of factors that influence climate change. He has used earth system models to infer robust responses of the global climate, carbon and water cycles to external forcings. His scientific contributions in elucidating the “fast and slow response” of the global climate system, solar geoengineering, biophysical impacts of land cover change on climate and the dynamics of global monsoon are globally recognized. His research has important implications for mitigation strategies such as afforestation and climate intervention strategies such as geoengineering. He has served as Lead and Contributing Author and as expert reviewer for the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) AR5 and AR6 WG1 reports. He is also a member of the Earth Commission, Future Earth which is exploring the safe and just corridors for a resilient planet.

Prof. G. Bala is a well-known climate and carbon cycle scientist who has made seminal contributions to the understanding of factors that influence climate change. He has used earth system models to infer robust responses of the global climate, carbon and water cycles to external forcings. His scientific contributions in elucidating the “fast and slow response” of the global climate system, solar geoengineering, biophysical impacts of land cover change on climate and the dynamics of global monsoon are globally recognized. His research has important implications for mitigation strategies such as afforestation and climate intervention strategies such as geoengineering. He has served as Lead and Contributing Author and as expert reviewer for the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) AR5 and AR6 WG1 reports. He is also a member of the Earth Commission, Future Earth which is exploring the safe and just corridors for a resilient planet.

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Martin Claussen, Professor of Meteorology at the Meteorological Institute, University Hamburg, and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg (Germany). Claussen’s scientific expertise is meteorology, climate modelling, palaeo-climate modelling, and land surface – atmosphere interaction. He is interested in analysing feedback processes in the climate system in present and past climate. He was one of the first to couple a dynamics vegetation model to an atmospheric circulation model to explore the role of vegetation – atmosphere interaction in the climate system. Claussen was member of the IGBP-SC. He has served as chair of the German Meteorological Society, and as member of the Senate of the German Research Foundation. Claussen has received the Milutin Milankovitch Medal, European Geosciences Union (2005), and he is member of several academies including the German (National) Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina, and the Academia Europaea.

Martin Claussen, Professor of Meteorology at the Meteorological Institute, University Hamburg, and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg (Germany). Claussen’s scientific expertise is meteorology, climate modelling, palaeo-climate modelling, and land surface – atmosphere interaction. He is interested in analysing feedback processes in the climate system in present and past climate. He was one of the first to couple a dynamics vegetation model to an atmospheric circulation model to explore the role of vegetation – atmosphere interaction in the climate system. Claussen was member of the IGBP-SC. He has served as chair of the German Meteorological Society, and as member of the Senate of the German Research Foundation. Claussen has received the Milutin Milankovitch Medal, European Geosciences Union (2005), and he is member of several academies including the German (National) Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina, and the Academia Europaea.

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Air quality, climate change and human health; aerosol-cloud-climate interaction

Air quality, climate change and human health; aerosol-cloud-climate interaction

http://web.iitd.ac.in/~dhanya/ Primarily interested in unveiling different aspects of hydro-climatology, a multidisciplinary field integrating hydrology and climate science. Different facets of hydrological cycle are focussed by better understanding the processes associated, through an integrated approach of data analysis, modeling and theory.

http://web.iitd.ac.in/~dhanya/ Primarily interested in unveiling different aspects of hydro-climatology, a multidisciplinary field integrating hydrology and climate science. Different facets of hydrological cycle are focussed by better understanding the processes associated, through an integrated approach of data analysis, modeling and theory.

I have been working in the field of NH for 20 years with a specific focus on hazardous wave dynamics in the coastal zone, including studies on tsunamis, rogue waves, flash floods, etc. In 2010 I was awarded Plinius medal by EGU for my research on waves dynamics in the coastal zone and in 2016 - the L'Oreal-UNESCO "For Women in Science" International Rising Talents. In the last years I was a deputy president of NH (2015-2018) and a EGU scientific officer for Sea & Ocean Hazards (2011-2018). Since 2019 I am the president of NH.

I have been working in the field of NH for 20 years with a specific focus on hazardous wave dynamics in the coastal zone, including studies on tsunamis, rogue waves, flash floods, etc. In 2010 I was awarded Plinius medal by EGU for my research on waves dynamics in the coastal zone and in 2016 - the L'Oreal-UNESCO "For Women in Science" International Rising Talents. In the last years I was a deputy president of NH (2015-2018) and a EGU scientific officer for Sea & Ocean Hazards (2011-2018). Since 2019 I am the president of NH.

I am an Assistant Director of the Gobal Systems Institute at the University of Exeter. My teaching and research focusses on exploring the interactions of humans and earth system processes.

I am an Assistant Director of the Gobal Systems Institute at the University of Exeter. My teaching and research focusses on exploring the interactions of humans and earth system processes.

I am an expert on climate change, global warming, extreme events, climate modeling, weather and climate risks. I regularly interact with the media and the general public and school students.

I am an expert on climate change, global warming, extreme events, climate modeling, weather and climate risks. I regularly interact with the media and the general public and school students.

I hold a Chair in Mathematical Modelling of the Climate System at the University of Exeter, I am also Research Director CNRS at the Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique, ENS, Paris, France. I have near 30 years research experience in the field of global carbon cycle modelling, global biogeochemical cycles and global climate change. I have been leading research on feedbacks between the carbon cycle and the climate system, developing an original climate-carbon cycle feedback mathematical framework (GRL, 2001) and then coordinating the first modelling effort to quantify our understanding of the climate and carbon cycle feedbacks (J. Climate, 2006). I am leading the Global Carbon Budget activity, an annual effort that provides reliable carbon cycle information to assist international climate policy such as the UNFCCC. I am also member of the Joint Science Committee of the World Climate Research Programme. In the past, I have been actively involved in climate assessment through participation as a lead author for the IPCC AR4 and AR5.

I hold a Chair in Mathematical Modelling of the Climate System at the University of Exeter, I am also Research Director CNRS at the Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique, ENS, Paris, France. I have near 30 years research experience in the field of global carbon cycle modelling, global biogeochemical cycles and global climate change. I have been leading research on feedbacks between the carbon cycle and the climate system, developing an original climate-carbon cycle feedback mathematical framework (GRL, 2001) and then coordinating the first modelling effort to quantify our understanding of the climate and carbon cycle feedbacks (J. Climate, 2006). I am leading the Global Carbon Budget activity, an annual effort that provides reliable carbon cycle information to assist international climate policy such as the UNFCCC. I am also member of the Joint Science Committee of the World Climate Research Programme. In the past, I have been actively involved in climate assessment through participation as a lead author for the IPCC AR4 and AR5.

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Heinze is a biogeochemical ocean modeller with 25 years’ experience in the field. He has specialized in global three-dimensional modelling of marine biogeochemical cycles. His specific research interests are devoted to feedback processes between climate and biogeochemical cycles, the understanding, interpretation, and simulation of the marine sedimentary paleo-climate archive, and the quantification of the global carbon and silicon cycles.

Heinze is a biogeochemical ocean modeller with 25 years’ experience in the field. He has specialized in global three-dimensional modelling of marine biogeochemical cycles. His specific research interests are devoted to feedback processes between climate and biogeochemical cycles, the understanding, interpretation, and simulation of the marine sedimentary paleo-climate archive, and the quantification of the global carbon and silicon cycles.

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Since 2003, research on integrated mitigation scenarios, including renewable energy and CCS, under climate response uncertainty. 2005-2009 president of ERE.

Since 2003, research on integrated mitigation scenarios, including renewable energy and CCS, under climate response uncertainty. 2005-2009 president of ERE.

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I did my PhD research on climate dynamics and dynamical meteorology, my post-doctoral work on climate change impacts on stratospheric chemistry and my academic research on paleoclimate modeling, satellite climate observation, and wind energy/climate change interactions. More recently, I've been in the renewable energy prediction field, developing and improving systems to prediction wind and solar generation and electrical demand fluctuations on time scales from 5 minutes to several days.

I did my PhD research on climate dynamics and dynamical meteorology, my post-doctoral work on climate change impacts on stratospheric chemistry and my academic research on paleoclimate modeling, satellite climate observation, and wind energy/climate change interactions. More recently, I've been in the renewable energy prediction field, developing and improving systems to prediction wind and solar generation and electrical demand fluctuations on time scales from 5 minutes to several days.

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Axel Kleidon studied physics and meteorology at the University of Hamburg and Purdue University. He received his Ph.D. in 1998 in meteorology from the University of Hamburg. After his PostDoc at Stanford University he joined the faculty of the University of Maryland in 2001. Since 2006 he leads an independent research group at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany. In his research, he uses thermodynamics to quantify natural energy conversions within the Earth system and their limits, and applies this approach to understand atmosphere-biosphere interactions, Earth system responses to global change, and the natural limits of renewable energy.

Axel Kleidon studied physics and meteorology at the University of Hamburg and Purdue University. He received his Ph.D. in 1998 in meteorology from the University of Hamburg. After his PostDoc at Stanford University he joined the faculty of the University of Maryland in 2001. Since 2006 he leads an independent research group at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany. In his research, he uses thermodynamics to quantify natural energy conversions within the Earth system and their limits, and applies this approach to understand atmosphere-biosphere interactions, Earth system responses to global change, and the natural limits of renewable energy.

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Gerrit Lohmann studied physics and mathematics at the Universities Göttingen and Marburg, and received the diploma in physics in 1992. From 1992 to 1995 he worked as a graduate research assistant at the Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany. In 1994, he was a visiting scientist at the Earth Science Centre, University of Gothenburg and got a scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD. He obtained his Ph.D. Degree in physics in Bremen in 1996. After 5 years at the Max-Planck-Institute in Hamburg working on climate modeling, he worked at the Geosciences Department of Bremen and the Meteorological Institute at the University of Hamburg. From 2002 to 2004, he had a tenure position at Bremen University, Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and was a lecturer at the University of Hamburg and the European Graduate College in Marine Sciences. He authors peer-reviewed publications in international journals in the fields of climate modeling, and statistical analysis of observational and proxy data. Since July 2004, he is a professor for Physics of the climate system ("Paleoclimate Dynamics") at the Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven in cooperation with the Physics Department at the University of Bremen. Gerrit Lohmann was active in several national and international projects and activities, e.g. President of the climate division of the European Geosciences Union (2006-2009). He was the initiator and speaker of the Earth System Science Research School (ESSReS) at the University of Bremen, Jacobs University Bremen, and AWI Bremerhaven. He had several short-term research stays, conference contributions, and teaching at summer/winter schools. http://paleodyn.uni-bremen.de/gl/cv.html

Gerrit Lohmann studied physics and mathematics at the Universities Göttingen and Marburg, and received the diploma in physics in 1992. From 1992 to 1995 he worked as a graduate research assistant at the Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany. In 1994, he was a visiting scientist at the Earth Science Centre, University of Gothenburg and got a scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD. He obtained his Ph.D. Degree in physics in Bremen in 1996. After 5 years at the Max-Planck-Institute in Hamburg working on climate modeling, he worked at the Geosciences Department of Bremen and the Meteorological Institute at the University of Hamburg. From 2002 to 2004, he had a tenure position at Bremen University, Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and was a lecturer at the University of Hamburg and the European Graduate College in Marine Sciences. He authors peer-reviewed publications in international journals in the fields of climate modeling, and statistical analysis of observational and proxy data. Since July 2004, he is a professor for Physics of the climate system ("Paleoclimate Dynamics") at the Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven in cooperation with the Physics Department at the University of Bremen. Gerrit Lohmann was active in several national and international projects and activities, e.g. President of the climate division of the European Geosciences Union (2006-2009). He was the initiator and speaker of the Earth System Science Research School (ESSReS) at the University of Bremen, Jacobs University Bremen, and AWI Bremerhaven. He had several short-term research stays, conference contributions, and teaching at summer/winter schools. http://paleodyn.uni-bremen.de/gl/cv.html

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I am active in developing mathematical and physical tools for studying the climate system. I received the 2010 EGU Arne Richter Award, the 2018 LMS Whitehead Prize, and the 2020 EGU L.-F. Richardson Medal.

I am active in developing mathematical and physical tools for studying the climate system. I received the 2010 EGU Arne Richter Award, the 2018 LMS Whitehead Prize, and the 2020 EGU L.-F. Richardson Medal.

My research focusses on a range of (compound) extreme weather events, including destructive windstorms, regional temperature extremes and extremes in dynamical systems analysis.

My research focusses on a range of (compound) extreme weather events, including destructive windstorms, regional temperature extremes and extremes in dynamical systems analysis.

Rui A. P. Perdigão is chair professor in Physics of Complex Systems and Climate Dynamics, interuniversity chair in Fluid Dynamical Systems, president of the Meteoceanics Institute for Complex System Science (MICSS) and director of the associated Doctoral School, where he heads a large ecclectic set of international academic and research programs. He also chairs Complex System Dynamics & Interdisciplinary Data Analytics and Model Design, both at MICSS Doctoral School and at the University of Lisbon. Rui Perdigão serves as Editor in international scientific journals including the EGU journal Earth System Dynamics (ESD) and has invited positions at the Institute of Telecommunications, the Institute of Social Sciences (Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies), and the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (as CCIAM leader), at the University of Lisbon. Overall, he promotes, leads and conducts fundamental research in information physics, coevolutionary complexity, and causality, ranging from quantum to cosmological scales passing through the intricacies of coevolutionary multi domain multiscale complexity across the geophysical and socio-environmental dynamics in the earth system. His theoretical and methodological breakthroughs then come into down-to-earth use in the development of advanced analytics, modelling and decision support frameworks for the institutions entrusted with the protection of our society and the environment. More recently Rui Perdigão was elected corresponding member in Physics to the Lisbon Academy of Sciences.

Rui A. P. Perdigão is chair professor in Physics of Complex Systems and Climate Dynamics, interuniversity chair in Fluid Dynamical Systems, president of the Meteoceanics Institute for Complex System Science (MICSS) and director of the associated Doctoral School, where he heads a large ecclectic set of international academic and research programs. He also chairs Complex System Dynamics & Interdisciplinary Data Analytics and Model Design, both at MICSS Doctoral School and at the University of Lisbon. Rui Perdigão serves as Editor in international scientific journals including the EGU journal Earth System Dynamics (ESD) and has invited positions at the Institute of Telecommunications, the Institute of Social Sciences (Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies), and the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (as CCIAM leader), at the University of Lisbon. Overall, he promotes, leads and conducts fundamental research in information physics, coevolutionary complexity, and causality, ranging from quantum to cosmological scales passing through the intricacies of coevolutionary multi domain multiscale complexity across the geophysical and socio-environmental dynamics in the earth system. His theoretical and methodological breakthroughs then come into down-to-earth use in the development of advanced analytics, modelling and decision support frameworks for the institutions entrusted with the protection of our society and the environment. More recently Rui Perdigão was elected corresponding member in Physics to the Lisbon Academy of Sciences.

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Dr. Steven Smith is a senior scientist at the Joint Global Change Research Institute at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (College Park, MD) and the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland. Much of Smith’s research has focused on the interactions between air pollution and climate including future emission scenarios, the potential near-term role of short-lived climate forcers (e.g., methane, black carbon), and quantifying past and future aerosol forcing. Smith is principal investigator of the Community Emissions Data System (CEDS) project that produces comprehensive estimates of historical air pollutant emissions over the industrial era. Smith was one of the developers of the Global Change Assessment Model (GCAM), which he and collaborators are currently using to examine multi-sector interactions between the energy system and air-pollutant emissions from global to regional (India, US states) scales.

Dr. Steven Smith is a senior scientist at the Joint Global Change Research Institute at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (College Park, MD) and the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland. Much of Smith’s research has focused on the interactions between air pollution and climate including future emission scenarios, the potential near-term role of short-lived climate forcers (e.g., methane, black carbon), and quantifying past and future aerosol forcing. Smith is principal investigator of the Community Emissions Data System (CEDS) project that produces comprehensive estimates of historical air pollutant emissions over the industrial era. Smith was one of the developers of the Global Change Assessment Model (GCAM), which he and collaborators are currently using to examine multi-sector interactions between the energy system and air-pollutant emissions from global to regional (India, US states) scales.

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Riccardo Valentini graduated at University of Rome “La Sapienza” in Physics. In 1987 he became researcher at the University of Tuscia, Faculty of Agriculture continuing to work on plant – climate interactions. He worked on terrestrial carbon flux measurements and coordinated a global network of more than 600 flux towers (FLUXNET) placed in several world ecosystems in North and South America, Europe, Australia, China, Japan and Africa. He was coordinating lead author in the 3rd IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and 5th report on Climate Impacts and Adaptation. He is Lead Author of the IPCC Special Report Climate Change and Land Use. He has been awarded of the Zayed Intern. Prize for the Environment as member of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Board (2006), and recently of the “ Ernst Heckel” Prize of the Federation of European Ecological Societies (2015) and of the Medal of the Italian Academy of Science “of the XL” for Physics and Natural Sciences (2018). He is Thompson Reuters highly cited scientist in 2016 and 2017 and Clarivate highly cited scientist in 2018. Laurea Honoris Causa Facultè Universitaire des Sciences Agronomiques de Gembloux, Belgium (2006). Laurea Honoris Causae Russian State Agricultural University – Timiryazev Academy, Moscow, Russia (2015); Laurea Honoris Causae Financial University, Moscow, Russia (2017), Laurea Honoris Causae “Georgian Technical University”, Tblisi, Georgia (2018). His main research interests concern GHG balances in relation to land use and forestry, including relevant feed-backs on the global biogeochemical cycles and climate impacts. Recently his research is dedicated to develop new technologies and big data analytics for ecosystem services monitoring and predictions of climate change impacts, particularly on forest at tree level. He invented the TreeTalker sensor to understand and quantify responses of tree physiological parameters to climate extremes and early monitoring of tree decline.

Riccardo Valentini graduated at University of Rome “La Sapienza” in Physics. In 1987 he became researcher at the University of Tuscia, Faculty of Agriculture continuing to work on plant – climate interactions. He worked on terrestrial carbon flux measurements and coordinated a global network of more than 600 flux towers (FLUXNET) placed in several world ecosystems in North and South America, Europe, Australia, China, Japan and Africa. He was coordinating lead author in the 3rd IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and 5th report on Climate Impacts and Adaptation. He is Lead Author of the IPCC Special Report Climate Change and Land Use. He has been awarded of the Zayed Intern. Prize for the Environment as member of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Board (2006), and recently of the “ Ernst Heckel” Prize of the Federation of European Ecological Societies (2015) and of the Medal of the Italian Academy of Science “of the XL” for Physics and Natural Sciences (2018). He is Thompson Reuters highly cited scientist in 2016 and 2017 and Clarivate highly cited scientist in 2018. Laurea Honoris Causa Facultè Universitaire des Sciences Agronomiques de Gembloux, Belgium (2006). Laurea Honoris Causae Russian State Agricultural University – Timiryazev Academy, Moscow, Russia (2015); Laurea Honoris Causae Financial University, Moscow, Russia (2017), Laurea Honoris Causae “Georgian Technical University”, Tblisi, Georgia (2018). His main research interests concern GHG balances in relation to land use and forestry, including relevant feed-backs on the global biogeochemical cycles and climate impacts. Recently his research is dedicated to develop new technologies and big data analytics for ecosystem services monitoring and predictions of climate change impacts, particularly on forest at tree level. He invented the TreeTalker sensor to understand and quantify responses of tree physiological parameters to climate extremes and early monitoring of tree decline.

Detlef van Vuuren (1970) is professor in Integrated Assessment of Global Environmental Change at the Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University and senior researcher at PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency leading the IMAGE integrated assessment modeling team. He has published more than 320 articles in refereed journals including Nature, Science, Nature Climate Change, Nature Energy, Nature Geosciences, PNAS, and Environmental Research Letters. He is listed among the most highly cited researchers worldwide. He participates in various research organizations in the field of environmental research. He is member of the board of the Integrated Assessment Modelling Consortium (IAMC), the Working Group on Coupled Models of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), the Global Carbon Project and member of the steering board of ISIMIP. He participates in the editorial board of Climatic Change, Earth System Dynamics and Global Environmental Change. Detlef van Vuuren has been active in various research projects and assessments. He had a coordinating role in the development of the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) and Shared Socio-economic Pathways (SSPs) now used in the IPCC’s assessments. Detlef van Vuuren has participated as (Coordinating) Lead Author in various assessments such the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, UNEP’s Global Environmental Outlook, the International Assessment on Agricultural Science and Technology Development, and the OECD Environmental Outlook. Detlef van Vuuren has also a member of the scientific boards of several DG Research projects.

Detlef van Vuuren (1970) is professor in Integrated Assessment of Global Environmental Change at the Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University and senior researcher at PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency leading the IMAGE integrated assessment modeling team. He has published more than 320 articles in refereed journals including Nature, Science, Nature Climate Change, Nature Energy, Nature Geosciences, PNAS, and Environmental Research Letters. He is listed among the most highly cited researchers worldwide. He participates in various research organizations in the field of environmental research. He is member of the board of the Integrated Assessment Modelling Consortium (IAMC), the Working Group on Coupled Models of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), the Global Carbon Project and member of the steering board of ISIMIP. He participates in the editorial board of Climatic Change, Earth System Dynamics and Global Environmental Change. Detlef van Vuuren has been active in various research projects and assessments. He had a coordinating role in the development of the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) and Shared Socio-economic Pathways (SSPs) now used in the IPCC’s assessments. Detlef van Vuuren has participated as (Coordinating) Lead Author in various assessments such the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, UNEP’s Global Environmental Outlook, the International Assessment on Agricultural Science and Technology Development, and the OECD Environmental Outlook. Detlef van Vuuren has also a member of the scientific boards of several DG Research projects.

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Professor/Dr., Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Associated Editor of of Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres (JGR-A). He got Ph.D. from Institute of Computational Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1996, and master degree from Hunan University in 1988. He visited Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, USA, and University of Tennessee at Knoxville, USA as visiting Assistant Professor during 1998-2001, His research foucses on the interactions between and surface and groundwater, land hydrological process, and the interactions between fluid and solid. He works in LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2001. He is working on land surface models and their coupling with regional and general climate models, land data assimilation and its applications, and computational mathematics and geophysical fluid dynamics.

Professor/Dr., Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Associated Editor of of Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres (JGR-A). He got Ph.D. from Institute of Computational Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1996, and master degree from Hunan University in 1988. He visited Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, USA, and University of Tennessee at Knoxville, USA as visiting Assistant Professor during 1998-2001, His research foucses on the interactions between and surface and groundwater, land hydrological process, and the interactions between fluid and solid. He works in LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2001. He is working on land surface models and their coupling with regional and general climate models, land data assimilation and its applications, and computational mathematics and geophysical fluid dynamics.

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Ning Zeng is a professor at the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science and the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland. He is also affiliated with Geology and the Maryland Energy Center. He earned a BS degree in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China, MS degree in Astrophysics and Ph.D in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Arizona. He worked at MIT, University of California, Los Angeles, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and the Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology. His research and teaching interest includes climate change and variability from seasonal-interannual to geological timescales, carbon cycle and ecosystem, carbon sequestration and other technical solutions and policy implications of climate change, and the development of city environmental monitoring networks. He has been a contributing author to the IPCC reports and the Global Carbon Project. He served on the US CLIVAR PPAI panel and the US Carbon Cycle Science Working Group, served as the conference chair of the 9th International CO2 Conference. He is a co-founder and current co-chief editor of the EGU journal Earth System Dynamics. He has published more than 100 SCI papers, including five in Science, three in Nature, and is a Clarivate/Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher.

Ning Zeng is a professor at the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science and the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland. He is also affiliated with Geology and the Maryland Energy Center. He earned a BS degree in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China, MS degree in Astrophysics and Ph.D in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Arizona. He worked at MIT, University of California, Los Angeles, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and the Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology. His research and teaching interest includes climate change and variability from seasonal-interannual to geological timescales, carbon cycle and ecosystem, carbon sequestration and other technical solutions and policy implications of climate change, and the development of city environmental monitoring networks. He has been a contributing author to the IPCC reports and the Global Carbon Project. He served on the US CLIVAR PPAI panel and the US Carbon Cycle Science Working Group, served as the conference chair of the 9th International CO2 Conference. He is a co-founder and current co-chief editor of the EGU journal Earth System Dynamics. He has published more than 100 SCI papers, including five in Science, three in Nature, and is a Clarivate/Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher.

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