The 6th International Conference on Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Change

Thematic Speakers (click to see the list of thematic speakers)

Keynote  Speakers

Guanhua Xu, Former Minister  (Bio)
Ministry of Science & Technology
Beijing, China

Antonio J. Busalacchi, Professor and Director (Bio)
University of Maryland
College Park, MD, USA
Keynote Talk: "The World Climate Research Programme: Grand Challenges for the Decade Ahead"

C.P. Chang, Distinguished Professor (Bio)
Naval Postgraduate School, Code MR/Cp
Monterey, CA 93943
Keynote Talk: "Record-Breaking Increase in Taiwan Typhoon Rainfall in the Recent Decade: Is it Related to Global Warming?"

Yihui Ding, Academician (Bio)
China Meteorological Administration
Beijing China
Keynote Talk: "Long -term variation of heat sources over the Tibetan Plateau and its impact on Change in Asian summer monsoon"

Congbin Fu, Academician (Bio)
Nanjing University
Jiangsu, China

Dunxin Hu, Academician (Bio)
Institute of Oceanology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Keynote Talk: "Review of recent advances on ocean circulation study in the western Pacific Ocean"

Rong-Hui Huang, Academician (Bio)
Institute of Atmospheric Physics
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Keynote Talk: "Interdecadal Variability and Future Change Trend of the East Asian Summer Monsoon Rainfall Under the Global Warming"

William K.M. Lau, Deputy Director  (Bio)
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD, USA
Keynote Talk: "The Aerosol-Monsoon Climate System of Asia"

Kuo-Nan Liou, Distinguished Professor (Bio)
University of California,
Los Angeles, California
Keynote Talk: "Black Carbon in 3D Mountain/Snow, Radiative Transfer, and Regional Climate Change"

Daren Lu, Academician (Bio)
Institute of Oceanology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Keynote Talk: "Recent Progresses of the Program "Carbon Budget and Relevant Issues in Response to Climate Change""

Chi-ming Shun, JP, FRMetS (Bio)
Director, Hong Kong Observatory
Hong Kong
Keynote Talk:"Climate Change and the 130 years of Weather and Climate in Hong Kong"

Wei-Kuo Tao, Senior Scientist (Bio)
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD, USA
Keynote Talk: "A Robust Multi-scale Modeling System for the Study of Cloud and Precipitation Processes"

Bin Wang, Professor  (Bio)
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI, USA
Keynote Talk: "Northern Hemisphere summer monsoon intensified by mega-ENSO and AMO"

Guoxiong Wu, Academician (Bio)
Institute of Atmospheric Physics
Chinese Academy of Science
Keynote Talk:"Recent Advances in the Study on the Dynamics of the Asian Summer Monsoon Onset"

Peter M.K. Yau (Bio)
McGill University
Keynote Talk:"On the origin and impact of asymmetric polygonal eyewall and mesovortices in the rapid
intensification of hurricane Wilma (2005)"

Da-Lin Zhang, Professor (Bio)
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20740
Keynote Talk:"Genesis of Hurricane Julia (2010) within an African Easterly Wave: Low-Level Vortices and Upper-Level Warming"

Thematic Speakers

Xiquan Dong, University of North Dakota (Bio)

Jiwen Fan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Bio)

Qiang Fu, University of Washington (Bio)

Yongyun Hu, Peking University (Bio)

Jianping Huang, Lanzhou University (Bio)

Zhihong Jiang, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (Bio)

Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Bio)

Zhanqing Li, University of Maryland (Bio)

Neng-Huei (George) Lin, National Central University, Taiwan (Bio)

Chung-Hsiung Sui, National Taiwan University (Bio)

Zhian Sun, Australian Bureau of Meteorology (Bio)

Chung-Chu Teng, NOAA Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (Bio)

Kunghwa Wang, UMD (Bio)

Zhien Wang, University of Wyoming (Bio)

Fuzhong Weng, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR (Bio)

Liguang Wu, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (Bio)

Renguang Wu, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Bio)

Yan Yin, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (Bio)

Song Yang, Sun Yat-Sen University (Bio)

Dongliang Yuan, Institute of Oceanology/CAS (Bio)

Guang Jun Zhang, Scripps Institute of Oceanography (Bio)

Renyi Zhang, Texas A&M University (Bio)

Zhibo Zhang, UMBC (Bio)

Yuejian Zhu, NOAA/NCEP/EMC (Bio)