Organizing Committee - Understanding the Role of the Ocean

Gokhan Danabasoglu (co-chair): National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA

Helge Drange (co-chair): University of Bergen, Norway

Detlef Stammer (co-chair): Institut für Meereskunde, Hamburg, Germany

Bernadette Sloyan (co-chair): CSIRO, Marine Research, Hobart, Australia

Anna Pirani: CLIVAR Project Office, UK

Jill Reisdorf: UCAR, USA

Magdalena Balmaseda: ECMWF, Reading, UK

Helene Banks: Hadley Center, UK Met Office, UK

Claus Boning: Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences, Kiel, Germany

Eric Chassignet: Florida State University, USA

Rudiger Gerdes: Alfred Wegener Institut fur Polar- und Meeresforschung, Germany

Richard Greatbatch: Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences, Kiel, Germany

Stephen Griffies: NOAA / Geophysical Fluid Dynamic Laboratory, USA

Keith Haines: Environmental Systems Science Centre, Reading, UK

Tony Lee: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena USA

Gurvan Madec: LODYC, Institute Pierre Simon Laplace, France

Simon Marsland: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia

Anne Marie Treguier: Laboratoire de Physique de Oceans, IFREMER, France

Hiroyuki Tsujino: Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, Japan

Josh Willis: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena USA