Member Country | RA | Focal point Name | Position and Institute |
Ethiopia | I | Mr. Melesse Lemma | Head, Meteorological Research and Studies Dept |
Kenya | I | Peter Omeny | Senior Meteorologist, Kenya Meteorological Department |
Morocco | I | M. Filali Boubrahmi Noureddine | Chief, National Centre of Meteorological Research |
Niger | I | Katiellou Lawan Gaptia | Meteorological Engineers, National Meteorological Directorate, Niamey |
Assane Yacouba | Meteorological Engineers, National Meteorological Directorate, Niamey | ||
South Africa | I | Mr. Johan Stander | South African Weather Service |
United Republic of Tanzania | I | Dr Hamza Kabelwa | Head, Numerical Weather Prediction, Tanzania Meteorological Agency |
Dr ladislaus Chang'a | Tanzania Meteorological Agency | ||
Zambia | I | Mr. Peter Chola | Assistant Director of Water Affairs |
China | II | Dr Xiao Cunde | Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (CMA) |
Dr Jiankai Wang | Deputy Director, Division of Surface Observations (CMA) | ||
Indonesia | II | Mr Wido Hanggoro | Researcher of Division for Meteorology of Research and Development Center, BMKG |
Iran, Islamic Republic of | II | Ms.Leili Khazanedari | Islamic Republic of Iran Meteorological Organization (IRIMO) |
Japan | II | Mr. Yoshiaki Hirano | Deputy Head, Office Int'l Affairs, JMA |
Dr Satoru Yamaguchi | Researcher, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Snow and Ice Research Center | ||
Kazakhstan | II | Ms Assel Kishkimbayeva | Senior
Scientific Associate, department of Climate and Hydrology Research, Kazhydromet |
Kyrgyzstan | II | Mr Asanchodzhaev Riskeldi Galievich | Deputy Director, Hydrometeorological Institute (Kyrgyzgydromet) |
Maldives | II | Mr. Ali Shareef | Deputy Director-General, Maldives Meteorological Service |
Mongolia | II | Dr. Davaa Gombo | Director, Hyrdology Section, Information and Research Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology, and Environment, NAMEM |
Pakistan | II | Mr. Kamal ud Din | Meteorologist, Regional Meteorological Centre |
Thailand | II | Ms. Chalalai Jamphon | Meteorologist, Meteorological Development Bureau |
Tajikistan | II | Prof. Kayumov Abdulhamid | Academic Secretary, Committee for IPY 2007-8, Dushanbe |
Uzbekistan | II | Dr Lidia Karandaeva | Head, Glaciology Dept., Uzhydromet Hydrometeorological Inst. |
Argentina | III | Dr Dario Trombotto Liaudat | Argentine Institute of Snow Research, Glaciology (CONICET) and Environmental Sciences |
Dr Sandra Barreira | Servicio Meteorológico de la Armada Argentina | ||
Colombia | III | Mrs. Maria Saralux Valbuena | Deputy Director, Ecosystems and Environmental Information Department at Instituto de Hidrología, Meteorología y Estudios Ambientales (IDEAM) |
Ecuador | III | Ing. Bolívar Cáceres | Instituto Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología (INAMHI) |
Peru | III | Dr Julio Ordonez Galvez | Director General Hydrology |
Dr Wilson Suarez Alayza | (unknown) | ||
Chile | III | Dr Jorge Carrasco | Dirección Meteorológica de Chile |
Uruguay | III | Cap. Navio Albert Lluberas | Consejo Directivo del Instituto Antartico Uruguayo |
Canada | IV | Ms Geneviève Béchard | Director General, Weather and Environmental Monitoring, MSC |
Ms Anne Walker | Science and Technology Branch, Environment Canada | ||
United States of America | IV | Dr Jeff Key (primary contact) | NOAA/NESDIS |
Christopher Hiemstra | ERDC Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab | ||
CDR Blake McBride | Office of the Oceanographer of the Navy | ||
Walt Meier | NASA/GSFC | ||
Australia | V | Dr Petra Heil | Australia Antarctic Division, Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre (ACE CRC), Hobart |
Malaysia | V | Mr. Ling Leong Kwok | Head, Weather & Climate Model Development Section |
New Zealand | V | Christian Zammit | Hydrologist - National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research |
Austria | VI | Dr Wolfgang Schoener | University of Graz |
Dr Annett Bartsch | Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik | ||
Belgium | VI | Dr Hugo De Backer | Institut Royal Meteorologique |
Finland | VI | Prof. Jouni Pullianen | Head of Arctic Research, FMI |
France | VI | Ms. Marie Dumont | Centre d'étude de la neige, Meteo-France, Toulouse |
M. Christophe Genthon | LGGE Saint Martin D'Heres | ||
Germany | VI | Prof Dr Hugues Lantuit | AWI, Potsdam |
Dr Andreas Becker | Head, GPCC, DWD, Offenbach | ||
Greece | VI | Dr Pavlos D. Kalabokas | Director of International Reasearch Centre for Atmospheric Physics and Climatology |
Hungary | VI | Mr. Róbert Tóth | OMSZ Hungarian Meteorological Service |
Italy | VI | Dr Carlo Baroni | Pisa University |
Dr Giovanni Macelloni | IFAC-CNR, Firenze | ||
Iceland | VI | Þorsteinn Þorsteinsson | Icelandic Meteorological Office, Reykjavík |
Tómas Johannesson | Icelandic Meteorological Office, Reykjavík | ||
Netherlands (the) | VI | Dr Ad Stoffelen | Royal Netherlanfs Meteorological Institute |
Norway | VI | Mr. Ketil Isaksen | Norwegian Meteorological Institute |
Russian Federation | VI | Ivan Yevgenyevich Frolov | Director, Roshydromet Arctic and Antarctic Institute |
Vladimir Mikhailovich Kotlyakov | Geographical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences | ||
Spain | VI | Sr. Fernando Pastor Argüello | Dirección General del Agua, Madrid, España |
Sr. Samuel Buisán Sanz | Agencia Estatal de Meteorología, Zaragoza, España | ||
Sweden | VI | Mr. Amund Lindberg | SMHI |
Switzerland | VI | Dr Fabio Fontana | Deputy Head of International Affairs Division, MeteoSwiss |
Dr Charles Fierz | WSL Institute for Snow and Avalance Research SLF | ||
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | VI | Dr Steve Colwell | British Antarctic Survey |
Mike Molyneux | UK Met Office |