*lipeng jiang¹, Ting Zhu¹, Zhifang Xu¹, Minyan Wang¹, Ruiwen Wang¹, Jilin Wang¹, Jiandong Gong¹, Qifeng Lu¹, Lin Zhang¹(1. CMA Earth System Modeling and Prediction Centre (CEMC))

*Stéphane LAW CHUNE¹, Lotfi Aouf², Alice Dalphinet², Valentin Ruault¹(1. Mercator Océan international , 2. Météo France)

*Jianjun Jin^1,2, Yanqiu Zhu¹, Min-Jeong Kim¹, Amal El Akkraoui¹(1. Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, GSFC, NASA, 2. Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Greenbelt, Maryland)

*Busolami Adewale Adewale¹(1. Hohai University, Nanjing China)

*Githa Sharon Gloria Kende¹(1. BMKG, Meteorological Climatological and Geophysics Agency)

*Narayan Pasad Gaire¹, Yub Raj Dhakal¹, Santosh K. Shah²(1. Tribhuvan University, Patan Multiple Campus, Nepal, 2. Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, India)

*Praveen Rao Teleti¹, Fiona Williamson²(1. University of Reading (NCAS) /SMU, Singapore, 2. School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University, Singapore)

*Sourabh Bal^1,2, Ingo Kirchner²(1. Swami Vivekananda Institute of Science & Technology, 2. Institute for Meteorology, Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany)

*Syed Ahsan Ali Bokhari¹, Sohail Babar Cheema¹(1. Pakistan Meteorological Department)

Eloisa Raluy-Lopez¹, *Juan Pedro Montavez¹, Victoria Gallardo¹, Pedro Jimenez-Guerrero¹(1. Regional Atmospheric Modelling Group, University of Murcia)

*Martin Wegmann^1,2, Stefan Brönnimann^1,2(1. Institute of Geography, University of Bern, 2. Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern)

*Muthuvel Chelliah¹(1. Climate Prediction Center, NCEP/NWS/NOAA/U.S.Dept.of Commerce.)

*Mohana S Thota¹, Niranjan Kumar Kondapalli¹, Raghavendra Ashrit¹, Indira Rani S¹, Sumit kumar B¹, John George P¹, Saji Mohandas¹, Prasad S V¹(1. NCMRWF, Ministry of Earth Sciences)

*SHIVAJI SINGH PATEL^1,2, Ashish Routray¹, Rajeev Bhatla², Nitin Lohan³, V S Prasad¹(1. National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF,INDIA), 2. Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, UP, INDIA, 3. India Meteorological Department, New Delhi, INDIA)

*Chunxiang Li¹, Tianbao Zhao¹, Chunxiang Shi², Zhiquan Liu³(1. Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2. National Meteorological Information Center, China Meteorological Administration, 3. National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Earth System Laboratory)

*Misnawati Misnawati¹, Yudi Riadi Fanggidae¹, Mega Perdanawanti², Unggul Handoko¹(1. Research Center for Climate and Atmosphere, National Research and Innovation Agency, Indonesia, 2. Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency, Indonesia)

*Yvan Joseph ORSOLINI¹, Retish SENAN², Boqi Liu³, Patricia de Rosnay², Martin Wegmann⁴, Wei Li⁵, Jie Chen⁵, Lu Li⁶(1. NILU The Climate and Environmental Research Institute, Norway, 2. ECMWF, Reading (UK), 3. Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (CAMS), China, 4. University of Bern (CH), 5. State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science, Wuhan University, China, 6. NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway)

*Apurva Padamnabh Joshi¹, Prasanna Kanti Ghoshal¹, Kunal Chakraborty¹, V.V.S.S Sarma²(1. Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), Hyderabad, India, 2. CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Visakhapatnam, India)

*Tatiana Sitchinava¹(1. Assistant researcher Ilia State University Institute of Demography and Sociology Gergia)

*Aftab Nazeer¹, Muhammad Shoaib¹, Zakir Hussain Dahri², Muhammad Asif ³(1. Department of Agricultural Engineering, Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU), P.O.Box 60800 Multan, Pakistan, 2. Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC), 45500, Islamabad, Pakistan, 3. School of Engineering, University of Basilicata, Potenza, 85100, Italy)

*Devaraj Rajan¹(1. Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Karunya Nagar, Coimbatore - 641 114 Tamil Nadu India)

*Pawan Kumar Chaubey¹(1. IISER Mohali , India)

*Ales Kuchar¹, Laura de la Torre², Juan A. Añel², Petr Sacha³, Rolando Garcia⁴, Martin G. Mlynczak⁵, Celia P. Souto², Harald Rieder¹(1. BOKU University, Vienna, 2. Universidade de Vigo, Ourense, 3. Charles University, Prague, 4. NCAR, Boulder, 5. NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton)

*Marko Andrade Uzieda¹, Rocio Guzman ¹, Edgar Tejerina¹(1. Climate Monitoring Center, Physics Department, Universidad Mayor de San Simón)

*Tahir Aderemi Alaka¹, Bilikis Arinola Alege-Ibrahim¹, Fatimah Saro Alege²(1. Nigerian Meteorological Agency, 2. Ministry of Energy and Mineral )

*Rocio Balmaceda-Huarte¹, Matias Ezequiel Olmo², Maria Laura Bettolli(1. Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2. Barcelona Supercomputing Center)

*Praveen Rao Teleti¹, Ed Hawkins¹(1. NCAS, University of Reading, UK)

*Kalpana Chaudhari¹, Maria Cerreta², Pasquale De Toro²(1. Shah And Anchor Kutchhi Engineering College; and ISDR , India, 2. The University of Naples Federico II, Italy)

*Furqon Alfahmi Alfahmi¹(1. Indonesian Agency for Meteorology Climatology and Geophysics)

*Sourabh Bal¹, Andreas Matzarakis^2,3(1. Department of Physics, Swami Vivekananda Institute of Science & Technology, 2. Research Centre Human Biometeorology, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Stefan-Meier-Str. 4, 79104 , 3. Chair of EEnvironmental Meteorology, Albert-Ludwigs University Freiberg, Werthmannstr. 10, D-79085 Freiberg, Germany)

*Clinton Snr Assah-Adjei¹(1. Universtity of Education, Winneba -Ghana)

*Muhammad Abdur Rahaman¹(1. Center for People and Environ)

*Prasanna Kanti Ghoshal^1,2, Apurva Padamnabh Joshi¹, Kunal Chakraborty¹(1. Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Hyderabad, India, 2. Faculty of Ocean Science and Technology, Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies, Kochi, India)

*Paska Ajok^2,1(1. National hydrological services, 2. Ministry of Water and Environment, Uganda)

*Toru Terao¹(1. Faculty of Education, Kagawa University)

*Chi Zhang¹, Xu Zhang¹, Qiuhong Tang¹, Deliang Chen², Jinchuan Huang³(1. Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, 2. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, 3. College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)

*Sylvia Ampadu¹, Nana Ama Browne Klutse³, Patrick Essien², Francis Nkrumah²(1. Sylvia Ampadu, University of Ghana , 2. Patrick Essien, Francis Nkrumah, University of Cape Coast, 3. Nana Ama Browne Klutse, African Institute of Mathematical Sciences, University of Ghana)

*Younes Dahhane¹, Victor Ongoma¹, Abdessamad Hadri¹(1. International Water Research Institute, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University)

*Morteza Pakdaman¹, Yashar Falamarzi¹, Ebrahim As'adi Oskouei¹, Zohreh Javanshiri¹(1. Research Institute of Meteorological and Atmospheric Science (RIMAS), Climate Research Institute (CRI), Mashhad, Iran)

*Tanu Gangwar¹, Swagata Payra², Priyanshu Gupta³, Sunita Verma⁴(1. Research Scholar, 2. Associate Professor, 3. Project Scientist , 4. Associate Professor)

*Tidiani SANOGO¹, Koudzo SOKEMAWU², Moussa Karembe^2,3, Issa GARBA⁴, Zakari Seydou Abdouramahamane⁴(1. West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use(WASCAL), University of Lome , 2. Department of Geography, University of Lomé, Togo; Research Laboratory on the Dynamics of Environments and Societie, 3. University of technic and technology sciences of Bamako, Tropical Ecology Laboratory, Mali, 4. Agrhymet Regional Centre, Niamey P.O. Box 11011, Niger)

*Vinay Kumar¹, Matthew H. Hitchman, Surendra Kumar Dhaka, Shigeo Yoden(1. Radio and Atmospheric Physics Lab., Rajdhani College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110015, India )

Ekaterina Vorobeva¹, *Yvan Joseph ORSOLINI¹(1. NILU The Climate and Environmental Research Institute)

*Geli Wang¹, Wenxu Lu¹(1. Institute of Atmospheric Physics , Chinese Academy of Sciences )

*MOUSUMI DEY¹, Dr. Rakesh Saini²(1. Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya, (A Central University) Madhya Pradesh, India., 2. Hemvati Nadan Bahuguna Garhwal Central University, UK, India)

*Suresh Khanal¹, Deepak Aryal², Sanjib Adhikari¹, Indira Kadel¹, Dibas Shrestha²(1. Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, 2. Central Department of Hydrology and Meteorology)

Salma Tabassum¹, *Yeasir Arafat Kazi ²(1. Jahangirnagar University , 2. International University Of Business Agriculture and Technology )

*Emily Elizabeth Hayden¹, Larry W. O'Neill¹, Seth F. Zippel¹(1. College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences - Oregon State University )