convener:Pavel Groisman(NC State University Research Scholar at NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, North Carolina, USA), Shamil Maksyutov(National Institute for Environmental Studies), Evgeny P Gordov(Institute of Monitoring of Climatic and Ecological Systems SB RAS), Dmitry A Streletskiy(George Washington University), Chairperson:Dmitry Streletskiy(George Washington University), Pavel Groisman(NC State University, USA), Tetsuya Hiyama(Nagoya University, Japan)