*Pavel Groisman1,2,3, Sergey Gulev2, Ambroise Dufour2, Ge Peng1, Dmitry Streletskiy4, Nina Speranskaya5, Nadezhda Tchebakova6 (1.North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies, North Carolina State University, USA, 2.Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia, 3.Hydrology Science and Services Corporation, USA, 4.George Washington University, USA, 5.State Hydrologic Institute, Russia, 6.Forest Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
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), Akiyo Yatagai(Hirosaki University)