Akio Arakawa, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, UCLA, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; William M. Gray, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO; Akira Kasahara, NCAR, Climate and Global Dynamics, Boulder, CO; Kikuro Miyakoda, Princeton University, Princeton , NJ; Pamela L. Stephens, NSF, Directorate of Geosciences, Arlington, VA; John Michael Wallace, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA and Guo-Xiong Wu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lasg/IAP, Beijing

Taroh Matsuno, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama

Steve Esbensen, Oregon State University, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR