TROPICS brings together scientists with different backgrounds and expertise with a shared interest in SST patterns. The Team consists of well-qualified scientists taking into account gender balance, career stage balance, as well as geographical diversity. The areas of expertise include climate modeling, atmosphere-ocean interaction, atmospheric dynamics, physical oceanography and cloud-radiative processes. All the members are experts in climate dynamics and work on aspects of the Earth energy budget and climate feedbacks.
| NAME | INSTITUTION | ROLE |
| Sarah Kang (CDP) | Professor at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology in Ulsan, Korea |
Initial co-chair & core leadership group
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| Mat Collins (SSG) | Professor at the University of Exeter, UK |
Initial co-chair & core leadership group
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| Masa Watanabe (CFMIP, SSG) |
Professor at the Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute (AORI),
the University of Tokyo, Japan
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Core leadership group |
| Yen-Ting Hwang (CFMIP) | Associate professor at the National Taiwan University, Taiwan. | Core leadership group |
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Malte F. Stuecker (Other CLIVAR WGs; TBI, TPDV; ECR)
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Assistant Professor at the Department of Oceanography and International Pacific Research Center at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. |
Core leadership group |
| Shayne McGregor (PRP) | Associate Professor, School of Earth and the Environment, Monash University | Core leadership group |
| Antonietta Capotondi (PRP) | Physical Sciences Lab, NOAA | WG member |
| Kris Karnauskas (PRP) | Associate Professor, Oceans and Climate Lab., U. Colorado | WG member |
| Samantha Stevenson (PRP) | Associate Professor, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, UC Santa Barbara | WG member |
| Jerome Vialard (PRP) | Institut de Recherche pour le Développement | WG member |
| Shineng Hu (ECR) | Assistant Professor at Duke University | WG member |
| Jennifer Kay (CFMIP) | Associate Professor at University of Colorado | WG member |
| Paulo Ceppi (CFMIP) | Lecturer at Imperial College London | WG member |
| Yue Dong (ECR) | NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow at LDEO/Columbia University | WG member |
| Jun Ying (ECR) | Associate Researcher at Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, China |
WG member |
| Natalie Burls (CDP) | Associate Professor at George Mason University | WG member |
| Matt England (CDP) | Scientia Professor, University New South Wales | WG member |
| Mike Byrne (CDP) | Reader, School of Earth and Enviro Sciences, University of St Andrews | WG member |
| Rob Jnglin Wills (CDP) | Assistant Professor, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich | WG member |
