Anne Marie Treguier (Chair), Laboratoire de Physique des Océans, France

Claus Böning (Local Host), GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Germany

Frank Bryan, National Center for Atmospheric research, USA

Bunmei Taguchi, Japan Agency for Marine – Earth Science and Technology, Japan

Helge Drange (WGOMD co-chair), University of Bergen, Norway

Gokhan Danabasoglu (WGOMD co-chair), National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA

Anna Pirani (CLIVAR), ICTP, Trieste, Italy