ENGLISH, Stephen, ECMWF, International

PRIGENT, Catherine, CNRS, LERMA, Observatoire de Paris, France

JOHNSON, Ben, UCAR/JCSDA, USA

YUEH, Simon, JPL/NASA, USA

DINNAT. Emmanuel, GSFC/NASA, USA

BOUTIN, Jacqueline, CNRS, France

NEWMAN, Stuart, Met Office, UK

ANGUELOVA, Magdalena, NRL, USA

MEISSNER, Thomas, RSS, USA

KAZUMORI, Masahiro, JMA, Japan

WENG, Fuzhong, LSW/CMA, China

In addition Mike Bettenhausen (NRL, USA), Ad Stoffelen (KNMI, Netherlands) and Christophe Accadia (EUMETSAT, International) participated in the first team meeting 20-22 November, Bern. Since then additional members have been co-opted including James Hocking (Met Office), Susanne Crewell (Uni Koeln), Jacob Hoyer (DMI), Nick Nalli (NOAA), Craig Donlon (ESA), Saleh Abdalla (ECMWF), Heather Lawrence (Met Office), Mario Echeverribautista (KNMI).