**Meet the editors**

Yuanzhi Zhang received the Doctor of Science in Technology at Helsinki University of Technology in Finland, Master of Science in Remote Sensing and Geological Survey at International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) in the Netherlands, Master of Science in Remote Sensing and Cartography at Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing, China,

and Bachelor degree in Geoscience at Changchun College of Geology, Jilin University, China. Dr. Zhang joined the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, the Chinese University of Hong Kong in October 2006. His research interests include coastal zone studies, land use and land cover change detection, water quality monitoring, urban environments and geothermal exploration using in-situ measurements and remote sensing data.

Dr. Pallav Ray is an Assistant Professor of Meteorology at the Department of Marine and Environmental Systems, Florida Institute of Technology. Dr. Ray earned a PhD in Meteorology and Physical Oceanography from the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (RSMAS), University of Miami. He has worked extensively on the tropical climate variability with an

emphasis on understanding the mechanisms of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) and its initiation. He was part of the team that developed and utilized the first full physics tropical channel model based on the fifth-generation mesoscale model (MM5). Dr. Ray's other research interests include development of innovative modeling framework, tropics-extratropics interactions, tropical mean state, climate change and its impact on the society.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Section 1 Weather Forecasting 1**

Chapter 1 **Ensemble Forecasting 3**

Alfons Callado, Pau Escribà, José Antonio García-Moya, Jesús Montero, Carlos Santos, Daniel Santos-Muñoz and Juan Simarro

Martina Tudor, Stjepan Ivatek-Šahdan, Antiono Stanešić, Kristian

Nicolas Hautière, Raouf Babari, Eric Dumont, Jacques Parent Du

Sarah N Collins, Robert S James, Pallav Ray, Katherine Chen, Angie

Chapter 2 **Forecasting Weather in Croatia Using ALADIN Numerical**

Chapter 3 **Measurements and Observations of Meteorological Visibility at**

**Weather Prediction Model 59**

Chatelet and Nicolas Paparoditis

Lassman and James Brownlee

**Warming Climate 129**

**Boundary Scheme 163**

Chapter 4 **Grids in Numerical Weather and Climate Models 111**

Chapter 5 **Modelling Sea Level Rise from Ice Sheet Melting in a**

Diandong Ren, Lance M. Leslie and Mervyn J. Lynch

Zhong Zhong, Yijia Hu, Xiaodan Wang and Wei Lu

Chapter 6 **Impact of Tropical Cyclone on Regional Climate Modeling over East Asia in Summer and the Effect of Lateral**

Horvath and Alica Bajić

**ITS Stations 89**

**Section 2 Climate Modeling 109**
