Earth's Changing Water and Energy Cycle
暫譯: 地球變化中的水與能量循環

Benoit Meyssignac is a researcher at the Laboratoire d'Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiale (LEGOS) and the French Space National Center (CNES) in Toulouse, France. His work focuses on understanding variations in the global energy-water cycle at both regional and global scales using high-precision geodetic satellite observations and modeling. He studies the processes that drive changes in the Earth's energy budget, the energy imbalance, and the response of energy-water cycle fluxes to climate change. He is an active leader in the World Climate Research Program's Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX) Earth Energy Imbalance assessment.

Sonia I. Seneviratne specializes in climate extremes and land-climate interactions. Her research focuses on processes that lead to droughts and heatwaves, the impact of land processes and land cover changes on regional climate, and how these are affected by global warming. She uses a combination of climate model experiments and statistical data analysis, drawing on model data, ground observations, and satellite measurements. Sonia I. Seneviratne is a Professor of Land-Climate Dynamics at ETH Zurich.

Rémy Roca has dedicated his career to satellite Earth observations. He gained early experience with geostationary infrared observations as a student and visiting scholar at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. During his postdoctoral fellowship, he expanded his expertise to broadband radiometry for energy budgets and passive microwave observations of water vapor and precipitation, contributing to the Megha-Tropiques Indo-French mission, which he led from 2007 to 2022. His primary interests lie in studying the water cycle in the tropics and using satellite observations to investigate tropical climate dynamics.

Graeme L. Stephens has made significant contributions to understanding Earth's climate system, focusing on the interactions of water and energy and the feedbacks between clouds and the hydrological cycle. He has served as co-chair of the Scientific Steering Group for the Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX) project of the World Climate Research Programme and was the principal investigator of NASA's CloudSat mission, which pioneered observations of clouds and precipitation. He continues to play a key role in other NASA missions, including the Libera mission on Earth's energy balance and the INCUS mission on atmospheric convection. Professor Stephens has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Rossby Medal of the American Meteorological Society, the Mason Gold Medal of the Royal Meteorological Society, and the IAMAS IRC Gold Medal for his contributions to radiation sciences.

Michael Rast studied geology and geoscientific remote sensing at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. He later joined ESA, where he helped define mission and science requirements for Earth observation satellites. After spending a research year at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, he earned a doctorate in imaging spectroscopy from space. Following a secondment to the GEO Secretariat in Geneva as a Senior Programme Officer, he led the Science Strategy Office at ESA-ESRIN in Frascati, Italy. In 2017, he became Senior Advisor to the Director of Earth Observation Programmes. Since retiring from ESA in 2022, he has served as Director of Earth Sciences at the International Space Science Institute (ISSI) in Bern, Switzerland. Michael Rast is also a Professor of Terrestrial Remote Sensing in the Department of Geography at Ludwig-Maximilians University.

Benoit Meyssignac 是法國圖盧茲的地球物理與空間海洋學研究所 (LEGOS) 和法國國家太空中心 (CNES) 的研究員。他的工作專注於利用高精度的測地衛星觀測和建模，理解全球能量-水循環在區域和全球尺度上的變化。他研究驅動地球能量預算變化的過程、能量不平衡，以及能量-水循環通量對氣候變化的反應。他是世界氣候研究計畫全球能量與水交換 (GEWEX) 地球能量不平衡評估的活躍領導者。

Sonia I. Seneviratne 專注於氣候極端事件和土地-氣候互動。她的研究重點是導致乾旱和熱浪的過程、土地過程和土地覆蓋變化對區域氣候的影響，以及這些如何受到全球暖化的影響。她使用氣候模型實驗和統計數據分析的結合，依賴模型數據、地面觀測和衛星測量。Sonia I. Seneviratne 是蘇黎世聯邦理工學院的土地-氣候動力學教授。

Rémy Roca 將他的職業生涯奉獻給衛星地球觀測。他在斯克里普斯海洋學研究所作為學生和訪問學者時，獲得了早期的靜止紅外觀測經驗。在他的博士後研究期間，他擴展了對能量預算的寬頻輻射計測量和水蒸氣及降水的被動微波觀測的專業知識，並為梅加-熱帶印法任務做出貢獻，該任務由他於2007年至2022年領導。他的主要興趣在於研究熱帶的水循環，並利用衛星觀測來調查熱帶氣候動力學。

Graeme L. Stephens 在理解地球氣候系統方面做出了重要貢獻，專注於水和能量的相互作用以及雲與水文循環之間的反饋。他曾擔任世界氣候研究計畫全球能量與水交換 (GEWEX) 項目的科學指導小組共同主席，並且是NASA的CloudSat任務的首席研究員，該任務開創了雲和降水的觀測。他在其他NASA任務中也繼續發揮關鍵作用，包括關於地球能量平衡的Libera任務和關於大氣對流的INCUS任務。Stephens教授獲得了多項著名獎項，包括美國氣象學會的Rossby獎章、英國皇家氣象學會的Mason金獎，以及IAMAS IRC金獎，以表彰他在輻射科學方面的貢獻。

Michael Rast 在慕尼黑的路德維希-馬克西米利安大學學習地質學和地球科學遙感。他後來加入了歐洲太空局 (ESA)，幫助定義地球觀測衛星的任務和科學需求。在NASA的噴氣推進實驗室度過了一年的研究後，他獲得了太空成像光譜學的博士學位。在日內瓦的GEO秘書處擔任高級項目官員後，他在意大利弗拉斯卡蒂的ESA-ESRIN領導科學戰略辦公室。2017年，他成為地球觀測計畫主任的高級顧問。自2022年從ESA退休以來，他擔任瑞士伯爾尼國際空間科學研究所 (ISSI) 的地球科學主任。Michael Rast 也是路德維希-馬克西米利安大學地理系的地面遙感教授。