Masatomo Fujiwara [web]
Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
The S-RIP preparation team expresses continuing gratitude to Saroja Polavarapu (Environment Canada), who provided valuable guidance on how to organize the project during the initial stages, to David Jackson (Met Office, UK), who served as a co-lead of the project until April 2014, to David Tan (ECMWF, UK, until 2015), who served as the ECMWF point-of-contact until July 2015 and as a co-lead of the project between September 2014 and July 2015, and to Lesley Gray (University of Oxford, UK), who served as a co-lead of the project between November 2015 and April 2022.