The following have agreed to participate in the organisation of this conference:

For the International Advisory Committee:

André Berger (Louvain University, Belgium)

Tom Bogdan, UCAR, USA

Paul Crutzen, Atmospheric Chemistry Division, MPIC, University of Mainz, Germany

John Eddy, NOAA, USA

W. Laurence Gates, LLNL, USA

John Gould, UCSD, USA

Todd Hoeksema, NASA, USA

Eystein Jansen, Bergen University, Norway

Phil Jones, University of East Anglia, UK,

Tamara Kuznetsova, IZMIRAN, Moscow, Russia

John Leibacher, NOAO, USA

Michael Mann, University of Virginia, USA

Gérard Mégie, CNRS, France

Tim Palmer, ECMWF, UK

Tom Pedersen, Victoria University, Canada

Michael Schlesinger, UIUC, USA

Gilles Sommeria, WMO, Switzerland

Fred Taylor, University of Oxford, England

Paul Valdes, University of Bristol, England

Rainer Zahn, University of Barcelona, Spain

For the Scientific Programme Committee:

Claude Basdevant, LMD, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France

Ludwik Celnikier, Observatoire de Meudon, France

Jean Dufresne, LMD, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France

Jean Claude Duplessy, LCSE, CEA, France

Jean Jouzel, LCSE, CEA, France

Laurent Labeyrie, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, France

Laurent Mémery, IPSL, France

Serge Planton, Météorologie Nationale, France

Hervé Le Treut, LMD, Ecole Normal Supérieure, France

Jean Tran Than Van, University of Orsay, France