An International Scientific Advisory Committee has been formed consisting of:
| Roger Smith (Chairperson) | University of Munich |
| Kerry Emanuel | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA |
| Geoffrey Garden | Bureau of Meteorology, Darwin, Australia |
| Tom Keenan | Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre, Melbourne, Australia |
| Brian Mapes | University of Colorado, Boulder, USA |
| David Raymond | New Mexico Institute of Technology, Socorro, USA |
| Michael Reeder | Monash University, Melbourne, Australia |
| Chris Thorncroft | University of Reading, England |
| Lixion Avila | Hurricane Research Center, Miami, USA |
| Jim Arthur | Bureau of Meteorology, Darwin, Australia |
| Geoffrey Garden | Bureau of Meteorology, Darwin, Australia |
| Gordon Jackson | Bureau of Meteorology, Darwin, Australia |
| Bruce Morton | Monash University, Melbourne, Australia |
In order to provide a favourable atmosphere for discussion, participation in the Workshop is restricted to not more than about 40 persons. Thus attendance is by invitation only and is restricted to those likely to contribute to discussions.
A balance of 20 forecasters and 20 scientists seems appropriate, which includes forecasters from the Southwest Pacific and Southeast Asia.
As of 17 January 2001 participants were as follows:
| Noel Davidson | BMRC | N.Davidson@bom.gov.au |
| Kerry Emanuel | MIT | Emanuel@texmex.mit.edu |
| Tom Keenan | BMRC | T.Keenan@bom.gov.au |
| Mike Manton | BMRC | M.Manton@bom.gov.au |
| Brian Mapes | University of Colorado | Bem@cdc.noaa.gov |
| John Molinari | SUNY Albany | Molinari@atmos.albany.edu |
| Bruce Morton | Monash University | Bruce.Morton@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Dave Raymond | New Mexico Tech. | Raymond@kestrel.nmt.edu |
| Michael Reeder | Monash University | Michael.Reeder@sci.monash.edu.au |
| Adam Sobel | Columbia University | Sobel@appmath.columbia.edu |
| Roger Smith | University of Munich | Roger@meteo.physik.uni-muenchen.de |
| Matthew Wheeler | BMRC | M.Wheeler@bom.gov.au |
| Wang Yafei | Chainese Academy Met. Science | yfwang@public.east.cn.net |
| Joe Zehnder | University of Arizona | Zehnder@atmo.arizona.edu |
| Australia (Darwin) | Jim Arthur | J.Arthur@bom.gov.au |
| Australia (Darwin) | Roger Atkinson | R.Atkinson@bom.gov.au |
| Australia (Brisbane) | David Bernard | D.Bernard@bom.gov.au |
| Australia (Perth) | Andrew Burton | A.Burton@bom.gov.au |
| Australia (Brisbane) | Jeff Callaghan | J.Callaghan@bom.gov.au |
| Australia (Darwin) | Lori Chappel | L.Chappel@bom.gov.au |
| Australia (Darwin) | Sam Cleland | S.Cleland@bom.gov.au |
| Australia (BMTC) | Roger Deslandes | R.Deslandes@bom.gov.au |
| Australia (Darwin) | Geoff Garden | G.Garden@bom.gov.au |
| Australia (Townsville) | Peter Gould | P.Gould@bom.gov.au |
| Australia (Darwin) | Gordon Jackson | G.Jackson@bom.gov.au |
| Australia (Darwin) | Mark Kersemakers | M.Kersemakers@bom.gov.au |
| Australia (Darwin) | Graeme King | G.King@bom.gov.au |
| Australia (BMTC) | Mick Pope | M.Pope@bom.gov.au |
| Australia (Darwin) | Ian Shepherd | I.Shepherd@bom.gov.au |
| Australia (Darwin) | Predeep Singh | P.Singh@bom.gov.au |
| Australia (Darwin) | Andrew Tupper | A.Tupper@bom,gov.au |
| Fiji | Vive Buikoto | Vive.Seru@met.gov.fj |
| Guam | Frank Wells | Frank.H.Wells@noaa.gov |
| Malaysia | Wan Azli Wan Hassan | Wanazli@kjc.gov.my |
| Philippines | Ellaquim A. Adug | Eadug@pacific.net.ph |
| Singapore | Choo Huat Aik | CHOO_Huat_Aik@MSS.gov.sg |
| Thailand | Prawit Jampanya | Tmd@metnet.tmd.go.th |
| USA | Lixion Avila | Lixion@nhc.noaa.gov |
| Vietnam | Mr. Le Than Hai | Met_srf@fpt.v |