**About the Editors**

**Ioannis Pytharoulis** is Associate Professor in the School of Geology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH; https://www.auth.gr/en), Greece and the director of the Laboratory of Meteorology and Climatology of AUTH (LMC-AUTH). His main research interests lie in numerical weather prediction and synoptic/mesoscale meteorology, focusing on intense weather events. He is responsible for the operational weather forecasting system of LMC-AUTH (http://meteo.geo.auth.gr). He received a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from AUTH, and he received an M.Sc. in Weather, Climate and Modelling and a Ph.D. in Meteorology from the Department of Meteorology of the University of Reading, United Kingdom. He was formerly employed as a postdoc researcher in the Atmospheric Modelling and Weather Forecasting Group of the Physics Department of the University of Athens in Greece, a meteorologist in the Numerical Weather Prediction Division of the Hellenic National Meteorological Service, a laboratory teacher at the Technological Educational Institute of Piraeus in Greece, a weather forecaster and scientific consultant in the private sector and Lecturer & Assistant Professor at LMC-AUTH. He has participated (as PI or researcher) in 30 research projects funded by various national and international authorities. He has been a Guest Editor for three Special Issues of the international journals *Atmosphere* and *Climate*, as well as an Associate Editor of the international journal *Acta Geophysica*. A more detailed CV appears at https://users.auth.gr/pyth/.

**Petros Katsafados** has been Associate Professor at the Department of Geography of Harokopio University of Athens since 2007 and is head of the Atmosphere and Climate Dynamics Group (ACDG; http://meteoclima.gr). He originally studied Mathematics but then he switched scientific discipline to Atmospheric Physics and Dynamics and he finally completed his master's degree at the School of Physics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). His Ph.D. thesis focused on factors that influence the predictability of numerical weather prediction. Currently, he is author or co-author of more than 40 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and more than 85 peer-reviewed conference papers. His work has received more than 1000 citations (h-index = 17; source: Scopus). He is also author of two textbooks, and he has contributed to several book chapters and special editions. A more detailed CV is available at https://www.geo.hua.gr/wp-content/ uploads/Katsafados-Petros-cv-en.pdf.
