Syukuro Manabe#
| Membership Number: | 1522 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1994 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2002 - present Visiting Research Collaborator, Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Program, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
- 1997 - 2001 Director, Global Warming Research Program, Frontier Research System for Global Change, Tokyo, Japan
- 1995 - 1997 Senior Scientist, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Princeton, NJ
- 1979 - 1995 Member of the Senior Executive Service, U.S.A., Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Princeton, NJ
- 1968 - 1979 Senior Research Meteorologist, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Princeton, NJ
- 1963 - 1968 Senior Research Meteorologist, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Environmental Science Services Administration, Washington, DC
- 1958 - 1963 Research Meteorologist, General Circulation Research Section, U.S. Weather Bureau, Washington, DC
Fields of Scholarship
- Global warming
- Radiative-convective model of the atmosphere
- Climate models
Honours and Awards
- 1966 Japan Meteorological Society, Fujiwara Award
- American Meteorological Society, Meisinger Award 1967, 2nd Half Century Award, 1977, C. G. Rossby Research Medal 1992, W. O. Roberts Lecturer 1997
- 1992 Asahi Glass Foundation, Blue Planet Prize (Academic Award)
- 1992 Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal
- 1993 American G American Geophysical Union, Roger Revelle Medal
- 1993 Institute for Scientific Information, Paper selected as Scientific Classic by Current Content
- 1995 J. Bjerkness Lecturer
- 1995 Asahi Shimbun Cultural Foundation, Japan, Asahi Prize 1995
- 1997 Volvo Foundation, Volvo Environmental Prize 1997
- 1998 European Geophysical Society, Milutin Milankovich Medal
- 2000 Royal Meteorological Society, Simons Memorial Lecturer
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, ERL Distinguished Authorship Award 1970, 1974, 1986, 1989, 1995, 1996 Scientific Research and Achievement Award, 1976 Administrator Award, 1980 Presidential Rank Meritorious Executive Award, 1989
- 2010 William Bowie Medal
- 2015 Franklin Institute Awards
- 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics
jointly with Klaus Hasselmann) for "physical modeling of earth's climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming." The prize was awarded "for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex systems" with one half jointly to Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann and the other half to Giorgio Parisi.
- Memberships in professional and learned societies
- 1990 Member, National Academy of Sciences
- 1994 Foreign Member, Academia Europaea
- 1995 Foreign Member, Royal Society of Canada
- 1997 Honorary Member, American Meteorological Society
- 2000 Honorary Member, Japan Meteorological Society
- 1967 Fellow, American Geophysical Union
- 1997 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
