Lennart Bengtsson#
| Membership Number: | 287 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/en/staff/ohneabteilung/lennart-bengtsson |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2001 Professor, University of Reading, UK
- 1991 - 2000 Director, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
- 1982 - 1990 Director, European Centre for Medium Range Forecasts
- 1976 - 1981 Deputy Director and Head of Research, European Centre for Medium Range Forecasts
- 1965 - 1974 Head of Division, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
- 1961 - 1965 Research Meteorologist, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
Fields of Scholarship
- Climate modelling
- Data-assimilation
- Hydrological Cycle
Honours and Awards
- 2007 Rossby Prize by the Swedish Geophysical Society (SGS)
- 2007 Elected Honorary Member of the American Meteorological Society (AMS)
- 2006 International Meteorological Organization (IMO) Prize of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
- 2005 Descartes Research Prize
- 1999 Fellow of American Meteorological Society
- 1998 Umweltpreis 1998 der Deutschen Bundesstiftung Umwelt
- 1998 Member of the Finnish Academy of Science
- 1996 Milutin Milancovic medal by the European Geophysical Society
- 1995 Member of the Nordrhein-Westfälischen Wissenschaftsakademie
- 1993 Member of the Swedish Academy of Science
- 1991 Honorary Member of the Swedish Meteorological Society
- 1990 Doctor honoris causa, University of Stockholm
- 1990 Förderpreis and the Golden Rosette for European Science by the Körberstiftung, Hamburg
- 1989 Member of Academia Europea
- 1986 Julius von Hann´s Gold Medal by the Austrian Meteorological Society
