Jule G. Charney Award

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The Jule G. Charney Award is an award for meteorology (atmospheric science) and hydrology from the American Meteorological Society . It was previously called the Second Half Century Award (first awarded in 1970) and has been named after Jule Gregory Charney since 1983 . It is awarded annually.

Award winners

Each with an official justification.

As a Second Half Century Award :

  • 1970 Rudolph Hanel , Don T. Hilleary , Lewis D. Kaplan , David Q. Wark for pioneering work in the development and implementation of studies of the upper atmosphere from Earth satellites, culminating in the success of the infrared spectrometer in the Nimbus III satellite, which for the first time provided data for the global analysis of the structure of temperature and pressure of the atmosphere delivered ( for pioneering work in the development of the technique of procuring upper-air soundings from earth-orbiting satellites, culminating in the success of the infrared spectrometers on the Nimbus III satellite, which for the first time has provided data for global analysis of the temperature and pressure structure of the atmosphere ).
  • 1972 Richard J. Reed , significant under whose leadership advances in understanding the circulation and structure were made the atmosphere at mid-latitudes and in the tropics ( under Whose leadership significant advances have been made in the understanding of the circulation and structure of midlatitude and tropical atmospheres ).
  • 1973 Douglas K. Lilly , for his theoretical, experimental and observational contributions to the study of atmospheric phenomena on a small scale including thermal convection, wave phenomena of the atmosphere in the mountains and turbulent interaction ( for his theoretical, experimental, and observational contributions to the study of small- scale atmospheric phenomena including thermal convection, mountain waves, and turbulent interactions ).
  • 1974 Tiruvalam N. Krishnamurti for his outstanding contributions in the fields of dynamic and synoptic meteorology including his diagnostic and prognostic studies of tropical systems and such mid-latitudes using realistic input data as well as his illuminating analyzes of tropical weather systems using data from satellites and aircraft in regions in where conventional weather information is scarce ( for his outstanding contributions to the fields of dynamic and synoptic meteorology including his diagnostic and prognostic studies of tropical and midlatitude systems using real input data together with his enlightening analyzes of tropical weather systems using satellite and aircraft information in sparse conventional data areas) .
  • 1974 James W. Deardorff for his many productive efforts toward furthering our understanding of turbulent processes in the planetary boundary layer through analytical studies and very original numerical and laboratory experiments ( for his many productive efforts toward furthering our understanding of turbulent processes in the planetary boundary layer through analytical studies and highly original numerial and laboratory experiments ).
  • 1975 Louis J. Battan for many contributions to the physics of clouds and his objective scientific evaluation of experiments to modify the weather, his popular scientific writings on meteorology and his services for the promotion of meteorology in many functions ( for his many contributions to cloud physics and his objective scientific evaluation of weather modification efforts, his writings fostering public understanding of meteorology, and his great service to the profession in many capacities.)
  • 1976 Roger M. Lhermitte for many significant contributions to the progress of radar meteorology through the use of Doppler radar in the study of the atmosphere, especially the dual Doppler method, which provided new insights into the internal air currents in thunderstorms ( for many significant contributions to the advancement of radar meteorology through the use of Doppler radar in probing the atmosphere, particularly for the dual-Doppler method, which has provided new insight into the internal motions of convective storms.)
  • 1977 Syukuro Manabe for his outstanding contributions to understanding the influence of radiation processes on the climate through numerical simulation of the dynamics and physics of the atmosphere ( for his outstanding contributions to the understanding of the influence of radiative processes on the climate through numerical simulation of the dynamics and physics of the atmosphere.)
  • 1978 Joost A. Businger for his definitive analysis of atmospheric near-surface processes and his leading role in the exploration of interfaces ( for his definitive analysis of atmospheric surface-layer properties and his leadership in the field of boundary layer research ).
  • 1979 J. Murray Mitchell Jr., for his broad fundamental contributions to the study of climate and climate change, from the Ice Age to the effects of urbanization ( for his broad fundamental contributions to the study of climate and climate change, ranging in scope from ice ages to the effects of urbanization ).
  • 1980 Andre J. Robert and Frederick G. Shuman for his scientific leadership in the development of various original, easy-to-use models that led to significant improvements in the Canadian and US weather services ( for scientific leadership in the construction of different and original operational primitive equations models that produced significant benefits to Canadian and US weather services ).
  • 1981 Thomas H. Vonder Haar for his leadership role as scientist and organizer of national and international programs on radiation in the atmosphere and satellite meteorology ( for his leadership as a researcher and as a coordinator of national and international programs in atmospheric radiation and satellite meteorology ) .
  • 1981 Charles D. Keeling for his fundamental and far-reaching work on the measurement of atmospheric carbon dioxide, which provided the only long-term representations of the systematic increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere ( for his fundamental and far-reaching work on the measurement of atmospheric carbon dioxide, which has been the only long-term record of the systematic increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere ).
  • 1982 James R. Holton for his far-reaching contributions to dynamic meteorology, especially his work in atmospheric dynamics, which led to significant advances in the understanding of sudden warming in the stratosphere, stratospheric fluctuations and quasi-two-year oscillation ( for his wide-ranging contributions to dynamic meteorology, especially for his work in stratospheric dynamics that has led to important advances in understanding of stratospheric sudden warmings, stratospheric vacillation, and the quasi-biennial oscillation ).
  • 1982 Hans R. Pruppacher for his outstanding research on experimental cloud physics, which led to fundamental data on a broad spectrum of microphysical phenomena that were essential for the quantitative understanding of clouds and precipitation ( for his outstanding research in experimental cloud physics, which has provided fundamental data on a wide range of microphysical phenomena essential to the quantitative understanding of clouds and precipitation ).

As a Jule G. Charney Award :

  • 1983 Francis P. Bretherton for his innovative and significant contributions to the understanding of the dynamics of the atmosphere and oceans on many scales, for many processes and phenomena ( for his innovative and significant contributions to our understanding of the dynamics of the atmosphere and oceans encompassing a wide variety of scales, processes, and phenomena ).
  • 1984 Peter V. Hobbs for very productive theoretical and field studies on cloud physics, aerosols and chemistry of water in clouds and for his leading role in the organization and management of the CYCLES project, which significantly contributed to our understanding of the structure of front systems on medium latitudes and medium scales ( for highly productive theoretical and field investigations of cloud physical processes, aerosol and cloud-water chemistry studies, and for his leadership in organizing and directing the CYCLES Project, which has contributed significantly toward our understanding of the mesoscale structure of midlatitude frontal systems ).
  • 1985 Richard S. Lindzen for important contributions to the theory of various phenomena from gravity waves to Rossby waves (planetary waves) in the upper and lower atmosphere ( for incisive contributions to the theory of diverse phenomena ranging from gravitational to planetary waves in the upper and lower atmosphere) .
  • 1985 Keith A. Browning for fundamental contributions to our understanding of severe thunderstorms, the kinematics of fronts and cyclonic storms and the meteorology of Doppler radar observations ( for fundamental contributions to our understanding of severe convective storms, the kinematics of fronts and cyclonic storms, and the methodology of Doppler radar observations ).
  • 1986 Michia Yanai for very original contributions to the expansion of our knowledge of the dynamics of the atmosphere, especially in the tropics ( for highly original contributions to enlarging our knowledge of the dynamics of the atmosphere, particularly in the tropics ).
  • 1987 Richard A. Anthes for sustained contributions of a theoretical nature and in the modeling of weather in the tropics and on medium scale ( for his sustained contributions in theoretical and modeling studies related to tropical and mesoscale meteorology ).
  • 1988 Robert Dickinson for outstanding contributions to the understanding of bio-feedback processes ( for outstanding contributions to our understanding of biofeedback processes) .
  • 1989 Eugene M. Rasmusson for important contributions to climate diagnostics, especially the relationship between El Niño and climate anomalies ( for major contributions to climate diagnostics, especially of the relationship of the Southern Oscillation to climate anomalies ).
  • 1990 Melvin A. Shapiro for extraordinary achievements in the study of phenomena at medium scales from the plane and for the analysis of phenomena on medium and synoptic scale of ever increased quality ( for extraordinary achievements in aircraft probing of mesoscale phenomena, and for meso and synoptic -scale analyzes of unsurpassed quality ).
  • 1990 Peter J. Webster for fundamental contributions to the understanding of tropical circulation low frequency and interaction of tropics and mid-latitudes ( for fundamental contributions to the understanding of low-frequency tropical circulations and tropical / midlatitude interactions ).
  • 1991 Moustafa T. Chahine for outstanding contributions to satellite remote sensing through better understanding of the problem of inverse radiation transport and its application ( for outstanding contributions to satellite sensing through better understanding of the inverse radiative transfer problem and development of its applications ).
  • 1991 M. Patrick McCormick for outstanding contributions to satellite remote sensing through the development of instruments for solar occultation and educating nature of polar stratospheric clouds ( for outstanding contributions to satellite sensing through development of solar occultation instruments and for elucidation of the nature of polar stratospheric clouds ).
  • 1992 Lance F. Bosart for his proof that important insights can be gained from the careful analysis of routine meteorological observations ( for his demonstrations that valuable insights can be obtained by careful analysis of routine meteorological observations ).
  • 1993 Abraham H. Oort for far-reaching studies on the behavior of the atmosphere by extensive analyzes of observations on a global scale ( for wide-ranging studies of atmospheric behavior through comprehensive analysis of global observations ).
  • 1994 William M. Gray for pioneering contributions to the understanding and prediction of tropical cyclones ( for pioneering contributions to the understanding and forecasting of tropical cyclones ).
  • 1995 Eugenia Kalnay numerical experiments for many applications for the explanation of physical processes in atmospheric dynamics and the development of improved manageable numerical prediction models ( for many applications of numerical experimentation in explaining the physical processes of atmospheric dynamics and for developing improved operational numerical forecast models ).
  • 1996 Yoshio Kurihara for fundamental research on modeling the dynamics of tropical storms and a major advance in the technology of hurricane forecasting ( for fundamental modeling research on tropical storm dynamics and a major advance in operational hurricane forecasting ).
  • 1997 Timothy N. Palmer for fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of extensive weather forecasting and understanding of climate phenomena ( for fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of extended weather prediction and the understanding of climate phenomena ).
  • 1998 Kuo-Nan Liou for his pioneering work on the theory and application of radiative transfer and its interaction with clouds ( for his pioneering work in the theory and application of radiative transport and its interaction with clouds ).
  • 1999 Anthony Hollingsworth for in-depth research into four-dimensional data analysis systems and numerical models ( for penetrating research on four-dimensional data assimilation systems and numerical models ).
  • 2000 Kevin Trenberth for improving our understanding of the climate system diagnostic analysis of its basic characteristics ( for Improving our understanding of the dynamics of the climate system through diagnostic analyzes of its fundamental properties ).
  • 2001 Roger Daley for extremely significant research and development in data analysis, modeling and numerical weather prediction ( for highly significant research and development in data assimilation, modeling, and numerical weather prediction ).
  • 2002 Roland A. Madden for pioneering studies on waves on a global scale and the seasonal between vibration ( for pioneering investigations of global-scale waves and of the intraseasonal oscillation ).
  • 2003 Wilfried H. Brutsaert for fundamental and far-reaching contributions to our understanding of the relationships between Earth's atmosphere and land surface ( for fundamental and far-reaching contributions to our understanding of the linkages between Earth's atmosphere and land surface ).
  • 2004 Richard Rotunno for extremely significant scientific contributions to the understanding of the dynamics of a broad spectrum of processes and phenomena on medium scales ( for highly significant, scholarly contributions to understanding the dynamics that govern a wide spectrum of mesoscale phenomena and processes ).
  • 2005 Graeme L. Stephens for pioneering contributions to the understanding and measurement of radiation processes and their role in climate ( for pioneering advances in understanding and measuring radiation processes and their role in climate) .
  • 2006 Robert D. Cess for his outstanding contributions to our understanding of radiation in the atmosphere, climate change and the role of clouds in climate models ( for his outstanding contributions to our understanding of the science of atmospheric radiation and climate change and the role of clouds in climate models) .
  • 2007 Alan K. Betts for pioneering contributions and sustained research atmospheric to understand interfaces, cumulus convection and interaction of Earth's surface and atmosphere ( for his pioneering and sustained contributions to the understanding of the atmospheric boundary layer, cumulus convection, and land-Surface- atmosphere interactions ).
  • 2008 Gerald R. North for groundbreaking research on climate models, atmospheric statistics and the development of satellite missions ( for groundbreaking research on climate models, atmospheric statistics, and satellite mission development ).
  • 2009 Warren M. Washington and Gerald A. Meehl , for outstanding contributions in collaborations to model the climate and its response to natural and anthropogenic constraints ( for outstanding contributions to collaborative modeling climate and its response to anthropogenic and natural forcings. )
  • 2010 Eric F. Wood for pioneering contributions to our understanding of the role of the diversity of the earth's surface in the coupled water and energy balance of the earth's surface ( for pioneering contributions to understanding the role of land surface heterogeneity in the coupled water and energy balance of the Earth surface ) .
  • 2011 Ronald B. Smith , for fundamental contributions to the understanding of the influence of mountains on the atmosphere both by theoretical work as well as through observations ( for fundamental contributions to our understanding of the influence of mountains on the atmosphere through Both theoretical advances and insightful observations ).
  • 2012 Christopher S. Bretherton for fundamental contributions to our understanding of atmospheric moisture convection, in particular his discovery of mechanisms that control the transition from stratocumulus convection to convection in flat cumulus clouds ( for fundamental contributions to our understanding of atmospheric moist convection, particularly the discovery of mechanisms governing the transition from stratocumulus to shallow cumulus convection ).
  • 2013 R. Alan Plumb , for basic contributions to the understanding of geophysical hydrodynamics, atmospheric dynamics, chemical transport and the general circulation in the oceans and atmosphere ( for fundamental contributions to the understanding of geophysical fluid dynamics, stratospheric dynamics, chemical transport, and the general circulation of the atmosphere and oceans ).
  • 2014 David A. Randall for revolutionary research on atmospheric circulation and cloud processes and their improved consideration in weather and climate models ( for transformative research into atmospheric convection and cloud processes and their improved representation in global weather and climate models ).
  • 2015 Alan Robock for fundamental contributions to the understanding of the climatic effects of stratospheric aerosols from volcanoes and other potential sources and the role of soil moisture in the climate ( for fundamental contributions toward understanding the climatic effects of stratospheric aerosols from volcanoes and other potential sources, and the role of soil moisture in climate ).
  • 2016 Wayne H. Schubert for revolutionary advances in the theoretical understanding of convective parameterization, marine stratocumulus clouds, equilibrium flows in the atmosphere and structure and intensity of tropical cyclones ( for landmark advances in theoretical understanding of convective parameterization, marine stratocumulus, balanced atmospheric flows, and tropical cyclone intensity and structure ).
  • 2017 David J. Raymond for fundamental insights into the interaction of atmospheric convection and the environment on a large scale.
  • 2018 Dennis P. Lettenmaier For fundamental and visionary research on the hydrological impacts of climate change, and the pioneering development of land surface models and continental-to-global scale data sets.
  • 2019 J. David Neelin For fundamental contributions to understanding tropical climate dynamics and the impact of anthropogenic forcing on precipitation, drying, circulation, and extremes.
  • 2020 Qiang Fu For pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of atmospheric radiative transfer and its critical linkages to climate and climate change.
  • 2021 Clara Deser For fundamental insights into the structure, genesis, and predictability of decadal variability in the atmosphere, ocean, and cryosphere.

Web links

  • Official website (with search function for the award winners, which also provides the laudatory speech)
  1. ↑ 2021 Awards and Honors Recipients. In: ametsoc.org. American Meteorological Society, accessed August 7, 2020 .