Warren M. Washington
Warren M. Washington (born August 28, 1936 in Portland (Oregon) ) is an American meteorologist and pioneer in the development of global climate models.
Washington graduated from Oregon State University with a bachelor's degree in physics in 1958 and a master's degree in meteorology in 1960, and was awarded a doctorate in meteorology from Pennsylvania State University in 1964, the second African American ever. From 1963 he was a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder and became Senior Scientist there in 1975.
He was involved in the development of the Parallel Climate Model (PCM) (or its part, the Community Climate Model, CCM, developed at NCAR) and the Community Earth System Model (CESM), which were used, for example, in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change . The models are for simulation on massive parallel computers. He has been developing computer models for simulating the atmosphere since the early 1960s, then with Akira Kasahara. They were gradually expanded, for example to include oceans and sea ice.
In 1994 and again in 2000 he was elected to the National Science Board and chaired it from 2002 to 2006, and was on the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere from 1998. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (2009) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He was President of the American Meteorological Society and is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1981). Since 2003 he has been a member of the American Philosophical Society . He holds honorary degrees from Oregon State University, Bates College, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In 2010 he received the National Medal of Science from President Barack Obama for his development and use of global climate models to understand the climate and to explain the role of human activity and natural processes in the earth's climate system (laudatory speech). For 2019 he was awarded the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement .
Fonts (selection)
- Odyssey in Climate Modeling, Global Warming, and Advising Five Presidents , Ed. Lulu.com., 2008
- with Claire Parkinson : An Introduction to Three-Dimensional Climate Modeling , Oxford University Press 1986, 2005
Web links
- Website at the NCAR
- Atmosnews, NCAR, to Washington's National Medal of Science
- Literature by and about Warren M. Washington in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ↑ PCM
- ^ Member History: Warren M. Washington. American Philosophical Society, accessed November 15, 2018 (with biographical notes).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Washington, Warren M. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American meteorologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 28, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Portland, Oregon |