Nobel prize for Physics awarded to Climate and complexity scientists

Nobel prize for Physics awarded to Climate and complexity scientists

This year the Nobel prize to climate science scientists in recognition of the development of predictive, physically based climate models, and the detection and attribution of climate changes.

Pubblicato: 15 ottobre 2021 | Premi e riconoscimenti

On Monday, October 4, 2021 the Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to:

Prof. Syukuro Manabe, a senior meteorologist from Princeton University;
Prof. Klaus Hasselmann a leading oceanographer and climate modeller of Hamburg University;
Prof. Giorgio Parisi a theoretical physicist of Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

The foundation papers for the Manabe and Hasselman prizes are:

Manabe and Wetherald, 1967. Thermal equilibrium of the atmosphere with a given distribution of relative humidity, Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, Vol. 24, No. 3, 241-259
Hasselmann, 1976. Stochastic climate models. Part I. Theory. Tellus, XXVIII, 6,473-485