Syukuro Manabe

Syukuro Manabe (Japanese真 锅 淑 郎, Manabe Shukurō; born September 21, 1931 in Ehime Prefecture ) is a Japanese meteorologist and climatologist. He was a pioneer in the use of computers for the simulation of climate changes, both in terms of natural climate change, as well as in relation to the anthropogenic global warming.

Professional career

Born in 1931, Manabe received his doctorate from the University of Tokyo in 1958. He came to the United States, where he worked in the Department of General Circulation Research of the U.S. Weather Bureau until 1997. This is now the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory of NOAA. From 1997 to 2001 he worked at the Frontier Research System for Global Change in Japan; he was director of a research department, which was responsible for the study of global warming. In 2002 he returned to the United States to participate as a visiting scientist in the research program of the atmosphere and ocean sciences at Princeton University.

Scientific Achievements

Manabe has worked with the Director of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory of NOAA, Joseph Smagorinsky. He developed initially in Washington, D.C. and later in Princeton (New Jersey) three-dimensional models of the Earth's atmosphere. In 1967, he and Richard Wetherald showed that increasing carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere causes the height at which the earth radiates heat into space, increases. In 1969 published Manabe and Kirk Bryan, the results of the world's first climate simulation with a coupled ocean-atmosphere model in which the influence of the oceanic heat transport was taken into account on the global climate.

In the 1970s and 1980s, the group led by Manabe pioneering work published; while they used their climate models to climate sensitivity, ie to investigate the sensitivity of climate to changes in greenhouse gas concentrations. This work was an essential part of the first, created by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on global warming.

Other significant contributions he made, among other things with the idea that the Earth's climate could have more than one stable state and by showing that the exchange between such states could be achieved using a relatively realistic model by melting ice caps.

Awards

Manabe is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences and a foreign member of the Academia Europaea and the Royal Society of Canada. In 1992 he was the first who received the Blue Planet Prize of the Asahi Foundation. In 1995 he was awarded the Asahi Prize. In 1997 he was presented by the Volvo Foundation, the Volvo Environmental Prize. In addition, he was honored with the Carl -Gustaf Rossby Research Medal from the American Meteorological Society, the Revelle Medal of the American Geophysical Union and the Milutin Milankovitch Medal from the European Geophysical Society. In 2010 he was awarded the William Bowie Medal, the highest award of the American Geophysical Union.

Trivia

  • The Initiate by Manabe research group is now known as Climate Dynamics and Prediction Group ( GFDL ).
  • Manabe and Bryan's pioneering work in the development of the first global climate model was chosen ten scientific breakthroughs of the past 200 years NOAA under the top.
  • Occasion of his retirement from the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory of NOAA him a three-day scientific meeting was held in honor in March 1998 in Princeton. It was titled " Understanding Climate Change: A Symposium In Honor Of Syukuro Manabe "
  • At the annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society in 2005 there was a special event entitled Suki Manabe Symposium.
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