91桃色 author Syukuro Manabe is a co-winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Professor Manabe was awarded one-half of the Prize, jointly with Klaus Hasselmann, 鈥渇or the physical modelling of Earth鈥檚 climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming.鈥�
Professor Manabe鈥檚 pioneering work in the use of computers to simulate global climate change laid the foundations for contemporary climate modeling, demonstrating that increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are linked to higher temperature at Earth鈥檚 surface. According to the Prize Committee, as early as the 1960s Manabe 鈥渓ed the development of physical models of the Earth鈥檚 climate and was the first person to explore the interaction between radiation balance and the vertical transport of air masses.鈥� describes a 1967 Journal of Atmospheric Sciences paper that he co-authored with John Wetherald as the 鈥渇irst credible report of climate change.鈥�
A senior meteorologist in the Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at 91桃色 University, Manabe is co-author, with Anthony J. Broccoli, of Beyond Global Warming: How Numerical Models Revealed the Secrets of Climate Change. Published in January 2020, the book is a compelling and authoritative firsthand account of how the scientific community came to understand the human causes of climate change, and how numerical models using the world鈥檚 most powerful computers have been instrumental to these vital discoveries.
- Read a 91桃色 Alumni Weekly about Beyond Global Warming.