International Meteorological Organization Prize

The International Meteorological Organization Prize is awarded annually by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) for outstanding contributions in the field of meteorology and, since 1971, the field of operational hydrology.^[1]

The prize, established in 1956, consists of a 14-carat gold medal 57mm in diameter, displaying the official WMO emblem and on the reverse the Latin inscription Pro singulari erga scientiam meteorologicam merito (for outstanding work on the science of meteorology), together with a cash award of 10,000 Swiss Francs. It was named to commemorate the International Meteorological Organization, the predecessor organisation of the current World Meteorological Organization.

Prizewinners

Source: WMO

2022	Sue Barrell
2021	In-Sik Kang
2020	David Grimes
2019	Sergej Zilitinkevich
2018	Antonio Divino Moura[2]
2017	Gordon McBean[3]
2016	Zeng Qing-Cun[4]
2015	Julia Slingo[5]
2014	Alexander Bedritsky
2013	Tillmann Mohr[6]
2012	Zaviša Janjić[7]
2011	Aksel C. Wiin-Nielsen[8]
2010	Taroh Matsuno[9]
2009	Eugenia Kalnay[10]
2008	Qin Dahe[11]
2007	Jagadish Shukla[12]
2006	Lennart Bengtsson
2005	John Zillman
2004	Bennert Machenhauer
2003	Ye Duzheng
2002	Joanne Simpson
2001	Mohammad Hassan Ganji
2000	Edward Norton Lorenz
1999	James Dooge
1998	John T. Houghton
1997	Mariano A. Estoque
1996	T.N. Krishnamurti
1995	Roman Kintanar
1994	James P. Bruce
1993	Verner E. Suomi
1992	Yuri Izrael
1991	Ragnar Fjørtoft
1990	Richard E. Hallgren
1989	Pisharoth Rama Pisharoty
1988	F. Kenneth Hare[13]
1987	Mikhail Ivanovich Budyko[14]
1986	Hermann Flohn
1985	David Arthur Davies
1984	Thomas F. Malone[15]
1983	Muhamed F. Taha and J.J. Burgos
1982	William James Gibbs
1981	Bert Bolin
1980	Robert M. White
1979	Helmut Landsberg[16]
1978	Alf.E.G.E. Nyberg
1977	George P. Cressman
1976	E.K. Fedorov
1975	Warren L. Godson
1974	Joseph Smagorinsky
1973	Charles Henry Brian Priestley and John S. Sawyer
1972	Victor Antonovich Bugaev
1971	Jule G. Charney[17]
1970	Richard Th. A. Scherhag
1969	Erik Palmén
1968	Graham Sutton
1967	Kirill Y. Kondratyev
1966	Tor Bergeron
1965	Sverre Petterssen
1964	Francis Reichelderfer
1963	Reginald Sutcliffe
1962	Anders Knutsson Ångström
1961	K.R. Ramanathan
1960	Jacques van Mieghem
1959	Jacob Bjerknes[18]
1958	Ernest Gold
1957	Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby
1956	Hans Theodor Hesselberg

See also

• List of oceanography awards
• List of meteorology awards
• List of prizes named after people
• List of prizes known as the Nobel of a field

References

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