The 37th Conference on Climate Variability and Change was held during the 2024 American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland January 28 through February 1 2024.
The 36th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology will be held in Long Beach, California from May 6 through May 10, 2024.
The 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change will be held during the 2025 American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana January 12-16, 2025."
The Syukuro Manabe Climate Research Award.
The Committee on Climate Variability and Change is pleased to award Ronald Stouffer the 2024 Syukuro Manabe Climate Research Award for his groundbreaking development of coupled atmosphere-ocean climate models with innovative applications to characterize and quantify global climate variability and change.
Ronald Stouffer worked at the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) for 38 years where he was a senior research climatologist. During his time at GFDL, Mr. Stouffer collaborated closely with Syukuro Manabe on the development of the first coupled atmosphere-ocean models and held positions as Head of the Climate and Ecosystems Group and Senior Scientist of Earth System Modeling and Science. Ronald Stouffer is currently an Adjunct Professor of Geoscience at the University of Arizona.
Ronald Stouffer chairs the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) Coupled Model Intercomparison Panel (CMIP) and has authored over 200 research articles on Earth's climate and climate change. He was a contributor to the Working Group I assessment reports for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and chapter author in the 1995, 2001, and 2007 reports. In addition to being elected a Fellow of both the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and the American Geophysical Union (AGU), Mr. Stouffer has received 5 NOAA Distinguished Authorship Awards and the NOAA Career Achievement Award in 2017.
Scientific and Technological Activities Commission (STAC) Award.
The Committee on Climate Variability and Change is pleased to award Dr. Stephen Yeager the 2024 Distinguished Scientific/Technological Achievement Award for his scientific and community leadership on understanding the role of North Atlantic climate variability and advancing multi-year to decadal prediction especially through leading the development of large community datasets with the Community Earth System Model.
Dr. Stephen Yeager is currently a Project Scientist at the National Centers for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), where he has worked in the Oceanography section of the Climate and Global Dynamics (CGD) Laboratory since 1998, leading efforts to produce seasonal to multi-decadal forecasts of the Earth's climate systems and study the influence of the ocean using the NCAR maintained Community Earth System Model (CESM).
During his time at NCAR, Dr. Yeager has authored over 100 peer reviewed articles and attracted over 10,000 citations. In addition, he has been a member of the Executive Committee of the CLIVAR US AMOC Science Team and the International CLIVAR Ocean Model Development Panel and lead the CGD Earth System Prediction group, the CESM Earth System Prediction Working Group, and the World Climate Research Program's (WCRP) Decadal Climate Prediction Project.