SVT Documentary: Portrait of Nobel Laureate Suki Manabe (The documentary is in both English and Swedish.)

Videography: Johan Bergendorff, SVT

Watch the 2021 Nobel Prize Lectures in Physics - Suki Manabe

There is intense public and scientific interest in weather and climate extremes. Understanding to what degree these phenomena are predictable has great practical value to society. Midlatitude baroclinic waves drive extratropical weather and climate extremes, but the predictability of these waves beyond 2 weeks has long been deemed low.

In the nineteen-sixties, AOS Senior Meteorologist Syukuro (Suki) Manabe drew a graph that foretold our world today—and what’s to come.

Read more about Nobel Laureate Suki Manabe in The New Yorker

AOS Faculty Member Sonya Legg, associate director of CIMES, has joined an NSF-funded effort that fosters participation and belonging among Asian Americans and Pacific Islander (AAPI) students in the geosciences. The project, titled AGILE (AAPI in Geoscience: Inclusivity,…

In ceremonies across the country and the world last week, Princeton’s five Nobel Prize laureates for 2021 — AOS Senior Meteorologist Syukuro (Suki) Manabe (physics), David MacMillan (chemistry), Joshua Angrist (economic sciences), David Card (economic sciences) and Maria Ressa (Nobel Peace Prize) — delivered their Nobel lectures and were…

The week of Oct. 4, 2021 saw two Princeton University professors awarded Nobel prizes in Physics and Chemistry, and one alum the Nobel Peace Prize. Syukuro Manabe,

There's one number heard more than any other from the podiums at the United Nations climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland: 1.5 degrees Celsius.

That's the global climate change goal world leaders agreed to strive for. By limiting the planet's warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, by 2100, the hope is to stave off…

An exciting look-ahead to the UN climate summit in Glasgow ... Hear from experts in the Princeton community, including some of AOS's own, about their hopes and expectations for the conference:

“This is a very, very important meeting for humanity,” said AOS Faculty Member

AOS Faculty Member V. “Ram” Ramaswamy, the director of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), has been named a 2021 fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) "for pioneering research on radiative transfer in the climate system, especially…