Manabe, Syukuro

Manabe, Syukuro, 1931– , Japanese climatologist and meteorologist, D.Sc. University of Tokyo, 1958. Manabe has been instrumental in the development of climate science and his work has formed the basis of current climate modeling. He was one of the first researchers to demonstrate the relationship between increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and increaing temperatures. He shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics with Giorgio Parisi and Klaus Hasselman for "the physical modeling of Earth's climate, quantifying variability and reliability predicting global warming." Manabe is a senior meteorologist at Princeton University's Program in Atomospheric and Oceanic Sciences.

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