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Syukuro (Suki) Manabe is a senior meteorologist in the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program at Princeton University, and a researcher at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. He created global climate models that played critical roles in groundbreaking studies of atmospheric dynamics in the 1960s. Notably, Manabe co-authored a pivotal 1967 paper that credibly reported climate change and led the creation of a three-dimensional model of global warming in 1975. His work identified profound connections among the sea, land, and atmosphere, and his revolutionary idea of using numerical modeling to predict the Earth’s surface temperatures based on atmospheric conditions constituted a major breakthrough, ultimately providing researchers with a powerful new tool to investigate the complex climate systems of our planet. His contributions are foundational to modern climate research and earned him the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics for his groundbreaking work in modeling climate change.
Princeton University Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory • Princeton, NJ
Conducting research in climate modeling and atmospheric sciences.
GRE scores are not accepted. Ph.D. is the primary degree; students are not required to hold an M.S.E. prior to admission.