Syukuro “Suki” Manabe, who was awarded Nobel Prize 2021 in Physics jointly with Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi on Tuesday, is a Japanese scientist, meteorologist and climatologist. He is known for his contribution to use computers to simulate global climate change and natural climate variations.

Manabe is awarded the Nobel Prize for his work in the physical modelling of the earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming.

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Born in 1931, Manabe did his PhD from the University of
Tokyo in 1958 and went to the United States to work at the General Circulation
Research Section of the US Weather Bureau, now the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Laboratory of NOAA.

In 1997, Manabe started working at the Frontier Research
System for Global Change in Japan. He served as the Director of the Global
Warming Research Division since 2001. In 2002, the scientists returned to the
United States as a visiting research collaborator at the Program in Atmospheric
and Oceanic Science, Princeton University. He currently serves as a senior
meteorologist at the university.

In 1992, Manabe became the first recipient of the Blue
Planet Prize of the Asahi Glass Foundation. In 1995, he received the Asahi
Prize from Asahi News-Cultural Foundation. In 1997 Manabe was awarded the Volvo
Environmental Prize from the Volvo Foundation followed by the Benjamin Franklin
Medal of Franklin Institute in 2015. Manabe is also a co-winner of BBVA Foundation
Frontier of Knowledge Award.

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Manabe also received the Crafoord Prize in Geosciences jointly with Susan Solomon in 2018 “for his fundamental contributions to understanding the role of atmospheric trace gases in Earth’s climate system”.

In 2021, Manabe received the Nobel Prize in Physics “for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming”.

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On October 5, 2021, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that Manabe along with two others had been awarded “for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems.”

The jury announced that Syukuro Manabe “demonstrated how increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere lead to increased temperatures at the surface of Earth.”