Dr. Ed Zipser Wins Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal

Dr. Edward Zipser, a professor in Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Utah, has won the 2016 Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal. This prize is the highest award for atmospheric science awarded by the American Meteorological Society. The prize was originally called the Award for Extraordinary Scientific Achievement but was renamed after Rossby in 1963. Past recipients of this award include Rossby, Bjerknes, Charney, Lorenz, Junge, Arakawa, Twomey, Braham, Simpson, Lilly, Reed, Wallace, Solomon, Holton, Ramanathan, Houze, Emanuel, Hansen, Hartmann, Toon, and many other luminaries in our field. This award is well deserved and is a fitting reward for the outstanding research that Ed has conducted over the last (I won't say how many) decades. The official presentation of the medal will be made during the 96th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society which will be held in New Orleans from January 10 through 14, 2016.