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Syukuro Manabe Wins 2021 Nobel Prize Laureate In Physics

Syukuro Manabe Wins &NewLine;<a href="https&colon;//openlife&period;ng/">OpenLife Nigeria</a> reports that Syukuro Manabe has won the 2021 Nobel Prize Laureate In Physics&period; &NewLine;He was declared the winner on Tuesday afternoon&period; Syukuro Manabe is a senior meteorologist at Princeton University, USA&period; &NewLine;Born in 1931 in Shingu, Japan &NewLine;In the early 1960&&num;8217&semi;s, he developed a radiative-convective model of the atmosphere and explored the role of greenhouse gases such as water vapor, carbon dioxide and ozone in maintaining and changing the thermal structure of the atmosphere&period; This was the beginning of the long-term research on global warming, which he has continued until now in collaborating with the staff members of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) of NOAA&period;&NewLine;In the late 1960s, Kirk Bryan and Syukuro Manabe began to develop a general circulation model of the coupled atmosphere-ocean-land system, which eventually became a very powerful tool for the simulation of <a href="https&colon;//www&period;thisdaylive&period;com/">Global</a> warming&period; &NewLine;Furthermore, they have realized that a coupled model simulates well the low-frequency variability of climate&period; This has encouraged them to use a coupled model for exploring not only global warming but also unforced, natural variability of climate from seasonal to centennial time scales&period;&NewLine;The analysis of deep-sea sediments and continental ice sheets indicates that the Earth’s climate has fluctuated greatly during the geological past&period; &NewLine;Throughout his career, past climate changes have posed many challenging questions, which he has tried to answer using climate models with varying complexity&period;&NewLine;