Physics Nobel Prize -2021 Complexity in Climate Science
Webinar on
Physics Nobel Prize -2021: Complexity in Climate Science
Prof. B. N.
Goswami FASc, FNA, FNASc, FTWAS
Friday, 3rd
December 2021 at 11:00 hrs IST (05:30 UT)
Organizers
Space Education
and Research Foundation (SERF)
Indian
Meteorology Society, Ahmedabad Chapter (IMSA)
R. K
University, Rajkot (RKU)
Abstract: The recognition that ‘complexity’ in
physical systems is ubiquitous where apparent ‘chaos’ and ‘regularity’ co-exit
led to the Nobel award for 2021 in Physics to Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann
and Giorgio Parisi “for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of
complex physical systems”. While Parisi discovered interplay of disorder and
fluctuations in physical systems at atomic level, Manabe and Hasselmann
unraveled interplay between chaotic weather to climate variability at planetary
scales. The Prize is also recognition of Complexity in Climate Science and
climate modeling by the majority Physics community. The lecture will highlight
this Complexity in Climate Science and its relevance in the face of the current
Climate Emergence.
Link to Join the Online Program
About the speaker: After his Ph.D in Plasma Physics from PRL, Ahmedabad in
1976, Prof. Goswami started working on weather and climate processes at PRL. With
Post-doctoral experience in MIT and NASA during 1978- 1983, Prof Goswami
returned to work in India in 1983. After working at IIT, Delhi and IISc,
Bangalore, he took over the helm of the Indian Institute of Tropical
Meteorology, Pune in 2006 and transformed the Institute to a world-class
research organization. Leading the Indian Monsoon Mission Program, he brought
Indian weather and climate prediction capability to be at per with the best of
the world. The improved skill of weather and climate forecasts in the country
today is a direct result of his vision of computing infrastructure development
and model development training during 2006 and 2014. Professor Goswami served
on many National and International Committees including the Joint Scientific
Committee (JSC) of the World Climate Research Program.
Awards/Recognitions received: Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award, 1995,
Hari Om Ashram Prerit Vikram Sarabhai Award, 1994, Kamal Kumari National Award
in Science and Technology, 2008 by Kamal Kumari Foundation, K.R. Ramanathan
Prize by Indian National Science Academy, 2008, Fellow, The World Academy of
Sciences (FTWAS), Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, (FASc) , Fellow, Indian
National Science Academy, (FNA), Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, India
,(FNASc), Fellow, Indian Meteorological Society (IMS), National Award in
Atmospheric Science and Technology, 2014 by the Ministry of Earth Sciences,
VASVIK National Industrial Research Award in Environmental Science and
Engineering for 2012, K. R. Ramanathan Medal, Indian Geophysical Union, 2014,
Life Time Achievement Award in Science and Technology by Government of Assam,
2018. Prof Goswami has about 188 peer-reviewed publications in high impact
journals. Four of his publications are cited more than 1000 times