The award Ceremony for 2016 was held on 26 September 2016 at the University of Athens. The prize was split to the following two papers:
- “Do seasonal-to-decadal climate predictions underestimate the predictability of the real world?” by Rosie Eade, Doug Smith, Adam Scaife, Emily Wallace, Nick Dunstone, Leon Hermanson, and Niall Robinson published in Geophysical Research Letters, and
- “Detrended Partial-Cross-Correlation Analysis: A New Method for Analyzing Correlations in Complex System” by Naiming Yuan, Zuntao Fu, Huan Zhang, Lin Piao, Elena Xoplaki & Juerg Luterbacher, published in Nature Scientific.
At the award Ceremony Dr Geir Braathen, Senior Scientific Officer of Atmospheric Environment Research Division (AER) Research Department (RES), WMO, representing the Secretary General of WMO Petteri Taalas made a brief introduction to the WMO Professor Mariolopoulos Trust Fund Award and presented the first Award. The second was presented by the President of the Foundation Prof. Christos Zerefos.
The Ceremony took place at the Grand Ceremonian Hall of the University of Athens. At the ceremony notetable among the participants were Vice Rector of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Professor Napoleon Maravegias, the Special Secretary for Water Professor Jacques Ganoulis representing the Minister for Environment of Greece, Professor Panagiotis Nastos, Director of Laboratory of Climatology and Atmospheric Environment, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Chair of the MedCLIVAR2016 Organizing Committee, Professor Piero Lionello, Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche e Ambientali, University of Salento, Chair of the MedCLIVAR network, Professor Kanaris Tsinganos, President of the National Observatory of Athens, Emeritus, Dr. Alexander Theoharis, First representative of Greece in MedCLIVAR network, Dr. Geir O. Braathen, Representative of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Emeritus Professor Christos Zerefos, Academician, President of Mariolopoulos Kanaginis Foundation for the Environmental Sciences, Invited talk “A journey in time of climatology from Aristotleâ ™s time to Copernicus Services and to the Future”.
Dr. Geir Braathen Senior Scientific Officer of the Atmospheric Environmet Research Division (AER) WMO presenting the award to Dr. Rosie Eade.
The President of MK-Foundation Professor C.S. Zerefos presenting the award to Dr. Naiming Yuan.
The two awardees with the members of the MK-Foundation. Left to right Professor Andreas Karamanos member of the board of Directors of MK-Foundation, Dr Rosie Eade, Dr. Naiming Yuan, Mrs E. Zerefou Director of MK-Foundation and the President of the MK-Foundation, Professor C. Zerefos.