The Foundation organized the ceremony of the “WMO Professor Mariolopoulos Trust Fund Award” for 2000, which was held on November 2, 2000 at the University of Athens. The first prize was awarded to the following two scientists :
- Dr. G. Myhre for his paper entitled : “New estimates of radiative forcing due to well mixed greenhouse gases” of the University of Oslo, Norway.
- Dr. D. Balis for his paper entitled : “Study of the structure of the lower troposphere over Athens using a backscattering LIDAR during the MEDCAPHOT-TRACE experiment: Measurements over a suburban area” of the University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Honorary award was given for the paper :
- “Role of lee waves in the formation of solid polar stratospheric clouds : Case studies from February 1997” by E.D. Riviere, of the CNRS, France.