This agreement was renewed for another 20 years in a contract signed between the Foundation
\nand the new WMO Secretary General Professor Petteri Taalas on February 23, 2016.<\/p>\n
Gold Medal of Excellence\u00a0of the Mariolopoulos-Kanaginis foundation for the environmental sciences<\/h3>\n
The Foundation Board awards the Foundation\u2019s Gold Medal of Excellence to prominent personalities
\nwho have predominantly contributed to the promotion of Environmental Sciences.<\/p>\n
The Gold Medal of Excellence bears a representation of the mythical Europe on a bull as she is
\ndepicted on a medal that comes from the so-called treasure of Abouquir or Alexander the Great\u2019s
\ntreasure (Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki).<\/p>\n
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- In May 1996, during the ceremony in which\u00a0the 1995 Nobel Prize for Chemistry winner,\u00a0Professor P.J. Crutzen was nominated\u00a0as an Honorary Doctor of the Physics\u00a0Department, Aristotle University of\u00a0Thessaloniki, the Foundation honored the\u00a0Nobel winner with the Foundation\u2019s Gold\u00a0Medal of Excellence. The Foundation\u2019s Gold\u00a0Medal of Excellence was presented by the\u00a0late Academician Professor P. Theocharis,\u00a0President of the National Commission\u00a0for the Study of Global Change (IGBP) of\u00a0the Academy of Athens, on behalf of the\u00a0Foundation.<\/li>\n
- In December 1997 the International\u00a0UNESCO Conference was held in\u00a0Thessaloniki. During the event, the\u00a0Foundation and the Balkan Environmental\u00a0Research and Development Institute\u00a0(\u0392\u0395RDI) of the Balkan Physical Union (BPU)\u00a0awarded the Foundation\u2019s Gold Medal of\u00a0Excellence to the Secretary General of the\u00a0UN World Meteorological Organization\u00a0(WMO) Professor G.O.P. Obasi.<\/li>\n
- On April 19, 2000 there was held the\u00a0ceremony of the celebration for the 20\u00a0years since the establishment of the\u00a0Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics,\u00a0Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.\u00a0During the ceremony, the Mariolopoulos-Kanaginis Foundation awarded the late\u00a0professor of the University of Oslo, Ivar\u00a0S. A. Isaksen with the Foundation\u2019s Gold\u00a0Medal of Excellence. The Gold Medal\u00a0of Excellence was presented by the Vice\u00a0Chairman of the Foundation and Director\u00a0of the Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics,\u00a0Professor C. Zerefos.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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The late Academician P. Theocharis presents Professor P.J. Crutzen (Nobel of Chemistry, 1995) with the Foundation\u2019s Gold Medal of Excellence.<\/p><\/div>\n
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Professor C. Zerefos presents the Secretary General Professor G.O.P. Obasi with the Foundation\u2019s Gold Medal of Excellence.<\/p><\/div>\n
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The Vice Chairman of the Foundation and Director of the Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics, Professor C. Zerefos presents the late Professor I.S.A. Isaksen with the Foundation\u2019s Gold Medal of Excellence.<\/p><\/div>\n
Other special awards<\/h4>\n
In memory of the late Professor of the National Technical University of Athens at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Ioannis Ziomas<\/strong>, the Board of the Mariolopoulos-Kananginis Foundation for the Environmental Sciences and the Atmospheric Physics Laboratory of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki decided to present an award to a young scientist who was selected among those who participated as first authors at the COMECAP 2018 Conference. For this reason, a selection committee was set up by Christos Zerefos, Academician, Panagiotis Nastos, Professor at University of Athens and Chairman of Hellenic Meteorological Society (HMS), and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Professors Alcibiades Bais, Demetrios Melas and Demetrios Balis. The selection committee decided that the award be shared by the following young scientists:<\/p>\n
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- George Proias, for his research paper titled \u201cTemporal evolution of PM10 concentrations in the city of Volos\u201d,<\/li>\n
- Nicholaos Siomos, for his research paper titled \u201cAerosol classification based on the synergy of Brewer spectrophotometer and sun photometer measurements\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
\u03a4able of scientists awarded with the\u00a0WMO professor mariolopoulos trust\u00a0fund award (1998-2018)<\/h4>\n
\n\n
\n Year<\/strong><\/td>\n Name\/Country<\/strong><\/td>\n Title of the awarded publication<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1998<\/td>\n W. Steinbrecht\/ Germany<\/td>\n Correlations between tropopause height and total ozone: Implications for long-term changes – JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, (1998)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2000<\/td>\n G. Myhre\/ Norway<\/td>\n New estimates of radiative forcing due to well mixed greenhouse gases – GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, (1998)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n D. Balis\/ Greece<\/td>\n Study of the structure of the lower troposphere over Athens using a backscattering LIDAR during the MEDCAPHOT-TRACE experiment: Measurements over a suburban area \u2013 ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT, (1998)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2002<\/td>\n Francois Gheusi\/ France<\/td>\n Lagrangian description of airflows using Eulerian passive tracers – Q. J. R. METEOROL.SOC. (2002)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Boyan Iliev Tatatov\/ Bulgary<\/td>\n Experimental determination of the multiple-scattering effect on the lidarsignal polarization characteristics during liquid-and solid-phase precipitation \u2013 APPL. PHYS. B: LAZERS AND OPTICS, (2001)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2004<\/td>\n Amna Jrrar\/ UK<\/td>\n The dynamically-driven long-term trend in stratospheric ozone over northern middle latitudes-Q. J. R. METEOROL.SOC. (2002)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Michal Strizik\/ Czech<\/td>\n Remote sensing detection of atmospheric pollutants by differential absorption LIDAR 510M\/SODAR PA2 mobile system-METEOROL ATMOS PHYS (2004)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2006<\/td>\n Jeffrey Robert Knight\/ UK<\/td>\n A signature of Persistent Natural Thermohaline Circulation Cycles in Observed Climate-AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION, (2005)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n N. Christidis\/ UK<\/td>\n Detection of Changes in Temperature Extremes During the Second Half of the 20th Century \u2013 GEPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, (2005)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2008<\/td>\n Sabine Wust\/ Germany<\/td>\n Non- linear resonant wave-wave interaction (triad): Case studies based on rocket data and first application to satellite data – J. of ATMOSPH. AND TERR. PHYS. (2006)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Noureddine Semane\/ France<\/td>\n An observed and analysed stratospheric ozone intrusion over the high Canadian Arctic UTLS region during the summer of 2003 – Q. J. R. METEOROL.SOC., (2007)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2010<\/td>\n P. Tunved\/ Sweden<\/td>\n The natural aerosol over Northern Europe and its relation to anthropogenic emissions-implications of important climate feedbacks – TELLUS B (2008)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n J. Kysel\u00fd\/ Chech Republic<\/td>\n Recent severe heat waves in central Europe: how to view them in a long-term prospect? – INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY, (2009)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n D. Belu\u0161i\u0107\/ Croatia<\/td>\n Can mesoscale models reproduce meandering motions? ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY, (2010)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2012<\/td>\n T. Mauritsen\/ Germany<\/td>\n An Arctic CCN-limited cloud-aerosol regime \u2013 ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS, (2011)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n X. Yang\/ China<\/td>\n Observed surface warming induced by urbanization in east China \u2013 JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, (2011)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2014<\/td>\n D. Konsta\/ Greece<\/td>\n A process oriented characterization of tropical oceanic clouds for climate model evaluation, based on a statistical analysis of daytime A-train observations \u2013 CLIM. DYN. (2012)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2016<\/td>\n N. Yuan\/ China+Germany<\/td>\n Detrended Partial-Cross-Correlation Analysis: A New Method for Analyzing Correlations in Complex System \u2013 NATURE SCIENTIFIC REPORTS (2015)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n R. Eade\/ UK<\/td>\n Do seasonal to decadal climate predictions underestimate the predictability of the real world? \u2013 GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS (2014)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2018<\/td>\n Jianfei Peng\/ USA-China<\/td>\n Markedly enhanced absorption and direct radiative forcing of black carbon under polluted urban environments \u2013 PROC. NATL. ACAD. SCI. (2016)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Young-Ha Kim\/ South Korea<\/td>\n Contributions of equatorial wave modes and parameterized gravity waves to the tropical QBO in HadGEM2 \u2013 JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH : ATMOSPHERES (2015)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2020<\/td>\n Shingirai S. Nangombe\/ Zimbabwe<\/td>\n Record-breaking climate extremes in Africa under stabilized 1.5\u00b0C and 2\u00b0C global warming scenarios \u2013 NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE (2018)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Francesco Pausata\/ Canada<\/td>\n Greening of the Sahara suppressed ENSO activity during the mid-Holocene \u2013 NATURE COMMUNICATIONS (2017)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2022<\/td>\n George Varlas\/ Greece<\/td>\n Investigating the impact of atmosphere\u2013wave\u2013ocean interactions on a Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Kaspar Daellenbach\/ Switzerland<\/td>\n Sources of particulate-matter air pollution and its oxidative potential in Europe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2024<\/td>\n Sahil Sharma\/ South Korea<\/td>\n Future Indian Ocean warming patterns<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Julia Mindlin\/ Argentina<\/td>\n Plausible Drying and Wetting Scenarios for Summer in Southeastern South America<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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