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Abstract: This year, together with Giorgio Parisi, Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their pioneering contribution to our understanding of complex systems. One half of the prize honours their life-long effort in climate system modelling and analysis of climate change causes, especially the effects of greenhouse gases. Syukuro Manabe was one of the very first pioneers in climate modelling, both with simple radiative-convection models and the first general circulation models (GCM), he highlighted the effects of carbon dioxide changes in his models in 60’s, and for the whole of his career worked and led the development of the famous GCM at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamic Laboratory. Klaus Hasselmann analysed the connection of chaotic weather behaviour and climate systems, and developed methods for analysis of the fingerprints of climate change. He was the founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Climate and also led the German Climate Computational Centre, where another famous GCM was developed. Some connections and relations to the state of the art in climate modelling and climate change science are presented to clarify the importance and impact of their work. Overall, this award, for the first time, recognises climatology as a physical science |
