Aksel C. Wiin-Nielsen

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Aksel C. Wiin-Nielsen
Dr. Wiin-Nielsen
Fields	Meteorology,
Institutions	University of Copenhagen
Known for	Atmospheric dynamics, atmospheric energetics
Notable awards	Wihuri International Prize, Honorary Member of the EGS, Honorary Member and Fellow of the AMS, Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Class for Geosciences

Dr. Aksel C. Wiin-Nielsen is a retired Danish professor of meteorology at University of Copenhagen.

1 Career
2 Climate Change
3 Publications
4 Awards and Honors
5 References

[edit] Career

Dr. Wiin-Nielsen became the first director of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) in January 1974. In 1979, the 8^th World Meteorological Congress appointed him to be WMO's third Secretary-General, so he left the ECMWF at the end of that year. He served from January 1, 1980 to December 31, 1983^[1]. From 1975 to 1979 he was chairman of The International Commission on Dynamical Meteorology established in its current form by the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics (IAMAP) (now the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, IAMAS) at its plenary session in Zurich, Switzerland in 1967^[2]. Dr. Wiin-Nielsen also served as President of the European Geophysical Society (EGS, now the European Geosciences Union) from 1990 to 1992.

[edit] Climate Change

Dr. Wiin-Nielsen was mentioned by Richard Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the MIT, in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal in April, 2006, in which Lindzen stated: "Aksel Wiin-Nielsen, former director of the U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization, was tarred by Bert Bolin, first head of the IPCC, as a tool of the coal industry for questioning climate alarmism^[3].

[edit] Publications

Wiin-Nielsen has published more than one hundred peer-reviewed papers in various scientific journals. Well known is

Aksel C. Wiin-Nielsen and Tsing-Chang Chen (1993) Fundamentals of Atmospheric Energetics. Oxford University Press, 400 pp.

[edit] Awards and Honors

Wihuri International Prize (1983)^[4]
Honorary Member of the European Geophysical Society (EGS) in recognition of his exceptional and wide-ranging contributions to research and education in meteorology and of his invaluable efforts in support of the European Geophysical Society (1998)^[5]
Honorary Member of the American Meteorological Society (AMS)^[6]
AMS Fellow^[7]
Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Class for Geosciences^[8]