Aksel C. Wiin-Nielsen

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name = Aksel C. Wiin-Nielsen

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field = Meteorology,
work_institution = University of Copenhagen
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known_for = Atmospheric dynamics, atmospheric energetics
prizes = Wihuri International Prize, Honorary Member of the EGS, Honorary Member and Fellow of the AMS, Honorary Member of the RMetS, Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Class for Geosciences
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Dr. Aksel C. Wiin-Nielsen is a retired Danish professor of meteorology at University of Copenhagen.

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 MeteorologicalCongress 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 [ [http://www.wmo.ch/pages/about/sec/former_secretaries_general_en.html Former Secretaries-General ] ] . 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 [http://www.iamas.org/ International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences] , IAMAS) at its plenary session in Zurich, Switzerland in 1967 [ [http://www.iamas.org/ICDM/History.html International Commission on Dynamical Meteorology: HIstory ] ] . Dr. Wiin-Nielsen also served as President of the European Geophysical Society (EGS, now the European Geosciences Union) from 1990 to 1992.

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 [ [http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110008220 The Wall Street Journal Online - Extra ] ] .

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.

Awards and Honors

* Wihuri International Prize (1983) [ [http://www.wihurinrahasto.fi/prizes.html Jenny ja Antti Wihurin rahasto ] ]
* 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) [ [http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/egs/medalists/wiinnielsen98.htm EGS Awards - Honorary Membership - 1998 ] ]
* Honorary Member of the Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS) [ [http://www.rmets.org/about/people/honorary.php RMetS Honorary Members] ]
* Honorary Member of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) [ [http://www.ametsoc.org/memdir/honorarylist/get_listofhonorarys.cfm AMS List of Honorary Members ] ]
* AMS Fellow [ [http://www.ametsoc.org/memdir/fellowslist/get_listoffellows.cfm AMS List of Fellows ] ]
* Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Class for Geosciences [ [http://www.kva.se/KVA_Root/eng/contact/contactdetail.asp?personID=1082&br=ns&ver=6up Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien - www.kva.se ] ]

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