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27 February, 2008
Addis Ababa, February 27, 2008 (ENA) - Dr. Abebe Yeshanew Climate Change and Air pollution Study Team Leader with the National Metrological Agency won the Norbert Gerbier–Mumm International Award for 2008.
According to the bi-lingual quarterly metrological bulletin prepared by the agency Dr. Abebe was nominated for the prize for the research paper he prepared along with Professor Mark Jury of South Africa.
The research paper: North African climate variability was published in an intenational journal called Theoretical and Applied Climatology.
The authors studied the variability of the upper warm layer of the tropical ocean (thermocline) and demonstrated how this variability contributes to zonal circulation irregularities in the atmosphere.
In the second section, the authors used a Sahel rainfall index and stream flows of the Nile River in the 20th century to diagnose the mechanisms that govern tropical North Africa climate and its variability.
The authors investigated the variability of climate-sensitive resources in the third part of their paper with a goal to develop statistical long-lead prediction models with reasonable accuracy.
The Norbert Gerbier-Mumm Award was established by the 39th session of the Executive Council in 1987 and aims to reward an original scientific paper on the influence of meteorology.
Dr. Abebe and Professor Jury are the first Africans to win the award.
Dr. Abebe has served at the agency for 26 years now in different capacities.