International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences

International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS) is a non-governmental organization aimed to promote and advance a number of atmospheric sciences through conferences, workshops and publications.[1] IAMAS and its commissions bring together experts from around the world to enhance scientific understanding and prediction of the atmosphere’s behavior and its connections to and effects on other components of the Earth’s geophysical system.[2] IAMAS is one of eight associations of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG).[1] It was created at the First IUGG General Assembly in 1922 as the Meteorology Section and was renamed to International Association and of Meteorology in 1957. Since 1993, it holds its current name – the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences.[3]

International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences
AbbreviationIAMAS
Formation1922
TypeINGO
Region served
Worldwide
Official language
English
President
Joyce Penner,  United States
Parent organization
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
WebsiteIAMAS Official website

IAMAS Commissions

IAMAS consists of ten commissions:

  • The International Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution (iCACGP)
  • The International Commission on Atmospheric Electricity (ICAE)
  • The International Commission on Climate (ICCL)
  • The International Commission on Clouds and Precipitation (ICCP)
  • The International Commission on Dynamical Meteorology (ICDM)
  • The International Commission on the Middle Atmosphere (ICMA)
  • The International Commission on Planetary Atmospheres and their Evolution (ICPAE)
  • The International Commission on Polar Meteorology (ICPM)
  • The International Ozone Commission (IOC)
  • The International Radiation Commission (IRC)

IAMAS Management

Bureau, guided by the IAMAS statutes, deals with the management of the organization. The Bureau is responsible to the Executive Committee. The President of IAMAS since 2019 is Joyce Penner, USA. Steve Ackerman, USA, is a current IAMAS-Secretary-General.[1]

Early Career Scientist Medal Award

IAMAS Early Career Scientist Medal Award was established in 2011, and is presented every two years, from the candidates nominated by the commissions of IAMAS.[4] Lei Bi, from Department of Atmospheric Sciences School of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University, was awarded the 2019 IAMAS Early Career Scientist Medal.[5]

References
  1. "IAMAS – International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences". Retrieved 2020-04-01.
  2. MacCracken, Michael C.; Volkert, Hans (2019-04-16). "IAMAS: a century of international cooperation in atmospheric sciences". History of Geo- and Space Sciences. 10 (1): 119–136. Bibcode:2019HGSS...10..119M. doi:10.5194/hgss-10-119-2019. ISSN 2190-5010.
  3. "International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS)". The International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics. Retrieved 2020-04-01.
  4. Manager_n, IAMAS HP. "IAMAS Early Career Scientist Medal Award 2019 – IAMAS". Retrieved 2020-04-01.
  5. "2019 IAMAS Early Career Scientist Medal awarded to a young ZJU scholar". www.zju.edu.cn. Retrieved 2020-04-01.
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