Mike Purdy, Director of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, announced in his weekly report on Friday October 9th, that Associate Professor Adam Sobel is the 2010 recipient of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Meisinger Award. The citation reads: "For outstanding contributions to the understanding of the tropical atmosphere, through observational studies and analyses of idealized dynamical models." Professor Sobel holds a joint appointment with the department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, and is a member of Lamont's Division of Ocean and Climate Physics.

The full award description from the AMS website follows:

The Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award is given to an individual in recognition of research achievement that is, at least in part, aerological in character and concerns the observation, theory, and modeling of atmospheric motions on all scales. The award is given to young, promising atmospheric scientists who have recently shown outstanding ability and are under 40 years of age when nominated. It is intended that the Meisinger Award and the Henry G. Houghton Award between them shall embrace all facets of atmospheric research so that workers in all branches of the atmospheric sciences shall be eligible for one or the other

Congratulations, Adam, on this well-deserved honor.