Takanobu Yamaguchi, aerosol-cloud interactions

in NOAA ESRL’s Chemical Sciences Laboratory, for his work on aerosol-cloud interactions and their impact on climate change. Specifically, Yamaguchi adapted the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model to be capable of running large-eddy simulations, and critically, he made his code available freely to the research community. Researchers from NOAA ESRL, the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (University of Miami), the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Department of Energy) and dozens of other institutions around the world have downloaded and used this code in their work.