International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS) is a

non-governmental organization A non-governmental organization (NGO) or non-governmental organisation (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from government. They are typically nonprofit entities, and many of them are active in h ...

aimed to promote and advance a number of

atmospheric sciences Atmospheric science is the study of the Earth's atmosphere and its various inner-working physical processes. Meteorology includes atmospheric chemistry and atmospheric physics with a major focus on weather forecasting. Climatology is the study of ...

through conferences, workshops and publications. 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. IAMAS is one of eight associations of the

International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics The International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG; french: Union géodésique et géophysique internationale, UGGI) is an international non-governmental organization dedicated to the scientific study of Earth and its space environment usi ...

(IUGG). 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.

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.

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. Lei Bi, from Department of Atmospheric Sciences School of Earth Sciences,

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, was awarded the 2019 IAMAS Early Career Scientist Medal.

References

{{Authority control Meteorological societies Members of the International Council for Science Scientific organizations based in Europe Atmospheric sciences organizations