Allan Clarke, the Adrian E. Gill Professor of Oceanography and a Distinguished Research Professor at FSU, has won the 2012 Sverdrup Gold Medal Award from the American Meteorological Society (AMS).

The award recognizes “researchers who make outstanding contributions to the scientific knowledge of interactions between the oceans and the atmosphere,” according to the AMS website. Clarke, a theoretician originally from Australia, was recognized in particular “for fundamental contributions to the dynamics of ocean currents and air-sea interaction with particular emphasis on the El Niño–Southern Oscillation.”

Allan Clarke

For many years, Clarke’s calculations and data analysis have been used to understand and predict El Nino.

“I used to wonder why some Australian summers were hotter than others but never thought that I would someday have the privilege of finding out about those things,” Clarke says.

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