All project participants want to extend warm congratulations to co-investigator Balaji Rajagopalan (Univ. of Colorado), who received the Norbert Gerbier-MUMM International Award 2009 together with co-authors K. Krishna Kumar (India), Martin Hoerling, Gary Bates, and Mark Cane (all from the USA) for their paper “Unravelling the mystery of Indian Monsoon failure during El Niño”, published in the journal Science in 2006. The award ceremony took place in Geneva on June 10, 2009, during the 61st session of the World Meteorological Organization’s Executive Council.
Geneva, 10 June 2009 — (from left to right): HE M.A. Gopinathan, Ambassador of India; A. Bedritsky, President of WMO; M. Jarraud, Secretary-General of WMO (back row); Mme G. Guiard Gerbier; B. Rajagopalan and K. Krishna Kumar
