He was a lead author of the 1995, 2001 and 2007 Scientific Assessment of Climate Change reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize which went to the IPCC. He served from 1999 to 2006 on the Joint Scientific Committee of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), and chaired Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX) from 2010-2014. He has also served on many national committees. He is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), the American Association for Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, and an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
In 2000 he received the Jule G. Charney award from the AMS; in 2003 he was given the NCAR Distinguished Achievement Award; in 2013 he was awarded the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water, and from AGU he received the Climate Communication Prize in 2013 and the Roger Revelle Medal in 2017. He has published 580 scientific articles and given many invited scientific talks as well as appearing in a number of television and radio programs and newspaper articles. From 1996 until 2017 he is ranked first in the number of highly cited papers published out of all 223,246 published environmental scientists. |