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Professor Dr Vilho Väisälä Awards

A ceremony to present the two Professor Dr Vilho Väisälä Awards was held in St Petersburg, Russian Federation, on 27 November 2008, in conjunction with TECO-2008 (27-29 November 2008).

Olivier Bousquet received the 21st Professor Dr Vilho Väisälä Award for an Outstanding Research Paper on Instruments and Methods of Observation on behalf of the other winners, Pierry Tabary and Jacques Parent du Châtelet (all from France), for their paper entitled “On the value of operationally synthesized multiple-Doppler wind fields” published in Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 34, 2007.

	21st Professor Dr Vilho Väisälä Award for an Outstanding Research Paper on Instruments and Methods of Observation (from left to right): Martti Husu, Executive Vice-President, Meteorology, Väisälä Oyj; Wenjian Zhang, Director, WMO Observing and Information Systems Department; Olivier Bousquet; and John Nash, president of the WMO Commission for Instruments and Methods of Observation.

Luca G. Lanza (Italy), Michel Leroy (France), Christophe Alexandropoulos (France), Luigi Stagi (Italy) and Willem M.F. Wauben (The Netherlands) were awarded the second Professor Dr Vilho Väisälä Award for the Development and Implementation of Instruments and Methods of Observation for their paper entitled “WMO laboratory intercomparison of rainfall intensity gauges” published as IOM Report No. 84, WMO/TD No. 1304, 2006.

Second Professor Dr Vilho Väisälä Award for the Development and Implementation of the Instruments and Methods of Observation (from left to right, holding their awards): Michel Leroy, Luca G. Lanza, Christophe Alexandropoulos, Willem Wauben and Luigi Stagi. With them, from left to right, are: Wenjian Zhang, Director, WMO Observing and Information Systems Department; Martti Husu, Executive Vice-President, Meteorology, Väisälä Oyj; and John Nash, president of the WMO Commission for Instruments and Methods of Observation.

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