André Berger (1942) is a Belgian emeritus professor in meteorology. He
is Master of Science in Meteorology from M.I.T. (1971) and Doctor of Science
from the Université catholique
de
He was ordinary professor and head of the
André Berger was chairman of both the International Climate and Paleoclimate Commissions and of NATO scientific Panels. He
was president of the European Geophysical Society and Honorary President of the
European Geo-Sciences Union. He served on several national and international
scientific committees dealing with climate and global change.
He received the Norbert Gerbier-Mumm
International Award from the World Meteorological Organization in 1994 for The relation between astronomy and climate
variations. The purpose of the Award is to reward
an original scientific paper on the influence of meteorology in a particular
field of the physical, natural or human sciences.
André Berger has edited 12 books on climatic variations and has
published more than 150 papers on this subject. His main research was about
modelling climatic changes at the geological and at the century time scales. He
has made notable contributions to the astronomical theory of paleoclimates which explain the recurrence of
glacial-interglacial cycles from the long-term variations of the Earth's orbit
around the Sun. The climate model that he has developed with his team is also
used for simulating the response of the climate system to human activities and
the possible impact of such man's induced perturbations on the natural course
of climate at the geological time scale. He is a cited pioneer of the
interdisciplinary study of climate dynamics and past climate history.
He has been ennobled by His Majesty Albert II, King of
the Belgians, with the title of Chevalier (Sir) and received the title of
Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur
from the President of France.
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