Max Suarez

Max’s remarkable career is marked by far-reaching and long-lasting contributions to the various Earth System Modeling communities, to scientific research and application communities, to NASA instrument teams, and to software infrastructure and computational communities relevant to geophysics.

Max has made critical contributions to many physical parameterizations (e.g., for convection and radiation) that are still used throughout the scientific community and he developed (jointly with Isaac Held at GFDL) methodologies for the inter-comparison of AGCMs' dynamical cores. He deserves substantial credit for initiating the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) project and for showing leadership in the community by adopting ESMF in the comprehensive GEOS chemistry-climate modeling and assimilation systems. The ESMF is indeed now a fundamental part of almost all general circulation models and Earth system models used in this country.