Professor Emeritus Wilfried Brutsaert is named Stockholm Water Prize Laureate 2022 for groundbreaking work to quantify environmental evaporation.
- His innovative approach has helped improve climate modeling and tools that assess how much water that is available.
- Wilfried Brutsaert is Professor in Engineering Emeritus at Cornell University, USA. To many hydrologists, he is however known as Mr Evaporation since he is one of the most outstanding experts on the topic.
About Stockholm Water Prize
- The Stockholm Water Prize, often described as the Nobel Prize of water, is awarded by SIWI in cooperation with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and presented by H.M King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, who is the official patron of the Prize
- Since 1991, the Stockholm Water Prize has been awarded to people and organizations for extraordinary water-related achievements.
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