Russ Dickerson
- AGU Fellow
- AAAS Fellow
Eugenia Kalnay
- WMO/IMO Prize for 2009, see talk Population and Climate Change: A Proposal (also in Spanish)
- Member of the National Academy of Engineering (1996)
- Foreign Member of the Academia Europaea (2000)
- Distinguished University Professor, UMD (2001)
- Eugenia Brin Professor in Data Assimilation (2008)
- Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Buenos Aires (2008)
- Corresponding member of the Argentine National Academy of Physical Sciences (2003)
- Fellow of AGU (2005), AAAS (2006), AMS (1983)
- UMD-wide Kirwan Award (2006)
- Robert E. Lowry Chair, School of Meteorology, U. of Oklahoma (1998)
- NASA medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement (1981)
- Two Department of Commerce Gold and one Silver Medal
- Discovery Magazine selected her Nature paper as a top 100 science news of 2003 (see feature in International Association for Urban Climate newsletter)
- The Reanalysis paper of 1996 is the most cited paper in all geosciences (more that 10 thousand citations)
- Lorenz AGU 2012 Lecture
- 2015 AMS Joanne Simpson Mentorship Award for For effectively mentoring many early career scientists, with her unstinting generosity of time and attention in providing advice, encouragement, leadership, and inspiration
- 2015 AMS Honorary Member Award
- 2015: AMS Eugenia Kalnay Symposium
Zhanqing Li
- Fellow, American Meteorological Society, 2017
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2015
- Fellow, American Geophysical Union, 2014
- Honorary Fellow, Chinese-American Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, 2013
- Humboldt Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, 2015
- Yoram J. Kaufman Research Award, American Geophysical Union, 2014
- Alouette Award, The Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute, 2000
- Overseas-Chinese Outstanding Young Scientist Award, National Science Foundation of China, 2000
- Technology in Government Medal, Treasury Board of Canada, 1999
- Agatha Bystram Information Award, Council of Federal Libraries of Canada, 1999
- Head of Public Service Award, Government of Canada, 1998
Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm
- Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE),
- Diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and the American Academy of Water Resources Engineers.
Da-Lin Zhang
- 2006, 2015: NASA's Group Achievement Award.
- 2006: Fellow, American Meteological Society.
- 1997: Fellow, Royal Meteorological Society.
- 1991: Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award, American Meteorological Society
AAAS Fellow
- Dickerson
- Kalnay
- Baer
- Lau
- Li
- Salawitch
AGU Fellow
- Kalnay
- Busalacchi
- Dickerson
- Li
AMS Fellow
- Arkin
- Baer
- Busalacchi
- Carton
- Kalnay
- Nigam
- Rasmussen
- Vernekar
- Zhang
- Pinker
- Li
Yoram J. Kaufman Award, AGU
- Salawitch
- Zhanqing Li
Humboldt Research Award, Germany
- Li
Alexander Von Humboldt fellow, Germany
- Zeng
Distinguished Research Scientist Prize
- Arkin
- Pickering
- Vinnikov
UMD Distinguished Scholar Teacher Award
- Salawitch