The sixteenth ASLI Choice Awards presentation took place online during the 102nd Annual AMS Meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2022.
ASLI’s Choice Committee was proud to present the 2020 and 2021 winners from a field of several publishers. This year, there were three award categories: ASLI’s Choice (Science and Technology), History and Popular.
The winners are…
2020 ASLI Choice (History)
2020 ASLI Choice (History) Runner Up
Medieval Meteorology: Forecasting the Weather from Aristotle to the Almanac
By Anne Lawrence-Mathers
Cambridge University Press
2020 ASLI Choice (History) Runner Up
Monsoon Rains, Great Rivers and the Development of Farming Civilisations
in Asia
By Peter D. Clift and Jade d’Alpoim Guedes
Cambridge University Press
2020 ASLI Choice (History) Winner
A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America’s Hurricanes
By Eric Jay Dolin
Liveright
2020 ASLI Choice (Science and Technology)
2020 ASLI Choice (Science and Technology) Runner Up
Satellite Radiothermovision of Atmospheric Processes: Method and Applications
By Dmitry M. Ermakov
Springer
2020 ASLI Choice (Science and Technology) Runner Up
Physics and Chemistry of the Arctic Atmosphere
By Alexander Kokhanovsky and Claudio Tomasi
Springer
2021 ASLI Choice (History) Runner Up
Reginald Sutcliffe and the Invention of Modern Weather Systems Science
By Jonathan E. Martin
Purdue University Press
2021 ASLI Choice (History) Winner
When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be
By Martin Williams
Princeton University Press
2021 ASLI Choice (Popular)
2021 ASLI Choice (Popular) Runner Up
After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort
By Eric Dean Wilson
Simon & Schuster
2021 ASLI Choice (Popular) Runner Up
On Time and Water
By Andri Magnason
Open Letter
2021 ASLI Choice (Popular) Runner Up
Brave Green World : How Science Can Save Our Planet
By Chris Forman and Claire Asher
MIT Press
2021 ASLI Choice (Popular) Winner
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
By Katherine Heyhoe
Simon & Schuster
2021 ASLI Choice (Science and Technology)
2021 ASLI Choice (Science and Technology) Runner Up
Oxford Handbook of Non-Synoptic Wind Storms
By Horia Hangan and Ahsan Kareem
Oxford University Press
2021 ASLI Choice (Science and Technology) Winner
Downscaling Techniques for High-Resolution Climate Projections: From Global Change to Local Impacts
By Rao Kotamarthi, Katharine Hayhoe, Linda O. Mearns, Donald Wuebbles, Jennifer Jacobs and Jennifer Jurado
Cambridge University Press
