On April 27, 2000, commendation ceremony for the winners of the FY 1998 and 1999 research awards was held. Dr. Matsuno, Director-General of the FRSGC awarded the researchers who made distinguished progress in their research and contributed to the society in those years.

Right to Left, Dr. Matsuno, Dr. Krishnan, Dr. Saji, Dr. Behera, Dr. Manabe

Winners of FY 1998
	Vinayachandran P.N.M (Climate Variations Research Program)		Research on Intrusion of the Southwest Monsoon Current into the Bay of Bengal.	[Abstract]
	Raghavan Krishnan (Global Warming Research Program)	[Profile]	Research on the feature development of convection and circulation of the atomsphere in the Indian summer monsoon, and the phenomena so-called "Breaks" which reduce rainfall activity.	[Abstract]
Winners of FY 1999
	Swadhin Kumar Behera (Climate Variations Research Program)		Research based on the work that showed coupling between ocean and the atmosphere in the tropical Indian Ocean during 1994.	[Abstract]
	Saji N.Hameed (Climate Variations Research Program)	[Profile]	Research on sea surface temperature anomalies, called "Dipole Mode", which fluctuate out of phase between the eastern and western Tropical Indian Ocean.	[Abstract]
	Raghavan Krishnan (Global Warming Research Program)	[Profile]	Research on Asia continental teleconnections (anomalous atmospheric circulation extending from west-central Asia up to the Far East) associated with the Baiu rainfall variability.
	Fumio Mitsudera (IPRC)	[Profile]	Research on climatology of the circulation and water mass distribution near the philippine coast.	[Abstract]