- This prize is awarded during each ILRC to an individual under the age of 40 who is judged to have presented the best paper at the ILRC.
- The award consists of a scroll and a cash prize of US $1,200.
- The Committee for selecting and confirming the recipient of this prize consists of members of the ILRC program committee, the chairpersons of the organizing/steering committee, and the ICLAS chairperson.
- The ICLAS chairperson is responsible for supervising the Inaba funds.
Inaba Prize Winners
| Year | Name | ILRC |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Masanori Saito, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming, USA for his outstanding paper, entitled: "A Pathway Towards Retrieval of Microphysical Properties of Mixed-phase Clouds using Airborne Lidar-Radar Observations" | 31th, Landshut, Germany |
| 2022 | John Sullivan, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA for his outstanding paper, entitled: "Advances in Characterizing Pollution Transport with Ground-Based and Airborne Profilers: Case Studies within Houston, TX" | 30th, Virtual |
| 2019 | Alexandra Tsekeri National Observatory of Athens, Greece for her outstanding paper, entitled: "Polarization lidar for detecting dust orientation" | 29th Hefei, China |
| 2017 | Rodelise Mamouri Cyprus Remote Sensing, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus for her outstanding paper, entitled: “A new way to use polarization lidars" | 28th Bucharest, Romania |
| 2015 | Mikkel Brydegaard Lund Laser Centre, Department of Physics, Sweden University, Sweden for his outstanding paper entitled: “Daily Evolution of the Insect Biomass Spectrum in an Agricultural Landscape Accessed with Lidar” (S12-04) | 27th New York City, NY, USA |
| 2012 | Matthew Hayman Advanced Studies Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, USA for his outstanding paper entitled: “Polarization Configuration of the GV-HSRL for Detection of Horizontally Oriented Ice Crystals” (S10-09) | 26th Porto Heli, Greece |
| 2010 | Boyan Tatarov National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan For his outstanding paper entitled: “Multi-Channel Lidar Spectrometer for Atmospheric Aerosol Typing on the Basis of Chemical Signatures in Raman Spectra” (S1O-12) | 25th St. Petersburg, Russian Federation |
| 2008 | Yukari Hara National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan for her outstanding paper entitled: "3D Transport Structure of Asian Dust Retrieved by NASA CALIOP and a Dust Transport Model Assimilated with the NIES Lidar Network Data"(S07P-09) | 24nd Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A. |
| 2006 | Yongxiang Hu NASA LaRC, Hampton, U.S.A. for his outstanding paper entitled: "A Simple Multiple Scaterring-Depolarization Relation of Water Clouds and its Potential Applications" | 23nd Nara City, Japan |
| 2004 | Vincent Noel Analytical Services and Materials, Hampton, Virginia, U.S.A. for his outstanding paper entitled: "Study of Ice Crystals Orientation in Ice Clouds based on Polarized Observations from the FARS Scanning Lidar" | 22nd Matera City, Basilicata, Italy |
| 2002 | Paolo Di Girolamo Universita degli Studi della Basilicata, Potenza, Italy for his outstading paper entitled: "Simulation of the Lidar Dark Band Phenomenon" | 21st Quebec, Canada |
| 2000 | Gorazd Poberaj DLR, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Germany for his outstanding paper entitled: "Airborne All-Solid-State DIAL for Water Vapor Measurements in the Tropopause Region" | 20th Vichy, France |
| 1998 | Liesl M. Little Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, U.S.A. for her outstanding paper entitled: "Initial Development of a Fiber-Based Lidar System for Atmospheric Water Vapor Measurements" | 19th Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.A. |
| 1996 | Mathilde Douard University of Lyon, France for her outstanding paper entitled: "A Fourier Transfer Lidar" | 18th Berlin, Germany |
| 1994 | Albert Ansman Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Germany for his outstanding paper entitled: "Determination of Pinatubo-Aerosol Optical Depth and Microphysical Parameters without Critical Assumptions" | 17th Sendai, Japan |