This session honors the contributions and legacy of Professor Lev Gutman to the science of dynamic meteorology for his 100th anniversary. Professor Gutman's career developed in the Soviet Union, where he built a school of specialists in mesoscale meteorology. He developed analytical methods to solving complex nonlinear problems in dynamic meteorology, such as the structure of sea breeze, mountain-valley circulations, and thermal convection over heated terrain. Lev Gutman pioneered the development of a theory of cumulus clouds, tornados, and other atmospheric phenomena involving vortices. In the 1960s, he compiled the results of the research of the Laboratory he led at the Siberian scientific center in Novosibirsk into a monograph, Introduction to the Nonlinear Theory of Meso-meteorological Processes, which was published in Russian in 1969. It was later translated into English, Chinese, and Japanese and became a major textbook for specialists in dynamic meso-scale meteorology, remaining relevant to this day. After Professor Gutman moved to Israel in 1978, his collaborations expanded to include western scientists from Europe and the United States. Contributions to this session should be thematically linked to Professor Gutman’s research legacy described above.

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