Raymond Ward Arritt ( September 19 , 1957 – November 14 , 2018 ) was an American agronomist whose research focused on agricultural meteorology . He taught at Iowa State University from 1993 until his death in 2018 . At Iowa State , he was responsible for operating the meteorological data repository Iowa Environmental Mesonet . He was one of three Iowa State faculty who contributed to the fourth ( AR4 ) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) assessment report , which led to the IPCC sharing the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore
2007 Nobel Peace Prize
2007 Nobel Peace Prize
Raymond Arritt