Awards and Leadership Roles
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recognition as one of the ten most significant figures in NOAA’s history, and identification of his general circulation climate model as one of the three most important breakthroughs in meteorology in the last two centuries.
- Benjamin Franklin Medal in Earth Science from the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia in 2003, presented to Smagorinsky and his close friend and colleague Norman Phillips for "their seminal and pioneering studies" that led to "an understanding of the general circulation of the atmosphere, including transports of heat and moisture that determine the earth's climate."
- Chair, Global Atmospheric Research Program, coordinated by the World Meteorological Organization and the International Council of Scientific Unions
- Buys Ballot Gold Medal 1974 (awarded once each decade by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences for outstanding advances in the field of meteorology)
- International Meteorological Organization prize and Gold medal, the highest honor accorded by the World Meteorological Organization 1974
- The Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award, given to an individual in recognition of research achievement that is, at least in part, aerological in character and concerns the observation, theory, and modeling of atmospheric motions on all scales. The award is given to young, promising atmospheric scientists who have recently shown outstanding ability and are under 40 years of age when nominated. 1967
- Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Gold medal, presented to individuals on the basis of outstanding contributions to the understanding of the structure or behavior of the atmosphere. It represents the highest honor that the American Meteorological Society can bestow upon an atmospheric scientist. 1972
- The Cleveland Abbe Award for Distinguished Service to Atmospheric Sciences by an Individual, presented on the basis of activities that have materially contributed to the progress of the atmospheric sciences or to the application of atmospheric sciences to general, social, economic, or humanitarian welfare. 1980
- Presidential award 1980
- Symons memorial gold medal, Royal Meteorological Society, 1981
- The Scientific Research Society national lecturer from 1983 to 1985
- President, American Meteorological Society 1986
- International Meteorological Organization Prize from the World Meteorological Organization in 1988
- Honorary doctorate, University of Munich
- Gold medal, U. S. Department of Commerce
- Sigma Xi Society
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Member of the Presidential Scientific Advisory Committee Panel on Pollution
- Member of the National Research Council’s Committee on Atmospheric Science
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