*Elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1934)
*Elected member of the United States National Academy of Sciences (1943)
*Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences  (jointly with H. C. Willett) – Sylvanus Albert Reed Award  (1934)
*Elected president of the American Meteorological Society (1944–45)
*Elected member of the American Philosophical Society (1946) 
*Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences – Robert M. Losey Award  (1946)
*Royal Meteorological Society – Symons Gold Medal (1953) 
*World Meteorological Organization – International Meteorological Organization Prize (1957)
*American Meteorological Society – Applied Meteorology Award   (1959)