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Wuhan
Institute of Heavy Rain lies in Wuhan city--the provincial capital of
Hubei. She is one of the nine professional meteorological institutes --
called “one academy and eight institutes” in short-- under the command
of China Meteorological Administrator.
With
a long history, Wuhan Institute of
Heavy Rain has superiority both in technical equipments and talented
people. In March 1960, the previous existence of her called Hubei
Meteorological Institute was established. Now she has a group of
internationally advanced equipments, including high-speed intranet system,
IBM RS/6000 SP parallel computer system and automatic meteorological
detecting system made up by six Doppler weather radars. There are 50
researchers working in Wuhan Institute of Heavy Rain within whom 25 are
senior researchers (including guest experts).
China
lies in monsoon area of East
Asia. Affected by monsoon, wide scale continuous rain usually emerges in
Changjiang River valley every summer. During such period heavy rain
happens frequently, which called “Meiyu front rain gush of Changjiang
River valley”. For example, in the Meiyu season of 1998,exceptionally
continuous torrential rain happened to both sides of Changjiang River and
led to extremely great flood. The direct economic loss is 100 billion
pounds.
Since
1978,
Wuhan Institute of Heavy Rain has gained a great deal of outcome of
scientific researches on the following realms such as forming and
developing mechanism of Jianghuai Meiyu front rain gush, monitoring
technology and information procession of heavy rain, forecasting
technology of heavy rain, numerical predicting technology of area heavy
rain. For example, “the construction of numerical predicting model of
heavy rain in Wuhan area”,” a research of the mesoscale dynamical
meteorology of Meiyu
front rain gush system”, ”a study on west Pacific subtropical high”, ”a study on heavy rain
in Hubei using energy-meteorology and nonlinear theory ” and so on.
In
the recent years, through regulating research realm constantly, Wuhan
Institute of Heavy Rain has established five focal aspects of researches
on heavy rain such as monitoring technology, forming mechanism and
calculating method, forecasting technology, information procession and
database construction, disaster assessment and countermeasure.
In
the following five years, we shall aim on the service needing of
meteorological business, and concentrate on the study of forming
mechanism, physical process, forecasting technology of mesoscale heavy
rain especially Jianghuai Meiyu front rain gush or heavy rain in
prefrontal warmer area. By strengthening the construction of Chinese heavy
rain database, strengthening the study on radar mosaic, inverse technique
and assimilation of detection data, a monitoring and nowcasting system of
mesoscale heavy rain covering the whole Changjiang valley is to be built.
Thus the forecasting level to Chinese interior heavy rain called “
locating, timing, quantifying precipitation forecasting” will be
improved. The ultimate purpose of us is to turn Wuhan Institute of Heavy
Rain into a first-class
innovational base in china with prominent professional feature and
internationally effect, being able to cover the important study fields of
heavy rain.
CMA
Wuhan Institute of Heavy Rain will follow the principle of “opening,
mobilizing, competing, cooperating ”and strengthen the technical
cooperation with researching or educational organizations all around the
world. Welcome any researcher or expert to our institute for academic
visit and interchange. And the research undertaking of heavy rain is to be
accelerated by our collective efforts.
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