The Life of the Characters in Hsiao-Lan Kuo's Works

Hsiao-Lan Kuo (19 12-2006), a Chinese American, is a world-famous meteorologist and a master of atmospheric dynamics. He is an authority on geophysics, atmospheric dynamics and ocean dynamics. The mathematical tools he pioneered can describe complex atmospheric circulation patterns and the power of hurricanes. He is highly respected by his colleagues and students for his outstanding academic achievements, and has published more than 65,438+020 papers. 1970 won the highest honor award of American Meteorological Society (AMS)-Carl Gustav Rosby Research Medal, and was elected as an AMS academician. 1988 was elected as an academician of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Group of Taiwan Academia Sinica.

Chinese American meteorologist. 19 15 1.7 was born in Mancheng, Hebei, China. 1937 graduated from Tsinghua University. 1942 graduated from the Institute of Historical Geography of Zhejiang University with a master's degree. 1945 went to America. From 1948, he received his doctorate in Chicago, USA, and became a professor in this school after 1962. The "barotropic instability criterion" given by him in his doctoral thesis "Dynamic instability of two-dimensional nondivergent flow in barotropic atmosphere" (see atmospheric dynamic instability) is generally accepted internationally. 1965 proposed a parameterization scheme for cumulus convection, and revised it in 1974. This scheme is widely used, and it is called "Guo Parameterized Scheme" in the future literature of numerical weather forecast and dynamic meteorology.

In addition, Hsiao-Lan Kuo has also done a lot of research on atmospheric dynamics, such as atmospheric circulation, baroclinic dynamic instability, the formation of tropical cyclones, the interaction between the atmosphere and the surface, and atmospheric radiation. Because of his achievements in the basic research of atmospheric dynamics, he was awarded the Rosby Research Medal of American Meteorological Society in 1970. His main papers also include: three-dimensional disturbance in baroclinic zonal airflow (1952), forced meridional circulation and free meridional circulation in the atmosphere (1956), dynamics of convective vortex and its eye formation (1959), annular convection and solution of nonlinear heat transfer equations (1959).

1912 65438+10 was born in Zhangxinzhuang Village, Mancheng County, Hebei Province, China on October 27th. Because of his poor family, he went home to farm after finishing technical secondary school. /kloc-in the summer of 0/929, he was admitted to Baoding second normal college with excellent results.

1932 was admitted to the Department of Mathematics of Tsinghua University. 1933 transferred to Tsinghua University Geophysical Department. 1937, graduated from Tsinghua University with a bachelor of science degree. After that, he studied at National Zhejiang University, where he studied under China meteorologist Zhu Kezhen, 1942, and obtained the Master of Science degree. From 65438 to 0945, he went to the United States to study, studied at the University of Chicago, and studied under Professor Carl Gustav Rosby, the founder of the School of Meteorology of the University of Chicago and an international meteorologist. 1948, Ph.D. in geophysics, University of Chicago.

Later, he worked as a senior researcher at the Hurricane Research Center of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was eventually promoted to the director of the center. From 65438 to 0962, he returned to Chicago as a professor of geophysics.

1970 won the Rosby Prize, the highest honor award in American meteorology. He has profound knowledge and outstanding achievements, and has made creative achievements in many fields of meteorology. Four times (1973, 1979, 1986, 1992) returned to China to give lectures or attend academic conferences at the invitation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. From 65438 to 0979, Hsiao-Lan Kuo's book Atmospheric Dynamics (published by Jiangsu Science and Technology Press) served as a reference for meteorological and marine researchers and university teachers. He also served as the president of Academia Sinica. On May 6th, 2006, Academician Hsiao-Lan Kuo passed away in Chicago at the age of 9 1.