Development Trends in Tropical Meteorology

Xie Yibing’s research on tropical atmospheric circulation

As early as the end of the 15th century, Arab sailors had noticed the changing patterns of monsoons on the trade routes in the Indian Ocean. Su Shi, a famous writer in the Song Dynasty of China, also The monsoon phenomenon is described (see Meiyu). The study of modern tropical meteorology began during the Second World War. American meteorologist H. Leal first made contributions to tropical weather analysis, tropical atmospheric circulation and easterly wave research, and wrote the first book on tropical meteorology. Modern monograph on "Tropical Meteorology". Subsequently, J.G. Charney and Guo Xiaolan conducted research on tropical atmospheric dynamics, J. Pieknis on tropical air-sea interactions, Nobuo Yanai on tropical fluctuations, and Federal German meteorologist H. Frohn on tropical atmosphere. Circulation and Indian meteorologist T.N. Krishnamurti's research on tropical monsoons have all made contributions. The study of modern tropical meteorology in China began with Zhu Kezhen’s research on typhoons in the 1920s and monsoons in the 1930s. Subsequently, Tu Changwang’s research on the advance and retreat of the summer monsoon in China, Li Xianzhi’s research on the formation of typhoons, Ye Duzheng’s research on tropical atmospheric dynamics, Tao Shiyan’s research on tropical atmospheric circulation, Huang Shisong’s research on the activity patterns of subtropical high pressure and monsoons, Xie Yibing’s research on tropical atmospheric circulation The research on atmospheric circulation and tropical wave theory, and the research on monsoon by Gao Youxi and others have all made certain contributions to modern tropical meteorology.

Since the 1960s, there have been many international comprehensive observation experiments; the International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE) in the 1960s investigated the southwest monsoon and its weather systems; Line Island in 1967 Experiment (LIE), focusing on the study of convective scale and mesoscale weather systems in the Intertropical Convergence Zone; the Atlantic Trade Wind Experiment (ATEX) in 1969, which focused on studying the energy budget of the trade winds near 10° north latitude in the Atlantic Ocean; the 1969 Atlantic Trade Wind Experiment (ATEX) The Barbados Ocean and Meteorological Experiment (BOMEX) studies the momentum and energy exchange between disturbed and undisturbed trade winds and sea-air over the ocean east of Barbados, as well as the structure of clouds and tropics ; The Global Atmospheric Research Program Atlantic Tropical Experiment (GATE), started in 1974, improved the numerical prediction of tropical weather through air-sea interaction and atmospheric radiation processes; the International Monsoon Experiment (MONEX), carried out in 1979, studied the Arabian Sea Winter and summer monsoon activities in the South China Sea area. Through these experiments, a number of more reasonable models have been proposed for the heating and parameterization of tropical convective cloud systems, as well as reasonable models for the tropical boundary layer and its parameterization, which have provided insights into the activity patterns of the southwest monsoon and the structure of the monsoon low. Learn more.