A brief history of aviation meteorology.

Early aviation meteorology mainly focused on the influence of ground wind and airflow in the lower troposphere on flight. At that time, the weather forecast of the route only included: thunderstorm, total cloud cover, ground wind, high-altitude wind and visibility. At the end of 1920s, radiosondes appeared, and people began to obtain data of temperature and pressure, which played an important role in promoting the research and development of aviation meteorology. With the expansion of flight altitude, clouds, fog, thunderstorms, ice accumulation, atmospheric end flow, atmospheric visibility and its prediction methods have become the research content of aviation meteorology.

After World War II, radar was used to detect strong convective weather and played an important role in ensuring flight safety. After 1950s, jet planes appeared, with cruising altitude of 9 ~ 12 km and supersonic transport aircraft cruising altitude of about 20 km. With the increasing size of aircraft, the detection and prediction of meteorological conditions in take-off and landing areas and high-altitude routes has become an important aviation meteorological problem. With the improvement of meteorological instruments, the use of laser technology, meteorological satellites and electronic computers, the development of aviation meteorology has entered a new stage. Aviation meteorological service began in the 1920s. 19 19 In September, the International Meteorological Organization (WMO) decided to establish the Aviation Meteorological Application Committee, and at the seventh Council meeting held in Warsaw, WMO renamed the International Aviation Meteorological Committee as the Aviation Meteorological Committee. With the improvement of aircraft performance, the increase of air traffic flow and the development of microelectronics technology, the contents, methods and methods of aviation meteorological service have entered the stage of automation service from early manual operation.

1939 The Aviation Committee of the Republic of China established the Air Force Meteorological Station, 1947 established the Civil Aviation Administration, which consists of meteorological departments and a few airport meteorological stations. It was not until the establishment of 1949 New China that a relatively perfect aviation meteorological organization was established, and a network of aviation meteorological stations equipped with advanced equipment such as meteorological radar, satellite cloud image receiving device, laser Yun Biao, frequency shift communication and meteorological fax machine was gradually formed. , began to make great progress in aviation weather forecasting and aviation meteorological services.