The 6th International Conference on Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Change

Rong-Hui Huang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, IAP

Academician of CAS, the general secretary of the national climate research committee, devoted in research areas of theory of atmospheric circulation , short-term climatic dynamics and tropical Air-Sea interaction. From 1978 to 1985, he engaged in the study of planetary waves dynamics, brought forward the propagation equation of the quasi-stationary wave on the 3 dimensional spherical atmosphere and the dynamics theory of the quasi-stationary planetary waves which move alongside the two waveguides. From 1986 to 1990, Prof. Huang studied the regularities of occurrence of the droughts and the floods in the Yangtzs River and Yellow River Valleys, the causes of their formation and the forecasting. He and Nitta, a Japan professor, found out that the thermal regime is above the West Pacific Warm Pool and the convective activity above the Warm Pool played an important role in the East Asia Summer Atmospheric Circulation and inter-annual and inter-seasonal variety. From 1991 to 1995, he devoted himself in the research areas of the causes and predication of climatic disasters in China. He applied with the EAP teleconnection in the practice and came up with the complex forecasting method of floods and draughts. For these years, Prof. Huang engaged himself in the studies of the tropical Air-Sea interaction and ENSO dynamics. He came up with the conceptual picture of the Asia and Australia Monsoon and ENSO cycle interaction. He was winner of He Liang & He Li S&T Advancing Award.