On December 23, with the conclusion of the sixteenth lecture 'Several Research and Reflections on Urban Climate' given by Professor Hang Jian, Deputy Dean of the College of Atmospheric Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, the course Frontiers of Atmospheric Science of this semester was successfully concluded. In this semester, the College invited 16 well-known experts and scholars to give rich and colorful reports combined their Research fields and directions, and they are from many domestic first-class universities, scientific research institutes and meteorological business departments like Peking University, Tsinghua University, Nanjing University, Nanjing University of Information Engineering, Ocean University of China, Sun Yat-sen University, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Research Institute, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Research Institute, and the Aerospace Information Innovation Research Institute, and the China Meteorological Administration ect.
This semester's courses includes global climate change, meteorological remote sensing detection, aerosol and cloud radiation, data assimilation, and important applications of deep learning in atmospheric research. Researcher Che Huizheng of China Meteorological Administration, Researcher Husiletu of the Institute of Aerospace Information Innovation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Professor Zhao Kun of Nanjing University respectively introduced the current situation of aerosol observation in China and the distribution and change characteristics of its optical properties, starting from remote sensing observations; the development of the latest observation methods and inversion algorithms for the physical radiation characteristics of ice clouds; the improvement of dual-polarization radar in severe weather early warning observation and short-term forecasting effects; and the latest progress of remote sensing in aerosol, cloud and extreme weather observation; Researcher Zhou Tianjun, Researcher Jiang Dapangng from Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Prof. Fan Ke from Sun Yat-Sen University, shared the content of the latest IPCC report, and gave the research on the diversification of the frequent occurrence of extreme precipitation, heat waves, wildfires and other events under the condition of global warming, and the interdecadal variation of summer precipitation in China and the climate variability in East Asia were analyzed; Professor Li Jianping from Ocean University of China and Professor Zhang Wenjun from Nanjing University of Information Technology gave lectures on the sea-air coupled bridge theory and the diversity of ENSO and its application in climate dynamics research and climate prediction research; Professor Huang Xiaomeng from Tsinghua University explained the latest applications and challenges of deep learning in earth system science. The experts' explanations broadened the students' horizons, inspired their research ideas, and effectively improved the quality of postgraduate training.
Since the 2019-2020 academic year, the College of Atmospheric Sciences, with the strong support of the 'Double First-Class' construction project and the graduate school curriculum system improvement plan, has offered the 'Frontiers of Atmospheric Science' course for first-year doctoral students in the fall semester of each academic year. In a combination of online and offline methods, well-known experts and scholars from first-class universities, scientific research institutes and meteorological business departments at home and abroad are invited to teach students relevant content according to the current cutting-edge scientific research trends in the field of atmospheric science, combining their respective research fields and directions. The course has been offered for three consecutive academic years, with a total of 43 lectures.
In the future, the College of Atmospheric Sciences will further summarize experience, give full play to the advantages and characteristics of first-class disciplines, continue to open this course, and strive to provide students with platforms and opportunities to understand the frontiers, expand their horizons, and inspire their ideas, and continuously improve the quality of training top-notch innovative talents.
