Zeng Qingcun: an Experienced Fighter of Atmospheric Science
Zeng Qingcun, an internationally renowned atmospheric scientist and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has won the 2019 National Top Science and Technology Award and is one of the founders of international numerical weather forecasting. In the 1950s, Zeng Qingcun went to the Soviet Union to study meteorology after graduating from Peking University. At that time, many scientists in the field of meteorology, including Zeng's supervisor, were dedicated to solving the problem of scientific weather prediction. When his supervisor choose it as the topic of his thesis, everyone thought he could not succeed.
In 1935, Zeng Qingcun was born in a poor peasant family in Yangjiang County, Guangdong Province. Zeng Qingcun, who grew up in poverty, knew that the access to education was hard-earned, and in his words, the country gave him the opportunity to learn, and at that time he just wanted to study wholeheartedly and learn greedily.
In 1952, Zeng Qingcun was admitted to the Physics Department of Peking University. In 1954, a sudden late frost froze 40 percent of wheat to death in Henan, which deeply stung Zeng Qingcun's heart. In order to meet the needs of the country and the people, the university asked some students to change their major to meteorology, and Zeng Qingcun did not hesitate to agree.
In 1957, Zeng Qingcun was selected to study in the Soviet Union and studied under the internationally renowned meteorologist Kiber. In 1961, in his doctoral thesis, Zeng Qingcun overcame the global challenge of applying the original equations of baroclinic atmospheric dynamics for numerical weather forecasting and proposed the "Semi Finite Differential Method", which became the first in the world. This year, Zeng Qingcun was only 26 years old.
Zeng Qingcun studied hard, experimented repeatedly, and after several failures, starting from the essence of the atmospheric motion law, finally came up with the first method in the world to directly use the original equation to forecast the actual weather, which is the famous "Semi Finite Differential Method". This method became an epoch-making product which was immediately used for weather forecasting and is still used today. Zeng Qingcun went back to China working in the Institute of Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences as soon as he had achieved academic success. There, he, developing the theory of satellite atmospheric remote sensing, establishing the Open Laboratory of Atmospheric Simulation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and training a large number of excellent meteorological talents, made outstanding contributions to the national meteorology.
Source: People's Daily.
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