Laboratory of Cloud-Precipitation Physics and Severe Storms
(LACS)
Website: http://www.iap.ac.cn/kexueyj/lacs.htm
Brief Introduction
LACS has been newly established on the basis of the
original Medium and Small Scale Systems and Calamity
Research Department. The new laboratory focuses on the
observation of strong storms and medium and small scale
systems. Primary research includes the following: the
analysis of motive force theory and prediction with
diagnosis; study and prediction of medium and small
scale weather systems, numerical prediction model development,
data assimilation and use, cloud precipitation physics
and weather modification theory, methods, and application.
With the goals of sustaining the development of the
national economy and improving disaster prevention and
reduction with short-term pre-warning, prediction, and
artificial weather modification, LACS proposes scientific
theories, develops new methods, and solves key problems.
LACS has undertaken one National Science and Technology
Project for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, two key items
of the National Natural Science Foundation, and multiple
such scientific research projects as originator and
director of two CAS projects. LACS and NOAA¡¯s National
Severe Storms Laboratory, the National Center for Atmospheric
Research (NCAR), and the U.K.¡¯s Dundee University all
have rotating fluid laboratories, etc., and have promoted
international cooperative research. A project entitled
the ¡°Theory of large and medium scale wave flow interaction¡±
received the second CAS prize for Natural Sciences in
2000.
Main research fields
- Theory and method of cloud-precipitation physics
and weather modification;
- Observation, dynamically theoretical and diagnostic
analysis, and forecast of severe storms and meso-
and micro-scale disastrous weather systems;
- Development of meso- and micro-scale numerical models,
data assimilation, and their applications, aiming
at solving their key scientific problems.
Main research areas
- Studying the mechanism of formation, and the law
of occurring, development, movement and evolution
of all
- Developing the theory, method, technique of their
forecast, prediction, reduction, and artificial modification
- Studying on the theory and method of cloud and
precipitation physics and weather modification, including
the dynamics and physics of cloud and precipitation
formation; the field observation, in-home experiment,
and modeling simulation of cloud and precipitation
and their modification; and the theory and method
of cloud parameterization
Director: LEI HengChi
Deputy Director: Prof. Xiao Hui, Prof.
Zhong Qing
Tel: +86-10-82995308 |
