启动于2014年的中英联合科学创新基金（在英国简称牛顿基金）旗舰项目—“气候科学支持服务伙伴关系中国项目”于2018年在Advances in Atmospheric Sciences 发表专刊 （https://link.springer.com/journal/376/35/8 ），集中报导了该项目五年来在亚洲季风、气候预估、模式研发、以及气候服务等方面合作研究取得的进展。
在全球气候变化背景下，暴雨、洪水、热带气旋、热浪和干旱等极端事件可能会增加，导致灾难性损失。气候服务在应对这些挑战方面的作用越来越重要。英国气象局Hadley中心、中国气象局国家气候中心、中国科学院大气物理研究所以及中英多所知名大学共同参与的“气候科学支持服务伙伴关系中国项目”（英文全称：the Climate Science for Service Partnership China，简称CSSP China, https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/collaboration/cssp-china ），建立了新型合作研究模式，发展可支撑气候服务的科学。
“多年来，科学界在观测和理解地球的天气和气候上取得了重大进展。随着这些科学认知的发展，社会也越来越意识到天气和气候相关灾害的风险以及人类社会对风险防御的脆弱性。”英国气象局首席科学家同时也是CSSP项目协调人之一Stephen Belcher教授认为，“我们希望气候服务提供的气候信息使得中英两个国家都能具备应对气候变化的恢复力,以保障经济发展、造福社会。”例如，专刊文章之一--长江流域夏季降水预测成功进入业务化阶段—作为CSSP China项目合作研究的一项成果，为长江流域防洪减灾决策提供了信心。
Stephen Belcher同时也是CSSP China专刊的客座编辑之一。英国气象局Peter Stott教授、中国气象局宋连春研究员和巢清尘研究员，中国科学院大气物理研究所陆日宇研究员和周天军研究员也担任了期刊的共同编辑。
宋连春研究员认为：“通过CSSP China项目，我们建立并强化了两国科学家的战略伙伴关系，围绕研究和创新，通过坚实的科学基础，以支撑气候服务发展，支持全球和中英两国适应气候变化的经济发展和社会福祉需要。”
“CSSP China的合作研究顺利程度超出我们的预期。”陆日宇研究员评价CSSP China取得的进展时说，“我们原以为英方科学家需要花相当长时间理解中国的区域气候问题，但通过双方的密切交流和人员互访，尤其是在数据、模式上的积极共享，这个过程大大缩短，新的合作成果不断涌现，专刊仅展示了近期的一些成果，我们对接下来阶段的合作充满期待。”
CSSP-China专刊收录了17篇文章，包含两篇“新闻和观点”、一篇数据描述文章、以及14篇原创论文，内容包括：东亚地区历史气候数据恢复、东亚夏季降水季节预测、合作提高卫星资料质量、合作改进英国和中国的气候模式、理解气候模式预报太平洋热带气旋的能力等，涵盖了CSSP-China项目的五个研究领域：
- 中国和东亚区域的气候的模拟、归因、再分析
- 全球气候变率和变化动力学
- 东亚气候变率与极端事件
- 气候预估模式开发
- 气候服务
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CSSP-China专刊封面
专刊文章列表：
Preface to Special Issue on Climate Science for Service Partnership China
Stephen BELCHER, Peter STOTT, Lianchun SONG, Qingchen CHAO, Riyu LU, Tianjun ZHOU
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-018-8002-0
Collating Historic Weather Observations for the East Asian Region: Challenges, Solutions, and Reanalyses
Fiona WILLIAMSON, Rob ALLAN, Guoyu REN, Tsz-cheung LEE, Wing-hong LUI, Hisayuki KUBOTA, Jun MATSUMOTO, Jürg LUTERBACHER, Clive WILKINSON, Kevin WOOD
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-017-7259-z
Development and Pull-through of Climate Science to Services in China
Chris HEWITT, Nicola GOLDING
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-018-7255-y
Further-Adjusted Long-Term Temperature Series in China Based on MASH
Zhen LI, Zhongwei YAN, Lijuan CAO, Phil D. JONES
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-018-7280-x
Seasonal Forecasts of the Summer 2016 Yangtze River Basin Rainfall
Philip E. BETT, Adam A. SCAIFE, Chaofan LI, Chris HEWITT, Nicola GOLDING, Peiqun ZHANG, Nick DUNSTONE, Doug M. SMITH, Hazel E. THORNTON, Riyu LU, Hong-Li REN
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-018-7210-y
Interannual Variability of Late-spring Circulation and Diabatic Heating over the Tibetan Plateau Associated with Indian Ocean Forcing
Yu ZHAO, Anmin DUAN, Guoxiong WU
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-018-7217-4
Assessment and Assimilation of FY-3 Humidity Sounders and Imager in the UK Met Office Global Model
Fabien CARMINATI, Brett CANDY, William BELL, Nigel ATKINSON
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-018-7266-8
Skillful Seasonal Forecasts of Summer Surface Air Temperature in Western China by Global Seasonal Forecast System Version 5
Chaofan LI, Riyu LU, Philip E. BETT, Adam A. SCAIFE, Nicola MARTIN
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-018-7291-7
Comparison of a Manual and an Automated Tracking Method for Tibetan Plateau Vortices
Julia CURIO, Yongren CHEN, Reinhard SCHIEMANN, Andrew G. TURNER, Kai Chi WONG, Kevin HODGES, Yueqing LI
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-018-7278-4
Reduced Sensitivity of Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Size to Sea Surface Temperature in a Radiative-Convective Equilibrium Environment
Shuai WANG, Ralf TOUMI
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-018-7277-5
Impacts of Anthropogenic Forcings and El Ni？o on Chinese Extreme Temperatures
N. FREYCHET, S. SPARROW, S.F. B. TETT, M.J. MINETER, G.C. HEGERL, D.C. H. WALLOM
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-018-7258-8
Effect of Horizontal Resolution on the Representation of the Global Monsoon Annual Cycle in AGCMs
Lixia ZHANG, Tianjun ZHOU, Nicholas P. KLINGAMAN, Peili WU, Malcolm ROBERTS
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-018-7273-9
On Northern Hemisphere Wave Patterns Associated with Winter Rainfall Events in China
Claudia Christine STEPHAN, Yan Ho NG, Nicholas P. KLINGAMAN
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-018-7267-7
Indian Ocean SST modes and Their Impacts as Simulated in BCC_CSM1.1(m) and HadGEM3
Bo LU, Hong-Li REN, Rosie EADE, Martin ANDREWS
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-018-7279-3
Different Asian Monsoon Rainfall Responses to Idealized Orography Sensitivity Experiments in the HadGEM3-GA6 and FGOALS-FAMIL Global Climate Models
Kai Chi WONG, Senfeng LIU, Andrew G. TURNER, Reinhard K. SCHIEMANN
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-018-7269-5
Representation of the ENSO Combination Mode and its Asymmetric SST Response in Different Resolutions of HadGEM3
Jianghua WAN, Hongli REN, Peili WU
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-018-7285-5
Assessing Global Warming Induced Changes in Summer Rainfall Variability over Eastern China Using the Latest Hadley Centre Climate Model HadGEM3-GC2
Yawen DUAN, Peili WU, Xiaolong CHEN, Zhuguo MA
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-018-7264-x
Increasing Flash Floods in a Drying Climate over Southwest China
Chan XIAO, Peili WU, Lixia ZHANG, Robin T. CLARK
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-018-7275-7
