Our group consists of three research projects:

Climate Measurements

The climate measurements project is responsible for operating the Semi-Arid Climate and Environment Observatory of Lanzhou University (SACOL) for monitoring: 1) Long term tendencies in climate changes; 2) Aerosol, cloud and water cycle; 3)Surface radiation budget; 4) Atmospheric and land surface processes interaction; 5) Validation of space-borne observations.

Climate Analysis and Modeling

This project is to study the dust storm process, direction, indirection and semi-indirect of dust aerosol, as well as interaction between dust aerosol and cloud by using various observation data and climate model. These studies will help to understand, predict, and assess the causes, magnitude, and consequences of climate changes over East Asia, and strengthen the scientific basis for sustainable atmospheric environments.

Climate Prediction

The climate prediction project is responsible for constructing an integrated analogue-dynamical climate prediction system.The key point of this prediction system is to treat the predicted field as a small disturbance superimposed on a historical analogue, which should help to include the statistical forecasting within a numerical prediction model. The forecast capability of this system is higher than either pure statistical approach or dynamical model.