Vorticity and Divergence

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Welcome Is there a fourth meridional cell in
the general circulation of the atmosphere? By
Prof. Weihong Qian, Peking University, Beijing,
China
EMC-CPC Seminar, Room 2155, NCWCP, October 20,
2014
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• 1982 B.Sc. in meteorology, Nanjing Institute of
  Meteorology
• 1994 Ph.D. in atmospheric sciences, Lanzhou
  University
• 1994--1996 Post Doc. fellow, Peking University
• Professor of meteorology, Department of
  Atmospheric Sciences, Peking University
• Short-term visiting professor at various
  international institutes including Stony Brook
  U., Univ. Nebraska-Lincoln, Gothenburg University
  (Sweden), Seoul National University (Korea)
• Member of the Chinese Committee of WCRP, member
  of various committees of Chinese Meteorological
  Society, editorial board member of several
  meteorological journals in China

Operational weather forecaster
Educator
Researcher

• 1996-2000 associate professor
• 2000-present full professor
• ltltSynoptic Meteorologygtgt
• ltltGlobal Climate Systemgtgt
• ltltPrinciples of Medium Range Weather Forecastgtgt
• ltltPlanet Earth Dynamicsgtgt etc. 13 textbooks,
  books and Atlas

• 1982-1991 Weather forecaster, Yanchen
  Meteorological Observatory,
• Jiangsu Province, China

Monsoon Environment Research Group (MERG)
http//www.phy.pku.edu.cn/merg/en/index.html
(with a long list of journal publications on
global climate change, long-term, seasonal,
medium-range and short-range weather forecasts)