Topic: A Discussion Starting from Nobel Prize Winner Syukuro Manabe’s RCE model

Speaker: Professor Lin Yanluan

Time: 13: 30-15: 00, October 18, 2021 (Monday)

Venue: S818, South Building, Mong Man Wai Technology Building, Tsinghua University

Live Streaming at Official Weibo of the Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University            Tencent Conference (ID: 486 2460 7683)

Introduction to the Lecture:

The “Radiative-Convective Equilibrium Model (RCE model)” put forward by Syukuro Manabe and Richard Wetherald in the 1960s has profoundly influenced the development of climate science and the scientific understanding of global warming. The report will discuss the origin, thought, physical basis and important influence of this model, and discuss the importance of original work and how to carry out related research.

Profile of the Speaker:

Lin Luan is a professor of Earth System Science Department, Tsinghua University. He obtained Ph.D. from State University of New York, Stony Brook in 2008 and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Geofluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), Princeton University (NOAA). He is mainly engaged in research on weather and climate model development, extreme precipitation mechanism and simulation, and typhoon. He has developed several cloud precipitation parameterization schemes, and taken the lead in completing the development of Tsinghua University United Earth System Model and participate in CMIP6. He has published more than 90 SCI-indexed articles. He is on the editorial board of journals JGR-Atmospheres and Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, and has won the Grand Mentor Prize of Tsinghua University and Model Teacher Award of Beijing, among other honors.