Two Chinese scientists won a World Meteorological Organization (WMO) award for their joint paper entitled "Multiple Linear Interdependent Models (MLIM) applied to typhoon data in China," WMO announced in Geneva Friday.
The Nobert Gerbier-Mumm international award 2001, named after the late Norbert Gerbier, former president of WMO's Commission for Agricultural Meteorology, was given to Lu Chunlian and Chen Shunhua, two scientists from the Nanjing Institute of Meteorology in East China.
The study of Chinese scientists demonstrates that MLIM provide better results in diagnosing the losses in typhoon disaster and forecasting the main parameters of typhoons, namely their tracks, intensities and wind speeds.
This is a significant development in disaster mitigation for the typhoon-prone region of southeast China, according to a WMO press release.
WMO official said that the purpose of the Nobert Gerbier-Mumm international award is to encourage and reward an original scientific paper on the influence of meteorology in particular field of the physical, natural or human sciences or on the influence of one these sciences on meteorology. Five French scientists won this award last year.
(China Daily 06/16/2001)
