Southeast Asia Information Port News (www.dnyxxg.com) – On June 24th, local time, it was learned from the China Meteorological Administration that Academician Xu Jianmin of the Chinese Academy of Engineering received the 70th International Meteorological Organization (IMO) Award in Geneva, Switzerland.
The International Meteorological Organization Award is the highest honor in the global meteorological community, often referred to as the "Nobel Prize of Meteorology." It is awarded annually to individuals worldwide who have made outstanding contributions to the fields of meteorology, hydrology, and geophysics.
As the founder and pioneer of China's Fengyun meteorological satellite program, Xu Jianmin led and formulated the development blueprint for the Fengyun meteorological satellites, promoting the development and launch of the Fengyun-1 polar-orbiting meteorological satellite and the Fengyun-2 geostationary meteorological satellite, achieving a historic breakthrough for China's meteorological satellite program. He led his team to overcome a number of key technologies for meteorological satellite applications, such as high-precision positioning of satellite cloud images and image jitter correction, making the Fengyun meteorological satellites an important tool for weather forecasting, climate change response, and disaster prevention and mitigation. Meanwhile, he led the Fengyun meteorological satellite program to serve the world, completed the orbit optimization of Fengyun-2H, filling the gap in geostationary meteorological satellite observation of the Indian Ocean; and facilitated the launch of the world's first civilian operational meteorological satellite in a dawn-dusk orbit—Fengyun-3E, filling a key gap in space-based observation systems. Xu Jianmin also showed great concern for the development of space weather services, proposing to strengthen the monitoring of solar activity and analyze its impact on climate change with a scientific approach.
China's Fengyun meteorological satellite program has achieved a leapfrog development from catching up to keeping pace and even leading in some areas. Currently, China has launched 23 Fengyun meteorological satellites, 10 of which are in orbit, making it the only country in the world simultaneously operating civilian meteorological satellites in four near-Earth orbits: dawn-dusk, morning, afternoon, and inclined orbits. (End)
