Distinguished Lecture on "Climate Change and Carbon Neutrality" Successfully Held

On January 29, 2026, Professor Jianhua Dai, Chief Forecasting Engineer of the Shanghai Central Meteorological Observatory and National Chief Meteorological Expert, visited CESE and delivered a lecture entitled Monitoring, Forecasting and Early Warning of Severe Convective Weather at the Climate Change and Carbon Neutrality Distinguished Lecture Series. The lecture systematically elaborated on the formation mechanism, monitoring technologies, and forecasting and early warning system of severe convective weather, covering its core concepts, characteristics, monitoring techniques, and forecasting and early warning methods. It also sorted out the evolution of technologies including radar monitoring, revealed the profound impacts of underlying surface features such as the urban heat island effect and sea-land breeze on the occurrence, development and movement path of thunderstorms based on research findings in the Yangtze River Delta, and provided an outlook on the future development of forecasting and early warning technologies. The lecture was attended by more than 130 faculty and students of CESE, with enthusiastic on-site interaction.