Shiyan Tao

Biography

Academician Tao was born in 1919 in Zhejiang Province. He received B.S. from the National Central University in 1942. Between 1950 to 1956, he served as deputy head of the joined weather analysis and forecasting center of PLA meteorological department and Chinese Academy of Sciences. Since 1956, he has been a senior scientist in the Institute of Earth Physics of Academy of Sciences. He was deputy director and then director of Institute of Atmospheric Physics of Academy of Sciences between 1980 to 1984. He was elected to academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980. He was elected to president of the Meteorological Society of China in 1986 and honorary president of this society in 2006. Since 1980, he has been in the board of the Society of environmental sciences of China. He also served as an adviser to the Bureau of Environmental Protection of China in 1980-1985. Academician Tao has made innumerous contributions to the meteorological science as well as the weather forecasting in China. Among his most important contributions, he revealed that the summer monsoon in Asia is composed of two independent but correlated subsystems. He developed a meteorological model for the heavy rainfall in East Asia monsoon region. Both have been well accepted by the international academic community of atmospheric science.

Research Interest

Academician Tao's main research field covers meteorology, satellite meteorology, meso-scale analysis and forecasting and summer monsoon studies.