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Biography

Ye Duzheng, male, Han nationality, is a native of Anqing, Anhui Province. He graduated from Qinghua University in 1940 and received a doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1948.

In the early part of his career, Ye Duzheng engaged in the study of atmospheric circulation and long-wave dynamics. Following C.G. Rossby, he proposed the energy dispersion theory of long-waves, which was a considerable contribution for the study of momentum meteorology. During the 1950s, he proposed that the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is the heat source in summer, thus opening up the study on the terrestrial heat effect.

In 1958, Ye and Tao Shiyan put forward the idea that the seasonal discontinuity of atmospheric circulation in the Northern Hemisphere and introduced a series studies for this idea. In the 1960s, Ye made contributions to the applicability theory of atmospheric wind field and barometric field. Since the late 1970s, Ye has been engaged in research on the earth-atmospheric relationship and global variation. He is the chief scientist of the national "Eighth Five Years" key research project of the "Study on the tendency of change and forecast of our survival state in the future."

Ye is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.