Professor Dr. Fangli Qiao, Member of Academia Europaea (MAE), Academician of International Eurasian Academy of Sciences and Co-editor-in-chief of Ocean Modelling, is the Deputy Director General of the First Institute of Oceanography (FIO) of Ministry of Natural Resources of P. R. China. Dr. Qiao was the Executive Planning Group and then Decade Advisory Board member of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.
His research interests cover ocean, Typhoon and climate model development, ocean dynamics, turbulence and air-sea interaction etc. He find the key roles of small scale surface wave in large scale ocean circulation and global climate system through modulating ocean turbulence (Bv) and air-sea fluxes, called Qiao Theory. The theory has been used by tens research centers from different countries and all ocean and climate models are dramatically improved.
He developed the first in the world new generation surface wave-tide-circulation fully coupled ocean model (FIO-COM) which overcomes the ground challenge for half century of too shallow simulated mixed layer depth in the upper ocean, overestimated sea surface temperature especially in summer, the atmosphere-ocean-wave coupled Typhoon/Hurricane model (FIO-AOW) which greatly enhances the Typhoon intensity forecasting ability which has been a bottleneck for several decades , and the earth system model including surface waves (FIO-ESM) which kills more than half of the long-standing tropical biases.
He received numerous academic awards including Wooster Award of PICES, National Innovation Awards of China etc. He has more than 400 publications on peer-review scientific journals and cited more than 11 thousand times.
This page was updated in November 2024.
