Dake Chen: unraveling the secrets of ocean-climate interaction

• 来源期刊: 国家科学评论（英文版）
• 关键词: science and technology climate variability ocean dynamics the world
• 年，卷（期）: 2017,（1）
• 页码范围: 136-139
• 页数: 4页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nww100

摘要

The ocean is a complex and mysterious system that attracts scientists around the world to unravel its secrets.Dake Chen,a distinguished physical oceanographer and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,is one of them.Since the mid-1980s,he has been studying ocean dynamics and ocean-atmosphere interaction,and has made seminal contributions to the understanding and prediction of short-term climate variability,especially the El Ni(n)o phenomenon.In a recent interview with NSR,Professor Dake Chen says that China has made significant progress in recent years in ocean research,but,in order to make breakthroughs in the field of oceanography,China needs to further expand the scope of research programs from coastal seas to open oceans,to greatly increase the investment in global ocean-observing systems and to pay more attention to fundamental scientific problems in addition to practical applications.He also calls for a better-defined national strategic plan for ocean science and technology.