Observatory's colleagues received excellent paper award

30 December 2009

A paper published by the Observatory's colleagues Messrs. Wong Wai-kin and Yeung Hon-yin together with Drs. Wang Ying-chun and Chen Min of the Institute of Urban Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, on a technique of blending nowcasting and numerical weather prediction (NWP) received an excellent paper award in the "2009 Academic Activity on City Development Informatization - Paper Contest" on 11 December 2009 in Shenzhen. The competition was jointly organized by the Hong Kong Information Technology Joint Council and the Shenzhen Computer User's Association to promulgate applications of information science research. The paper discussed the use of NWP model and nowcasting techniques applied by the Observatory and the Beijing Meteorological Bureau during the WMO Beijing 2008 Forecast Demonstration Project to enhance the forecast of rainstorms and severe convective weather.

Reprint of the paper can be obtained at: http://www.weather.gov.hk/publica/reprint/r844.pdf)

Mr. Wong Wai-kin (right) receiving the award from Mr. Zhu Li-sheng, board member of the China Information Industry Association.