Yu Xinwen, spokesperson and office director of China Meteorological Bureau (photo: Yang Jia/China Net)
This afternoon, a press conference on Olympic weather forecast was held in Beijing International Press Center. Yu Xinwen, spokesperson and office director of China Meteorological Bureau, Chen Zhenlin, spokesperson and deputy director of the Department of Prediction and Disaster Reduction of China Meteorological Bureau, Wang Jianjie, spokesperson and deputy director of Beijing Meteorological Bureau, and Qiao Linte, chief forecaster of the National Meteorological Center of China Meteorological Bureau introduced the weather in Beijing during the Olympic Games.
Yu Xinwen said that in the past seven years, China Meteorological Bureau has focused on the purpose of "Green Olympics, High-tech Olympics and People’s Olympics" and aimed at achieving "high-quality, high-level" Olympic meteorological services. It has made great efforts to strengthen the capacity building of meteorological observation, continuously improve the forecasting ability and meteorological service level, and made great efforts to make preparations for the Olympic meteorological services. At present, it is progressing smoothly and ready.
Yu Xinwen said that the meteorological service guarantee for the Beijing Olympic Games is all ready. We know that meteorological services play an important role in the Olympic Games, and we have mainly done the following work:
First, a three-dimensional observation system has been established, forming a relatively strong monitoring capability.
After several years’ efforts, the comprehensive meteorological observation system, which consists of four in-orbit meteorological satellites, multiple radars and encrypted automatic weather stations, will be able to capture more subtle weather changes with wide coverage and high temporal and spatial resolution. At present, Fengyun-1 star D, Fengyun-2 star C, Fengyun-3 star D and Fengyun-3 star 01 launched this year will all provide services for the Olympic Games, and satellite cloud pictures can be obtained every 15 minutes. There are 7 weather Doppler radars in and around Beijing, and 3 weather Doppler radars in and around Qingdao, all of which have been built and put into use. The detection data will be obtained every 6 minutes, and two mobile weather radars will provide more comprehensive information. A new generation of weather Doppler radar is built in each co-host city. There are 186 automatic weather stations in Beijing and 167 automatic weather stations in Qingdao, which make the density of automatic stations in the main co-host cities reach about every 5 kilometers in urban areas and every 10 kilometers in suburban areas, and the observation data can be updated in real time every 5 minutes. In addition, an encrypted automatic weather observation station was added near the venue as required.
Second, refined forecasting and targeted services.
During the Olympic Games, Beijing Olympic Meteorological Service Center will make a daily rolling update of the fine forecast of meteorological elements of Olympic venues for 0 ~ 72 hours and 3 hours. Make a 3-hour forecast of meteorological elements of competition venues for 0-72 hours several times a day. This kind of long-term forecasting service also exceeds the meteorological service requirement of 0 ~ 48 hours in previous Olympic Games. According to the demand of individual events, the meteorological department will also provide hourly forecast service for the next 24 hours, that is, the meteorological department will provide multi-factor forecast every day, which is equivalent to 40 times the workload of the previous meteorological department. In case of major turning weather, such as thunderstorms, tornadoes, hail and other weather that may affect the competition, a 0-2 hour approaching weather forecast will be made and updated approaching forecast information will be released in time. In addition, for Qingdao Olympic Sailing Competition, a refined hourly wind forecast method was specially developed to provide hourly wind speed and direction forecast for four buoy stations.
The third is to gather national strength and form an elite team.
With comprehensive and rich weather monitoring data and advanced application mode, people have become a key factor. Efficient and powerful command system, practical work experience of forecasting experts and comprehensive analysis and judgment ability will all play an important role. China Meteorological Bureau has set up an Olympic meteorological service leading group headed by the director to direct and coordinate the national Olympic meteorological service. According to the requirements of "Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Urban Operation Outline", a series of meteorological service guarantee schemes, such as "Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Meteorological Service Action Plan", "Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Meteorological Service Implementation Plan" and "Olympic Torch Relay Meteorological Service Implementation Plan", were compiled, and the contents, service methods, operation mechanism, service team and emergency meteorological service guarantee measures of Olympic meteorological services were defined. Relying on the Beijing Meteorological Bureau, the Beijing Olympic Meteorological Service Center was established, with the joint participation of the National Meteorological Center, the National Climate Center and the co-host cities, and the National Meteorological Information Center and meteorological departments at all levels provided full support. Elite meteorological service teams were set up from meteorological departments all over the country, and 36 high-level forecasting technicians from meteorological departments all over the country formed a front-line team directly serving the Beijing Olympic Games. The Beijing Olympic Meteorological Service Center also hired 24 well-known domestic meteorological experts from the Central Meteorological Observatory, the National Climate Center, the China Meteorological Research Institute, the General Staff Meteorological Bureau, and the Aviation Meteorological Bureau to assist the Beijing Olympic Meteorological Service Center in providing Olympic meteorological services on-site or remotely. During the Olympic Games,These experts will act separately to provide timely meteorological information services for competitions in various venues. In Qingdao, 10 experts from the National Meteorological Information Center and the meteorological bureaus of Shandong, Beijing, Shanghai, Anhui and other provinces and cities will jointly provide meteorological services for the Olympic Sailing Competition with Qingdao meteorological experts.
Fourth, a variety of service means to meet individual needs.
In addition to providing meteorological services for various stadiums and competitions, we also actively cooperated with public security, transportation and other relevant departments to provide various meteorological services for urban operation, people’s travel, tourism, etc., and participated in comprehensive support drills. In particular, the emergency meteorological support service for public emergencies has been strengthened. In sudden, turning weather and disastrous weather, we will provide decision-making meteorological services to government decision-making departments in time, providing reference for government departments to arrange various large-scale activities. We have also strengthened the Olympic meteorological service for the public, and timely released early warning information to the public through television, radio stations, websites, electronic display screens in public places (there are more than 8,000 bus display screens), meteorological early warning towers (8), automatic answering platform for meteorological information, SMS (more than 1.3 million users), community broadcasting, community display screens (more than 50) and meteorological information service stations, so as to watch the games and travel for the public. In addition, a weather service hotline 12121 was set up, and the newspaper Olympic Weather Information was distributed to hotels, airports and other public places free of charge. China Meteorological Bureau Network (http://www.cma.gov.cn/), China Weather Network (http://www.weather.com.cn/) and Beijing Olympic Meteorological Service Network (http://www.bjweather.cn, http://www.weather2008.cn) all published English weather forecast information.It is more convenient for foreign friends and athletes to know the latest meteorological service information at any time.
Fifth, practice actual combat tests and be fully prepared.
Since 2006, China Meteorological Bureau has organized several drills on Olympic meteorological services. Combined with the "Good Luck Beijing" series of sports events in 2007 and 2008, the Qingdao International Regatta in 2006 and 2007, and the Qingdao International Regatta for the Disabled in 2008, we will constantly test the Olympic meteorological service system, train the Olympic meteorological service team, investigate possible problems, and solve the shortcomings exposed in drills and actual combat. In May this year, it provided meteorological support services for the success of the Olympic torch relay on Mount Everest, which was fully affirmed by the Chinese Olympic Committee and the State Sports General Administration.
Yu Xinwen said: "At present, all preparations for the Olympic meteorological service are fully prepared. The Olympic meteorological service has entered the state of Games-time service since July 20th, and the China Meteorological Bureau has entered the state of Olympic special work since August 1st. Beijing Olympic Meteorological Service Center provides all kinds of meteorological service products for sports events, large-scale activities, urban operation and public travel according to the requirements of the Games. For sports events, during the 2008 Olympic Games, we will focus on providing Beijing Olympic Games with highly refined venue weather forecast, short-term forecast of sudden weather and early warning information of meteorological disasters. For large-scale events such as the opening and closing ceremonies, we will do our best to provide meteorological services for Olympic decision-making, and provide meteorological monitoring, forecasting and early warning services related to major Olympic events for Olympic organizers, governments and departments in a timely manner; Provide emergency meteorological services for urban operations, especially emergencies; Provide regular weather forecasting services to the public, tourists from all over the world and contestants, as well as "humanized" characteristic forecasting service products such as pollen concentration, ultraviolet intensity and air quality. " (Tang Jialei)
Editor: xu wen hua