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Chapter 815 We Really Need Your Husband and Wife's Help!
Professor David Goldberg, the chief scientist of the European Meteorological Center, put down the materials in his hand, looked around the crowd, and said: "The situation is more serious now, and time is running out. Everyone takes turns talking about the recent research results. Huo Professor Rand, starting with you, speak clockwise by seat."

Professor Holland said with embarrassment: "Last month, I invited the team of Professor Linus Riddle, who is the most prestigious in functional analysis, probability statistics, and mathematical modeling at Oxford University, to assist in the current weather forecast. However, after two weeks of participation, Professor Riddell said that the data is too large and messy. In the last month, he only completed the preliminary sorting and basic analysis of the data, and he has not yet had time to carry out data modeling. And he also admitted that he could not If you are good at meteorological modeling, it will take about a year at the earliest to achieve more obvious results."

a year or so?or the fastest?By then the day lily will be cold!

Professor David Goldberg nodded in disappointment and looked at the next professor.

The professor also shrugged his shoulders helplessly: "Professor Torvi Salgado of the Paris Ecole Normale Supérieure has joined the 'TYA Extreme High-altitude Meteorological Forecasting Model' team for three months, and is still sorting out the data structure of the current model." Among them, I asked him yesterday when he will make major progress, and he also said that he could not give a clear time node."

Professor David Goldberg set his sights on the third professor: "Professor White, you and Professor Hal have jointly optimized and modified the currently widely used 'Thorson Atmospheric Turbulence Simulation System', the last time It is said that there is a 37% probability of successful prediction, has the accuracy rate been increased to more than 50% now?"

Professor White said with shame: "I'm sorry, the last result was just a big uncertainty, because there are too many factors that affect the extreme airflow, and the weights of the factors are changing each time. Our recent prediction accuracy has been increasing. It fluctuated between 10% and 29%, and that 37% was the result of operating elements..."

"Our progress here is also not optimistic. The upgrade of flight navigation is limited by the performance of hardware sensors and chips, and it is impossible to fully apply the results of the general solution of the NS equation to achieve better automatic flight avoidance operations."

"Recently, there are many unpredictable factors in these extreme high-air flows, especially the continuous high temperature this summer has exacerbated the temperature gradient of the atmospheric circulation. To some extent, there is a gap with our theoretical cognition, and it is difficult for us to draw effective conclusions before optimizing the basic theory..."

"It's difficult. Our team has lost confidence. The time is really tight. If we give us about half a year, we should be able to achieve certain results."

"..."

After listening to everyone's reply, Professor David Goldberg's already frowning brows became even more frowned.

The situation is even more severe than expected, because time is running out, he has divided these dozens of meteorological experts into different groups, each responsible for researching different feasible directions, and personally led the team to carry out one of the "improvement of high-altitude meteorological detection technology". "The topic.

But now according to the situation of the meeting, except that his research group has achieved great results in overcoming the complex external environment and ensuring the accuracy of monitoring data, the progress reported by the other expert groups is not optimistic. The period has passed, but not only did not make considerable progress, but many groups even fell into a period of chaos and regression.

Seeing that there are only about 20 days left until the peak period of flight travel at the beginning of next year, the probability of extremely unstable airflow at high altitudes has shown an abnormal upward trend as the temperature drops. If this continues, David Goodberg Professor Ge can almost foresee the occurrence of large-scale air crash tragedies, and it will never be just one or two!

Even if it was just four or five accidents, it would involve more than a thousand lives!
Moreover, the successive air accidents will definitely cause a near-destructive blow to the European aviation industry. The exchanges between countries will have to rely on ground transportation, which will greatly reduce the efficiency. The economy that has stagnated will also enter the Great Recession. depression……

Thinking of the possible chain reaction, everyone present was filled with helplessness and frustration.

Professor David Goldberg took a deep breath, freed himself from being responsible, and asked in a hoarse voice: "Do you have any suggestions for changing the phenomenon? Let's talk about it, whether you want it or not. Doable, always have a brainstorm first.”

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay. Forced by helplessness, they could only make some suggestions that even they thought were unreliable. In the end, the most reliable and most troublesome suggestion among all the suggestions was to ask for foreign aid again.

Asking foreign aid itself is not an easy task. Almost all the most prestigious researchers and scholars related to meteorology in European universities and research institutes gather here. Waiting for the team of the strongest professors in mathematics and computer science in prestigious schools to join, but still failed to achieve the expected results.

That can only be targeted at top schools in countries around the world, such as the United States, such as Japan.

But even if you look around the world, it is not easy to find mathematicians and physicists who are familiar with meteorological analysis and mathematical modeling. After all, all of you here are experts who can be ranked in the world. Not many.

Moreover, powerful scientific research experts are themselves busy, and it is also difficult for them to promise to come all the way to help.

What's more, even if they can come, it is unknown how much effect they can play and whether they can turn the tide...

Professor David Goldberg said helplessly: "Everyone first lists the specific candidates, and I will personally implement the ideological mobilization work on these candidates."

Soon several names were reported, including academician Mitch Bilar, a master of meteorology at MIT, academician Gilmer Tucker, a master of high-air fluids at Harvard University, and Yoshigi, a master of fluid mechanics in Japan Professor Xiujie and others are well-known experts in the industry.

Among them, the candidate proposed by Professor Holland has attracted the attention of most people: "I suggest that academicians Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun from Xia Guo can be invited. They were in the "Nature Physics" in the middle of last year. "Published a paper titled "Research on Desert Extreme Meteorological Disasters Based on Mathematical Model with NS Equation as the Core", showing their superb level of forecasting extreme weather in desert environment, such as sandstorm, dry rain, fire rain, etc. , at least I was astonished to see that paper.”

Immediately, a professor shook his head and said: "Their level is indeed very high, but it is too difficult to recruit them. They once said that they would not easily leave the country of Xia to participate in scientific research in other countries. Cambridge University and Tianjin University have long issued a letter to them. They have already received invitations to teach, and the conditions are so generous that they are among the best in Europe, but they still declined."

Professor Holland argues: "Now is the age of information technology. It is not necessary for them to work at Eagle Country Headquarters. They can cooperate through video conferencing, email exchanges, etc. In my opinion, when it comes to mathematics, and the For the study of extreme weather, they can definitely rank among the top in the world..."

Another professor shook his head and interrupted: "Let's not talk about whether this remote cooperation method is feasible. Even if it is feasible, it needs their consent. It seems that they are going to participate in the Nobel Prize award ceremony recently? At such a glorious moment, they should deal with it. It’s too late for media interviews, so how could they rush to participate in a scientific research cooperation project like ours? Given their current status, even if our chief scientist, Professor Goldberg, invites them personally, they may not buy it.”

Everyone felt that the difficulty was very high, and even Professor Holland was silent.

Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun are no longer ordinary Xia Guo university professors. Now they hold two Nobel Prizes and one Philippine Prize, and they are already the top scientists in the world. Although Professor David Goldberg is famous all over the world , but because of his face, I'm afraid that he may not be able to invite these two great gods.

Professor Holland said weakly: "It is really impossible to contact the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and ask them to come forward to coordinate..."

Suddenly a professor said abruptly: "No, I think the probability of success in inviting them is very high."

Everyone looked in surprise and saw that it was Professor Blois who had never spoken much.

Professor Bulova raised his mobile phone with an excited look on his face: "I just saw a piece of news. Not long ago, at the press conference after the Nobel Prize award ceremony, Academician Qin Ke said that he was studying extreme abnormal weather. phenomenon, and I am very happy to cooperate and communicate with scholars from all over the world on this scientific research direction.”

Everyone was startled, and then took out their phones to check.

Sure enough, various news websites were full of news about Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, and the latest news was - "Academician Qin Ke of Xia Guo Answers Questions from Journalists".

After watching the news, Professor David Goldberg was refreshed, his confidence increased, and he said to everyone: "I propose that the cooperation invitation of academician Qin Ke and academician Ning Qingyun be dealt with as the top priority at present, as long as they agree Cooperation, cooperation method, remuneration can be subject to their requirements, how about a second negotiation?"

All hands went up.

Professor David Goldberg turned his head and said to the secretary: "Make arrangements immediately, contact Academician Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun Academy of Xia Guo, and then arrange the fastest air ticket. I will fly to Sweden and invite you personally them!"

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Faced with the contact from the European Meteorological Center and the personal invitation of the chief scientist, Professor David Goldberg, Qin Ke was a little surprised, but he readily agreed. He didn't even ask for any material compensation. Reached a strategic partnership with the European Meteorological Center to carry out information exchange and data sharing in the scientific research work to jointly deal with global climate variability.

Professor David Goldberg spent two days negotiating with member states, and finally agreed to all Qin Ke's requests.

According to the agreement between the two parties, Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun will obtain the position of special technical consultant of the European Meteorological Center, and the cooperation method will be remote cooperation. Only through regular emails and video conferences, all data related to extreme and abnormal weather at the European Meteorological Center will be open to Qin and Ke, and they will be allowed to use it for non-commercial scientific research.

——The latter agreement is the invaluable treasure. The European Meteorological Center has been established for more than 50 years. The huge amount of data itself is a huge treasure. Even if it is only open to the two of the data related to extreme and abnormal weather, it is extremely rare.

If Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun hadn't been asked to help in such a difficult situation, it would be impossible for the European member states to authorize the European Meteorological Center to agree to such a condition.

When parting, Professor David Goldberg shook hands with Qin Ke vigorously, and said solemnly: "Academician Qin, you are very welcome to join our European Meteorological Center! You should not be here like this. Sorry to bother you at the important moment of the Nobel Prize, but we really need your help. We are currently facing a very bad situation, and the time left for us is very short, less than 20 days. If you count the follow-up program update development Time, whether it is to conduct secondary optimization based on the current weather forecast model, or to re-develop a new weather forecast model, we hope to complete it before the 25th of this month. During this period, including me, all the manpower and material resources of the European Meteorological Center , all at your disposal!"

Professor Goldberg will give up such a large amount of power, on the one hand, because he is really helpless and driven to a desperate situation. No matter whether Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun can really solve this problem, he can only be a dead horse. Cured.

After all, looking around the world, there is no one who can pick out physicists who are more proficient in fluid mechanics and mathematics than the two young Xia Guo Academy of Sciences in front of them.Instead of wasting time trying to find ways to invite top scholars from the United States or Japan, it is better to bet all the treasures on Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, the two Nobel Prize winners who readily agreed to the invitation.

If it is really impossible to solve at that time, he can also explain to the European people-look, this is a problem that even the two top Nobel Prize winners cannot solve, and we are really powerless.

On the other hand, it is also because of the extreme weather disaster report made by Ning Qingjun that Professor Goldberg saw "hope".

On the second day after the Nobel Prize award ceremony, there is a free report meeting for the Nobel Prize winners. Each Nobel Prize winner spends an hour to introduce the focus of recent work and future plans to further enhance their academic influence. force.

Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun naturally also came to the stage to give a report.

The contents of the two reports are relatively similar, but the emphasis is different.

Ning Qingjun mainly talked about the subject content and current preliminary results of extreme weather research, while Qin Ke focused on the subject content of seawater desalination and purification.

Both of these two projects are jointly initiated and responsible for the project. Since they have been disclosed in the press conference in advance, the content of this report did not cause much sensation. Most people just think that the two top It's a little strange that scientists have turned in such a "down-to-earth" direction.

It is Professor Goldberg and a group of experts from the European Meteorological Center who really pay attention to the two reports.

It was Ning Qingjun's familiarity with meteorology, his ability to use fluid mechanics, and his rich research experience in extreme weather shown in this report that made the experts of the European Meteorological Center headed by Professor Goldberg The professors made up their minds and handed over all the powers of the "Extremely Abnormal Airflow Disaster Response at High Altitude in Europe" operation to the powerful combination of Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, hoping to bring about different changes!

(End of this chapter)