Analysis of the Development Trend of Atmospheric Dynamics——Based on the National Natural Science Foundation of China Atmospheric Science Programs

This paper analyzes the development trend of atmospheric dynamics based on the support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) for the subject from 1987 to 2021. The funding analysis shows that the NSFC’s support for atmospheric dynamics is mainly focused on key projects, general projects and youth science funds, and the three main types of funded projects have their own characteristics in funding priorities and inter-annual variation trends. The atmospheric dynamics projects supported by the NSFC are mainly distributed among scientific research institutes, universities and meteorological agencies. The Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology rank in the top three. Based on the analysis of the current situation and from the two aspects of the selfdevelopment of atmospheric dynamics and its integration with emerging disciplines, it is proposed that atmospheric dynamics, as the basic theoretical discipline of atmospheric science, plays a supporting and source innovation role in the development of atmospheric science. At the same time, as a key theoretical basis, atmospheric dynamics becomes an important part in interdisciplinary research, and plays a leading and promoting role in the development of emerging disciplines. It is hoped that through the research, atmospheric dynamics can adapt to the rapid development of the atmospheric science, expand the boundary of the discipline, and promote the growth of new disciplines.