China's National Environmen-Meteorological Services and Their Developmental Trend

The environment-meteorological services in China are concerned with atmospheric environmental quality, which is directly related to human activities and affects human health. In recent years, air pollution and other environmental problems have attracted the nationwide attention in China, so that the environment-meteorological services have been developed rapidly. The Environment-Meteorological Centre of the China Meteorological Administration was established in March 2014 by integrating the resources of various national service units to provide better meteorological monitoring and forecasting services, . In this paper, we review the developments of China’s national environment-meteorological services and highlight their current status including major technological capabilities. We also explore future trends of the national environment-meteorological services by analysing the capabilities， defciencies and gaps in supply to the demands of the current environment-meteorological services.