About Mu Mu’s work
Mu Mu held a Croucher Visitorship at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from May to June 1996 and from November 1996 to March 1997. At the time, Mu was based at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Biography
Mu Mu received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Mathematics from Anhui University, and his Ph.D. from Fudan University before joining the Department of Applied Mathematics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Mu joined the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1987 as a postdoctoral researcher and later worked in the Institute. In 1994, he was funded by the National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars, and was elected as an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2007 and a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for Developing Countries in 2008. Mu's research focuses on atmospheric-oceanic dynamics and weather and climate predictability. In terms of the nonlinear instability of atmospheric and ocean motion, the second Arnold nonlinear stability criterion is established for the two-dimensional positive pressure, multi-layer baroclinic and three-dimensional continuous stratified quasi-geostrophic models. In the study of weather and climate predictability, the Conditional Nonlinear Optimal Disturbance (CNOP) method is proposed, which is used to study the obstacles of El Niño spring forecasting and the sensitivity of ocean thermohaline circulation to freshwater flux disturbances, and the importance of using the CNOP method to investigate nonlinear processes in the study of predictability.