Acta Meteorologica Sinica (AMS) is an academic quarterly journal sponsored by the Chinese Meteorological Society(CMS). Sixty-one years have elapsed since it startedpublication in Chinese in 19253.As a first-rate advanced academic journal,it has playedan important role in meteorological circles and has continually given impetus to theadvances of atmospheric sciences.However,our foreign colleaguea,because of language difficulty,are unable to delve deeper