Research focuses on climate and environment dynamics and atmospheric electricity, including climate change and environment dynamics in arid and semiarid regions in northwest China, lightning physics, energy and water circulations in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau mesoscale convective systems and other related research. Applied research focuses on the mechanism of meteorological and climate disasters and hazards at various spatial and temporal scales in western China, such as droughts and flash floods, hailstones, sand and dust storms, lightning and thunderstorms and snow blizzards, and their prediction and mitigation methods and techniques, which provides scientific and technical support for economic and social development in western China.