On August 8- August 11, 2023, researchers such as Zhang Wenlong, Xiao Xian, and Liu Hongjun, etc. from IUM attended the 5th National Mesoscale Meteorology Forum held in Yinchuan, Ningxia, China.

Researcher Zhang Wenlong introduced the "blacklist" problem of steep terrain and technical improvement methods encountered in the evaluation and selection of automatic stations in North China in his oral report entitled The Problem of Mode Assimilation Absorption Rate of Ground Station Data in Steep Terrain. He emphasized the importance of cherishing precious steep terrain encrypted automatic station data to improve the prediction effect of convective systems in mountainous areas through strengthening the R & D of relevant mode technologies and the full assimilation of data. Researcher Xiao Xian presented the mechanism of strong convection in Beijing via the oral report entitled Research on the Mechanism of Rainstorm Triggered by a Sea Breeze Front Deepening Inland in Beijing. Dr. Liu Hongjun delivered an oral report entitled "Boundary Layer Convergence Line and Related Convection Triggering Mechanism on the Underlying Surface of Non-uniform Vegetation in Hetao Area, Inner Mongolia" and exchanged with respect to the topic of Convection Triggering Mechanism on the Underlying Surface of Non-uniform Vegetation in Hetao Area, Inner Mongolia. Specifically, the research finding of the source of convection-triggered air parcels on the underlying surface of real non-uniform vegetation and the statistical characteristics of convection triggering under similar weather background in the Hetao area were analyzed based on a convection process triggered by boundary layer convergence line in Hetao area.