Weiqiang Ma revised his B.S. from the School of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is now a Researcher at the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Before his current role, he was a Special Researcher/Visiting Scholar at the Charleston University, Kyoto University, and University of Tokyo from 2010 to 2014. His research interests include atmospheric boundary layer observations, satellite remote sensing applications, and land-atmosphere interaction simulations.