Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST) is on the list of China’s “Double First-class” construction universities and disciplines as well as Jiangsu high level universities. The NUIST‘s four disciplines of Geoscience, Computer Science, Environmental Science and Ecology, and Engineering have entered top 1‰ ESI rankings. The discipline of Atmospheric Science ranks No.1 in the discipline evaluation conducted by the Ministry of Education of China.