eng Science and Education Publishing Journal of Business and Management Sciences 2333-4533 2019-09-05 7 3 112 120 10.12691/jbms-7-3-2 JBMS2019732 article Guanghui Wang ghwang@cma.gov.cn 1 Center for Meteorological data Analysis and Application, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing 100081, China With the impact of the Internet, the application of information technology promotes the continuous change and development of meteorological field. Based on the intrinsic motivation of the development and change of meteorological field, the impetus of blockchain technology to meteorological informatization is discussed in this paper. Firstly, the application status and development opportunities of information technology in meteorological field are analyzed. Then, the new requirements of meteorological information business development driven by information technology are presented. Finally, the paper deals with the role of blockchain technology in promoting the modernization of meteorological information and points out that the combination of blockchain technology with artificial intelligence and big data will further develop and improve meteorological information technology in many aspects. http://pubs.sciepub.com/jbms/7/3/2/jbms-7-3-2.pdf blockchain big data artificial intelligence cloud computing meteorological information