At a meeting of the Dissertation Council of the Institute of Geography named after acad. H. A. Aliyev, Jamal Surkhay oglu Huseynov defended his thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the specialty 5411.01 "Meteorology", on the topic "Study of the impact of global climate change on the precipitation regime in Azerbaijan."

It was decided to apply to the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, at the Higher Attestation Commission with a request to award Jamal Huseynov the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Geographical Sciences.