張人禾1984年獲蘭州大學氣象學學士學位，之後入中國科學院大氣物理研究所，跟巢紀平，1991年獲博士學位。1994年至1995年喺東京大學做博士後研究。2001年至2012年做中國氣象科學研究院院長。2015年獲選爲中國科學院院士。
Zhang received a bachelor's degree in meteorology from Lanzhou University in 1984, and then entered the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he received his Ph.D. in 1991. From 1994 to 1995, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tokyo. From 2001 to 2012, he was the president of the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences. In 2015, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.