Dr. LI Kwan Kit Ronald 李鈞傑 |
| Assistant Lecturer |
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| Education: |
- D.Phil. in Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford. 2019.
- M.Phys. University of Oxford. 2013.
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| Academic Employments: |
- Sep 2021 - Present: Assistant Lecturer, Earth and Environmental Sciences Programme, Faculty of Science, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
- 2019 - 2021: Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Environment, Energy and Sustainability, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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| Research Fields and Current Research Interests: |
- Atmospheric dynamics
- Seasonal predictions
- Mid-latitude Silk Road pattern
- ENSO diversity
- South China Sea summer monsoon
- Southeast China extreme rainfall
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| Professional Activities: |
Current
- Fellow of the Hong Kong Meteorological Society
Past
- 2022 AOGS Annual Meeting: Main convener for the Atmospheric Science session on Record Breaking Monsoons: Modelling, Prediction and Risks
- 2022 AOGS Annual Meeting: Oral presentation on the Effects of MJO and ENSO on the Seasonal Prediction of South China Sea Summer Monsoon Onset and a Case Study on 2018
- 2021 AOGS Annual Meeting: Main convener for the Atmospheric Science session on Impacts and Opportunities in Subseasonal, Seasonal and Interannual Climate Predictions
- 2021 AOGS Annual Meeting: Oral presentation on the Effects of ENSO Diversity and Cold Tongue Bias on Seasonal Prediction of South China Late Spring Rainfall
- 2021 EGU General Assembly: Oral presentation on the Effects of Upper-level Background Wind Bias on Rossby Waveguides, Rossby Wave Source Hotspots, and Predictability of the Silk Road Pattern. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-379 Also available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Mhwm12B1zL0 (short version) and https://youtu.be/EU__NxMLFqM (long version)
- Journal reviewer for Journal of Climate, Nature Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Earth Science (Atmospheric Science section), Weather and Climate Dynamics.
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| Teaching: |
Current
- ESSC2020 Climate System Dynamics (with Prof. Amos Tai)
- ESSC3300 Oceanography (with Prof. Yen Joe Tan and Prof. Benoit Thibodeau)
- ESSC3600 Ecosystems and Climate (with Prof. Amos Tai)
- ESSC4210 Land-Atmosphere Interactions and Boundary-Layer Meteorology (with Dr. Andie Au-Yeung)
- ESSC4250 Advanced Topics in Atmospheric Dynamics (with Prof. Francis Tam)
Past
- EESC4270 Cloud Dynamics (with Prof. ManNin Chan)
- GRMD2221 Weather and Climate
- University of Oxford: Teaching assistant and laboratory demonstrator for the Master in Physics degree course
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| Selected Recent Publications: |
- Cheung KH, Li RKK, Tam CY, Scaife AA, Dunstone N. (in preparation) The Risk and Dynamics of Unprecedented Summer Monsoon Rainfall over Southeast China Under the Current Climate.
- Yuan T, Tai APK, Mao J, TAM OHF, Li RKK, Wu J, Li S. (2023) Effects of Different Irrigation Methods on Regional Climate in North China Plain: A Modeling Study. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109728
- Li RKK, Tam CY, Lau NC, Sohn SJ, Ahn JB, O'Reilly C. (2021) Forcing Mechanism of the Silk Road Pattern and the Sensitivity of Rossby-wave Source Hotspots to Mean-state Winds. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4039 and free online access at
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/NA8PDXRC6QJEDBYSU2WN?target=10.1002/qj.4039
- Li RKK, Tam CY, Lau NC. (2021) Effects of ENSO Diversity and Cold Tongue Bias on Seasonal Prediction of South China Late Spring Rainfall. Climate Dynamics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-021-05732-w and free online access at https://rdcu.be/chc4B
- Li RKK, Tam CY, Lau NC, Sohn SJ, Ahn JB. (2020) Potential predictability of the Silk Road Pattern and the Role of SST as Inferred from Seasonal Hindcast Experiments of a Coupled Climate Model. Journal of Climate. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0235.1
- Li RKK, Woollings T, O'Reilly C, Scaife AA. (2020) Effect of the North Pacific Tropospheric Waveguide on the Fidelity of Model El Niño Teleconnections. Journal of Climate. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0156.1
- Li RKK, Woollings T, O'Reilly C, Scaife AA. (2020) Tropical Atmospheric Drivers of Wintertime European Precipitation Events. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3708
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