Hydrometeorology, Atmosphere and Climate

East Asia Atmospheric Rivers

PI: Prof. Mengqian LU

Leading research student: Mengxin PAN


Outputs

1) Mengxin Pan and Mengqian Lu* (2020), "East Asia Atmospheric River Catalog: Annual Cycle, Transition Mechanism and Precipitation", Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL089477. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL089477

2) Mengxin Pan and Mengqian Lu* (2019), "A Novel Atmospheric River Identification Algorithm", Water Resources Research, 2019, 55: 6069-6087, https://doi:10.1029/2018WR024407

Regional Moisture Recycling and Transport

PI: Prof. Mengqian LU

Leading research student: Tat Fan CHENG


Outputs

1) Tat Fan Cheng, Lun Dai and Mengqian Lu* (2020), "Atmospheric moisture channels and pre-existing weather regimes for rain belt events during East Asian summer monsoon season", Geophysical Research Letters (under review)

2) Tat Fan Cheng and Mengqian Lu* (2020), "Moisture Source-to-Receptor Network for East Asian Summer Monsoon Land Regions", Journal of Climate, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0868.1

3) Tat Fan Cheng, Mengqian Lu*, Lun Dai (2019), "The Zonal Oscillation and the Driving Mechanisms of the Extreme western North Pacific Subtropical High and its impacts on East Asia Summer Precipitation", Journal of Climate, 32(10), 3025–3050, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0076.1

4) Yingzhao Ma, Mengqian Lu, Cameron Bracken, and Haonan Chen (2020), Spatially coherent clusters of summer precipitation extremes in the Tibetan Plateau: Where is the moisture from?, Atmospheric Research, 237, 104841, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2020.104841

5) Bingjun Liu, Xuezhi Tan, Thian Yew Gan, Xiaohong Chen, Kairong Lin, Mengqian Lu and Zhiyong Liu (2020), "Global atmospheric moisture transport associated with precipitation extremes: Mechanisms and climate change impacts", WIREs Water, e1412. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1412

6) Yingzhao Ma, Mengqian Lu, Haonan Chen, Mengxin Pan, and Yang Hong (2018), "Atmospheric moisture transport versus precipitation across the Tibetan Plateau: a mini-review and current challenges", Atmospheric Research. 209, 50-58, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2018.03.015

7) Mengqian Lu* and Xiaotian Hao (2017), "Diagnosis of the Tropical Moisture Exports to the Mid-latitudes and the Role of Atmospheric Steering in the Extremes", Atmosphere, Special Issue “Water Vapor in the Atmosphere”, 8(12), 256, https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos8120256

8) Mengqian Lu* and Upmanu Lall (2017), "Tropical Moisture Exports, Extreme Precipitation and Floods in Northeastern US", Earth Science Research, 6(2), https://doi.org/10.5539/esr.v6n2p91

East Asia Monsoon

PI: Prof. Mengqian LU

Leading research student: Lun DAI, Tat Fan CHENG


Outputs

1) Lun Dai, Tat Fan Cheng and Mengqian Lu* (2020), "A neural-network-based approach to redefine the monsoon annual cycle in East Asia", Geophysical Research Letters (under review)

2) Lun Dai, Tat Fan Cheng and Mengqian Lu* (2020), "Summer Rainfall Predictability in Southeast China", Water Resources Research, 56, e2019WR025515. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR025515

Tropical Cyclones

PI: Prof. Mengqian LU

Leading research student: Rui XIONG, Lujia ZHANG, Shuang LUO


Outputs

1) Mengqian Lu* and Rui Xiong (2019), “Spatiotemporal Profiling of Tropical Cyclones Genesis and Favorable Conditions in the Western Pacific Basin”, Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 11548-11558. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL084995

Mesoscale Convective Systems

PI: Prof. Mengqian LU

Leading research student: Qizhen DONG


Nature Hazards: Heatwave, Flood, Drought, Tornado

PI: Prof. Mengqian LU

Leading research student: Beijing FANG


Outputs

1) Beijing Fang and Mengqian Lu* (2020), "Heatwave and Blocking in the Northeastern Asia: Occurrence, Variability and Association", Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 125, e2019JD031627. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JD031627

2) Nasser Najibi, Naresh Devineni, Mengqian Lu and Rui A.P. Perdigão (2019), "Coupled flow accumulation and atmospheric blocking govern flood durations". (Nature) npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2019, 2:19, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-019-0076-6

3) Rajarshi Das Bhowmik, Bihu Suchetana, and Mengqian Lu* (2019), "Shower effect of a rainfall onset on the heat accumulated during a preceding dry spell", (Nature) Scientific Reports, 9(1), 7011, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-43437-7

4) Liang Gao, Limin Zhang and Mengqian Lu (2017), "Characterizing the spatial variations and correlations of large rainstorms for landslide study", Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 21(9), 4573–4589, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-4573-2017

5) Nasser Najibi, Naresh Devineni and Mengqian Lu (2017), "Hydroclimate Drivers and Atmospheric Teleconnections of Long Duration Floods: An Application to Large Reservoirs in the Missouri River Basin", Advances in Water Resources, 100, 153-167, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2016.12.004

6) Mengqian Lu*, Upmanu Lall, Jaya Kawale, Stefan Liess, and Vipin Kumar (2016), "Predicting 30 Days Extreme Precipitation using a Global SST-SLP Correlation Network". Journal of Climate, 29:3, 1013-1029. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00452.1

7) Mengqian Lu*, Michael Tippett, and Upmanu Lall (2015), "Changes in the seasonality of tornado and favorable genesis conditions in the central United States". Geophysical Research Letters, 42, 4224–4231. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL063968

8) Mengqian Lu*, Upmanu Lall, Aurélien Schwartz and Hyun-Han Kwon (2013), "Precipitation predictability associated with tropical moisture exports and circulation patterns for a major flood in France in 1995", Water Resources Research, 49, 6381–6392, https://doi.org/10.1002/wrcr.20512 Featured Contribution to Water Resources Research of Year 2013 [Montanari, 2014]

Water Resources Management & Optimization

PI: Prof. Mengqian LU

Leading research student: Tianfang LIU (via collaboration)


Outputs

1) Moon-Hwan Lee, Mengqian Lu, Eun-Soon IM and Deg-Hyo Bae (2018), "Added value of dynamical downscaling for hydrological projections in the Chungju Basin, Korea". International Journal of Climatology. 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.5825

2) Mengqian Lu*, Upmanu Lall, Andrew W. Robertson and Edward Cook (2017), "Optimizing Multiple Reliable Forward Contracts for Reservoir Allocation using Multi-time Scale Streamflow Forecasts". Water Resources Research, 53, 2035-2050, https://doi.org/10.1002/2016WR019552