Education:

PhD in Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University in the City of New York, 2011 - 2014;

MPhil in Water Resources and Climate Risks, Columbia University in the City of New York, 2009 - 2011;

BEng in Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2005-2009 (First class honor & Academic Achievement Medal (GPA>3.9/4))

Research Area:

- Atmospheric Rivers - trajectory identification, spatiotemporal statistics, diagnosis, hydrometeorological impacts

- Hydrometeorological extremes (e.g. heavy rainfall, floods and etc.) - atmospheric diagnosis, statistical and physical based modeling, extended ranged and Seasonal to Subseasonal (S2S) prediction

- Severe weather (e.g. typhoon/hurricane, tornado and etc.)

- East Asia summer monsoon - climate change and variability, coupled ocean-atmospheric dynamics

- Statistical learning, data mining

- Water resources system analysis - multi-timescale climate-informed stochastic hybrid simulation-optimization (McISH) modeling

1) Lun Dai, Tat Fan Cheng and Mengqian Lu* (2021), “Define East Asian Monsoon Annual Cycle via a Self‐Organizing Map‐Based Approach”. GeophysicalResearch Letters, 48, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020gl089542

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

3) 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

4) 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

5) 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

6) 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

7) 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

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

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

10) Nasser Najibi*, Naresh Devineni, Mengqian Lu and Rui A.P. Perdigão (2019) "Coupled flow accumulation and atmospheric blocking govern flood durations". npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2(1), 19, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-019-0076-6

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

12) 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-19-0076.1

13) 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

14) 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, 39(1), 516–531, https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.5825

15) 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), https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-4573-2017

16) Mengqian Lu* and Xiaotian Hao (2017), Diagnosis of the Tropical Moisture Exports to the Mid-Latitudes and the Role of Atmospheric Steering in the Extreme Precipitation, Atmosphere (Basel)., 8(12), 256, https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos8120256

17) 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

18) 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

19) 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(3), https://doi.org/10.1002/2016WR019552

20) Mengqian Lu*, Upmanu Lall, Jaya Kawale, Stefan Liess, and Vipin Kumar (2016), Exploring the Predictability of 30-Day Extreme Precipitation Occurrence Using a Global SST-SLP Correlation Network, Journal of Climate, 29(3), 1013-1029, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00452.1

21) 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

22) 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(10), 6381-6392, https://doi.org/10.1002/wrcr.20512 (Featured Contribution in Water Resources Research of the Year 2013)

Education: Msc, Stony Brook University, 2015-2017; Bsc, Southeast University, 2011-2015;

Research Area: Hydrometeorological extreme precipitation prediction; Spatiotemporal statistics modeling

1) Lun Dai, Tat Fan Cheng and Mengqian Lu* (2021), “Define East Asian Monsoon Annual Cycle via a Self‐Organizing Map‐Based Approach”. GeophysicalResearch Letters, 48, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020gl089542

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

3) Tat Fan Cheng, Mengqian Lu* and 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-19-0076.1

4) Lun Dai, Mengqian Lu* and Tat Fan Cheng, “The Spatiotemporal Characteristics of Summer Rainfall in the Southeast China Coast and hydrometeorological diagnosis of its predictability”. AGU 2018

Education: MPhil, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2016-2018; BSc, The Southeast University, 2012-2016;

Research Area: Atmospheric River; Enhanced moisture transport; Extreme precipitation; Flooding

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.org/10.1029/2018WR024407

3) 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

4) Mengxin Pan and Mengqian Lu*, “A new algorithm for Atmospheric Rivers detection in the East Asia – a pilot application for flood-triggering Heavy Precipitation in the Yangtze River Basin (YRB)”, AGU 2018

Education: MPhil, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2018-2019; BSc, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2013-2017;

Research Area: Atmospheric Dynamics; Applied Meteorology; Monsoon; Climate Change

1) Lun Dai, Tat Fan Cheng and Mengqian Lu* (2021), “Define East Asian Monsoon Annual Cycle via a Self‐Organizing Map‐Based Approach”. GeophysicalResearch Letters, 48, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020gl089542

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

3) 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

4) Tat Fan Cheng, Mengqian Lu* and 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-19-0076.1

5) Lun Dai, Mengqian Lu* and Tat Fan Cheng, “The Spatiotemporal Characteristics of Summer Rainfall in the Southeast China Coast and hydrometeorological diagnosis of its predictability”. AGU 2018

Education: MPhil, Tsinghua University, 2016-2018 ; Bsc, Sichuan University, 2012-2016;

Research Area: Evapotranspiration estimation with machine learnning techniques; Atmospheric rivers

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) Beijing Fang, Huimin Lei, et al. (2019), “Spatio-temporal patterns of evapotranspiration based on upscaling eddy covariance measurements in the North China Plain”,Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2019.107844

3) Taihua Wang, Dawen Yang, Beijing Fang, et al. (2019), “Data-driven mapping of the spatial distribution and potential changes of frozen ground over the Tibetan Plateau”. Science of the Total Environment, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.08.369

Education: Bsc, Tsinghua University,2014-2018.

Research Area: Extremes; Tropical Cyclones

Education: Bsc, Peking University, 2014-2018

Research Area: Tropical Cyclones; Spatiotemporal Data Analysis

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

Education: Bsc, Tsinghua University, 2015-2019

Research Area: Mesoscale Convective Systems

Education: Bsc, Tongji University, 2016-2020

Research Area: Tropical Cyclones