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 System Science 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
- Silk Road pattern
- ENSO diversity
- South China Sea summer monsoon
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Professional Activities: |
Current
- Fellow of the Hong Kong Meteorological Society
Past
- 2021 AOGS Annual Meeting: Main convener for Atmospheric Science session (AS24) "Impacts and Opportunities in Subseasonal, Seasonal and Interannual Climate Predictions"
- 2021 AOGS Annual Meeting: Oral presentation on Effects of ENSO Diversity and Cold Tongue Bias on Seasonal Prediction of South China Late Spring Rainfall.
- 2021 EGU General Assembly: Oral presentation on 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 Nature Scientific Reports, and Frontiers in Earth Science (Atmospheric Science section).
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Teaching: |
Current
- ESSC4210 Land-Atmosphere Interactions and Boundary-Layer Meteorology (with Dr. Andie Au-Yeung)
- ESSC2020 Climate System Dynamics (with Prof. Amos Tai)
Past
- 2017: Teaching assistant, University of Oxford Master of Physics course in Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics.
- 2016: Laboratory demonstrator, University of Oxford undergraduate course in Physics.
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Selected Recent Publications: |
- Li RKK, Tam CY, Lau NC. (under review) Effects of MJO and ENSO on South China Sea Summer Monsoon Onset Seasonal Prediction and a 2018 Case Study.
- 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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