Francis, C Y TAM 譚志勇

• Ph. D., Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University, 2004
• M. Phil., Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1996
• B.Sc., Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1993

• 2020 – present, Associate Professor, Earth System Science Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• 2014 – 2020, Assistant Professor, Earth System Science Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• 2010 – 2014, Assistant Professor, School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong
• 2008 – 2010, Lecturer, School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong
• 2006 – 2008, Research Scientist, APEC Climate Center, Busan, Korea
• 2004 – 2006, Postdoctoral Fellow, International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii

• NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship, International Pacific Research Center, 2003
• Best student paper, The 13th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Dynamics, 2001
• Princeton University Graduate School Travel Grant, 2001

• Committee Member of Technical Committee on Code of Practice on Wind Effects in Hong Kong
• Fellow and Executive Committee Member of the Hong Kong Meteorological Society
• Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group

• ESSC 3200 Atmospheric Dynamics
• ESSC 3300 Ocean and Climate
• ESSC 4220 Tropical Meteorology
• EASC 5001 Research Frontiers in Earth & Atmospheric Sciences I
• EASC 5104 Advanced Topics in Atmospheric Dynamics
• EASC 5220 Tropical Meteorology

• ESSC 4520 Numerical Methods and Modeling in Earth System Science
• EASC 5520 Numerical Methods and Modeling for Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

• United College

1. Wang, Z., Z. Xiao, C.-Y. Tam, W. Pan, J. Chen. C. Hu, C. Ren, W. Wei and S. Yang, 2021: The projected effects of urbanization and climate change on summer thermal environment in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area of China, Urban Climate, 37, 2021, 100866. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2021.100866.
2. Li, R.K.K., C.-Y. Tam, N.-C. Lau, S.-J. Sohn and J.-B. Ahn, C. O’Reilly, 2021: Rossby wave source hotspots of the Silk Road pattern and their sensitivity to upper-level background wind, QJRM, doi: 10.1002/qj.4039 
3. Li, R.K.K., C.-Y. Tam and N.-C. Lau, 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
4. Li, Y., N.-C. Lau, C.-Y. Tam, H.-M. Cheung, Y. Deng and H. Zhang, 2021: Projected Changes in the Characteristics of the East Asian Summer Monsoonal Front and their Impacts on the Regional Precipitation, Climate Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-021-05687-y
5. Hu, C., K.W, Fung, C.-Y. Tam, and Z. Wang, 2021: Urbanization impacts on Pearl River Delta extreme rainfall – sensitivity to land cover change vs anthropogenic heat, Earth and Space Science, DOI: 10.1029/2020EA001536
6. Li, R.K.K., C.-Y. Tam, N.-C. Lau, S.-J. Sohn and J.-B. Ahn, 2020: Potential predictability of the Silk Road pattern and the role of SST as inferred from seasonal hindcast experiments of a coupled climate model,  J. Climate, doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0235.1..
7. Lui, Y.S., K.-S. Tse, C.-Y. Tam, K.H. Lau and J. Chen, 2020: Performance of western north Pacific tropical cyclone track and intensity evolution in MPAS-A and WRF simulations, Theor. Appl. Climatol.,https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-020-03444-5
8. Wang, P., C.-Y. Tam, N.-C. Lau and X. Kang, 2020, Future Impacts of Two Types of El Niño on East Asian Rainfall Based on CMIP5 Model Projections, Climate Dynamics, http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-020-05510-0
9. Xu, K., H.-Y. Miao, B. Liu. C.-Y. Tam and W. Wang, 2020: Aggravation of record-breaking drought over the mid-to-lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the post-monsoon season of 2019 by anomalous Indo-Pacific oceanic conditions, Geophys. Res. Lett., DOI: 10.1029/2020GL090847. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020GL090847
10. Nduka, I.C., S.H.L. Yim and C.-Y. Tam, 2020: Characteristics of surface energy balance and atmospheric circulation during hot-and-polluted episodes and their synergistic relationships with urban heat islands over the Pearl River Delta region, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, preprint, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2020-1068
11. Li, J., C.-Y. Tam, A. P. K. Tai and N.-C. Lau, 2020: Vegetation-heatwave correlations and contrasting energy exchange responses of different vegetation types to summer heatwaves in the Northern Hemisphere during the 1982–2011 period., Agriculture and Forest Meteorology, 296 (2021) 108208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108208 
12. Li, Z., S. Yang, C.-Y. Tam and C. Hu, 2020: Strengthening western Pacific atmospheric convection and its modulation on the trade wind during spring of 1901–2010,  Int. J. Climatol., https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.6856
13. Wang, L., A.P.K. Tai, C.-Y. Tam, S. Mehliyar, P. Wang and K. Cheung, 2002: Impacts of future land use and land cover change on mid-21st-century surface ozone air quality: Distinguishing between the biogeophysical and biogeochemical effects, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 20, 11349–11369, 2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-11349-2020
14. Lui, Y.S., C-Y. Tam, L K.-S. Tse, K.-K. Ng, W.-N. Leung and C.-C. Cheung, 2020: Evaluation of a customized variable-resolution global model and its application for high-resolution weather forecasts in East Asia, Earth and Space Science, 7, e2020EA001228. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EA001228
15. Xu., K., C..-Y. Tam, B. Liu, S. Chen, X. Yang, Z. Hen and W. Wang, 2020: Attenuation of Central Pacific El Niño Amplitude by North Pacific Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies, J. Climate, DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0767.1
16. Chen, J., Z. Wang, C.-Y. Tam, N.-C. Lau, D.-S. D. Lau and H.Y. Mok, 2020: Investigating climate change impacts on western North Pacific tropical cyclones and induced storm surges over the Pearl River Delta region based on pseudo-global warming experiments, Sci. Rep., 10, 1965; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-58824-8
17. Zhang, T., C.-Y.Tam, X. Jiang, S. Yang; N.-C. Lau, J. Chen and C. Laohalertchai, 2019: Roles of land-surface properties and terrains on Maritime Continent rainfall and its seasonal evolution, Climate Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-019-04951-6.
18. Wang, P, C.-Y. Tam and K. Xu, 2019: El Niño-East Asian summer monsoon teleconnection and its diversity in CMIP5 models, Climate Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-019-04938-3
19. Sohn, S.-J., C.-Y. Tam and J.-S. Kug, 2019: How does ENSO diversity limit the skill of tropical Pacific precipitation forecasts in dynamical seasonal predictions? Climate Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-019-04901-2
20. Lui, Y. S., C.-Y. Tam, Au-Yueng A. Y. M. and N.-C. Lau, 2018: Role of Cumulus Parameterization Scheme on the Diurnal Cycle of Precipitation over Southeast Asia in RegCM4, Climate Dynamics, DOI 10.1007/s00382-018-4517-4
21. Lui, Y. S., C.-Y. Tam and N.-C. Lau, 2018: Future changes in Asian summer monsoon precipitation extremes as inferred from 20-km AGCM simulations, Climate Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-018-4206-3
22. Xu, K., Q.-L. Huang, C.-Y. Tam, W. Wang, S. Chen and C. Zhu, 2018: Roles of tropical Pacific SST patterns during two types of ENSO in modulating wintertime rainfall over southern China, Climate Dynamics, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-018-4170-y
23. Lee, R. W.-K., C.-Y. Tam, S.-J. Sohn and J.-B. Ahn, 2017: Predictability of two types of El Niño and their climate impacts in boreal spring to summer in coupled models, Climate Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-017-4039-5
24. Au-Yueng, A. Y. M., and C.-Y. Tam, 2017: Dispersion characteristics and circulation associated with boreal summer westward travelling mixed-Rossby gravity wave-like disturbances, J. Atmos. Sci., https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-16-0245.1
25. Wang, L., K. Cheung, C.-Y. Tam, A. P. K. Tai and Y. Li, 2017: Evaluation of the RegCM Regional Climate Model over the Loess Plateau of China,  Int. J. Climatol., DOI: 10.1002/joc.5159 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/joc.5159/abstract
26. Holst, C. C., J.C.L Chan and C.-Y. Tam, 2017: Sensitivity of Precipitation Statistics to Urban Growth in a Subtropical Coastal Megacity Cluster. J. Env. Sciences, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jes.2017.01.004
27. Xu, K., C.-Y. Tam, C. Zhu, B. Liu and W. Wang, 2017: CMIP5 Projections of Two Types of El Niño and Their Related Tropical Precipitation in the 21st Century. J. Clim., DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0413.1 http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0413.1
28. Sohn, S.-J., C.-Y. Tam and H.I Jeong, 2016:How do the strength and type of ENSO affect SST predictability in coupled models. Sci. Rep. 6, 33790; doi: 10.1038/srep33790
29. Kwok, G. L. K., Y. F. Lam and C.-Y. Tam, 2016: Developing a Statistical Based Approach for Predicting Local Air Quality in Complex Terrain Area, Atmospheric Pollution Research, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apr.2016.08.001
30. Holst, C. C., C.-Y. Tam, and J.C.L Chan, 2016:Sensitivity of urban rainfall to anthropogenic heat flux - a numerical experiment. Geophys. Res. Lett., DOI: 10.1002/2015GL067628.
31. Sohn, S.-J., and C.-Y. Tam, 2015: Long-lead station-scale prediction of hydrological droughts in South Korea based on bivariate pattern-based downscaling. Climate Dynamics, DOI 10.1007/s00382-015-2770-3
32. Li, Y.-B.,C.-Y. Tam, W.-R. Huang, K. Cheung and Z. Gao, 2015: Evaluating the impacts of cumulus, land surface and ocean surface schemes on summertime rainfall simulations over East-to-southeast Asia and the western north Pacific by RegCM4. Clim. Dyn., doi :10.1007/s00382-015-2714-y.
33. Ye, K., C.-Y. Tam, W. Zhou and S.-J. Sohn, 2015: Seasonal prediction of June rainfall over South China- Model assessment and bias correction. Adv. Atmos. Sci., 32(5), 680–689, doi: 10.1007/s00376-014-4047-x.

• “Attribution of extreme rainfall over Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta to anthropogenic influences based on dynamical downscaling”, General Research Fund, Research Grant Council, HKSAR Government
• "Compound floods from upstream river discharge, localized rainstorm and storm surge across the Pearl River Delta megacity region: Risks, Changes and Mechanisms", General Research Fund, Research Grant Council, HKSAR Government
• “Understanding the influence of climate change on East Asian precipitation variability and its relationship with El Nino-Southern Oscillation”, CUHK Direct Grant.
• “Climate change impacts on potential storm surges in Hong Kongo- A modeling study”, General Research Fund, Research Grant Council, HKSAR Government
• “Hydrological impacts of ENSO in the present and future climate”, CUHK Direct Grant.
• “Development of a rapid assessment tool for evaluating the effectiveness of emission control policies on ozone reduction”, Environmental and Conservation Fund, Environmental Protection Department, HKSAR Government.
• “Extreme Rainfall Events in Hong Kong- A Modeling Study on the Impacts of Climate Change and Urbanization”, Early Career Scheme, Research Grant Council, HKSAR Government