Dr. LI Kwan Kit Ronald

Dr. LI Kwan Kit Ronald 李鈞傑

Assistant Lecturer

Room 342, 3/F, Science Centre North Block
3943 9324
Dr. LI Kwan Kit Ronald

Education

2019 D.Phil. Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics University of Oxford
2013 M.Phys. University of Oxford

Academic Employments

Sep 2021 - Present Assistant Lecturer, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong
2019 - 2021 Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Environment, Energy and Sustainability, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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

Representative Publications

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
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
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

Professional Activities

Past

Journal reviewer for Journal of Climate, Nature Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Earth Science (Atmospheric Science section), Weather and Climate Dynamics.

Teaching

Current

EESC1009 Elementary Earth and Environmental Sciences Practical Study (with Dr. Zhang Li and Dr. Tammy Tam) 
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) 
EESC4270 Cloud Dynamics  

Past

GRMD2221 Weather and Climate

Short Courses

CUSA1017 Weather and Climate

College Affiliation in CUHK

Shaw College

Selected Recent Publications

  1. 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

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Assistant Lecturer
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