Jeremy Leung


Jeremy Cheuk-Hin Leung（梁卓軒）

Research Associate Professor
College of Meteorology and Oceanography
National University of Defense Technology

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • 2024-Present, Research Associate Professor, College of Meteorology and Oceanography, National University of Defense Technology
  • 2023-2024, Research Associate, Guangzhou Institute of Tropical and Marine Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration
  • 2019-2023, Postdoctoral Fellow, Guangzhou Institute of Tropical and Marine Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration

EDUCATION

  • 2014-2019, Peking University, PhD in Atmospheric Science
  • 2010-2014, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, BSc in Physics

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Tropical Climate, Madden-Julian Oscillation & Intraseasonal Variability
  • Climate Change & Climate Asymmetry
  • Climate & Weather Extremes
  • Weather Prediction & Climate Modeling
  • Interdisciplinary Research on Data Science and Atmospheric Science
  • Causal Inference
  • Applied Climatology

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HONORS / AWARDS

  • Core Member of Guangdong Province Introduction of Innovative R&D Team, 2023-2025
  • Meteorological Technology Progress Award (2nd Prize), China Meteorological Society, 2018
  • National Scholarship & Baosteel Scholarship & 1st Prize of Scholarship for Hong Kong, Macau & Taiwan students, Peking University, 2014-2019

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Leung, J. C. H., Zhang, B., Gan, Q., Wang, L., Qian, W., & Hu, Z. Z. (2022). Differential expansion speeds of Indo-Pacific warm pool and deep convection favoring pool under greenhouse warming. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 5(1), 97. (Link)
  • Gan, Q., Leung, J. C. H.*, Wang, L., & Zhang, B.* (2023). Weakening seasonality of Indo-Pacific warm pool size in a warming world since 1950. Environmental Research Letters, 18(1), 014024. (Link)
  • Xu, D., Lu, Z., Leung, J. C.-H., Zhao, D., Li, Y., Shi, Y., Chen, B., Nie, G., Wu, N., Tian, X., Yang, Y., Zhang, S., Zhang, B. (2025). AI Models Still Lag Behind Traditional Numerical Models in Predicting Sudden-Turning Typhoons. Science Bulletin. (Link)
  • Leung, J. C. H., Qian, W., Zhang, P., & Zhang, B. (2022). Geopotential-based Multivariate MJO Index: extending RMM-like indices to pre-satellite era. Climate Dynamics, 59(1), 609-631. (Link)
  • He, W., Yang, Y., Leung, J. C. H.*, Xiang, K., Wei, D., Cai, B., Kong, H., Tu, S., Zhang, B. (2025). Enhancing MJO convective activity in the twentieth century. Journal of Climate. (Link)

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RESEARCH FUNDINGS

My research group and I are supported by the following research grants:

  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (China): On the long-term change in the seasonality of Indo-Pacific Warm Pool and its impacts on the seasonality of tropical intraseasonal oscillation (PI, Grant# 42405038, 2025–2027)
  • Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (China): Long-term variability of MJO activity and its impacts on Northwest Pacific tropical cyclones in the past 100 years (PI, Grant# 2020A1515110275, 2020–2023)
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (China): Variability of Northern Hemispheric Polar and Arctic Cells and Their Impacts on Mid-High Latitude Climate Anomalies (Co-I, Grant# 41775067, 2018–2021)
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