Publication List

FEATURED 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)
  • 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)
  • Liu, J., Leung, J. C. H.*, Huang, H.*, Xu, D., Li, W., Qian, W., & Zhang, B. (2024). Observed northward shift of large hailstorms in the eastern United States since 2000. Environmental Research Letters, 19(2), 024010. (Link)

PAPERS UNDER CONSIDERATION

  1. He, W., Yang, Y., Leung, J. C. H.*, Xu, J.*, Wei, D., Cai, B., Kong, H., Tu, S., & Zhang, B. Long-term variability of MJO convection from 1900–2010 in the twentieth century reanalyses. Journal of Climate (Under review)
  2. Xu, D., Lu, Z., Leung, J. C. H., et al. Who is better at predicting the unusual trajectories of Typhoon Khanun: human forecasters, AI or NWP models? (Under review)

2025

  1. Liu, S., Leung, J. C. H.*, Xu, J.*, Liu, C., He, M., Tu, S., Zeng, M., & Zhang, B. (2025). A general framework quantifying variability in spatial inhomogeneity of global precipitation and its contribution. Climate Dynamics, 63, 129. (Link)
  2. Kong, H., Wu, K., Chan, P. W.*, Liu, J., Zhang, B., & Leung, J. C.-H.* (2025). Climatology, Diversity, and Variability of Quasi-Biweekly to Intraseasonal Extreme Temperature Events in Hong Kong from 1885 to 2022. Applied Sciences, 15(4), 1764. (Link)
  3. Zhang, W., Ye, G., Leung, J. C.-H.*, & Zhang, B*. (2025). Microphysical Characteristics of Summer Precipitation over the Taklamakan Desert Based on GPM-DPR Data from 2014 to 2023. Atmosphere, 16(4), 354. (Link)
  4. Zhang, Z., Deng, T., Zhang, X., et al. (2025). The influence of aerosols on lightning activity in the Pearl River Delta of China. Atmospheric Research. (Link)

2024

  1. Liu, J.#, Leung, J. C. H.#, Tian, W., Huang, H., Xu, D., Li, W., & Zhang, B. (2024). Questioning whether seasonal advance of intense tropical cyclones since the 1980s truly exists. arXiv: 2403.00330v3. (Link)
  2. Liu, J., Leung, J. C. H.*, Huang, H., Xu, D., Li, W., Qian, W., & Zhang, B. (2024). Observed northward shift of large hailstorms in the eastern United States since 2000. Environmental Research Letters, 19(2), 024010. (Link)
  3. Yu, D., Kong, H.*, Leung, J. C. H.*, Chan, P. W., Fong, C., Wang, Y., & Zhang, B. (2024). A 1D Convolutional Neural Network (1D-CNN) Temporal Filter for Atmospheric Variability: Reducing the Sensitivity of Filtering Accuracy to Missing Data Points. Applied Sciences, 14(14), 6289. (Link)
  4. Liu, F., Zhou, J., Wang, B., Leung, J. C. H., Chen, D., Lin, Z., Kang, I., Chao, Q., Ke, Z., Fan, K., Liu, B., Huang, G., Hsu, P., & Dong, W. (2024). Opportunities and Barriers for Skillful Subseasonal Prediction of East Asian Summer Precipitation. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 105(11), E2216-E2230. (Link)
  5. Wang, L., Liu, Y., Xu, D., Zhang, L., Leung, J. C. H., Li, H., Gong, J., & Zhang, B. (2024). An incremental analysis update in the framework of the four‐dimensional variational data assimilation: Description and preliminary tests in the operational China Meteorological Administration Global Forecast System. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 150(761), 2104-2122. (Link)
  6. Zhang, B., Leung, J. C. H., Liu, S., & Xu, J. (2024). Changes of tropical cyclone size in three oceanic basins of the northern hemisphere from 2001 to 2021. Frontiers of Earth Science, 1-12. (Link)
  7. Lian, Z., Yang, T., Leung, J. C. H., & Zhang, B. (2024). East Asian monsoon and Pacific basin dynamics jointly regulate boreal winter marine cold spells in the Taiwan Strait. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 26010. (Link)
  8. Lu, Z., Xu, J., Chen, Z., Yang, J., Leung, J. C. H., Xu, D., & Zhang, B. (2024). Combinatorial Optimization of Physics Parameterization Schemes for Typhoon Simulation Based on a Simple Genetic Algorithm (SGA). Journal of Meteorological Research, 38(1), 10-26. (Link)
  9. Qian, W., Du, J., Ai, Y., Leung, J., Liu, Y., & Xu, J. (2024). Anomaly-Based Variable Models: Examples of Unusual Track and Extreme Precipitation of Tropical Cyclones. Meteorology, 3(2), 243-261. (Link)
  10. Deng, T., Ouyang, S., He, G., Zhang, X., Leung, J. C. H., Chen, X. et al. (2024). Impact of aerosol actinic radiative effect on ozone during haze pollution in the Pearl River Delta region. Atmospheric Environment, 120610. (Link)

2023

  1. 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)
  2. Xu, D., Leung, J. C. H., & Zhang, B. (2023). A Time Neighborhood Method for the Verification of Landfalling Typhoon Track Forecast. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 40(2), 273-284. (Link)
  3. Huang, H., Leung, J. C. H., Chan, J. C., Liu, J., Qian, W., & Zhang, B. (2023). Recent unusual consecutive spring tropical cyclones in North Atlantic and winter oceanic precursor signals. Journal of Meteorological Research, 37(2), 208-217. (Link)
  4. Xu, D. S., Chen, H. W., Leung, J. C., Huang, H., & Zhang, B. L. (2023). Sensitivity of nocturnal warm sector rainfall simulation to the configuration of initial and lateral boundary conditions: A case study in Southern China based on the operational TRAMS model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128(12), e2022JD038452. (Link)
  5. Qian, W., Du, J., Leung, J. C. H., Li, W., Wu, F., & Zhang, B. (2023). Why are severe weather and anomalous climate events often associated with the orthogonal convergence of airflows?. Weather and Climate Extremes, 42, 100633. (Link)
  6. Jiang, N., Yu, M., Lu, B., Leung, J. C. H., & Zhu, C. (2023). The late 1970s shift in ENSO persistence barrier modulated by the seasonal amplitude of ENSO growth rate. Journal of Climate, 36(5), 1387-1397. (Link)
  7. Zhang, S., Xu, F., Xue, Y., Xu, D., Leung, J. C. H., Han, L., ... & Zhang, B. (2023). Heat balance characteristics in the South China Sea and surrounding areas simulated using the TRAMS model—a case study of a summer heavy rain and a winter cold spell. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10, 1052517. (Link)
  8. Chen, Y., Wang, L., Leung, J. C. H., Xu, D., Chen, J., & Zhang, B. (2023). Systematic diurnal bias of the CMA-MESO model in southern China: Characteristics and correction. Frontiers in Earth Science, 11, 1101809. (Link)

2022

  1. 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)
  2. 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)
  3. Qian, W., Leung, J. C. H., Ren, J., Du, J., Feng, Y., & Zhang, B. (2022). Anomaly based synoptic analysis and model prediction of six dust storms moving from Mongolia to northern China in spring 2021. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127(7), e2021JD036272. (Link)
  4. Gan, Q., Wang, L., Leung, J. C. H., Weng, J., & Zhang, B. (2022). Recent weakening relationship between the springtime Indo‐Pacific warm pool SST zonal gradient and the subsequent summertime western Pacific subtropical high. International Journal of Climatology, 42(16), 10173-10194. (Link)
  5. Ai, Y., Jiang, N., Qian, W., Leung, J. C. H., & Chen, Y. (2022). Strengthened regulation of the onset of the South China Sea summer monsoon by the Northwest Indian Ocean warming in the past decade. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 39(6), 943-952. (Link)
  6. Ouyang, S., Deng, T., Liu, R., Chen, J., He, G., Leung, J. C. H., ... & Liu, S. C. (2022). Impact of a subtropical high and a typhoon on a severe ozone pollution episode in the Pearl River Delta, China. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 22(16), 10751-10767. (Link)

2021

  1. Qian, W., Ai, Y., Leung, J. C. H., & Zhang, B. (2021). Anomaly-based synoptic analysis and model product application for 2020 summer southern China rainfall events. Atmospheric Research, 258, 105631.(Link)

2019

  1. Qian, W., Leung, J. C. H., Chen, Y., & Huang, S. (2019). Applying anomaly-based weather analysis to the prediction of low visibility associated with the coastal fog at Ningbo-Zhoushan Port in East China. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 36, 1060-1077. (Link)
  2. Qian, W., Leung, J. C. H., Luo, W., Du, J., & Gao, J. (2019). An index of anomalous convective instability to detect tornadic and hail storms. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 131, 351-373. (Link)
  3. Qian, W., Wu, K., & Leung, J. C. H. (2019). Antarctic sea‐ice variation associated with vertical geopotential height and temperature anomalies. International Journal of Climatology, 39(14), 5380-5395. (Link)

2017

  1. Leung, J. C. H., & Qian, W. (2017). Monitoring the Madden–Julian oscillation with geopotential height. Climate Dynamics, 49, 1981-2006. (Link)
  2. Qian, W., Wu, K., & Leung, J. C. H. (2017). Climatic anomalous patterns associated with the Arctic and Polar cell strength variations. Climate Dynamics, 48, 169-189. (Link)

2016

  1. Jiang, N., Qian, W., & Leung, J. C. H. (2016). The global monsoon division combining the k-means clustering method and low-level cross-equatorial flow. Climate dynamics, 47, 2345-2359. (Link)
  2. Qian, W., Wu, K., Leung, J. C. H., & Shi, J. (2016). Long‐term trends of the Polar and Arctic cells influencing the Arctic climate since 1989. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 121(6), 2679-2690. (Link)
  3. Qian, W., Wu, K., & Leung, J. C. H. (2016). Three‐dimensional structure and long‐term trend of heat wave events in western Eurasia revealed with an anomaly‐based approach. International Journal of Climatology, 36(13), 4315-4326. (Link)

2014

  1. Qian, W., Shan, X., Liang, H., Huang, J., & Leung, C. H. (2014). A generalized beta‐advection model to improve unusual typhoon track prediction by decomposing total flow into climatic and anomalous flows. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 119(3), 1097-1117. (Link)