Mengqian

LU

陸萌茜

PhD, Columbia University in the City of New York

Mengqian graduated with first-class honours and the Academic Achievement Medal from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at HKUST in 2009. She then furthered her education at Columbia University in the City of New York, where she earned her PhD from the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering in 2014. Her research, centered on hydrometeorology, water resources, and climate risk, has recently been directed towards understanding and predicting hydrometeorological extremes—such as heavy rainfall, floods, and tropical cyclones—due to their societal impact and the potential for scientific insights to drive innovative engineering solutions. She has delineated her research into five key areas: Atmospheric Rivers, Moisture Recycling Networks, the East Asian Monsoon, Extreme Weather Events, and Water Resources Management. Mengqian's research contributions have been featured in prestigious publications, including npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Earth's Future, Water Resources Research and more. Beyond academia, Mengqian is a serial entrepreneur whose innovations have garnered significant recognition, most recently receiving the Gold Award at the Asia International Innovation and Invention Exhibition in Hong Kong in 2023.

Selected Publications

Lujia Zhang, Yang Zhao, Tat Fan Cheng, Mengqian Lu*, (2024), “Future Changes in Global Atmospheric Rivers by CMIP6”, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD039359

Tat Fan Cheng, Mengqian Lu*, Lun Dai, and Bin Wang, (2023), “A Fresh View of the Asian-Australian Monsoon Complexity: The Intertropical Convective Cell (ITCC) Framework”, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 129, e2023JD039498. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD039498

Lujia Zhang, Yurong Song, Tat Fan Cheng, and Mengqian Lu*, (2023), “Advancing Understanding of Urgent Gaps and Needs in Atmospheric Science: Key Insights from the Climate, Weather and Water Forum” Bulletin of American Meteorological Society (BAMS), https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0245.1

Lun Dai, Tat Fan Cheng, Bin Wang and Mengqian Lu*, (2023), “Subseasonal Features of Indian Monsoon”, Journal of Climate, 36, 7199–7211, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0099.1

Lujia Zhang, Tat Fan Cheng, Mengqian Lu*, Rui Xiong and Jianping Gan (2023), “Tropical Cyclone Stalling Shifts Northward and Brings Increasing Flood Risks to East Asian Coast”, Geophysical Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL102509

Beijing Fang and Mengqian Lu * (2023), “Asia Faces a Growing Threat From Intraseasonal Compound Weather Whiplash", Earth's future, 11, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EF003111 Nature’s Research Highlights

Tat Fan Cheng and Mengqian Lu* (2023), “Global Lagrangian Tracking of Continental Precipitation Recycling, Footprints and Cascades”,  Journal of Climate, 36(6), 1923-1941. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0185.1

Bin Wang, Ming-Ying Lee, Zhiling Xie, Mengqian Lu* and Mengxin Pan (2022), “A new Asian/North American teleconnection linking clustered extreme precipitation from Indian to Canada”, npj climate and atmospheric science, 5, 90. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-022-00318-7

Lun Dai, Tat Fan Cheng and Mengqian Lu* (2022), “Anthropogenic warming disrupts intraseasonal monsoon stages and brings 'dry-get-wetter' climate in future East Asia”, npj climate and atmospheric science, 5, 11, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-022-00235-9  Featured by npj climate and atmospheric science

Mengxin Pan and Mengqian Lu* (2022). Long-lead predictability of western north Pacific subtropical high. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127, e2021JD035967. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD035967

Tat Fan Cheng, Mengqian Lu* and Lun Dai (2021), “Moisture channels and pre-existing weather systems for East Asian rain belts”, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 4, 32, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-021-00187-6

Lun Dai, Tat Fan Cheng and Mengqian Lu* (2020), “Define East Asian monsoon annual cycle via a self-organizing map-based approach”, Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2020GL089542. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL089542

Tat Fan Cheng and Mengqian Lu* (2020), “Moisture Source-to-Receptor Network for East Asian Summer Monsoon Land Regions”, Journal of Climate, 33 (21), 9213 - 9231 https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0868.1 Zhu KeZhen Prize from Hong Kong Meteorological Society

Lun Dai†, Tat Fan Cheng † and Mengqian Lu* (2020), “Summer Rainfall Predictability in Southeast China”, Water Resources Research, 56, e2019WR025515. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR025515

Mengqian Lu*,# and Rui Xiong# ( 2019). Spatiotemporal Profiling of Tropical Cyclones Genesis and Favorable Environmental Conditions in the Western Pacific Basin. Geophysical Research Letters, 46. 11548 – 11558. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL084995

Mengxin Pan and Mengqian Lu* (2019), A Novel Atmospheric River Identification Algorithm, Water Resources Research, 2019, 55: 6069-6087, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018WR024407

Nasser Najibi*, Naresh Devineni, Mengqian Lu and Rui A.P. Perdigão (2019), Coupled flow accumulation and atmospheric blocking govern flood durations. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2(1), 19 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-019-0076-6

Tat Fan Cheng, Mengqian Lu*, Lun Dai (2019), The Zonal Oscillation and the Driving Mechanisms of the Extreme western North Pacific Subtropical High and its impacts on East Asia Summer Precipitation, Journal of Climate, 32(10), 3025–3050,  https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0076.1

Nasser Najibi*, Naresh Devineni and Mengqian Lu (2017), Hydroclimate drivers and atmospheric teleconnections of long duration floods: An application to large reservoirs in the Missouri River Basin, Advances in Water Resources, 100, 153-167, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2016.12.004

Mengqian Lu*, Upmanu Lall, Andrew W. Robertson and Ed Cook (2017), Optimizing Multiple Reliable Forward Contracts for Reservoir Allocation using Multi-time Scale Streamflow Forecasts, Water Resources Research, 53(3), https://doi.org/10.1002/2016WR019552

Mengqian Lu*, Upmanu Lall, Jaya Kawale, Stefan Liess, and Vipin Kumar (2016), Exploring the Predictability of 30-Day Extreme Precipitation Occurrence Using a Global SST-SLP Correlation Network, Journal of Climate, 29(3), 1013-1029, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00452.1

Mengqian Lu*, Michael Tippett, and Upmanu Lall (2015), Changes in the seasonality of tornado and favorable genesis conditions in the central United States, Geophysical Research Letters, 42, 4224–4231, https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL063968

Mengqian Lu*, Upmanu Lall, Aurélien Schwartz and Hyun-Han Kwon (2013), Precipitation predictability associated with tropical moisture exports and circulation patterns for a major flood in France in 1995, Water Resources Research, 49(10), 6381-6392, https://doi.org/10.1002/wrcr.20512  Featured Contribution in Water Resources Research of the Year 2013.

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