East Asia atmospheric river catalog: Annual cycle, transition mechanism, and precipitation

M Pan, M Lu - Geophysical Research Letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract An all‐season East Asia Atmospheric River (EA AR) catalog is constructed based
on PanLu2. 0. The annual cycle of EA AR exhibits eight stages, synchronizing with the …

[HTML][HTML] Moisture source–receptor network of the East Asian summer monsoon land regions and the associated atmospheric steerings

TF Cheng, M Lu - Journal of Climate, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Moisture Source–Receptor Network of the East Asian Summer Monsoon Land Regions and
the Associated Atmospheric Steerings in: Journal of Climate Volume 33 Issue 21 (2020) Jump …

Moisture channels and pre-existing weather systems for East Asian rain belts

TF Cheng, M Lu, L Dai - Npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Rain belts in East Asia frequently pose threats to human societies and natural
systems. Advances in a skillful forecast on heavy precipitation require a deeper …

Subseasonal features of the Indian monsoon

L Dai, TF Cheng, B Wang, M Lu - Journal of Climate, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Indian monsoon is of utmost concern to agriculture, the economy, and the livelihoods of
billions in South Asia. However, little attention has been paid to the possibility of distinct …

Anthropogenic warming disrupts intraseasonal monsoon stages and brings dry-get-wetter climate in future East Asia

L Dai, TF Cheng, M Lu - Npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2022 - nature.com
East Asia will face a skewed monsoon cycle with soaring flood, drought, and weather
whiplash risks in a warming climate. In our objective eight-intraseasonal-monsoon-stage …

[HTML][HTML] Global Lagrangian tracking of continental precipitation recycling, footprints, and cascades

TF Cheng, M Lu - Journal of Climate, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
This study addresses how moisture in continental precipitation is recycled globally from a
moisture-tracking perspective. Using a state-of-the-art three-dimensional Lagrangian model …

A dual regime of mesoscale convective systems in the East Asian monsoon annual cycle

TF Cheng, Q Dong, L Dai, M Lu - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Eastern China is perennially hit by mesoscale convective systems (MCSs), yet it remains an
open question as to whether and how their general properties change throughout the …

Define East Asian monsoon annual cycle via a self‐organizing map‐based approach

L Dai, TF Cheng, M Lu - Geophysical Research Letters, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Methods to define the East Asian monsoon usually involve ad hoc and diverse criteria. This
study adopts a simple and coherent approach based on the self‐organizing map to …

Asia faces a growing threat from intraseasonal compound weather whiplash

B Fang, M Lu - Earth's Future, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The sudden swings between drought/heat and pluvial could cause adverse impacts far
surpassing the sum of their individual effect. We propose a concept of intraseasonal …

Atmospheric rivers and mei-yu rainfall in China: A case study of summer 2020

T Wang, K Wei, J Ma - Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 2021 - Springer
Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are long, narrow, and transient filaments of strong horizontal water
vapor transport that can lead to extreme precipitation. To investigate the relationship …