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

kkrli@cuhk.edu.hk

Education

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

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 in models
Mid-latitude Silk Road pattern
El Niño-Southern Oscillation diversity
South China Sea summer monsoon
Southeast China extreme rainfall

Related Press Interviews:

“極端降雨預報”, TVB 時事多面睇, 11 July 2025, Link .
“颱風暴雨殺到香港”, HOY TV 求生記, 13 June 2025, Link .
“Can China balance climate and energy concerns as it endures more extreme weather?”, SCMP, 4 August 2024, Link .
“百萬金鯧逃走後 – 熱帶氣旋對漁業的影響”, 鳳凰衛視, 23 August 2022, Link .

Representative Publications

Cheung KH, Wong MN, Li RKK, Tam CY, Scaife A, Dunstone N. (2025) The Risk and Dynamics of Unprecedented Summer Monsoon Rainfall Over Southeast China Under the Current Climate. Environmental Research Letters. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae0ae7

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

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

Current

Fellow of the Hong Kong Meteorological Society

Past

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

Teaching

Current

EESC1001 / UGEB1870 Exploring Earth and Environmental Sciences

EESC2020 Climate System Dynamics

EESC3200 Atmospheric Dynamics

EESC3300 Oceanography

EESC3600 Ecological Climatology

EESC4210 Land-Atmosphere Interactions and Boundary-Layer Meteorology

EESC4270 Cloud Dynamics

EESC4810/4820 Final Year Projects

AISC5010 Basic Programming for AI

Past

EESC1009 Elementary Earth and Environmental Sciences Practical Study

EESC4250 General Circulation and Climate Models

EESC4260 Urban Climatology (Guest lecture)

EESC4601 Project-Based Learning

GRMD2221 Weather and Climate

Short Courses

CUSA1017 Weather and Climate (For secondary school)

STAR2050 Seminars

UGFN1001 In Dialogue with Nature (Atmospheric Science)

College Affiliation in CUHK

Shaw College

Selected Recent Publications

Cheung KH, Wong MN, Li RKK, Tam CY, Scaife A, Dunstone N. (2025) The Risk and Dynamics of Unprecedented Summer Monsoon Rainfall Over Southeast China Under the Current Climate. Environmental Research Letters. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae0ae7

Research Grants

Knowledge Transfer Project Fund (with Prof. Alex Chow, Dr. Zhang Li and Dr. Tammy Tam, 2024): “Understanding Natural and Environmental Hazards: From Peer Reviewed EESC Publications to Digital Animated Videos in Social Media”.