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Discipline:Atmospheric Sciences

Education Background

  • Geophysics Department, Peking University, Beijing, China
    Ph.D., July 1994 M. S., July 1991 B. S., July 1988
  • 1988年9月—1991年7月 北京大学地球物理系硕士生
  • 1991年9月—1994年7月 北京大学地球物理系博士生
  • Work Experience

  • July 1994 – June 2013 National Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China(July 1994 – June 2013 National Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China -- Deputy Director-General, April 2004 – May 2012
    Professor, October 2002 – June 2013
    Associate Professor, September 1997 – October 2002
    Assistant Professor, July 1994 – August 1997
  • April – September 1996, Postdoc Visiting Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
  • January 2001 – January 2002, STA Fellow, Third Research Laboratory, Atmospheric Environment and Applied Meteorology Research Department, Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan
  • September 2010 – April 2012, Sherpa, UN Secretary General Mr Ban Ki-moon’s High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability
  • October 2010 – December 2020, Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Earth System Science (Formerly Center for Earth System Science), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
  • January 2021 – now, Professor and Chair, Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
  • PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

    [1] Vice Chair of China WCRP/CliC and IUGG/IACS
    Vice-president of the China Cryosphere Science Society
    Member of the Academic Committee of the Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of the Earth System Modelling
    Member of China GEWEX committee
    Member of the 29th Standing Council of the Chinese Meteorological Society
    Member of China IAMAS Committee
    Member of China WCRP Committee
    Vice Editor-in-Chief of Advances in Climate Change Research
    Vice Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Glaciology and Geocryology
    Executive Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Meteorological Research
    Editorial Board Member of Resources Sciences
    Editorial Board Member of Science and Technology Review
    Editorial Board Member of Journal of Nanjing Institute of Meteorology
    Editorial Board Member of Plateau Meteorology
    Editorial Board Member of Chinese Journal of Atmospheric Sciences

    Selected Relevant Publications during the recent 5 years

    [1] Mingju Hao, Yanluan Lin, Yong Luo*, Reshmita Nath, and Zongci Zhao, 2021: The impact of atmospheric moisture transport on winter Arctic warming: Radiation versus latent heat release. International Journal of Climatology. DOI: 10.1002/joc.7054

    [2] Huang, L., Steenhuis, T. S.*, Luo, Y.*, Tang, Q., Tang, R., Zheng, J., et al. (2021). Revisiting daily MODIS evapotranspiration algorithm using flux tower measurements in China. Earth and Space Science, 8, e2021EA001818. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EA001818

    [3] Yao Yao, Yong Luo, Jianbin Huang, Jinyu Ma, 2021: Improving the downscaled springtime temperature in Central Asia through assimilating meteorological and snow cover observations. Atmospheric Research, 258 (2021), 105619

    [4] Rui Chang,Yuping Yan, Yong Luo, Chan Xiao, Chunqiang Wu, Junxia Jiang, Wen Shi,2022: A coupled WRF-PV mesoscale model simulating the near-surface climate of utility-scale photovoltaic plants. Solar Energy, 245 (2022), 278–289

    [5] Wenjia Cai*, Chi Zhang*, Shihui Zhang*, Yuqi Bai, Max Callaghan, Nan Chang, Bin Chen, Huiqi Chen, Liangliang Cheng, Xueqin Cui, Hancheng Dai, Bawuerjiang Danna, Wenxuan Dong, Weicheng Fan, Xiaoyi Fang, Tong Gao, Yang Geng, Dabo Guan, Yixin Hu, Junyi Hua, Cunrui Huang, Hong Huang, Jianbin Huang, Linlang Jiang, Qiaolei Jiang, Xiaopeng Jiang, Hu Jin, Gregor Kiesewetter, Lu Liang, Borong Lin, Hualiang Lin, Huan Liu, Qiyong Liu, Tao Liu, Xiaobo Liu, Xinyuan Liu, Zhao Liu, Zhu Liu, Shuhan Lou, Chenxi Lu, Zhenyu Luo, Wenjun Meng, Hui Miao, Chao Ren, Marina Romanello, Wolfgang Schöpp, Jing Su, Xu Tang, Can Wang, Qiong Wang, Laura Warnecke, Sanmei Wen, Wilfried Winiwarter, Yang Xie, Bing Xu, Yu Yan, Xiu Yang, Fanghong Yao, Le Yu, Jiacan Yuan, Yiping Zeng, Jing Zhang, Lu Zhang, Rui Zhang, Shangchen Zhang, Shaohui Zhang, Qi Zhao, Dashan Zheng, Hao Zhou, Jingbo Zhou, Margaret Fu-Chun Chan Fung, Yong Luo†, Peng Gong†, 2022:The 2022 China report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: leveraging climate actions for healthy ageing. Lancet Public Health 2022, 7: e1073–90. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(22)00224-9

    [6] Weixin JIN, Yong LUO, Tongwen WU, Xiaomeng HUANG, Wei XUE, Chaoqing YU, 2022: Deep Learning for Seasonal Precipitation Prediction over China. J. Meteor. Res., 36(2), 271-281, doi: 10.1007/s13351-022-1174-7

    [7] Shaw, R., Y. Luo, T.S. Cheong, S. Abdul Halim, S. Chaturvedi, M. Hashizume, G.E. Insarov, Y. Ishikawa, M. Jafari, A. Kitoh, J. Pulhin, C. Singh, K. Vasant, and Z. Zhang, 2022: Asia. In: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [H.-O. Pörtner, D.C. Roberts, M. Tignor, E.S. Poloczanska, K. Mintenbeck, A. Alegría, M. Craig, S. Langsdorf, S. Löschke, V. Möller, A. Okem, B. Rama (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, NY, USA, pp. 1457–1579, doi:10.1017/9781009325844.012

    [8] Danyi Sun; Wenyu Huang; Yong Luo; Jingjia Luo; Jonathon S. Wright; Haohuan Fu; Bin Wang, 2022: A Deep Learning‐Based Bias Correction Method for Predicting Ocean Surface Waves in the Northwest Pacific Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1029/2022GL100916

    [9] Wei Cheng; Douglas G. MacMartin; Ben Kravitz; Daniele Visioni; Ewa M. Bednarz; Yangyang Xu; Yong Luo; Lei Huang; Yongyun Hu; Paul W. Staten et al., 2022: Changes in Hadley circulation and intertropical convergence zone under strategic stratospheric aerosol geoengineering. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, DOI: 10.1038/s41612-022-00254-6

    [10] Shihui Zhang*, Chi Zhang*, Wenjia Cai*, Yuqi Bai, Max Callaghan, Nan Chang, Bin Chen, Huiqi Chen, Liangliang Cheng, Hancheng Dai, Xin Dai, Weicheng Fan, Xiaoyi Fang, Tong Gao, Yang Geng, Dabo Guan, Yixin Hu, Junyi Hua, Cunrui Huang, Hong Huang, Jianbin Huang, Xiaomeng Huang, John S Ji, Qiaolei Jiang, Xiaopeng Jiang, Gregor Kiesewetter, Tiantian Li, Lu Liang, Borong Lin, Hualiang Lin, Huan Liu, Qiyong Liu, Xiaobo Liu, Zhao Liu, Zhu Liu, Yufu Liu, Bo Lu, Chenxi Lu, Zhenyu Luo, Wei Ma, Zhifu Mi, Chao Ren, Marina Romanello, Jianxiang Shen, Jing Su, Yuze Sun, Xinlu Sun, Xu Tang, Maria Walawender, Can Wang, Qing Wang, Rui Wang, Laura Warnecke, Wangyu Wei, Sanmei Wen, Yang Xie, Hui Xiong, Bing Xu, Yu Yan, Xiu Yang, Fanghong Yao, Le Yu, Jiacan Yuan, Yiping Zeng, Jing Zhang, Lu Zhang, Rui Zhang, Shangchen Zhang, Shaohui Zhang, Mengzhen Zhao, Dashan Zheng, Hao Zhou, Jingbo Zhou, Ziqiao Zhou, Yong Luo†, Peng Gong†, 2023: The 2023 China report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: taking stock for a thriving future, Lancet Public Health 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/ S2468-2667(23)00245-1

    [11] Yuan, H.-H. et al. Evaluation of precipitation extremes over the Tibetan plateau using the NASA global daily downscaled datasets NEX-GDDP-CMIP6. Advances in Climate Change Research 14, 884–895, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accre.2023.12.001 (2023).

    [12] Ziqi Ma, Jianbin Huang*, Xiangdong Zhang, Yong Luo, Minghu Ding, Jun Wen, Weixin Jin, Chen Qiao & Yifu Yin, 2023: Newly reconstructed Arctic surface air temperatures for 1979–2021 with deep learning method. Scientific Data, 10:140, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02059-5

    [13] Peidu Li, Yong Luo∗, Ze He, Junqing Zheng, Xin Xia, Zhouyi Liao, Xiaoqing Gao, 2023: A comparative study of the effects of photovoltaic power plants in desert and lake on the microclimate. Energy Reports, 10 (2023) 2128–2137

    [14] Junqing Zheng, Yong Luo†, Rui Chang, Xiaoqing Gao. An observational study on the microclimate and soil thermal regimes under solar photovoltaic arrays, Solar Energy, Volume 266, 2023, 112159, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2023.112159.

    [15] Shu Fu; Wenyu Huang; Jingjia Luo; Zifan Yang; Haohuan Fu; Yong Luo; Bin Wang, 2023: Deep Learning‐Based Sea Surface Roughness Parameterization Scheme Improves Sea Surface Wind Forecast. Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1029/2023GL106580

    [16] Jingwei Xu; Xiefei Zhi; Dmitry V. Sein; William Cabos; Yong Luo; Ling Zhang; Fu Dong; Klaus Fraedrich; Daniela Jacob, 2023: Predictability of Coastal Boundary Layer Jets in South China Using Atmosphere–Ocean Coupling. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, DOI: 10.1029/2023JD039184

    [17] Lei Huang; Yong Luo; Tammo Steenhuis; Qiuhong Tang; Wei Cheng; Wen Shi; Xin Xia; Dingchi Zhao; Zhouyi Liao, 2023: An Improved Satellite‐Based Evapotranspiration Procedure for China. Earth and Space Science, DOI: 10.1029/2023EA002949

    [18] Danyi Sun; Wenyu Huang; Zifan Yang; Yong Luo; Jingjia Luo; Jonathon S. Wright; Haohuan Fu; Bin Wang, 2023: Deep Learning Improves GFS Wintertime Precipitation Forecast Over Southeastern China. Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1029/2023GL104406

    [19] Xin Zhang; Lihua Zhou; Xingying Zhang; Yong Luo; Lei Sun, 2023: A Case Study on the Impact of East Asian Summer Monsoon on Surface O3 in China. Atmosphere, DOI: 10.3390/atmos14050768

    [20] Yuan, H., Ning, L., Zhou, J. et al. HiCPC: A new 10-km CMIP6 downscaled daily climate projections over China. Scientific Data. 11, 1167 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03982-x

    [21] Wenjia Cai*, Chi Zhang*, Shihui Zhang*, Yuqi Bai, Max Callaghan, Nan Chang, Bin Chen, Huiqi Chen, Liangliang Cheng, Hancheng Dai,Weicheng Fan, Dabo Guan, Yixin Hu, Yifan Hu, Junyi Hua, Cunrui Huang, Hong Huang, Jianbin Huang, Xiaomeng Huang, John S Ji, Qiaolei Jiang,Xiaopeng Jiang, Gregor Kiesewetter, Tiantian Li, Bo Li, Lu Liang, Borong Lin, Hualiang Lin, Huan Liu, Qiyong Liu, Zhao Liu, Zhu Liu, Yanxiang Liu,Shuhan Lou, Bo Lu, Chenxi Lu, Zhenyu Luo, Zhifu Mi, Yanqing Miao, Chao Ren, Marina Romanello, Jianxiang Shen, Jing Su, Rui Su, Yuze Sun,Xinlu Sun, Maria Walawender, Can Wang, Qing Wang, Qiong Wang, Laura Warnecke, Wangyu Wei, Xiaohui Wei, Sanmei Wen, Yang Xie, Hui Xiong,Bing Xu, Xiu Yang, Yuren Yang, Fanghong Yao, Le Yu, Wenhao Yu, Jiacan Yuan, Yiping Zeng, Jing Zhang, Rui Zhang, Shangchen Zhang,Shaohui Zhang, Mengzhen Zhao, Qi Zhao, Qiang Zhao, Dashan Zheng, Hao Zhou, Jingbo Zhou, Ziqiao Zhou, Yong Luo†, Peng Gong†, 2024:The 2024 China report of the Lancet Countdown on healthand climate change: launching a new low-carbon, healthy journey. Lancet Public Health 2024 https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(24)00241-X

    [22] Shu Fu; Wenyu Huang; Jingjia Luo; Dongqing Liu; Danyi Sun; Haohuan Fu; Yong Luo; Bin Wang, 2024: Deep Learning Improves GFS Sea Surface Wind Field Forecast Accuracy in the Northwest Pacific Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, DOI: 10.1029/2024JD041188

    [23] Jiewei Zhou, Jianbin Huang*, Yao Yao, Yong Luo*, 2025: Dynamical downscaling projections of mean and extreme climate over the Tibetan Plateau under 2 SSP scenarios. Weather and Climate Extremes 47 (2025) 100747

    2003年获国家环境保护总局环境保护科学技术三等奖

    2007年作为IPCC第四次评估报告主要作者获得诺贝尔和平奖

    2008年获国务院政府特殊津贴

    2020年度大禹水利科学技术奖科技进步奖一等奖(排名第2)

    2020年参与讲授的“气候变化科学概论”教程实践与创新获中科院教育教学成果奖一等奖

    担任政府间气候变化专门委员会(IPCC)第二工作组(WGII)第六次评估报告(AR6)第十章亚洲主要作者协调人(CLA)