Education/Work Experience

2017.05-present Assistant Professor, Institute for Environmental and Climate Research, Jinan University

2015.11-2017.01 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles

2010.09-2015.07 Ph.D, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University

2006.09-2010.07 B.Sc., College of Oceanography and Environment, Xiamen University

Research Direction

Atmospheric Environment and Global Climate Change

Research Project

1. Major Research Plan of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Participant.

3. Young Scholar Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41805115), 2019/01/01-2021/12/21, Investigation of Anthropogenic aerosol effects on ice and mixed-phase clouds and associated precipitation in China based on satellite observations, <span font-size:16px;white-space:normal;background-color:#ffffff;=>Principal Investigator

Teaching Courses

Representative Paper

1. Liu, R., Liu, S. C.*, Cicerone, R. J., Shiu, C. J., Li, J., Wang, J. and Zhang, Y.*, 2015. Trends of extreme precipitation in Eastern China and their possible causes. Adv. Atmos. Sci., 32, 1027-1037, doi: 10.1007/s00376-015-5002-1.

2. Liu, R., Liu, S. C.*, Cicerone, R. J., Shiu, C. J., Li, J., Wang, J. and Zhang, Y., 2015. Response to comments by Yuan Wang on “Trends of extreme precipitation in Eastern China and their possible causes”. Adv. Atmos. Sci., 32, 1447-1448, doi: 10.1007/s00376-015-5121-8.

3. Shen, J., Zhang, Y.*, Wang, X., Li, J., Chen, H., Liu, R., Zhong, L., Jiang, M., Yue, D., Chen, D. and Lv, W., 2015. An ozone episode over the Pearl River Delta in October 2008. Atmos. Environ., 122, 852-863, doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.03.036.

4. Liu, R., Liu, S. C.*, Shiu, C. J., Li, J. and Zhang, Y., 2016. Trends of regional precipitation and their control mechanisms during 1979–2013. Adv. Atmos. Sci., 33, 164-174, doi: 10.1007/s00376-015-5117-4.

5. Li, J., Liu, R., Liu, S. C.*, Shiu, C. J., Wang, J. and Zhang, Y.*, 2016. Trends in aerosol optical depth in northern China retrieved from sunshine duration data. Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, doi: 10.1002/2015GL067111.

6. Zhao, B.*, Liou, K. N., Gu, Y., Li, Q., Jiang, J. H., Su, H., He, C., Tseng, H. L. R., Wang, S., Liu, R. and Qi, L., 2017. Enhanced PM2. 5 pollution in China due to aerosol-cloud interactions. Sci. Rep., 7, 4453, doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-04096-8.

7. Liu, R.*, Liou, K. N., Su, H., Gu, Y., Zhao, B., Jiang, J. H. and Liu, S. C., 2017. High cloud variations with surface temperature from 2002 to 2015: Contributions to atmospheric radiative cooling rate and precipitation changes. J. Geophys. Res., 122, 5457-5471, doi: 10.1002/2016JD026303.

8. Liu, R.*, Su, H., Liou, K. N., Jiang, J. H., Gu, Y., Liu, S. C., Shiu, C. J., 2018. An assessment of tropospheric water vapor feedback using radiative kernels. J. Geophys. Res., 123, 1499-1509, doi: 10.1002/2017JD027512.

9. Mao, L., Liu, R., Liao, W. H., Wang, X. M., Shao, M., Liu, S. C.*, Zhang, Y. H.*, 2018. An observation-based perspective of winter haze days in four major polluted regions of China. Nat. Sci. Rev., doi: 10.1093/nsr/nwy118.

10. He, C.*, Liu, R., Wang, X. M., Liu, S. C., Zhou, T. J., Liao, W. H., 2018. How does El Niño-Southern Oscillation modulate the interannual variability of winter haze days over eastern China?. Sci. Total Environ., 651, 1892-1902, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.10.100.

11. Wang, X. L., Liu, S. C., Liu, R.* , Shiu, C. J., He, C., Zhong, X., 2019. Observed changes in precipitation extremes and effects of tropical cyclones in South China during 1955-2013. Int. J. Climato., doi: 10.1002/joc.5980.